The Strangers
“Three pairs of bright green eyes glittered in the light of the candle.
“You should call no one,” Horatio repeated, “because you haven’t the faintest idea what you’re doing.”
“Where have you been?” Olive burst out as a confusing mixture of gladness and frustration rushed through her. “I’ve hardly seen you all week, and now you show up just in time to keep me from finally doing something worthwhile?”
“As it happens, Olive,” said Horatio, fluffing his thick fur, “we have been doing som...ething worthwhile too: Guarding this house’s secrets and keeping you from making any dangerous mistakes. Apparently we are indeed ‘just in time.’”
“But I haven’t done anything,” Olive protested. “Nobody has. My parents are gone, and it’s been a whole week, and I can’t keep wasting time!”
Leopold tilted his sleek black head. “Aren’t Mrs. Dewey and Doctor Widdecombe and Walter’s aunt Deluda—”MoreLess
“You should call no one,” Horatio repeated, “because you haven’t the faintest idea what you’re doing.”
“Where have you been?” Olive burst out as a confusing mixture of gladness and frustration rushed through her. “I’ve hardly seen you all week, and now you show up just in time to keep me from finally doing something worthwhile?”
“As it happens, Olive,” said Horatio, fluffing his thick fur, “we have been doing som...ething worthwhile too: Guarding this house’s secrets and keeping you from making any dangerous mistakes. Apparently we are indeed ‘just in time.’”
“But I haven’t done anything,” Olive protested. “Nobody has. My parents are gone, and it’s been a whole week, and I can’t keep wasting time!”
Leopold tilted his sleek black head. “Aren’t Mrs. Dewey and Doctor Widdecombe and Walter’s aunt Deluda—”MoreLess
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