Return to Groosham Grange
Return to Groosham Grange
“Kilgraw, Mr. Helliwell and Miss Pedicure had given him all the clues he could have asked for. David played back what they had said.
Some needles are bigger than others . . . that may point you in the right direction.
Well, David had just seen the biggest needle of all—a stone pillar that had made him think of Cleopatra’s Needle on the Thames River. And what direction had that come from? Egypt!
And then Miss Pedicure: It was taken from my mummy . . .
She wasn’t talking about her mother, of cours...e. The statuette had been buried with her, part of an Egyptian mummy.
That was where he was going now. The head of a giant ram watched him without interest as he plunged into the Egyptian rooms of the museum. The statuette would be somewhere here—he was certain. How could he have wasted so much time? If only he’d stopped and thought first . . .
The first room he entered was filled with more sarcophagi—the stone coffins that contained the mummies. There were about a dozen of them on display, brightly colored and strangely cheerful.MoreLess
Some needles are bigger than others . . . that may point you in the right direction.
Well, David had just seen the biggest needle of all—a stone pillar that had made him think of Cleopatra’s Needle on the Thames River. And what direction had that come from? Egypt!
And then Miss Pedicure: It was taken from my mummy . . .
She wasn’t talking about her mother, of cours...e. The statuette had been buried with her, part of an Egyptian mummy.
That was where he was going now. The head of a giant ram watched him without interest as he plunged into the Egyptian rooms of the museum. The statuette would be somewhere here—he was certain. How could he have wasted so much time? If only he’d stopped and thought first . . .
The first room he entered was filled with more sarcophagi—the stone coffins that contained the mummies. There were about a dozen of them on display, brightly colored and strangely cheerful.MoreLess
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