Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire by Andy Stanton

Author:Andy Stanton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Egmont
Published: 2007-10-26T04:00:00+00:00

Alan Taylor just stared at the coin. He didn’t even say ‘thank you’. It was more than Polly could bear. With one final sob she turned and fled from the room, her face buried in her hands.

Friday stood there for a moment longer, gazing down at the ungrateful biscuit in his enormous white bed. ‘The truth is a lemon meringue,’ said Friday very quietly and he shook his head. ‘That’s all I’ve got to say to you, my friend.’

Chapter 7

On the Trail of the Money

Friday twirled his imaginary detective’s moustache wearily.

‘I admit it,’ he said as he and Polly sat eating lunch in the Chapter 7 Café. ‘This case is too tough even for me.’

They had been searching all morning but they hadn’t found any robbers, not even one.

‘Oh, Friday,’ said Polly, looking despondently at her jacket potato. It wasn’t the jacket potato’s fault, she just felt despondent anyway.

‘Oh, Polly,’ said Friday, looking despondently at his jacket potato because he wished he’d ordered the pasta instead. And together they sat there, looking despondently at jacket potatoes.

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