The Case of the Rock 'n' Roll Dog by Martha Freeman

Author:Martha Freeman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2010-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

IN our family, we never eat dinner till 6:30 or 7. Granny believes we will wake up hungry in the night if we eat earlier. So when Tessa and I got back upstairs, we had time to apply logic. The striped sofa in the West Sitting Hall seemed like a good place for this. It is soft and cozy, good for thinking.

Hooligan was in the West Sitting Hall, too, sound asleep in his bed. To look at him, you’d never believe the damage he does to daffodils.

“Do you think he stole the other stuff, too, Cammie?” Tessa asked. “The place cards and the polishing cloth?”

“Don’t forget the cookies,” I said. “And no, I don’t. Most times when Hooligan steals something, we find it right away—like the flowers.”

“I don’t think we’re ever gonna find those cookies,” Tessa said.

“Good point,” I said. “And we know he didn’t steal the baton.”

“Do you think there’s more than one thief in the White House?” Tessa asked.

“That doesn’t seem logical,” I said. “Let’s look at our notes.”

It’s not easy to write fast standing up. So even though I have good handwriting (ask Evgenia), my notes were kind of a mess. After I crossed out the unimportant stuff, this is what was left:

1) Mr. Bryant’s eyesight is not very good.

2) No witnesses had seen anything strange Tuesday afternoon. (Mostly they were too busy chasing Hooligan.)

3) It’s not only the baton that’s missing. Also: place cards, polishing cloth, cookies.

4) Mrs. Hedges is exasperating.

5) Mayors like Italian food.

6) A basket of breadsticks would be a good place to hide something long and skinny.

7) Tessa has a crush on Mr. Patel.

8) Hooligan wrecked the daffodils and scattered petals everywhere.

9) Hooligan makes Mr. Baney grumpy.

10) Nate was on the state floor this afternoon. (Why?)

11) And so were two men wearing gray suits.

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