Tregarthur's Prisoners: Book 3 (The Tregarthur's Series)

by Alex Mellanby

  Slowly the air around us changed to yellow smoke across the ground and creeping up towards us, I felt the burning in my throat. The only escape looked to be the way we’d come. Would we have to go back? Back to face the hangman?

  ‘Don’t,’ Jenna spoke softly, pleading. ‘You don’t have to do what she wants.’

  How could this thing that we had called the tunnel understand? If it did, why would it stop? Once it had helped, defied Miss Tregarthur, could we expect that to happen again?

  I turned to look at the space where I had placed the crystal. An empty feeling came over me with a feeling of so much misery. My body quivered, something in my head, my mind, as though the tunnel was searching inside me. What did it find?

  Slowly the yellow gas seeped away. I could see a tunnel dividing ahead of us. One way, Miss Tregarthur’s way, led into the distance and I could still hear her shouts of triumph as she ran off with the crystal. The crystal stolen by a crazy woman with her weird and dangerous ideas. Would it ever be returned? I knew Alice Tregarthur would never give it back, never give up the power that it gave her. Surely there was nothing more we could do.

  The second way, the new way, had turned back to blue haze again. That colour had meant safety before, safety and a route back home. The tunnel gave us a choice. I could feel the pull, the draw to take us home. There was nothing more we could do to help. I looked at Jenna and we stepped forward, this was it, our return to all those family problems we wished to escape, but it was back to our home.

  *

  I felt a hand grip my arm, Jenna’s hand, pulling me a different way, Miss Tregarthur’s way.

  About the Author

  This is Alex Mellanby’s third novel in the Tregarthur Series. Alex has given up any pretence of doctoring except to over-diagnose his own hypochondriacal illnesses. The series has been inspired by the wild wet Dartmoor. But with his children and grandchildren resident in Australia, that fantastic environment and history had to be part of this book.

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