Holiday House by Enid Blyton

Author:Enid Blyton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Tags: juvenile, fiction
ISBN: 9780006902355
Publisher: Collins
Published: 1969-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

A REAL PUZZLE

The twins left Tippy, the poodle, in Pat’s room and went quietly into the corridor. They walked to the end and went up the little spiral staircase to the first tower-room, where all kinds of junk were kept.

They opened the door and went in. It was now dark, but Pat had his torch and switched it on. The room was not so full of junk and furniture as it had been when they last went into it, because Mrs Holly had taken a good many of the chairs and tables out for use, now that Holiday House was almost full.

The twins picked their way through the junk to the tower window. The night was very dark indeed, for there was no moon. They looked out of the window, straight across to where the old house loomed like a black, solid shadow against the dark sky.

It was completely dark from top to bottom. Mary gave a little sigh of disappointment.

‘Whoever it is is not there,’ she whispered. ‘What a pity! Or do you suppose whoever was there has gone away now? Perhaps it was only a tramp, Pat—a tramp who comes now and again.’

‘Sh! Look!’ said Pat, excitedly. A light suddenly shone out from the top room they were watching! A flickering, uncertain light that was certainly candle-light!

‘There you are,’ said Pat, triumphantly. ‘There is someone there tonight. I say—I wonder if Graham has ever noticed it—his window looks out across to the old house too! He may quite well have seen it. Let’s go and ask him.’

They left the junk-room and went up the spiral staircase to Graham’s room, the middle one in the tower. They knocked at the closed door.

There was no answer at all. They knocked again. Still no answer. ‘He can’t have gone to bed yet,’ said Mary. ‘He works till very late, Mrs Holly says.’

‘Well, there’s a light in his room,’ said Pat, pointing to the crack of light under the door. ‘Let’s go in. Perhaps he’s just fallen asleep in his chair.’

Pat opened the door and peeped in. Mary pushed in behind him. The twins stared round, astonished. Nobody was there! The big oil-lamp shone steadily on the table, but the room was quite empty, and the bed not yet slept in.

‘He must have gone for a walk,’ said Pat. ‘Let’s go and get undressed and then come back again.’

But even when they came back again in half an hour’s time there was no Graham.

‘It’s funny,’ said Pat. ‘I know Mrs Holly locks the front door before this. How will he get in?’

‘Let’s sit in the junk-room and wait for him,’ said Mary. ‘We shall see him go by the door, and hear him too.’

So they went to the junk-room and sat down on a crate there. The light still shone in the top room of the old tower. Pat nudged Mary. ‘Do you suppose it’s Graham up there?’ he said. ‘You know we did think once it was Graham we saw there.

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