They reject her offer to accompany them, instead taking Oswald. Orfeo and Eldritch arrive and inform her that all the bats are holding a meeting that night in St. Once at the Skirtings, the Starwife creates a beacon fire to summon the departed bats. After sending her remaining squirrel subjects away for their own safety, the Starwife insists that Thomas take her to the Skirtings to warn Audrey and her friends as they undoubtedly will be targeted by Jupiter out of revenge for his defeat at their paws. He has stolen her Starglass, with which he now possesses untold powers. According to the Starwife, it is the spirit of Jupiter returned from the dead. To his shock, the mouse discovers that Old Stumpy is none other than his arch-enemy Morgan, former lieutenant to Jupiter.Ī spectral being has attacked Greenwich Park, the realm of the squirrels. Piccadilly sneaks into a gathering held by Old Stumpy. Piccadilly befriends a barmy but harmless rat named Barker, who tells him that a rat from Deptford calling himself Old Stumpy is urging the city rats to war. A meeting is later held by the city's mouse community, Holeborn, where they discuss the troubling reports of rats becoming more violent. The tough young Cockney mouse is able to handle them, but is alarmed at their boldness which is not typical of city rats. Meanwhile in the city, Piccadilly is on a foraging expedition when he encounters two mean rats, Smiff and Kelly.
They also notice that the bats are leaving the attic, a portent of disaster. Searching for a late night snack, Arthur and Oswald make the troubling discovery that the mice's larder is empty. Pestered to no end by the busybodies of the Skirtings, Audrey has made clear in no uncertain terms that the marriage was one of necessity, not love. The Brown siblings, Arthur and Audrey, have returned from their disastrous stay in Fennywolde where, to prevent her being hanged as a witch, the latter was married to Twit. It is winter, and in the mouse community of the old empty house in Deptford, Yule festivities are underway. Thanks to Sue Hook for having faith in the Deptford Mice and to David Riley for his unflagging enthusiasm throughout Summary
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