Joey and Co in Tirol
Synopsis
An unexpected escapade by Mike Maynard results in a much needed holiday at the Tiernsee for Jack, Joey, the Triplets, Steve and Charles.
An accident on the lake shore leads to a friendship with the 'Three Rs' - Roger, Ruey and Roddy Richardson. Their father, a Professor with an unusual scientific obsession, has rented a hut for them up the Tiern Pass and is away for days at a time. The Maynards are horrified at the bareness of the hut and set to to turn it into a home.
Jack and Joey, however, are appalled at the children being left alone and insist on taking them back to Die Blumen. Here, under the influence of the Maynard tribe, Ruey begins to wake up to the things which interest most girls of her age. The triplets wish that she could go to the Chalet School.
A picnic to 'Joey's Cave' provides a pleasant interlude but ends suddenly when the mists come down and threaten the safety of the party.
Meeting Jack and Joey, the Professor announces that he is going away for a year or two and outlines vague plans for the children in the meantime; Joey shares Ruey's anger at this casual treatment and arranges legal guardianship. Ruey will be a Chalet Girl after all.
When the Maynard and Richardson children decide to spend a day cleaning out the hut on the Pass, they hear from a party of hikers that armed robbers may be heading over the Pass after a bank raid in Germany and imaginations run wild, with uncomfortable results all round.
Finally, a visit from Daisy Rosomon (nee Venables) brings exciting news for the Richardsons and we leave Ruey largely content with her lot, although wondering just how she will like the confines of boarding school.
Back in the Oberland, Joey reflects "I love this place, but the Tiernsee will always be my own special place."
contributed by Nicky Wade, England __ working from a hardback edition
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