Training for Trouble by Franklin W. Dixon

Author:Franklin W. Dixon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

8 William Telltale Clues

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A nurse pushed Frank to the side roughly. “Let me get next to him,” she said.

Joe had his hand on his heart. “I think I’m okay,” he said. “Really.”

The second nurse pushed a button on the vital signs monitor. The lights and noise stopped.

“Of course you’re all right, sweetie,” she said.

The first nurse had her hands on her hips. “Your brother here leaned on the emergency call button,” she said

“Sorry,” Frank said.

The nurse put one hand on Frank’s shoulder and turned him toward the wall behind Joe’s bed. With the other hand she pointed to a blue button surrounded by a red light. “See that button?” she said.

Frank nodded.

“Stay far away from it.”

Joe and the second nurse laughed as Frank took his scolding.

As the two nurses left, Callie and Iola came in.

“Hey, how’d you know I was here?” Joe asked.

“Your mom called from a pizza place,” Iola said, sitting down in a chair on the opposite side of the bed from Frank and Callie. “She said I should come tickle you in your side.” Iola threatened Joe, holding her hands up and wiggling her fingers.

“No, stay away,” Joe said. “Ouch!” He held his side. “And don’t make me laugh either.”

“Oh, all right,” Iola said. “I’ll be totally serious.”

“Impossible,” Callie said.

“Like Victoria being innocent,” Frank added.

Iola’s eyes shifted from Frank to Joe. “You mean…”

“It wasn’t an accident,” Joe said. “Victoria Huntington fixed it so you would get a nice shock when Callie scored a touch.”

“Why me?” Iola asked.

“I don’t think she picked you,” Frank said. “Whoever put on that fencing vest was going to get fried.”

“She wanted to embarrass Montreux,” Joe said.

Frank pulled the D-ring and metal file from his pocket. “And I found this file in Victoria’s office after everyone left,” he said, filling the girls in on the rope incident.

“And look at this,” Joe said, taking the D-ring from Frank. “See how the metal has turned bluish close to the clamp?”

Frank nodded.

“Metal does that when you heat it with a blowtorch or something.”

“You think Victoria tried to weaken the metal by heating it?” Callie asked.

“She must not have been sure the file thing would work,” Joe said.

“There’s only one thing that bothers me,” Frank said. “Who fired those arrows at me.”

Callie’s eyes went wide. “Someone shot at you? Why didn’t you tell me?”

“I’m telling you now,” Frank said. “It was last night, about half an hour after Iola got shocked.”

“Well, it wasn’t Victoria Huntington,” Iola said.

“How do you know?” Joe asked.

“You should know, too, bonehead,” Iola said. “You guys were all with me in the training room.”

“Hey, that’s right!” Callie said. “About fifteen minutes after Iola’s accident, Victoria came in to see how she was doing.”

“She said she’d just finished packing up the faulty equipment and promised to check it out as soon as she could.”

“The girls are right, Frank,” Joe said. “Victoria was still in the training room when we left, asking the trainer to look at her sore knee or something.”

Frank put the file and D-ring back in his pockets.

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