Box That Watch Found by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Author:Gertrude Chandler Warner [Chandler Warner, Gertrude]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4532-2902-6
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Published: 2011-10-02T04:00:00+00:00

Watch barked and the twins looked up. They scowled at the Aldens. “Why are you guys always following us around?” Zack asked.

“Are you spying on us?” Zoe asked.

But before the Aldens could answer, the twins took off toward the nature center.

“That was strange,” Violet said.

“And what did Zack mean when he said, ‘maybe we should put them back?’ ” Jessie wondered. “Put what back?”

“The caches?” Benny asked. “Did they take the missing caches?”

“Why would they do that?” Violet asked.

“They’re members of the geocaching club. They don’t want the caches to go missing any more than anyone else in the club does.”

“Except they’re trying to win the prize for most caches found,” Jessie said. “If some of the caches go missing, then other people— like the Greenes—won’t find them.”

“And then maybe the Zellers will win the contest,” Benny said.

“I don’t know,” Henry said. “We shouldn’t jump to conclusions. Zoe and Zack could’ve been talking about anything.”

“Yeah, but I still think we should keep an eye on them,” Benny said.

“I agree,” Jessie said.

The next morning, the telephone rang bright and early at the Alden house. The children weren’t even out of bed yet.

Violet rolled over and looked at the clock on the nightstand between her bed and Jessie’s. “It’s only 7:30,” Violet said with a yawn as the telephone rang again. “Who could be calling us so early?”

“I don’t know,” Jessie replied. She threw her covers off and stumbled to the telephone in the upstairs hallway. Violet was right behind her.

“Hello?” Jessie said in a raspy voice.

“Jessie? This is Andy. I’m sorry to call so early. Did I wake you?”

The boys’ bedroom door opened then and Henry and Benny stepped out into the hallway.

“It’s okay, Andy,” Jessie said. “I was just getting up anyway. What’s up?” Violet, Henry, and Benny squeezed in so they could hear, too.

“My dad and I were out geocaching this morning,” Andy began. “We were going to grab the travel bug out of the ‘Strike Three’ cache because we’re going to visit my grandma in Pine City tomorrow. So we thought we’d put the travel bug at a cache near my grandma’s house. Except now we can’t.”

“Oh, no,” Jessie said. “Is the travel bug missing?”

“The whole cache is missing,” Andy said.

“That’s terrible,” Jessie said.

“We found something else in its place, though,” Andy said. “A folded up piece of paper.”

“Did you open it?” Jessie asked. “Was there anything written on the paper?”

“Just two words,” Andy said. “ ‘Ha-ha.’ ”

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