Dear Alice,

Not exactly. I did take it and unfortunately Ms Fennel saw it and she confiscated it. She said that it was glass and that GLASS is not allowed at the swim centre. I tried really hard to talk her out of it, because you really do need to be a professional to handle a ghost, but she wouldn’t give it back. Apparently GLASS is totally forbidden. She told me that if I dropped the jar and a bit of glass got into the pool they’d have to drain the ENTIRE pool. So I told her that if I dropped the jar, draining the pool would be the least of their worries because there’d be a ghost infestation.

I probably shouldn’t have said that because then Ms Fennel said she was definitely taking the ghost. Sorry.

Yours regretfully,

Captain Jimmy Cook