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You are Head Girl; Frieda is Second Prefect; Marie is Games Prefect; and Simone is your friend, all of you |
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and Simone is your great friend |
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‘P’r’aps
she’s seen It, and doesn’t bother about It,’ suggested Mary Shaw, with
a smothered giggle. ‘If so, I reckon Corney Flower’s the coolest hand
on this earth. I’d raise the roof if I saw Baby Voodoo peeping in at
me. I know that!’
‘Let me try,’ whispered Alixe von Elsen, pressing forward. ‘Here you are, but be careful not to break the glass or Bill will hear it, and she would be so angry,’ replied Emmie Linders, giving her the string to which they had tied a light fishing-rod sinker. Alixe tried. But no more than Emmie could she rouse that rival to the Seven Sleepers, Cornelia Flower. From where they stood, they were not able to see the lattices very clearly, and though they felt that they had guessed right with the position of Baby Voodoo, they could only guess at the whereabouts of the open leaf of the window. What is more, though none of them had realised it, when Alixe had taken Emmie’s place she had moved a little to the right, and the sinker was swinging and tapping against the casement of the Head Girl’s room. |
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She could hear low murmurs, but could see nothing except the sinker attached to the string. The middles had drawn up Baby Voodoo for a minute or so just before she arrived. |
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But as they all took up Alixe’s place most carefully, and as Joey was not in her room, nothing resulted. Baby Voodoo was no light weight, either, dangled from the end of a cord, and dropped some fifteen or sixteen feet down. Finally, they gave it up as a bad job; drew up the sinker and their pet... |
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Biddy
O’Ryan gurgled at this. ‘I’ll be a banshee, shall I?’ she suggested;
‘an’ flap me arms, an’ wail like the banshees of old Ireland do.’ ‘Oh, dry up!’ said Enid, with a shiver. ‘It’s quite spooky enough up here without your talk!’ ‘Sure, an’ ’twas your own suggestion—Baby Voodoo an’ all!’ retorted Biddy defiantly. |
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I can't remember who the puppet/doll belonged to orginally. |
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