The Secret of Spiggy Holes (tss-2) by Энид Блайтон

Author:Энид Блайтон [Блайтон, Энид]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: child_det
Published: 1940-03-18T05:00:00+00:00

Mike is Caught

“Why doesn’t Paul come?” wondered Jack impatiently. “What a time he is! Surely the ladder is safe now.”

Mike peered up. The moon shone brightly on the tower of the Old House, and the rope-ladder hung against the wall, quite straight and firm.

“It’s funny,” said Mike. “Do you suppose he doesn’t dare to risk himself down our ladder?”

“Can’t imagine what he’s doing,” said Jack. “We can’t stand here all night. I do wish he’d hurry.”

The two dogs came running up. They had finished their bone. They nosed round the two boys, licking their hands. Jack patted them. “Don’t you bark at Paul when he comes down the ladder,” he warned them. “He’s a friend of ours - so don’t you dare to make a sound. Do you hear, Tinker? Do you hear, Don?”

The dogs wagged their tails. They did not understand what Jack was saying, but they liked to hear him talking to them. Jack looked impatiently up the ladder once more. He shook it - but still nothing happened.

“I’ll climb up softly and see what’s up,” said Mike at last. “He may be waiting for one of us to tell him how to climb down.”

“All right,” said Jack. “I’ll hold the ladder as firmly as I can. Good luck!”

Mike began to climb the rope-ladder. He went up the side of the tower in the bright moonlight like a little black shadow. The girls at Peep-Hole could see him quite well through the field-glasses. They were puzzled to think why Mike should go up the ladder instead of Prince Paul coming down.

Mike went up and up. At last he came to the window where Prince Paul had taken in the top of the ladder. He put his head cautiously above the window-sill - caught sight of a little boy sitting on a couch at the far side of the room, looking very scared - and then a voice said, “Got him!” and Mr. Diaz leaned out of the window and took firm hold of poor Mike!

Mike did not dare to struggle, for he was afraid of falling down the ladder. He had to let himself be hauled into the tower room. Mr. Diaz stood him on the floor and then quickly pulled up the rope-ladder, jerking it roughly from Jack’s hands below.

“And now we have two prisoners,” said the soft sleepy voice of Luiz, and Mike saw that he was there too, standing behind Mr. Diaz.

Mike said nothing. He just stood there, looking angry. He glanced at Prince Paul. The little boy called out to Mike.

“I would have warned you, but I dared not. They came into the room and saw me fixing the ladder - and they made me sit over here whilst they waited to see if you would come up.”

“And he came up,” said Mr. Diaz. “And here he can stay. And to-morrow, Luiz, we will board up this window so that neither Paul nor this inquisitive boy can signal to the other tiresome children. They

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