The Spook's Secret-Wardstone Chronicles book 3 by Joseph Delaney

Author:Joseph Delaney [Delaney, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, General
ISBN: 9781862308565
Publisher: Red Fox
Published: 2009-03-05T06:00:00+00:00

from his face to reveal his unruly thatch of hair. There seemed a lot more grey in it than last time. In the

candlelight his face was craggy and the lines were far deeper.

'I'd offer you wine,' he said, 'but I don't drink when I'm working.'

'I don't usually drink wine,' I told him.

'But no doubt you eat cheese,' he said, a mocking grin on his face.

I didn't reply and his expression became serious. Suddenly he leaned forward, pursed his lips and blew

hard. The candle flickered and went out, plunging the room into absolute darkness while the smell of tallow

intensified.

'There's just you, me and the dark,' Morgan said. 'Can you stand it? Are you fit to be my apprentice?'

They were the exact words the Spook had said to me in the cellar of the haunted house in Horshaw, the

place where he'd taken me on the very first day of my apprenticeship. He'd done it to judge whether or not I

was made of the right stuff to become a spook. They were the words he'd spoken the moment the candle went

out.

'I'll bet that when you first walked down the steps into the cellar, he was sitting in the corner and stood up

the moment you came near,' Morgan continued. 'Nothing changes. You, me and two dozen others or more.

Predictable stuff. The old fool! No wonder nobody sticks with him for long.'

'You stayed three years,' I said softly into the darkness.

'Found your voice again, Tom? That's good,' Morgan said. T see that he's been talking about me. Did he

have anything good to say?'

'Not really'

'That doesn't surprise me. And did he tell you why I gave up my apprenticeship as a spook?'

By now my eyes had adjusted to the dark and I could just make out the shape of his head facing me across

the table. I could have told him that the Spook said he'd lacked discipline and wasn't up to the job, but instead

I decided to ask a few questions of my own.

'What do you want from me? And why has the door been barred?' I asked.

'So that you can't run away again,' Morgan said. 'So that you've no choice but to stay and face what I have

to show you. You're quite the apprentice, I hear. You and I both know that your master doesn't appreciate

that. So this is the first lesson of your new apprenticeship. You'll have had some dealings with the dead, but

now I'm going to add to your knowledge. And add to it significantly'

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