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  His eyes snapped open. George didn’t flinch. ‘Yes.’

  Killingbeck 180’d and strode off after the rest of the class.

  George listened to the click of his heels across the stone floor.

  Then he put his hands in his pockets. Then he sat down on a bench. Then he put a piece of chewing gum in his mouth.

  And then he got up, walked to the door and out into the drizzle that was soaking the steps in front of the museum.

  The guards didn’t give him a second look.

  For Dashka MacDonald

  Text copyright © 2014 Charlie Fletcher

  Illustrations copyright © 2014 Nick Tankard

  First published in Great Britain in 2014 by Hodder Children’s Books

  This ebook edition published in 2014

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