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4 A visit from Bill – and a great idea
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A visit from Bill – and a great idea
Philip’s captor was remarkably1 quiet in his movements. He had captured Philip with hardly asound, and as the boy had not had time to utter a single cry, nobody had heard anything at all.
Philip struggled frantically2, for he was half choked with the soft earth that his face was buried in.
He was twisted over quickly, and a gag of some sort was put right across his mouth. His wrists,he found, were already tied together. Whatever could be happening? Did this fellow think he wasBill? But surely he knew that Bill was big and burly?
Trying to spit out the earth in his mouth behind the gag, Philip wriggled3 and struggled. But itwas of no use, for his captor was strong and merciless.
He was picked up and carried to a summer-house, quite silently. ‘And now,’ hissed4 a voice,close to his ear, ‘how many more of you are there here? Tell me that, or you’ll be sorry. Grunttwice if there are more of you.’
Philip made no answer. He didn’t know what to do, grunt5 or not grunt. Instead he groaned6, forhis mouth was still full of earth, and it did not taste at all nice.
His captor ran his hands over him. Then he got out a small pocket-torch, and flashed it once,very quickly, on Philip’s gagged face. He saw the tuft of hair standing7 straight up on Philip’sforehead and gave a gasp8.
‘Philip! You little ass9! What are you doing out here, creeping about in the dark?’
With a shock of amazement
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