Peril en Pointe by Helen Lipscombe

Author:Helen Lipscombe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chicken House
Published: 2019-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

When we get back, Topsy’s waiting outside the dorm. ‘Hellooo, Milly. I’ve been looking for you everywhere. I’ve got something for you from Tom Garrick. He left it at reception before he went to hospital. All hibbledy-hobbledy on crutches he was.’

I take a cautious peek inside the brown envelope. Tom is good friends with Willow. This might be some kind of practical joke.

I wait until Topsy’s gone before sliding out a note. It’s folded around a pretty gold compact and a packet of bobby pins.

Dear Milly, Nurse said if you hadn’t helped me to the infirmary, things could have been much worse. I haven’t got anything to give you except these – I ‘borrowed’ them from Madge and you might find them useful. Sorry I had you all wrong. Good luck at the Scarlet Slippers. Tom.

I show the note to Lottie. ‘The compact is just like Bab’s.’

‘But why would Tom give you a thing of face powder?’ says Spencer.

Lottie grins. ‘It ain’t any old compact – I fink it’s a doobrie! Can’t check it out here though. Could be fog powder. Or a show an’ tell glass. Or a boomer-bang!’

Spencer snatches the compact. ‘What’s a boomer-bang?’

‘A mirror that boomerbangs missiles back to where they came from.’

Blimey.

Our Swanphones hum. Lottie curses in Cockney. ‘We’re late for Madame. Tom’s doobrie’s goin’ to have to wait.’

Spencer hands the compact back reluctantly. ‘Just promise you won’t open it without me.’

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