Jinkal phoned Matt just before lunch and asked him to go over to his (1) urgently. He said that he (2) not tell him what it was about, as the matter had to be kept under wraps for the (3) . Bert was curious and hurried there. When he got there Jinkal’s mother, who was as white as a sheet, told him that all the neighbours were rallying round to look for a little girl who had (4) missing that morning.
‘That man over there is a (5) and he is running the show, but he is playing it cool for the moment. He (6) that we will find the little girl soon and he does not want the press breathing down his neck just now,’ said Jinkal.
Jinkal and Matt and the (7) set off to search the neighbourhood and Jinkal said, ‘I hope she is OK. I have a sinking feeling that (8) awful might have happened. Somehow you do not (9) these things to take place on your own doorstep.’
The policeman called out to them to go and search in the wood behind the park, because someone had (10) seeing a little girl there (11) . ‘Reading between the lines I think the police are more worried that they are (12) to be,’ said Matt.
Just then (13) was a shout from one of the searchers. The little girl had been found under a tree fast (14) . She was none the worse for her adventure, and everyone was extremely (15) to have found her.