What I want to know is what happened to Jenny and how she came riding down through the fire." Here she leaned forward to speak to Mr Cantor. "And if there's anyone here who ought to have a medal I think it's Jenny because she's the bravest of any of us. I know I wouldn't have liked to have gone off by myself in the dark."

It seemed that Jenny was much better at reading stories than telling them, but she was persuaded to try.

"I do wish you wouldn't keep on at me so," she began, and then Tom whispered something to her and she took a deep breath and tried again. "I hated it after Peter had left me to go back to Penny. I hated it. It was so cold that I felt a bit sick, and although I'd pretended to be brave I knew I wasn't. Well, anyway, I kept on walking over the hills in the heather looking for this place and after a bit I saw what looked like a little flame. When I got nearer I saw it was a camp fire still burning near a caravan. Then I remembered what Peter had given me and as I was lost and scared and cold and miserable, I took out the little whistle the gipsies gave her and blew it hard. I blew it once or twice as I walked nearer and then the caravan door opened and there was Reuben... I was quite sure it was magic - him being there I mean. I was never so pleased to see anybody at any time as dear Reuben... I told him how I got the whistle and that Peter had lent it to me, and then I told him that I wanted to find Alan because you boys were probably prisoners and p'raps being tortured... Then he said it was quite all right for me to have blown the whistle and I must come up on the piebald horse with him and we'd be at Bury Fields in about five minutes, and so we were. On the way he told me that because of what David had said he'd come back to Clun just because he wasn't afraid of being accused when he was really innocent.

"I don't know where we went but soon there were four men, and when we got here there were five 'cos Alan was just going out to find someone to ride and keep watch with him.

"And I ought to tell you," Jenny continued, "that twice Alan spoke nicely to Reuben... Mind you I think Alan was a beast about Reuben and Miranda once upon a time, but he was awfully friendly this time... That's about all that happened to me except that all the time we were coming down that hill with the fire behind I was very scared."