![]() However, to Herbert’s surprise and relief she has made her escape. Herbie fails to keep the girl’s terrifying pursuer and Mr Mollusc from searching the crammed basement. Herbert’s peace is shattered as a girl hurls her snowy self through the little window that comes from the street above, begging Herbert to hide her. He is not looked on favourably by Mr Mollusc, the hotel manager, in fact it would seem Mr Mollusc thinks the hotel would be better serviced if Herbert were replaced by a toothbrush vending machine, or even better, boarded up in is cellar with all his lost things! ![]() Herbert lives a quiet, fairly solitary life in his tiny office. returns the lost things to whom they belong? What? The hotels you have stayed in don’t have a child in the position of Lost and Founder? Then who on earth looks after everything that is lost? Or. He takes care of all things that are left or lost in the hotel. Herbie is the Lost and Founder for the Nautilus Hotel. ![]() Herbert, who was washed up on the shore of (Ch)eerie-on-Sea in a lemon’s box as a baby – and Herbert will tell the story. It is depths of winter, in a sea-side hotel – the Hotel Nautilus. It starts with a map – who doesn’t love a book with a map?! There is a short foreword, almost a dare to continue to read on. ![]()
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