Wakestone Hall chapter sampler

dining room and up to the parlour on a special silver tray. Agapanthus prodded the sausages. ‘There’s a whole string of them. Do you think she’d notice if one was gone?’ ‘I bet she would,’ said Stella. The cat made a sudden happy growling sound. He wriggled out of Stella’s grasp and leaped at the sausages. Ottilie squeaked, stepped backwards, tripped and dropped the plate. It shattered on the tiled floor with a crash that sounded like a thunderclap. ‘Oh no!’ she gasped. The cat pounced on the string of sausages and pulled them into a corner behind a big sack of onions. Stella knelt down and groped around behind the sack, trying to reach the sausages. The cat hissed and took a swipe at her. She jumped back. The sack toppled, and the onions bounced and rolled across the floor. The cat shot out from his hiding place. Stella tried to grab him, but she stepped on an onion, lost her balance and collided with Agapanthus. The cat clambered up to the highest shelf of the larder, taking the sausages with him. A large tin toppled down. ‘Ouch!’ squeaked Ottilie, who was crawling

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