


Me: Why are you lying on that hard mat?
Nell: I’m guarding the back door.
Me: Harriet is looking worried.
Nell: She has every reason to be.
Me: Why?
Nell: You’re not going to believe this.
Me: I just might.
Nell: Kev is a wanted man.
Me: He’s greatly loved.
Nell: Not like that. My friend Dorothy says there are posters all over the town.
Me: Of Kev?
Nell: Yes. Apparently they are offering a reward for any information on his whereabouts.
Me: How much?
Nell: I have no idea and that’s not the point.
Me: I’m not sure hiding in his studio in the back garden is the safest place for Kev to be at the moment.
Nell: He’s wearing a false beard and sunglasses.
Me: He still looks like Kev.
Nell: It’ll have to do until we find an alternative. Remember no visitors are allowed in the back garden however innocent they might appear to be.
Me: So, no giant stuffed rabbits then?
Nell: I worry about you sometimes. I really do.
Me: Talking of stuffed toys you know the Stuffed Tiger is probably listening to everything we’re saying, don’t you?
Nell: That’s why we’re not discussing Kev in the living room. Didn’t you read your notes?
Me: What notes?
Nell: Sally has issued everyone with notes.
Me: I didn’t get any.
Nell: Check your iBone.
Me: Oh my goodness. Someone has sent me a photo of the Wanted poster.
Nell: Let me check my emails. Yes, I have it too.
Me: Who’s the sender?
Nell: A Friend.
Me: Same here.
Nell: We need to inform Sally and Miss Maple at once.
Me: Call me suspicious but I don’t think A Friend actually is one.
Nell: Of course not. Go and get Sally right now.
Me: Yes. Sorry.