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ahead,’ said Julian.
    ‘Well, I let the men into your house here, the night they came,’ said Jo. Julian and Dick stared in astonishment. Jo went on stirring her bread round and round.
    ‘It’s true,’ she said. ‘I got in at that tiny window that was left unfastened, and then I went to the back door and opened it and let the men in. They did make a mess of that room, didn’t they? I watched them. They took a lot of papers.’
    ‘You couldn’t possibly squeeze through that window,’ said Dick at once.

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    ‘Well, I did,’ said Jo. ‘I’ve - I’ve squeezed through quite a lot of little windows. I know how to wriggle, you see. I can’t get through such tiny ones as I used to, because I keep on growing. But yours was easy.’
    ‘Phew!’ said Julian, and let out a long breath. He hardly knew what to say. ‘Well, go on. I suppose when the men had finished you locked and bolted the kitchen door after them and then squeezed out of the pantry window again?’
    ‘Yes,’ said Jo, and put a piece of milky bread into her mouth.
    ‘What about Timmy? Who doped him so that he slept all that night?’ demanded Dick.
    ‘I did,’ said Jo. ‘That was easy, too.’
    Both boys were speechless. To think that Jo did that, too! The wicked little misery!
    ‘I made friends with Timmy on the beach, don’t you remember?’ said Jo. ‘George was cross about it. I like dogs. We always had dozens till Mum died, and they’d do anything I told them. Dad told me what I was to do - make friends with Timmy so that I could meet him that night and give him meat with something in it.’
    ‘I see. And it was very, very easy, because we sent Timmy out alone - straight into your hands,’ said Dick bitterly.
    ‘Yes. He came to me at once, he was glad to see me. I took him quite a long walk, letting him sniff the meat I’d got. When I gave it to him, he swallowed it all at once with hardly a chew!’
    ‘And slept all night long so that your precious friends could break into the house,’ said Julian. ‘All I can say is that you are a hardened little rogue. Aren’t you ashamed of anything?’
    ‘I don’t know,’ said Jo, who wasn’t really quite certain what feeling ashamed meant.
    ‘Shall I stop telling you things?’
    ‘No. For goodness’ sake go on,’ said Dick, hastily. ‘Had you anything to do with George’s kidnapping?’
    ‘I just had to hoot like an owl when she and Timmy were coming,’ said Jo. ‘They were ready for her with a sack to put over her head - and they were going to bang Timmy on the head with a stick to knock him out - then put him into a sack too. That’s what I heard them say. But I didn’t see them. l had to creep back here and shut the front door, so that if nobody missed George till morning they’d just think she’d gone out early somewhere.’
    ‘Which is what we did think,’ groaned Dick. ‘What mutts we are! The only clever thing we thought of was to stalk the person who collected the parcel.’
    ‘It was only me, though,’ said Jo. ‘And anyway, I was coming back to tell you I would take you to George. Not because I like her - I don’t. I think she’s rude and horrible. I’d like her to stay kidnapped for years!’
    ‘What a nice, kind nature!’ said Julian to Dick, helplessly. ‘What can you do with a kid like this?’ He turned to Jo again. ‘Seeing that you wish George would stay kidnapped for years, what made you decide to come and tell us where to find her?’ he asked, puzzled.
    ‘Well, I don’t like George - but I do like him!’ said Jo, pointing with her spoon at Dick. ‘He was nice to me, so I wanted to be nice back. I don’t often feel like that,’ she added hurriedly, as if being kind was some sort of weakness not really to be admired. ‘I wanted him to go on liking me,’ she said.
    Dick looked at her. ‘I shall like you if you take us to George,’ he said. ‘Not unless. If you deceive us,