Evie's Ghost by Helen Peters

Author:Helen Peters [Helen Peters]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780857638427
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Published: 2017-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

A Letter

Robbie took no notice of Jacob’s threat. He was rummaging in the bushes where Jacob had hurled his book.

Now he emerged, the book in his hand. He walked across the yard towards Sophia.

“Thank you, Miss Fane,” he said.

Their eyes met in a gaze so intense that I felt really uncomfortable. I moved back towards the house, wondering what to do now. Luckily Sophia had been so focused on sorting out the Jacob situation, and now she was so focused on Robbie, that she hadn’t even noticed me.

Outside the scullery door, I edged between the wall and the clump of bushes. It’s not spying, I told myself; it’s research. If I was going to help them, I needed to know all I could.

Presumably Sophia wouldn’t stay and talk to Robbie for long. She certainly wouldn’t want to risk her father or her aunt seeing them together. And once she was gone, I could try to warn Robbie what was about to happen, and hopefully he could persuade her to run away with him. Before it was too late.

I noticed a folded sheet of paper lying on the ground under the bushes. I picked it up and unfolded it.

It was covered in the most beautiful pen-and-ink drawings. A feather, so detailed that I wanted to reach out and stroke it. A snail, every marking on its shell perfectly captured in pen and ink. A branch of apple blossom. A bird’s nest, woven in grass and moss, with four speckled eggs inside it.

I turned the paper over. The other side was quite different. It showed two young children, a boy and a girl, stick-thin and dressed in rags, hunched over some sort of machine. Behind them stood a huge, glowering man, brandishing a stick. Above them hovered an angelic figure. In the speech bubble coming from its mouth were the words:

A robin redbreast in a cage

Puts all Heaven in a rage.

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