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Excerpt: ...and muttering like an imprisoned animal. The house was so quiet when Maggie came out on to the stairs that there seemed to be no one in it. She found her way down into the hall and saw Thomas the cat there, moving like a black ghost along the floor. He came up to her and rubbed himself in his sinister, mysterious way against her dress. When she turned towards the green baize door that led towards the kitchen regions he stood back from her, stole on to the lower steps of the staircase and watched her with steady, unblinking eyes. She pushed the door and went through into the cold passage that smelt of cheese and bacon and damp earth. There seemed to be no one about, and then suddenly the pantry door opened and Jane came out. She stopped when she saw Maggie. "Wheres Martha?" asked Maggie in a low voice. The whisper seemed to tell Jane at once that this was to be a confidential matter. She jerked with a dirty thumb in the direction of the kitchen. "In there. Cooking the dinner," she whispered back. She was untidy, there were streaks of black on her face, but her eyes looked up at Maggie with a friendly, roguish glance, as though they had already something in common. Maggie saw that she had no time to lose. She came close to her. "Jane," she said, "Im in trouble. Its only you who can help me. Heres a letter that I want posted
| ISBN-13 | 9781153696968 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153696967 |
| Weight | 1.07 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.73 In |
| List Price | $26.44 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 328 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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