Mountwood School for Ghosts by Toby Ibbotson

Author:Toby Ibbotson [Ibbotson, Toby]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781447271024
Publisher: Macmillan Children’s Books

Underneath, in smaller print, it said ‘Markham Street pensioner gives Bluffit a going-over. See pages 2–4.’

As he read the article, Jack’s face darkened. His eyes narrowed, and the grinding of his teeth could be heard in the next room, where a secretary thought something had gone wrong with the copying machine and rang down to the service department to get it fixed. Sam Norton, the author of the article, had had great fun. He made a big thing of the frail old woman who had taken the lid off Bluffit’s schemes (he called it ‘opening a can of worms’) and mocked Lord Ridget mercilessly, suggesting that Bluffit had hauled him in to lead the inquiry only because a sack of potatoes couldn’t be dressed in a suit. He had ended the article with a question: ‘How much longer can Jack Bluffit be allowed to treat our city as his personal property?’

With his meaty hands Jack scrunched the newspaper into a ball and hurled it across the room, missing the waste-paper basket by at least a yard. He got up from his desk and paced up and down for a while, imagining all the things he would do to Sam Norton if he ever met him in a dark alley. But after a while he calmed down a bit. Why should he care about being trashed by some little rat of a reporter. Norton was nobody, a cockroach. And nothing could stop him now. Ridget had done his bit. Markham Street was going into the dustbin of history, and that old cow who had tried to nobble him was going the same way.

He returned to his desk and dialled the number of the local television station, to make sure that the result of the Ridget Inquiry made it on to the evening news.

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