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ОглавлениеElsie flew forward and burst through a stained-glass window.
SHATTER!
She rolled down some stone steps before landing on top of a glass cabinet that housed the skeleton of a sabre-toothed tiger.
THUD!
Elsie came down with such force that the sheet of glass on which she landed began to crack.
K E R C H U N K !
Like a shaft of lightning splintering through the sky, the crack shot across the glass.
BING!
In a split second, the glass panel at the top of the cabinet misted over as it became a thousand tiny pieces. Elsie knew exactly what was going to happen next, but was powerless to stop it. She gulped. The glass crumbled beneath her, and Elsie fell into the cabinet, landing on the back of the sabre-toothed tiger.
Now the girl was trapped inside the glass cabinet, and with all the noise from the window smashing she was sure to have drawn attention to herself. If only there were some way of breaking one of the glass walls, but they were inches thick. However hard she thumped with her fists, it just wouldn’t break.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Feeling that there was little chance of the sabre-toothed tiger skeleton missing it, she pulled out one of its sabre-toothed teeth. With an almighty swing of her arm, she bashed the sharp end of the tooth against the glass.
BUNK!
SMASH!
It immediately splintered, and the tiny pieces of glass showered down like rain.
P A T T E R !
Not needing the tooth any more, Elsie stuck it back where she’d found it, and patted the sabre-toothed tiger skeleton in thanks.
“Good boy!”
The sound of bootsteps echoed along the corridor.
It must be the museum’s head of security, Mr Clout. Elsie knew she had to make a run for it. Having no shoes on her feet, she carefully stepped over the pieces of broken glass, and charged off down a corridor.
Staying close to the walls and keeping out of the light – something she had learned from the rats at the orphanage – she found a balcony overlooking the main hall.
From the top floor of the museum, Elsie looked down on the historic scene.
