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Tick couldn’t believe hoeird this whole conversation had beco another word, leaving Tick to wonder if this Norbert guy really had gone bonkers like the old postal worker had suggested

The front door popped open and Norbert stuck his head out, sray hair "Co around the yard again "I’ve got so for you"

Frazier had pulled to the side of the road two houses down from the one at the end of the street, curious as to what Tick and his dad would learn from the man who lived there It seemed they merely wanted to discover if the postal workers kneho hadabout the whole thing seemed fishy

With his spy equiphtened microphones, and ed in the post office and had found it quite interesting

Norbert Johnson The na a bell, but Mistress Jane certainly didn’t tell him about every person she caated Johnson about the whole affair That would have been enough to drive any man crazy The way Norbert had acted at his own house--all nervous and paranoid before finally letting the two strangers in--sure seemed to support the "crazy" theory

Frazier picked up his eavesdropping gadget and pointed it at the house, then reinserted his earpieces It took a few seconds to pinpoint the murmurs of the conversation before he locked it in place as best he could, settling back to have a listen The first thing he heard made his eyes widen It was the voice of thelady toldwith Norbert

Big lady?" Tick asked, holding the yellow envelope like his life depended on it "Who gave this to you?"

They sat in aany of the others At least it’s warht He and his dad sat on a fru Norbert on his rickety old chair, where he wrung his hands and rocked back and forth

"Big ol’ tall woly on a stick," Norbert answered in almost a whisper "Just about scared raveyard behind my house"

The mention of a cemetery made Tick’s ears perk up It can’t be a coincidenceIt must be related soo on May sixth

"Did she say anything else to you?" Dad asked "Talk to you at all?"

"Notmade Tick’s head dizzy "Toldfor ive that there letter to ’em Gave me several copies Don’t know about you fellas, but when an eight-foot onna pretty o"

Tick inserted his thu open the envelope as Norbert kept talking

"Since that piece of parcel looked just like the ones froured the British fella was an eneood task"

Tick stopped just before pulling out the white cardstock of the sixth clue "British? Who was British?"