Roxy Hunter and the Mystery of the Moody Ghost Page #7

it's an automatic five-point deduction.

Whatever you do, don't say purple.

Automatic 15.

No, sweetie, no, come on.

We don't want to force-feed

Mr Franklin.

He's been... he's been

gracious enough.

You remember

what happened to Cousin Max

when you made him

eat all that food.

We had to lock him someplace scary

until he starved himself slim.

Don't go looking for something

unless you're ready to find trouble.

Don't be silly.

Mr Franklin is...

You know, that reminds me

of an old Middleton family saying:

Don't go looking for something

unless you're ready to find nothing.

We had to lock him someplace scary

until he starved himself slim.

- I know where Max is.

- What?

And I know who she is.

Her last name's Middleton,

like the man at the bank.

Mr Middleton?

- Okay, nobody move!

- What's going on here?

Oh, nothing, fatso,

just a kid's life at stake.

What if she's wrong, huh?

Are you willing to take that risk?

Okay, you keep quiet to the cops,

and I'll call with Max's location

in half an hour.

You play it cool,

or he gets maxed out!

Now, Ted, now!

Oh, Max, I knew you'd make it!

I knew it!

I was so frightened, but I knew

Ted was trying to tell me something.

Even though everybody

wanted me to be quiet,

I knew I'd figure it out!

And I promise I'll never break off

the engagement again!

- Okay...

- Hey, buddy, come here.

- You all right?

- Yeah.

Are you okay?

Is he all right?

He's fine. He's just a little shook up.

Are you cold?

...my own lack of sleep.

When I awoke, I knew that

I must be calling the police at once.

It's lucky they showed up

when they did.

Roberta Middleton!

I can't believe it.

I didn't recognise her at all.

She was shipped off

when she was very young.

Always was a bad apple.

Guess she didn't fall too far

from the Middleton family tree.

It was 1944.

My father thought

Ted was too poor...

but we were so very much in love.

We decided to get married

before Ted was shipped off to Europe.

I was to be Mrs Theodore Caruthers.

I thought my dad

would let us marry

when he saw how handsome

Ted looked in his uniform.

Get off my property!

I'm not leaving

until I see Estelle.

You're not coming into my home

and making demands! Get out!

To his dying day,

my father swore it was an accident

and that he never meant

to fire the gun.

Ted didn't want it that way.

He promised

he would come for me.

No matter what,

he would come back.

Not long after that,

his ship was torpedoed

in the Atlantic...

and I never saw Ted again.

Life goes on.

I didn't think it would,

but... it does.

I married a lovely man,

and we had

a wonderful life together,

but I never forgot Ted.

And I don't think I should have.

There was always a part of me

that belonged to him.

I guess the life-going-on part...

isn't so bad.

No, dear, it's wonderful.

I'm sorry, but that's

just so beautiful.

- Hi.

- Hello, dear.

I thought you should have this.

Thank you, dear. Oh, my.

Does this mean

we have to move now?

No, dear.

You can stay here

as long as you want.

It's so nice to have

a family in this house.

Thank you, Estelle.

No, oh, no.

Thank you, Roxy.

Good night.

Sweet dreams, love.

You too.

Ted?

Told you I'd come back

for you, didn't I?

Let's go.

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