Jake's Tower: Part 4

By ELIZABATH LAIRD

There'll be a window with a lookout place on it, like a balcony. I'll have a telescope out there, on the balcony, and I'll be able to see for miles and miles.

Keep a check to see if anyone's coming near, in case I have to take precautions. And just in case, just supposing I need it, I'll have one of those huge, great balloons tied up to the balcony, the ones you can go in, with a basket underneath. And if I really have to, I'll get in the basket, and untie the rope, and float away. No one could get me then.

But I wouldn't ever need to. I wouldn't have to worry, because of the moat and the drawbridge. And even if he did get across somehow I'd fix it so the lift wouldn't go down for him. It would be my lift, just obeying me. Voice activated, or something.

Publisher: Macmillan

Age group: 12 plus yrs


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