Titus Rules! by Dick King-Smith

Author:Dick King-Smith [King-Smith, Dick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-54812-2
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2002-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

If he does, he'll have the surprise of his life. Which indeed Sidney did. Hardly had he opened the royal jewel case than he heard a sudden snarl and felt a battery of sharp teeth biting into his ankle.

Chapter Seven

“GETTIMOFF! GETTIMOFF!!”

It was a passing maid who first heard the frantic yells coming from the Queen's bedroom, and she ran to tell other members of the staff, and they alerted the officer commanding the castle guard, and he telephoned the Comptroller of Her Majesty's Household. Sir Gregory arrived at the doorway of the royal bedroom to see before him an extraordinary sight.

Inside, there stood an officer of the Grenadier Guards and half a dozen guardsmen, weapons at the ready. Scattered all over the carpet, Sir Gregory could see, were rings and brooches and earrings and necklaces and a silver jewel case, open and empty. Among all these valuables Sidney the footman hopped and howled, one of his ankles held, in a bulldog grip, by a furiously growling corgi.

“Gettimoff !” he still cried feebly, and at a signal from the officer, one of the guardsmen laid down his rifle and knelt and managed to prise open the dog's jaws and thus release the prisoner. And a prisoner, of course, Sidney was destined to be, for his guilt was plain to the onlookers (and indeed his pockets were full of rings) and, in due course, to the judge.

The footman had been caught in the act of stealing the Queen's jewels, and caught, what's more, by the cunning and courage of one of Her Majesty's corgis.

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