Chapter 11 LUCIAN IN TROUBLE
　　"HALLO, Lucian," said Jack¹. "Come in. Have a sweet?""Oh, thanks," said Lucian, and sat himself down on the bed. He took a large piece of peanut-crunchout of the tin Jack offered him. "I say — this is jolly good stuff.""Like a game of deck-tennis?" asked Philip.
　　"Er — well — actually I only like playing with Lucy-Ann," said Lucian, who was so very bad at thegame that even Lucy-Ann beat him hollow. "Can't give you others much of a game, you know. I say— my uncle's been telling me about that bit of paper you showed him.""Has he? What did he say?" said Jack.
　　"Well, he thinks it may be the genuine goods all right — but he can't tell without the other piece orpieces," said Lucian, munching³ away. "Oh, I say — look at that monkey. He's snaffled an enormouspiece of nut-crunch²!"
　　"Yes — almost as big as your bit!" said Dinah, who noticed that Lucian invariably took the largestpiece of cruch from the tin.
　　"Oh, I say — did I really take a big bit?" said Lucian. "Have to watch myself! You never told meabout that bit of paper. Why didn't you? I'd have liked to see it.""Well — it isn't very important, is it?" said Philip. "I mean — we never thought you'd be interested.""Oh, but I am — like anything!" said Lucian, crunching⁴ hard. Micky was crunching too and Kiki waswatching him balefully. She didn't like nut-crunch, but she couldn't bear to see Micky enjoying his.
　　"You might tell me all about it, you really might. Where you got it, and — er — everything.""Didn't your uncle tell you where we got it?" asked Dinah innocently. Lucian looked surprised.
　　"Gosh, no," he said. "Did you tell him? Well, why on earth did he ask me to find out?"He had given himself away properly. The others winked⁵ at one another. "Well, perhaps we didn't tellhim," said Jack solemnly. "Did we, or didn't we?""Didn't, did, didn't, did," remarked Kiki, thinking it was time that someone took notice of her. Butnobody did.

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