The Lucky Horseshoes by Carolyn Keene

Author:Carolyn Keene
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

“Or we could have made them just now,” George pointed out.

“We can check,” Nancy said. “Let’s all make footprints.”

Bess, George, and Nancy pushed their shoes into the muddy floor. None of their footprints made squiggly lines.

“So those footprints might belong to the person who stole my earrings,” Bess said.

“Maybe,” Nancy said. “Lots of people come in and out of the tack room.” She took another look at the footprints. She wanted to remember what they looked like.

“We’d better go outside,” George said. “I’ll bet my mom is waiting.”

The girls walked out to the driveway. Mrs. Fayne hadn’t arrived yet. They sat on a stone wall to wait.

“Don’t worry, Bess,” George said. “We’ll find your earrings.”

“We’d better,” Bess said. “Otherwise, I’ll never do well in the spelling bee.”

“That’s not true,” Nancy told Bess. “You won the spelling bee because you’re a good speller.”

“I was a good speller last Friday,” Bess said. “But that was only because I had those earrings. I’m going to be a terrible speller in the schoolwide bee. You guys have to help me find them!”

Nancy didn’t believe that Bess’s earrings were lucky. But Bess believed they were. Maybe someone else did, too.

“If the earrings were stolen, someone in our riding class probably took them,” Nancy said. “I wonder who needs good luck.”

“Someone who’s going to be in the spelling bee,” George said.

“Jackie!” Bess exclaimed.

Nancy frowned. “Why would Jackie steal your earrings?”

“Well, she was worried about the spelling bee,” Bess said. “Maybe she couldn’t find another good-luck charm.”

“Maybe . . .” Nancy said.

“Or maybe Katie took the earrings,” George said.

Bess and Nancy were quiet for a moment. Katie was their friend. Nancy didn’t like the idea that she would do something to hurt Bess.

But Katie hadn’t been very nice ever since Bess had won the spelling bee. Maybe Katie was so angry that she took the earrings, Nancy thought.

Mrs. Fayne still hadn’t arrived. So Nancy took her special blue notebook out of her book bag. She used the notebook to write down clues when she was solving a mystery. Then she took out a pen.

George and Bess watched as Nancy opened to a fresh page. She wrote “The Case of the Missing Good-Luck Charm” at the top of the page. Under that she wrote one word: “Suspects.”

“Put down Jackie’s name,” Bess said.

“Okay,” Nancy said. “Even though I can’t believe she’s a thief.”

“I think you should put down Katie, too,” George said.

Nancy wrote down Katie’s name.

“Now we have to list the clues,” George said.

“How many do we have?” Bess asked.

“Only one,” Nancy said. She skipped down a few lines and wrote “Clues.” She tapped the pencil eraser against her notebook for a few seconds. Then she wrote “Footprints with squiggly lines.”

“Here comes Mom!” George exclaimed as the Fayne family’s car pulled into the drive.

Nancy closed her notebook. I’ll think more about the case tonight, she told herself.

• • •

That evening Mr. Drew came into Nancy’s room. “Working on your homework, Pudding Pie?” he asked.

“I already finished,” Nancy told him. “Now I’m trying to solve a mystery.

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