Chapter Fifty One

Chapter 51.

‘Good job. Okay, now I’m going to take your finger…’ He took his tiny

hand in his own and laid the end of his finger over Toby’s. ‘And we’re

going to press that key. Just once. Lightly.’ He tapped the key with Toby’s

finger and a list of files came up. ‘Oh!’

‘You liked that? Want to do it again?’

After doing it half a dozen times they moved on, and between them they

marked the files and copied them to the CD. It took longer than if he’d done

it on his own, but that didn’t matter. He’d wasted too much time, staying

away, doing the right thing. This was the right thing…

When they’d done he looked up and discovered that both Connie and

Mira were watching them, apparently transfixed.

‘What?’ he said.

‘Nothing.’ Mira swallowed. ‘It’s just that…people don’t usually let

little boys play with thousands of pounds worth of computer hardware.’

‘No? Believe me, this was easy. Toby speaks English. It’s a lot harder

when you’re in some place that the world forgot—or more likely never

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