The Unlikely Adventures of Mabel Jones by Will Mabbitt

Author:Will Mabbitt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2015-05-19T16:00:00+00:00

“As you wish, Mabel Jones.”

Mabel snatched the parcel and fled.

CHAPTER 15

A Helping Hand

As Mabel fled, she had a strange feeling.

It started as the same type of nagging worry you get if you leave for school having forgotten your PE clothes on a PE day.

As she sprinted through the courtyard, it grew to the size of the nagging worry a parachutist might get after jumping from an airplane, unaware he’d forgotten his parachute.

A monkey guard opened the gates for her.

“What an ugly monkey!” he commented to his fellow guard as they both saluted.

By the time she had reached the eager pirates waiting in a rowing boat, the worry had grown so large she could hardly contain it.

Finally it bubbled all the way out of her mouth.

“The piece of X!”

It had been too easy! The count had just let her have it. She turned to look back at the castle.

The count was watching her escape from the balcony of the tower. Was he waving?

Captain Split looked at her. His evil eye glinted.

“Well? Did you get it?”

Mabel unwrapped the parcel the count had given her.

“Mabel always delivers the goods,” declared Pelf proudly.

But Mabel saw differently.

She looked up at the expectant pirates, angry tears of disappointment welling up inside her.

“It’s a pebble! A stupid pebble! He must have swapped it.”

Split growled a terrible growl.

“Swapped it? You’ve stolen it for yourself, you miserable little thief!”

“I haven’t!” protested Mabel Jones. “The count tricked me!”

“I don’t care about the count,” snarled Split, stalking toward her, a murderous leer stretched across his face. “I only care about that piece of the X!”

The crew cowered in the rowing boat as Split drew his cutlass.

Suddenly a whispery voice spoke from the other end of the boat.

“Looksy what I’ve gotted!”

OMYNUS HUSSH!

The cunning creature had snuck back to the boat unseen and unheard. And he was holding the count’s piece of X in his hand!

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