Carolyn Keene - Nancy Drew by The Clue in the Old Album

Author:The Clue in the Old Album [Album, The Clue in the Old]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Women Detectives, Detective and Mystery Stories, Girls & Women, Adventure and Adventurers, Juvenile Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Mysteries & Detective Stories, Fiction, Women Sleuths, Drew; Nancy (Fictitious Character), General, Mystery and Detective Stories, Adventure Stories, Photograph Albums, Dolls - Collectors and Collecting, Mystery Fiction, Missing Persons, Detective and Mystery Stories; Juvenile
ISBN: 9780448095240
Publisher: Collins
Published: 1974-01-02T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XI

A Warning

HANNAH Gruen came into the dining room and knew from Nancy’s expression that something was wrong.

“What is it?” she asked. “Not bad news, I hope.”

Nancy showed her the warning note. “I can’t imagine who could have sent it,” she said, “unless it was the purse snatcher.”

“Oh, Nancy, I’m so worried!” the housekeeper exclaimed after she had read the anonymous message. “It must have something to do with the case you’re working on. Please give up trying to help Mrs. Struthers!”

“I can’t let a little note like this frighten me,” Nancy said. “Anyway, I think the person who sent it merely means he wants me to stay away from Wrightville.”

“Then promise me you will,” Hannah begged.

“All right.” Nancy laughed and gave the woman an affectionate hug. “Any calls for me while I was in the shower?”

“One from the yacht club, asking for any used clothes we might want to donate.”

“Good,” Nancy said. “I have a pile of Dad’s and my things. I’ll run over with them.”

“Be careful,” Mrs. Gruen urged, as Nancy went out the door.

“I’ll be all right,” Nancy called as she stepped into her car.

She drove over the heavy bridge that spanned the Muskoka River and headed for the yacht club. The river road was practically deserted.

Suddenly Nancy noticed another automobile a short distance behind her. Though she deliberately slowed down to let it pass, the driver did not attempt to do so. She accelerated. The man behind also put on speed.

“He’s following me!” Nancy decided finally. “Maybe there’s more to that warning note than I thought!”

She kept the image of the other car in her mirror, and as she approached a sharp and dangerous turn where the road shot up a hill, Nancy was alarmed to see that the driver behind her was getting closer.

Although she pressed the gas pedal to the floor, Nancy could not draw away from the pursuing car. A quarter of a mile from the yacht club it pulled abreast of her, but the man did not try to head Nancy off. Instead, he crowded her inch by inch toward the embankment.

Nancy’s heart stood still!

Just then she spotted an opening in the low bushes along the right side of the road fifty feet ahead. She recalled that from there a narrow path ran off at an angle down to the river. It was steep and too narrow for a car, but she must risk taking the path if she could reach it.

“I must hold on until I do!” Nancy thought desperately. “Then I can jump out and run!”

Forty more feet to go! Then thirty!

The two cars were neck and neck. Nancy did not dare take her eyes off the road to see who the man alongside her might be.

Twenty feet! Ten!

Suddenly Nancy swung the wheel over. Her car swerved off the highway, bumped over the uneven side road and, still upright, jerked to a stop. Nancy grabbed the key, jumped out, and ran like a deer toward the yacht club.

A few seconds later she halted.

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