Not very Blytonish Icey...Icecream342 wrote:Then they get so lost the previsions of ginger beer and biscuits end and they think they are going to die, when.... THey find the way to a food mall and stock up
The Midnight Feast That Went Wrong: (this is about Pat and Isabel in the third form in between Second Form at St Clares and Claudine at St Clares.)
Pat and Isabel are returning to St Clares to be in the third form and what plans they have! They plan to enjoy themselves as once they get up into the fourth they have to be sedate and 'shake down' so this is the last term to enjoy themselves! Janet and Bobby plan to trick Mam'zelle for the last time and Alison is planning a feast for her birthday! When it comes to the night of the midnight feast something goes terribly wrong. Apparently Alison's grandmother supplied the midnight feast snacks but there was a dangerous plot behind it all. The men who had tried to kidnap Sadie a few terms ago have come back hunting for her and have mistaken Alison for her. (They did not realise Sadie had moved back to America with her mother). One of the men gets a job as a post man to disguise himself as he knew Alison had a package of food coming. And one got a job as caretaker at St Clares itself! They had a horrid plan in their minds. The postman watched for the package addressed to St Clares and tore it open without even looking at the name. He swapped the food for doped food so that the midnight feaster's might fall asleep and the caretaker could kidnap 'Sadie' from the common room as he had a key for every room. The midnight feasters ate the doped food and fell asleep except from the new girl in the form Mable who was a pale girl, very thin and not very healthy looking. She never ate anything becauseof deep worry of her mother who was in hospital. She never let anyone see that she never ate anything so she had been invited to the midnight feast along with every one else. She was surprised to see every one dropping to sleep. She also became worried, what if they didn't awake until the morning and then they would be found out! But she was so timid and shy she didn't want to wake anyone in case they grew cross with her, so she quietly tidied up. It gets to 3.00 and still no-one was awake so Mable creeps across to Alison. Alison wouldn't be cross if she woke her. She was deeply fond of Alison and looked up to her no end. She shakes her but Alison went on sleeping of course. And then the door begins to open. Mable is scared out of her life- a mistress come to tell them off? But no, it was the caretaker! Mable, as timid as usual, pretends to be asleep but then she sees something terrifying! The man, picking Alison carefully up! She could not stand this and shrieked at the top of her voice: HE'S KIDNAPPING ALISON! HELP! Of course that woke up the mistresses! They come rushing down and Miss Theobald grabs the sleeping Alison. All of the third form are put in the san and wake late the next day, when Mable is the heroine of the day! What an exciting term!
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