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because she was scared too.
    â€œHer. Mrs Garland. She looks so powerful. Do you think she did away with those poor little kids? I mean, do you reckon she murdered them?”
    â€œYou keep on saying that. I reckon she looked as if she could do with as much help as May and Leslie,” said Jenny. “There’s so much going on that we don’t understand – that we’ve got to find out.”
    â€œWhat are we going to do then? Follow the kids and check out the tunnel, all these years later?” David was scornful. “Whatever happened was a long, long time ago. What can we do about it now?”
    But Jenny knew her brother was only thinking aloud. If there was something more positive to cling to, he would be more resourceful and less negative. At the moment they had so little to go on. Why did May and Leslie seem to need Sid? Why were they running away from Mrs Garland? What had they done? What was she going to do to them?
    â€œMaybe we could find their bodies,” said Jenny miserably, exhausted by the questions hammering away in her mind. “Perhaps if Sid knew whatreally happened, it would set his mind at rest. We’ve got to help him somehow.”
    â€œSo we
should
go down the tunnel,” said David. “And try and find a way into the old railway repair works from there.” He suddenly sounded far less scared and more positive.
    â€œOf course we could get into the works without going down the tunnel,” said Jenny. “But that would be cheating somehow.”
    David nodded. “I know. Those kids are bound to contact us down there, aren’t they?” he finished uneasily.
    â€œIf they don’t, the rats will,” replied Jenny.
    â€œWhat was that?” They both stood there in silence, listening intently, but there was nothing but the sound of the wind rising on the swollen river. “I thought I saw someone on the wharf,” David whispered uneasily.
    â€œThere’s no one there,” said Jenny.
    â€œAnd I thought I could smell peppermint – but I can’t now.” The twins gazed at each other. “I reckon we’re up against something much stronger than we’ve ever faced before, don’t you?” said David, his unease increasing. Then he added, “I was wrong – we should never have concentrated our wills like that. Now we’ve put Mrs Garland on her guard.”
    But Jenny was wondering if they had managed to reassure her, to confirm they meant no harm. Inher mind’s eye she could see Mrs Garland’s suspicious eyes, hear her tentative questions, but then she remembered her fierceness and her driving sense of purpose. Mrs Garland would make a formidable enemy.

Chapter Six
    Mrs Garland was staring down at David in his dream. Her face filled the horizons of his mind and he could smell her sharp peppermint breath, see into her angry eyes.
    He woke with a jolt, shivering and gasping for air, and sat up. There was nothing on the ceiling where he had expected to see the sombre shape of her head, but there was peppermint on the wind that was flapping his window to and fro, making it rattle, and he couldn’t remember opening it. He went over and closed the window with a slam, but not before he had seen the figure waiting on the quayside, looking up at him, her coat billowing in the stiff wind. It was her. It was Mrs Garland.
    Jenny was beside David as he began to scream, holding a hand over her brother’s mouth. “Don’t wake Mum and Dad. I’ve seen her too.” Slowly she released him.
    â€œShe’s going to come up,” he muttered.
    â€œShe hasn’t moved. You can see that.”
    â€œThat doesn’t mean she won’t. I can’t go back to bed,” he said. “Not with her out there.”
    â€œWe’ll have to try to contact her again,” said Jenny forcefully. “Use our wills.”
    â€œThat was
my
lousy idea – that’s how she got