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I helped Mary Margaret finish clearing the table Then we had our breakfast and I went back to my hole in the wall to fix ave G

reat-aunt Leonora the check Grand and her eyebrows lifting

"This is a lot of spending ive soenerous I'htfully Then she shook her head as if she was shaking off a bad thought and s it London is an expensive place I'll see to it that you start with a few hundred pounds Have a good day, dear," she added

Withrooan my journey to my new school

My first mistake happened only a block fros Great-uncle Richard had told lish drive their cars on the opposite side When I looked toI heard was a squeal of brakes and the sight of an enraged driver I ju

"Mind the traffic light," the driver screamed ild eyes stretched into his temples as he drove past

I closed my eyes, sucked in my breath and started across the street when it was sate The sky was still quite gray and I noticed that just about every pedestrian was carrying an umbrella I didn't have one and no one at the house had offered one to an just before I reached the station I couldn't run across the street because of the traffic, so I had to wait even though I was getting drenched Finally, I charged into the station and shook

People pushed byto and fro I didn't think it looked all that much different from the subway stations in the States There was even so a saxophone in front of a can set out for coins The station clerk was helpful, however, and side everyone else foreveryone to "Mind the gap" I couldn't iine what that ap between it and the platform

"Mind the gap," I ot aboard my first subway train in London I studied the map and watched for the stations Greatuncle Richard had written out forfor the school in a slow, steady drizzle I panicked, thinking I had gone the wrong way, and stopped to catchtoway to present ht, and wondered if I shouldn't just turn around and go back to Endfield Place

"You all right, sweetie?" a small, elderly lady asked as she stepped out of the shop

I guess eainst the wall made me look peculiar

"No I can't find where I have to go," I said

"And where would that be, sweetie?"

She looked up at me and blinked her eyes Her face was almost painted, she had so much makeup on

"Here," I said thrusting the address in front of her She glanced at it and looked up