Spring-heeled Jack (3)

Two days later in the Royal Gardens, best friends Emily (Surname Withheld) and Ann Bagley were sunbathing on an unusually hot day for late autumn when they saw the fella in red. He was, said Ann Bagley, remarkably fleet of foot. Emily was so taken aback that she barely had time to utter Bitter jeun! when the red fella grabbed her arm. Ann Bagley was thinking to herself where is Gentleman Jim when you need him?

As it so happened Gardener “Em” Bigham who was pruning the royal roses saw the red fella assaulting the young ladies.

“I ran it off with my rake”, he was quoted as saying but not before he saw it “jump fifty foot in the air”.