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like them. Where shall I go now? I’m tired of moving about.’
    I looked at him, with his crooked hat and wobbly nose and it was like a big surge of electricity went through me from my toes right up to my head.
    â€˜Listen, Mister Lewis,’ I said. ‘Me and Shane will help you.’
    Shane’s eyebrows shot up his forehead. ‘What?’ he said.
    â€˜We’re not afraid of a couple of straggly women with no manners,’ I nodded to him.
    â€˜Sure,’ said Shane. ‘We’ll … we’ll …’
    â€˜We’ll work something out,’ I put in. ‘Now let’s clean up here and we’ll be back later.’
    â€˜Huh?’ said Shane, sounding like he wanted to object – until he saw my frown. ‘Er, yeah,’ he went on. If they come sniffing around, you tell them that you have tough guys coming who’ll sort them out.’
    It was good to see Mister Lewis smiling again, even if there was still fear in his eyes.
    â€˜Thank you, boys,’ he said. ‘You have cheered me up already. With your help, we’ll handle this together. I’m staying put,’ he added decisively.
    Fighting words, but we both knew that he was mad scared. And so were we.
    â€˜What were you thinking, Milo?’ asked Shane shortly afterwards as we headed forhome. ‘How are we supposed to deal with a couple of wild women with no manners?’
    â€˜I know,’ I said. ‘But I felt so sorry for him. I just wanted—’
    â€˜I wonder where the horses are,’ Shane interrupted. ‘There’s still no sign of them. Come on, let’s see where they are. It’ll give us a bit of reality after Mister Lewis’s stuff,’ he went on as he ran towards the field.
    I sighed as I followed. Much as I like horses, I just wanted to get away from here, and I wondered how we could possibly help Mister Lewis against two wild women.
    Up ahead, Shane stood on a bar of the gate.
    â€˜Milo!’ he shouted. ‘All the horses are gone. The whole field is empty.’
    â€˜Maybe they’ve just been moved to a different field,’ I called out.
    â€˜No way!’ Shane shouted back. ‘The fargate is broken in bits. It’s like they barged right through it.’
    â€˜Crunch and Wedge!’ we both said together.
    â€˜Imagine those two getting their evil fun by chasing poor horses around the field and making them break through that gate,’ said Shane.
    â€˜Creeps, the pair of them,’ I said angrily.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN
SLEEPOVER
    M um was taking a shepherd’s pie out of the microwave when I got home at teatime. I hoped it was the last one. Mum feels that she’s being really clever by making a load of pies at the same time and then freezing them. She says it makes life easier – though, frankly I prefer Dad’s idea of cooking, when Mum is out with friends and he phones for a delivery of fish and chips and we watch telly. I sneaked upstairs before she saw mymuddy shoes and dirty hands.
    ‘Come on, Milo,’ she called up after a few minutes. ‘We can’t wait for your dad.’ (She always puts in the
your dad
bit when she’s annoyed with him.)
    ‘Any news, Milo?’ she asked when I sat down at the table.
    The real answer went whirling inside my head.
Yes, Mum. Me and Shane are going to spend the night saving a dead man from a couple of loco women who are driving him mad.
    ‘Nothing much, Mum,’ I said. ‘Me and Shane had a chat with Miss Lee about history stuff.’
    ‘Good lads,’ she nodded as she dished out the shepherd’s pie. ‘You two will go far.’
    Well, that was for sure, I thought, considering my promise to Mister Lewis. ‘Going far’ might be somewhere up there on a cold moon with raggedy corpsesfloating about on it. But then I shook my head to stop crazy thoughts; after all, in spite of Mister Lewis’s weird imagination, a couple of poor women could be tamed.
    Halfway through our meal, Dad