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them to let you stay here, so you could still visit your dad. But after this incident they might just change their minds.’
    What did my two uncles have to do with it anyway? They hadn’t even been to visit my dad after his accident. Although they did send a bowl of fruit, which was pretty stupid as my dad was in a coma and couldn’t eat!
    â€˜Jem?’ I said, looking at my sister. ‘What’s going on?’
    â€˜It’s true,’ she said, looking miffed that her reign as my boss was officially over. ‘Uncle Kevin and Uncle Ken have got their lawyers on the case. They say they’re going to sort out Stoked and that includes us. Plus they’ve promoted Ginger from front of house manager to general manager. She’s in charge of everything at Stoked now.’
    â€˜No way!’ I said, incredulous.
    â€˜Yes way, young man,’ said Ginger Styles, ‘and I won’t be surprised if your uncles change their minds if they find out that you were missing in action on my first day in charge. As if Stoked needed any more bad publicity, but boy, do we have it now – a runaway Stunt Boy!’ Ginger was on a roll now. ‘So what do you have to say about your disappearing act?’
    I was so shocked that Ginger Styles was the boss of me that it all came out without any stops for breath. ‘We just went to see what Chesterley was up to because I think he rigged my dad’s bike to crash so he could steal our people, then we saw him hit his baby elephant and I think he killed Blind–’ I said, my voice going all crackly and high, so I couldn’t croak out the ‘fold’.
    â€˜It’s what they do with young elephants when they’re training them. It’s to make them submissive,’ answered Ginger Styles, actually sticking up for Barry Chesterley and ignoring the fact that Blindfold could be dead! ‘It really doesn’t hurt them. I worked in animal circuses for years before I started working in human circuses for your dad.’
    â€˜Yeah, right. Would it hurt you if you got hit on the ears by a heavy silver hook?’ I said to Ginger Styles.
    â€˜And Barry Chesterley put his hook right on my throat!’ said Benny pointing to his neck, where there was a small graze from the hook.
    But the adults were more interested in getting us in trouble than listening to what we had to say. They all started talking at once, telling us off.
    â€˜Has anyone seen Blindfold? He could have been shot dead!’ I shouted above the din trying to get my point across.
    â€˜What do you mean, Blindfold could be shot dead?’ said Jem, her hand going to her mouth in horror.
    â€˜They put Stunt and me in a cage and Chesterley said if Blindfold gave them any trouble to shoot him then we heard a gunshot and a dog howling,’ said Benny.
    Then, in the distance, carried in on the night-time breeze, came the sound of a dog barking. I’d have recognised that bark anywhere.
    â€˜Blindfold!’ I yelled as I ran towards the front gate, the spotlights at the entrance picking up the tan colour of Blindfold’s fur as he came limping in, his front left paw curled in pain.
    â€˜Blindfold! You’re alive!’ I cried out as I ran to him and he fell down exhausted in front of me. His heart was beating so hard, I thought it was going to burst through his ribcage.
    He barked out three despondent little woofs, which in dog probably meant, ‘Only just, Stunt Boy,’ but I don’t speak dog so I could be wrong.
    â€˜So much for Barry Chesterley shooting your dog, eh boy?’ said the policeman, as if I had been telling everybody a pack of lies. I wanted to say, My name is Stunt Boy, thank you very much , but my dad had taught me that you should never be rude to a police officer because they can throw you in jail, so I just shut up and pulled Blindfold into my lap and hugged him extra tight.

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