He had been thinking about what had happened the day before, and the more he thought, the more he realized that things could have turned out very differently at the hospital if Cyd had not been there. Cyd was usually there to help when odd things happened to him, Archie thought. She was the one who had warned him not to pick up the Brazilian Wandering Spider. She had come to the rescue when he was stuck in the staff cloakroom without any clothes. And she was the one who put out the fire in Miss Henley’s handbag, so that they hadn’t burned to death in the stockroom. He would like, Archie decided, to do something that showed Cyd how grateful he was for all she had done. But what? He was still trying to think of something when his mother appeared. ‘Are you ready?’ she asked. ‘Ready?’ ‘I thought we’d get down to the station a bit early,’ said his mother, ‘in case there’s a rush.’ And suddenly Archie had the answer. Three weeks before, his mother had bought two tickets for a trip on the Tornado, the first steam train to be built in Britain for more than fifty years.
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