Chapter 24 Ali woke up slowly. His eyes felt heavy and his body was tired. He lay in bed not moving. Something bad was coming. The thought shot through him like an electric shock, forcing him awake. He remembered. Today, Dave was taking them out. A whole day with the enemy. Ali sighed. Above him on the bookshelf, he could see the ragged spine of the Giant Atlas of World Animals. He had hidden the two halves of the envelope in there, next to his postcard from Dad. Monkey Adams. Sunday. Puma Reynolds. Sunday Meet D.O. Saturday. River. An image of the scrawled handwriting was burned into his mind. He didn’t even have to look at it to remember the words. They had only two more days before something dreadful happened to Miss Osborne. He would watch Dave like a hawk with binoculars for any clue to where she was being held. The doorbell rang. ‘Oh!
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