Naughtiest Girl 5: The Naughtiest Girl Keeps a Secret by Anne Digby & Enid Blyton

Author:Anne Digby & Enid Blyton [Digby, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hachette Children
Published: 2014-09-19T00:00:00+00:00

‘Elizabeth!’ her friends cried, as she flashed by.

They crowded to the door, only to see her back view disappearing upstairs.

‘Aren’t you coming in?’ they shouted.

‘I’m sleepy, I’m going to bed!’ came the muffled reply.

A minute later, she was on her knees in the dormitory by her bedside locker. She cleared a space for the jug of milk, placed it inside, then closed the cupboard door. Nobody ever looked in people’s lockers. They were private.

To get her breath back, she flung herself on the bed and lay staring at the ceiling.

‘What have I done?’ she thought, feeling surprised at herself. ‘Well, there’s no going back now.’

Slowly, very slowly, a feeling of relief crept over her. It could rain as much as it liked this week. The slugs could come marching out if they wanted to. She had plenty of ammunition now. She would be ready for them!

But as so often happens in the scheme of things, there was no more heavy rain that week! The ground dried out nicely. Weather conditions for growing prize lettuce turned out to be quite perfect!

Elizabeth continued to keep a watchful eye on them and was thankful. Great secrecy and stealth would have been required, to help them along. Roger, no longer in the tennis team, was always working in the gardens these fine evenings, as was Thomas.

The large jug of milk remained hidden in her locker, untouched and, in time, forgotten.

So when a second former stood up at the next school Meeting, her words gave Elizabeth a shock.

‘Please, I have a complaint. On Tuesday morning, when our table went up to collect our jug of milk, there was none left. Cook said staff always fill the right number of jugs, so one table must have been greedy and taken two. We had to share a jug with the next table and we all had a measly amount of milk on our cornflakes. I think the table that took two jugs of milk ought to own up.’

William and Rita, as Judges, looked around the crowded hall.

‘Did any table help themselves to an extra jug of milk on Tuesday morning?’ asked Rita pleasantly. ‘If so, would they please own up now?’

There was silence.

The head boy and girl waited patiently for a few moments. There were rows of blank faces. It was obvious that no one was going to stand up.

At a nod from Rita, William looked relieved and banged the gavel on the little table.

‘Very well,’ he announced, with a smile. ‘I think on this occasion we can be quite sure that one of the kitchen staff did make a little mistake. None of us is perfect! You must put the matter behind you, Chloe, and not be the last table to collect its milk next time!’

The whole school laughed.

Elizabeth felt very hot. As soon as the Meeting ended, she had to rush outside and gulp in some fresh air.

She had never in her life not owned up to something before. She felt terribly guilty. But how

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