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Atherton looked around him rather wildly and swore, a surprisingly modern-sounding swear word.
“Henry!” he said. “Run down to the village hall, can’t you? Tell everyone to come back up here and help! Eileen!” (Eileen must be the maid.) “Call the fire brigade! And tell Cook and Hodges! You!” (He turned to Alex and Ruby.) “I don’t know who you are, but you’d better make yourselves useful. Come on!”
He ran back into the hall and grabbed his hat from the hall sideboard (hats were evidently one of life’s essentials, because Dora and Henry were also grabbing theirs from the hatstand by the door). Then they all went haring down the
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