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“Look! It’s going under!” said Sandy. We rode home on our bikes to tell Mum and Dad as fast as we could. “What!?” said Mum. “Science Against Monsters?” “Yes, she’s a Professor,” I said. “They’re calling Nessie ‘The Fake in the Lake’.” “And they’ve got this cool submarine,” said Sandy. “But they want to prove that there’s no creature in the Loch.” “Oh, no!” said Dad. “This isn’t good. And I don’t want to go back to Glasgow –” “B-But why?” we asked. “We love it here!” “Dad and I love it here, too,” said Mum. “But when people hear that there’s nothing in the Loch, we’ll have no guests. And without guests, how can we live?” “Your mother’s right,” said Dad. “We must sell McArthur’s B & B. I must go back to work in the factory again and Mummust clean other people’s houses. And you two must go back to the big city school.” “No more playing at the Loch,” I said. “No more bike rides and walks in the hills,” said Sandy. “No more concerts at the castle,” said Mum. We were all very sad. 265 270 275 280 285 290 295 300 305 310 315 320 325 330 Suddenly the door opened. The strange pair ran into the breakfast room. They looked really scared. “Quick!” shouted the woman. “We’re leaving! We’ve just come back to get our things!” They ran upstairs and then came down again with their bags and got into the van. “Run for your life!” they shouted to us and ran out the door. one hundred and nineteen 119 The next day the phone rang all morning. “More guests!” Mum said every time she answered it. Suddenly, very many guests wanted to stay at McArthur’s B & B. “I just can’t understand it,” said Dad. When the newspaper arrived later in the morning, this is what we read: “Now we know why so many people are calling our B & B,” I said. “Does this mean we don’t have to go back to the city?” asked Sandy. “Can we stay here?” “Yes, maybe,” said Dad. “But what made those terrible noises? Maybe there really is something in the Loch.” Scientists hear monster noises in Loch Ness Scientists from London came back from a visit to the famous Loch Ness in Scotland yesterday. Professor Gruntle and Dr Bland used a special submarine with infrared cameras and underwater microphones in the Loch just beside Urquhart Castle. “We heard some very scary noises under the water. Terrible noises!” the Professor said. “It’s no mystery! We are sure a terrible monster is hiding in the deep caves under Loch Ness! And this monster is big!” That afternoon, Sandy and I were walking in the castle gardens. We saw the caretaker. “Hi, kids,” called Mr Muir. Alle neuen Wörter findest du im Dictionary ganz hinten im Buch. A story e Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv