The Rilloby Fair Mystery by Enid Blyton

Author:Enid Blyton [Blyton, Enid]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: Jack
Published: 2011-02-24T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

THE FAIR MOVES TO RILLOBY

THEY went home in the car, Roger longing to show Diana his really excellent drawing. Great-uncle rambled on, unable to stop. The children listened, bored, wishing they were home.

“Thanks awfully, Great-uncle,” said Roger politely. “We’ve had a wizard morning.”

“A what morning?” asked Great-uncle, puzzled.

“Wizard. Smashing. Super,” explained Snubby. “Thanks a lot.”

“I’m very glad, very glad,” beamed Great-uncle, thinking what nice interesting children they were all of a sudden. He really must take them to some other collection some time. “Now you’d better go and get tidy for dinner,” he said. “Dear me — I hope your mother won’t think I’ve brought you back too late.”

Considering that it was only ten to twelve, and not ten to one, as Great-uncle thought, Mrs. Lynton thought they were back very early, not late. As for Great-uncle, he was simply amazed to find what a long time there was before the dinner-gong went! He couldn’t understand it at all.

Roger showed his map to Diana. “Now,” he said, “if there’s a burglary we shall have a map of the whole place. It may be very, very useful.”

Loony was so pleased to see them again that he had one of his mad fits, rushing up and down the stairs at top speed, in and out of all the bedrooms, sending mats flying this way and that. Sardine was scared out of her life and fled to the top of the grandfather clock, where she sat swinging her tail like a pendulum till Loony’s madness had exhausted itself.

Great-uncle locked himself into his bedroom when he realised that Loony was having a mad fit. That dog! If he wasn’t barking, he was scratching, and if he wasn’t scratching, he was going mad. The only really satisfactory dogs were stuffed ones, Great-uncle thought. At least they didn’t scratch!

The children didn’t go to see Barney that day, partly because Mr. Lynton was at home and told them all to come out into the garden and help him with some trees he was chopping down; and partly because they knew the Fair was moving to Rilloby, and they thought that Barney might be too busy to want them that day.

Snubby had a third reason. He was still smarting from the enormous whack Tonnerre had given him, and he thought it would be wise to allow him to forget what had happened. He meant to give Tonnerre a very wide berth in future!

Barney turned up himself that evening with Miranda on his shoulder. He waited in the garden till he saw Roger Then he whistled his low clear whistle.

Roger turned. “That you, Barney?” he called. “Oh, good! Had any supper? We’ve had ours, but we can easily ask Cook for something for you.”

“I wouldn’t mind a bit of cake,” said Barney, who had had very little to eat that day in the move to Rilloby.

“Come to the back door. We’ll ask Cook for something,” said Roger. They appeared at the back door and Cook gave a shriek to see Miranda.

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