Lone Pine London by Malcolm Saville

Author:Malcolm Saville
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-14T00:00:00+00:00

8. Another Clue

Penny woke late the next morning. Nothing very exciting had happened on her return, the evening before, from her expedition with Judith to Boscombe Street. It was not until after they had gone up to bed that she had been able to tell the others that she and Judith had discovered that the old papers which Slinky had been keen to buy were being used to paste over the backs of the faked flower prints. David had come in from his visit to Harriet just before supper, and after that, when the twins had gone to bed, Mr. Morton had suggested a game of Monopoly, which went on for a long time. As they went upstairs after bidding the grown-ups good night, Jon had said, "Come into our room for a sec, Penny. We want to hear what happened to you, and David has got news too. We'll tell the twins in the morning. They'll be asleep now."

He was right. They were - but on the boys' beds and they woke as soon as David switched on the light.

"We knew you'd talk all this over without us," Mary yawned. "We just decided to wait for you and here we are. Hullo, Penny. Please tell us what happened to you?"

So Penny had wasted no time in telling her story, adding that she had not seen Wilson again, but had left Judith to tell him of their discovery.

"It's working out well," David had said excitedly. "I told Harriet we're relying on her to watch for Slinky in the shop, and tomorrow morning we'll arrange with the twins to patrol this area until we see him again. Now we'd better go to bed, because there'll be plenty to do tomorrow."

So the twins, sleepy but excited, had been sent off to their own rooms and Penny, in hers, had stayed awake for a while, thinking how strange it was that they should be thrown again into an adventure with unpleasant people none of whom they had ever wanted to hear of again.

Then she slept, and was dreaming of Slinky Grandon as she remembered him at the Gay Dolphin when Mrs. Morton came in, drew the curtains, sat on the bed and pushed gentle fingers through her red curls.

"Wake up, Penelope Redhead," she smiled. "What is it Jon calls you? Newpenny? Very clever of him. Wake up, darling... Can't think what's the matter with you all this morning - although the twins are getting up now. Mr. Morton and I had breakfast together and he's gone off to work. I am going shopping in ten minutes. The coffee is on and all you lazybones will have to get your own breakfast. Don't be long. I'll wake the boys."

Mrs. Morton always meant what she said and she left them to look after themselves. As soon as they were all round the breakfast table David announced: "We've got to get busy now. I promised Harriet that one or two of us would go round as soon as we could this morning.

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