The Case of the Phantom Cat by Holly Webb

Author:Holly Webb [Holly Webb]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781847155207
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Published: 2014-07-12T16:00:00+00:00

Maisie and Alice sniffed and Alice started to cough horribly. “Oh, that’s disgusting. Maisie, that can’t just be a dead mouse.”

“A rat maybe…” Maisie muttered. It really was a dreadful smell – so bad it felt like she could see it, seeping out of the floor and coating the back of her throat.

“It’s the dead, Miss…” Annie moaned dramatically. “Rising up out of their graves!”

Maisie and Alice had decided most definitely that they did not need to use the library.

“Imagine sitting in there!” Alice whispered to Maisie, as they helped Annie carry the dusters and sweeping brush back along the passage and down to the kitchens. “You’d always be wondering what it was creeping up behind your chair and putting its cold fingers on your neck…”

“Oh, don’t, Miss!” Annie moaned. “This house is built on a graveyard, everyone says so…”

Maisie sighed. Annie was a born gossip, she thought. And she was doing a very good job of frightening Alice to death.

“I still think it was a dead rat,” she said firmly.

“Maybe it’s a ghost rat now, like the ghost cat we saw!” Alice said suddenly, dropping the dustpan so it clattered down the kitchen stairs, and staring at Maisie in horror.

“You actually saw a ghost, Miss?” Annie gasped and the two other maids came out of the kitchen, looking terrified.

“She saw it?”

“Ooohhh, I can’t stay here! Not with all those dreadful shrieking noises…” The youngest of the maids was in tears and she was actually shaking. “They made my skin creep, Miss, and now you’ve seen a real ghost! I can’t stay here, I just can’t.”

The cook, a tiny lady in a print dress and an apron all covered in flour, came hurrying out after them. “What? You’ve seen it?”

“It was just a little white cat—” Maisie started to say, but no one was listening to her. Mrs James was having the vapours and being held up by Annie and one of the other maids. The youngest maid, Lily, was kneeling on the floor and calling on the soul of her dead grandmother to save her from this evil house.

Even Alice looked slightly surprised by the scene she’d set off. “Please don’t cry,” she murmured to Mrs James, but it was no good.

“I can’t stay here to be murdered in my bed by ghosts!” the cook gasped. “No one said anything about hauntings when I took the job! I’m leaving – now!”

“And me!” both Lily and Cissie chimed in and Annie nodded grimly, “Me, too.”

“But you can’t!” Maisie gasped. “You’ve had wages in advance. And you have to give notice, surely, so we can find someone else?”

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