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Pressured by his older sister Rebecca, a rough-and-ready Bryant and May match factory worker, Tom clashes with work, rent troubles, and the consequences of risky smuggling. A chance pursuit and a threatened arrest launch a tense, perilous search for forbidden copper.","PERILOUS TIMES FOR THE MATCH FACTORY GIRLS  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nBOOK 2 IN THE MATCH FACTORY GIRLS  \nSERIES  \nKAY BRELLEND  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFor the victims of phossy jaw, and for all match workers.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nChapter 8  \nChapter 9  \nChapter 10  \nChapter 11  \nChapter 12  \nChapter 13  \nChapter 14  \nChapter 15  \nChapter 16  \nChapter 17  \nChapter 18  \nChapter 19  \nChapter 20  \nChapter 21  \nChapter 22  \nChapter 23  \nChapter 24  \nChapter 25  \nChapter 26  \nChapter 27  \nChapter 28  \nChapter 29  \nEpilogue  \nAuthor Note  \nAcknowledgements  \nThank you!  \nMore from Kay Brellend  \nAbout the Author  \nAlso by Kay Brellend  \nSixpence Stories  \nAbout Boldwood Books  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n1  \nTHE EAST END OF LONDON  \nThe naked youth dived off the jetty and glided underwater, sleek as an eel while missiles plunged into the brine in his wake. None found its target and the man in a fustian coat bent down to grab more ammunition from the bank of the River Thames. Armed with a fistful of shingle, he set off in pursuit of the swimmer, sweating and swearing in sultry August heat.  \nWilliam Bolt was little more than a decade older than his quarry but rich living had given him a paunch that slowed him down. Having emptied his hands of pebbles, he watched in frustration as the glistening-limbed victor waded ashore upriver. The insolent boy whipped a length of salvaged rope in a circle above his head, taunting Bolt now he was out of his reach. Having recovered his clothes from his waiting accomplice, the two ran off, ducking beneath a barnacled pier then onwards and out of sight.  \n* * *  \n‘Didn’t get nothing then?’ puffed out the younger boy as they halted to allow the older to pull on his trousers and boots.  \n‘Couldn’t with blasted Billy Bolt after me. I know that sheet of copper ’s down there and I’m having it before someone else gets their mitts on it.’  \nThomas Spencer was thirteen years old and, in his mother ’s eyes, a grocer ’s delivery boy. In his, he was a mudlark and river pirate. Whenever  \npossible he would sneak away and spend his time sifting silt and diving for treasure on the River Thames. And sometimes he struck lucky and found more than wood and coal that slipped – not always accidentally – over the sides of moored ships and barges.  \n‘Your sister ’s on the warpath,’ the younger lad piped up.‘She just asked me where you was but I didn’t let on I’d seen you.’  \nTom glanced about, muttering beneath his breath while pulling his grimy shirt over his head.‘Come on…let’s collect the coal buckets before Billy finds them and keeps our pickings.’ They jogged along until they came upon two tubs partially concealed with flotsam by a breakwater.  \nThe younger boy stopped heaving an overflowing container towards him as a movement caught his eye. ‘There she is now. You’re for it, Ireckon.’ He straightened up in a jerk.‘Me ’n’ all now she knows I was lyin’about not seeing you.’ It wouldn’t be the first time Dickie Wells had received a clip round the ear from his pal’s sister. Rebecca Spencer was a Bryant and May match factory worker, and everybody knew that lot to be a rough-and-ready bunch of women.  \n‘Take some coal before you go, Dickie,’Tom generously said.  \nThe grinning lad began grabbing then stuffing his pockets with sooty nuggets.‘Thanks. Me mum’ll be pleased to have it. See you tomorrow then and try again for the copper?’  \nTom grunted an affirmative then with a weighty pail in each hand, he trudged to meet his older sister.  \nRebecca and Thomas Spencer were alike in looks: both blonde and blue-eyed. Right now Tom’s hair looked mousy from the Thames’effluence, and Rebecca’s features were set in unattractively grim lines.  \n‘Where the heck have you been all day?’ was the greeting he received. Rebecca continued her march towards her brother.‘Mum’s in a right paddy. 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