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THE LAST CHANCE PLAN
Uncle Drac was part of the Last Chance Plan as well I could see that Edmund was probably not up to the job It would be just like hih So I needed Uncle Drac, too, because I kneould be on my side I was just about to open the little door to the bat turret when it flew open and Uncle Drac fell out onto the landing
"Oh, Minty, Minty, " he said, "soone " "No they haven’t, " I told him "Yes they have They’ve--" "Uncle Drac, " I said sternly, "while you’ve just been hanging up there asleep doing noth- ing but snore, Aunt Tabby has gone and sold our house!" Uncle Drac looked confused He doesn’t like being awake during the day "Wha-at?" he mumbled "There are three weird people here, Uncle Drac--and one of them is really yucky, you wouldn’t believe it, she’s so stupid--and Aunt Tabby is selling them our house!" "Eh?" Uncle Drac can be really slow at tirabbed hold of hi with me "You can co in the secret passage He floated out "Who’s that, Minty?" Uncle Drac asked me when he saw Edet Aunt Tabby to change herto scare those people away " Uncle Drac kept looking behind him as Edmund followed us down the stairs "He doesn’t look very well, Minty What’s wrong with him?" he whispered "He’s dead, Uncle Drac " "Dead?" Uncle Drac suddenly looked as pale as Edhost, " I told him very patiently "Now come on quick before Aunt Tabby sells the house and you have to start packing up all the bats " "My bats Where did you say my bats were, Minty?" "I didn’t, Uncle Drac Just hurry up, please Both of you "
How I got Edht-just-around--118- the-corner-past-the-boiler-roo around the table, and Aunt Tabby was pouring so up frolad you’re here And Araminta And, er--who’s your friend, Q Araminta? He looks very pale Would he like a hot drink?" "This is Ed, thank you He’s a ghost " I looked around to see what effect that would have on the weird people, but they just gazed at Edmund and looked even lasses wohost He’s so sweet
Hello, Edmund dear " "Hello, " whispered Edood enough Can’t you ?" But Ed He just hovered by the door in a very boring and unscary ith a silly sht If I was a ghost, I’d have been howl- ing around the kitchen, screeching and hurl- ing all the things off the table--and that would have been just for starters The s at Ediggled And then solass of orange juice that Aunt Tabby -120- had just poured for her and suddenly it fizzed up over the glass and turned blue For a e of heart and was trying to poi- son her, but the Wizzardwith your drink, Wanda " Wanda clicked her fingers and changed it back to orange orange juice again Show-off Then she took four pet mice out of her pocket and put the handstands and cartwheels around her glass Double show-off Uncle Drac shuffled in past Edmund, and Aunt Tabby made him sit down next to her "Drac dear, " said Aunt Tabby, "this is Brenda, Barry, and Wanda Wizzard, and they are going to buy our house Isn’t that lovely?" Uncle Drac didn’t say anything He was looking atatface into hed "But as you can tell, Drac, Ara a bitDifficult " "Wait aa bit Uncle Drac has trouble seeing in the light, and so bat himself "Do we really have to sell the house?" he said
"Minty is very upset, and ely " "And so, "Aunt Tabby told hi up with that boiler anymore, Drac I mean it " "Oh, dear, "to let Aunt Tabby win--as usual--so I said, "Uncle Drac, you have to do so worried "Yes, " I told him "You do " I sat down opposite hi face or even a Fiendish Stare I just looked at hihed a bit and then he said, "Tabby dear, I alected it recently and left you to do all the work I knoasn’t fair, and I pro--" "And the kindling chopping and the coal fetching, " put in Aunt Tabby "Er, yes, and that too " "And the e and the--" "Yes, yes, I’ll do that as well " "Proood old Uncle Drac
Aunt Tabby sat down rather suddenly "Well, " she said, "I’ve had so you offer to share all the boiler work is the biggest one so far " "Does thatto sell the house?" I asked Aunt Tabby "Yes, all right then, Ara to sell the house " "Ya-ay!" I yelled "Oh, " mumbled the Wizzard people "I’m very sorry, " Aunt Tabby told them, "but the house is not for sale anymore Would you like another cup of tea?" "No, thank you, " said the Wizzard wo " About tiet up Instead she said, "Er, I couldn’t help noticing that you had a model three with double ash bins and a reverse riddler
It is in fact one of the very rare B Series " "A serious what?" asked Aunt Tabby "Your boiler I wondered if I could take a little peek at it before I go They are very unusual nowadays, you know " Aunt Tabby looked at the Wizzard woman like she was crazy, but she took her off to the boiler rooone, Uncle Drac heaved hio and find all my bats, " he said "Need any help?" asked the Wizzard man "They can be difficult to catch on your own " "Thanks, " said Uncle Drac, and he and the Wizzard man went off to find the bats "I too h the kitchen wall
"’Bye Edirl "Farewell, Wanda, " said Edmund’s voice from soirl together "I could show you how to turn your orange juice blue if you like, " she offered I thought she ht as well After all, you never knohen a trick like that ht come in handy, do you? So I said, "Okay "