_The Man with Cat's Eyes_
Unless she kept her wits about her, Cindy told herself, this whole day
might very well be lost. A little wisp of black smoke curled up from the
skillet in which she was cooking bacon. Alec, standing beside her,
shouted, "Hey! It's burning!"
Hastily Cindy slid a fork under the burning bacon and flipped it over.
Alec said, in true big-brother style, "You've burned it and we have no
food to waste."
"It's only burned a little," Cindy said.
"A little is too much. We may have to get along with what's here until
Dad and Mr. Brent come back from Plains City."