28 ‘Stanley, look, hairy-faced meanies’ Stanley left the professor and went back to Jupp’s door. Again he knocked and called her name, but to no avail. ‘I don’t think the girl with shiny eyes is in there,’ said Spore, poking his head out of Stanley’s pocket. ‘She is. She just doesn’t want to speak to me,’ he replied. ‘Why she not want to speak to Stanley? I like to speak with Stanley.’ ‘I told her the truth – that I didn’t kill the man everyone thinks I killed.’ ‘I not understand. She not want to speak to you for telling the truth?’ Stanley turned away from the door, certain now that Jupp wasn’t going to appear. ‘I think she’s still upset about the lie.’ ‘Ah, that make sense.’ Stanley went back to his room. Spore climbed out of his pocket and on to the windowsill, where he could see the blue-jacketed Brotherhood climbing over the Goodship Gusto. ‘What is that?’ asked Spore, pressing his face against the window. ‘That’s the ship that brought us here.’ ‘We will leave on it as well, yes?’ ‘No, I don’t think so.
