“If you prevent them from – killing him tonight, they will – try again. They want his – money and because he is – blind he will not be able to – stop them from taking it.”
Erlina held her brother close.
“It was incredibly lucky,” she said, “that you and I were here and learned of their wicked plot. Now we have to be very clever.”
“In what – way?” Gerry asked.
“First of all,” Erlina said, “they must never for a moment suspect that we overheard what they were planning. We must therefore behave perfectly normally as we have done up until now.”
“That is – going to be very difficult,” Gerry replied. “I would like to shoot them with my bow and arrows. And I do wish I was old enough to use a gun.”
“Then we would be criminals,” Erlina told him, “so we must not do anything wrong and certainly
