As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Bradley Alan

Author:Bradley, Alan [Bradley, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, young adult, Mystery & Detective, General, Adult, Historical, Thrillers, Fiction
ISBN: 9780345539953
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2015-01-06T08:00:00+00:00

• SIXTEEN •

THE SPATTER OF RAIN, which had begun as we left the huts, had now become a downpour. A pair of sluggish wipers swept sheets of water from the windshield, and it had become suddenly cold. My short sleeves were no protection and I hugged my arms against my body.

Gremly did not sit with me on the bus. Quite the contrary: She had gone far to the rear to sit in the shadow of Miss Moate, leaving me up front behind the driver, pretending to appreciate the beauty of the landscape, which was made up principally of tall elms in rainswept fields, glimpses of the lake, and the occasional wrecker’s yard in which the rusting hulks of once-loved automobiles were piled like so many colossal steel ant hills.

Again the word “disorientated” flashed into my mind. It meant, essentially, having lost one’s compass bearings, which is what had happened to me.

Cast out from my childhood home, banished to a strange land, and now isolated even from the low, gooselike gabble of my classmates, I was alone in the world, at the mercy of even the slightest gust of wind.

I needed to focus my mind on something outside myself—to regain the scientific view and so to resettle my soul.

But where to begin?

“Trust no one,” Miss Fawlthorne and Gremly had each told me, and when you stopped to think about it rationally, that included even them.

I needed to seem to the faculty of Miss Bodycote’s an apt pupil; to the other girls, an invisible bore.

There was only one way I could think of to achieve this with a minimum of fuss.

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