Everyone was so busy that no one actually noticed Aubergine Wealth was not around. Even though he had been born there, he didn’t live in Transylvania Waters so no one realised he hadn’t gone home. He had a house in Switzerland that no one was ever invited to visit and that was where he always spent the holidays. Though he didn’t like to think he so much ‘spent’ the holidays as ‘saved’ the holidays. His house was halfway up a mountain overlooking Geneva, and in particular overlooking the six Swiss banks where he had large amounts of his money hidden. Other places he had his money hidden included: • In three hundred cardboard boxes under his bed. • In an enormous sock inside a plastic bag under a rock on Inaccessible Island, guarded by a flock of really bad-tempered Rockhopper Penguins who spent all day hopping on and off the rock and spitting at anyone who ever went near it – which no one did, so wasting all their spit made them even more bad-tempered. • Inside a big tin embedded in a massive block of concrete in the heart of the radioactive Chernobyl nuclear power station.
