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Jason Well, now I’ve met Mrs Schwartz Woman 3 That’s awful. Old people are Mr Huntingdon hurried home. He had a
three times, and I’ve learnt a lot from very vulnerable. plan. ‘How can I fall if I spend all weekend
her. I can really say that. I’ll never Boy 3 I know. It makes me worried lying down?’ he reasoned to himself. He
forget when she looked me in the about my grandparents. It’s just got some rope and lay down in the middle
eye and asked me why I’d done it. the sort of thing that could happen of the floor of his enormous hallway. He
I told her that I wanted some money to them. called Mrs Crabtree. ‘I want you to tie me
to spend. And the moment I said Conversation 4 to the floor,’ he told her. ‘I want you to tie
that, I thought how stupid I’d been me so that I can’t move.’
to mug somebody because I wanted Woman 4 There was a scary story in Mrs Crabtree did as she was told. Maybe
to buy some stuff. The second time, the paper the other day. It was about she should have asked why, but she
she asked me if I knew who’d suffered gangs of teenagers going into shops didn’t. Mr Huntingdon would probably
most from what I’d done. And I said to and stealing clothes. just have told her to mind her own
her, ‘You of course!’ She just said that Man 4 How? business. When he was tightly tied to the
no, it wasn’t her, and asked me to look Woman 4 Well, a couple of them start floor, he told Mrs Crabtree to leave the
at the other side of the table, where an argument in the shop and the house and lock the door behind her. He
my mum and dad were sitting. I knew others use this as a chance to take didn’t need her this weekend and she
immediately what she meant. stuff. wasn’t to return until Monday morning.
8.05 Man 4 I’d better warn my uncle. Mrs Crabtree left, leaving Mr Huntingdon
smiling at how clever he was. He heard
Conversation 1 He’s got a clothes shop. the door close and the key turn in
Woman 4 Yes, tell him to be extra
Man 1 You’ll never guess what. the lock.
careful at the moment.
Woman 1 What? Mrs Crabtree was gone. There was
Man 1 Someone broke into our house Unit 9 nothing but silence … or was there?
the other day. What was that sound? A sort of
9.04 creaking – very quiet at first, but slowly
Woman 1 No way!
The Case of the Mysterious Fall getting louder. Mr Huntingdon looked
Man 1 Yes, we’d just got back from the up. Above him hung a huge chandelier.
cinema and we saw the front door open. Mr Huntingdon was a strange man. He It was slowly, very, very slowly, starting
I knew what had happened immediately. lived all alone in the huge ancient house
that stood on the top of the hill. Apart to move. He suddenly knew he shouldn’t
Woman 1 What did they take? from Mr Huntingdon, only one other have sent Mrs Crabtree home. He
Man 1 They didn’t take anything, but person ever went into that house: his shouted out for her, screaming her name
they left the house in a real mess. cleaning lady and housekeeper Mrs again and again. It was too late. She
Conversation 2 Crabtree. Mr Huntingdon wasn’t a very wouldn’t be coming back for 48 hours.
Man 2 You won’t believe what nice man and he treated Mrs Crabtree He tried to free his arms and legs, but it
was no use. He wasn’t going anywhere.
happened to me last week. like a slave: All he could do was look up at the
Woman 2 Tell me. ‘Close the curtains! People are always chandelier and wait …
trying to look in, trying to watch me.
Man 2 I was walking down the street I won’t have it!’ Mrs Crabtree arrived at eight o’clock on
when this man just took my phone out Monday morning. She opened the door
of my back pocket and ran away. ‘Shake out those carpets! They’re full of and saw the body of Mr Huntingdon
deadly spiders.’
Woman 2 What?! lying under the huge chandelier.
‘Don’t move that chair! All chairs must
Man 2 Yes. He was gone before I could face south!’ ‘Oh dear,’ she sighed. ‘I should have had
do anything. that fixed.’
Mr Huntingdon was also a very secretive
Woman 2 Did you report it to the man and spent most of his time in the
police? Unit 10
house. The only time he ever left his
Man 2 Yes. They said it’s happening house was on Friday mornings, when he 10.02
a lot at the moment. would leave home to visit the shop of a Host Welcome back to Moneyspinners.
Conversation 3 fortune-teller in town. Half an hour later, And our next contestant is Cindy
Boy 3 I heard a really sad story about he’d leave the shop and return home. He Jones. Hello, Cindy, here’s your first
an old lady. She was conned and lost never stopped to buy anything. He never question, good luck. Which country
her life savings. spoke to anyone. has coins with holes in the middle? Is it
Woman 3 Really? One Friday, the fortune-teller had some Britain, Iceland, Japan or South Africa?
terrible news for Mr Huntingdon. ‘This Cindy Oh, I know this! It’s Japan. For
Boy 3 Yes. Someone rang her up and weekend,’ she told him, ‘you will be sure. I was there last year.
offered her an amazing deal to buy killed by a fall.’ It was an odd thing to be
property in London. Host Yes, you’re right. So you have
told, for sure, but Mr Huntingdon wasn’t £100 – well done. Just out of interest,
Woman 3 Right… particularly worried. After all, this was which Japanese coins have holes?
Boy 3 So she transferred all her money why he visited the fortune-teller – so that
into this bank account and, of course, he could make sure nothing bad would Cindy Erm, the five and the fifty yen
she never heard from the man again. ever happen to him. coins, I think.

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