Tom and Jenny were brother and sister, and Bob,who lived next door, was their best friend. They would meet after school and at the
weekends in Tom and Jenny's garden. They'd made a passage through the hedge from Bob's house next door. On Tom and Jenny's side there was the ‘den'. This had once been a garden shed that was too old and leaky
for garden tools. Hidden in the den was their plastic box which was full of secret, precious stuff. They had some foreign treasure coins, necklaces, a penknife, two Action Man Torches, a pirate telescope and a lot of string. Jenny was carefully taking the torches, penknife and string out of the box and putting it in the bottom of her yellow rucksack so that they could take these with them at the weekend when they went on their big adventure. The three of them could hardly wait...