Enid Blyton by Fun;Games at Malory Towers

Author:Fun;Games at Malory Towers
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Egmont UK
Published: 0100-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

10

Who is the thief?

The fifth formers stuck to their word and watched Delia carefully. When she volunteered to stay behind and tidy up the classroom for Miss James, Felicity and Susan hid themselves behind a pillar outside the classroom, and watched.

Delia was most conscientious, humming softly to herself as she wiped the blackboard, then she carefully put away the pile of books on Miss James’s desk. The girl picked up a crumpled ball of paper that had fallen on the floor and dropped it in the wastepaper bin, then she went round the room making sure that all the chairs were neatly pushed under the desks. But at no time did she open any of the desks, or do anything remotely suspicious.

When her work was done, she moved towards the door, and Felicity and Susan slipped quietly away.

‘Well,’ said Felicity, as the two of them walked down the corridor. ‘If Delia really is the thief, that would have been the perfect opportunity for her to go hunting in all of our desks, looking for things to steal.’

‘Yet she didn’t take it,’ said Susan thoughtfully. ‘I always found it hard to believe that old Delia was a thief, and now I find it even harder. I suppose we had better go and report to Pam.’

Pam was sitting on the grass in the sunshine, along with Nora, June and Freddie, and she looked up as Felicity and Susan approached.

‘Well?’ she said. ‘Anything to report?’

‘Not a thing,’ said Felicity, sitting down next to the girl. ‘Delia simply tidied up, but she didn’t go in any of the desks.’

‘I spied on her when she was alone in the common-room the other day,’ said Freddie. ‘And she didn’t try to take anything then, either. The only time that she went to the cupboard was to put her knitting away.’

‘Another ideal opportunity wasted,’ said Susan. ‘I really do think that Delia is innocent, and that we are on the wrong track.’

‘Well, I don’t,’ said June, in her forthright way. ‘I believe that she knows we are on to her, and that is why she is behaving herself at the moment. As soon as we drop our guard and stop watching her all the time, things will start to disappear again. Mark my words!’

With that, June got to her feet and said, ‘Well, I’m off to tennis practice. Anyone coming?’

Freddie got up, and Felicity said, ‘Susan and I will be there in a few minutes. I just want to sit and enjoy the sunshine for a little while.’

The four girls sat in comfortable, companionable silence for a few moments, enjoying the feel of the warm sun on their faces, then Susan suddenly said, ‘You know, in a way I’m sorry that we didn’t catch Delia trying to steal something.’

‘Whatever do you mean?’ asked Nora, startled. ‘I thought that you liked Delia.’

‘I do,’ answered Susan. ‘But now that it is looking as though Delia may not be the thief, it means that everyone else in the fifth form is under suspicion.

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