 204  «Certainly you may,» said Miss Manning. «You can't imagine how thrilled I am that anyone would want to write a book about father. I would have taken more care of his papers if I had known.» After searching through a number of drawers, Miss Manning found the key to the attic. «You won't find it easy to see up there,» she said as she handed him the key. «There's a small window in the roof, but I expect that it will be too dirty to see through.» There were about a dozen boxes in all. Weston did not know where to begin. He opened the first one, then another, but found nothing that looked like diaries. Then he decided to try the largest box. It was full of papers. As he turned these over, a bundle of exercise books, tied together with string, caught his eye. On the cover of the top one were written the words «DIARY, 1935-36». №26 Helen packed a small suitcase, said good-bye to her mother and hurried out of the house to catch the bus to the station. There was no one else waiting at the bus-stop, so it looked as if a bus had just left. Helen looked at her watch anxiously: it was already two o'clock. Her . train left at two-thirty, and since it would take at least twenty minutes to reach the station, she did not have much time to spare, even if a bus came along at once. Just then a taxi came slowly down the road. Helen knew that the fare to the station was at least two pounds, which was more than she could afford; but she quickly made up her mind that it would be well worth the extra expense in order to be sure of catching her train. So she stopped the taxi and got in. She told the driver that she had to catch a train which left at half past two. The man nodded and said that he would take a short cut to get her to the station in good time. All went well until, just as they were coming out of a side-street into the main road that led to the station, the taxi ran into a car. There was a loud crash and Helen was thrown forward so violently that she hit her head on the front seat. Both drivers got out and began shouting at each other. Helen got out as well, to ask them to stop quarrelling, but neither of them took any notice of her at all. 204 |
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