Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin

Author:Ellen Raskin
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published: 2010-12-22T05:00:00+00:00

Mona blurted a loud sob. The dammed-up tears flooded out.

Mona studied each book on the table, scanned every title on the shelves. She had handled these books before, had helped catalogue them and price them. She couldn’t believe they would help her find Uncle Florence’s Capri.

Early the next morning she accompanied Newt to the used-car lot, and together they ransacked the Very Private Office.

“What am I looking for?” Newt asked when they were half done. Mona had not told anyone of her plan to join Uncle Florence.

“Just anything unusual,” she replied, closing the closet door on the long black cloak and her memories of the Figg-Newton giant.

“How about this?” Newt held up two yellow sleeve garters. “I wonder how they ended up in the waste basket?”

“I don’t know,” Mona said, but she did know. Uncle Florence no longer needed elastic bands to shorten his sleeves. He could be whoever and whatever he dreamed of being in Capri. He would never again be “almost a midget.”

Except for the sleeve garters, nothing unusual was found in the shack. There was one more place to look.

“Can I have the keys to the bus, Newt?” Mona asked in a strained voice. That search had to be hers alone.

Reluctantly Newt handed her three keys on a ring.

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