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The Mystery on the Mississippi

The Mystery on the Mississippi

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Autoren: Julie Campbell
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isn’t all, though,” he said, turning to Mr. Brandio. “If Lontard followed them on the towboat, don’t you think he’d follow them to Hannibal, too? No, I can’t say it’s a very good idea.”
    “After last night’s episode, he’ll take cover, I’d say,” Mr. Brandio argued. “How about leaving it up to the authorities?”
    “If Trixie feels equal to the trip to Hannibal, will you be satisfied to have the federal agents decide whether or not it is wise?” Mr. Wheeler asked the Bob-Whites.
    “I’m sure we’d feel a lot better about going if they knew about it and said it would be all right,” Mart said hopefully. “Gosh, I’d sure like to go.”
    Mr. Wheeler went again to the telephone. He was smiling when he returned. “The man I talked with told me that, next to shipping you all back to New York right away, the best idea is for you kids to go off to Hannibal. He said you can make it easily in a day, have some time there, and be back before it’s too late. Then we’ll take off for New York tomorrow, with Mr. Brandio.”
    “Did he say anything more about Pierre Lontard?” Trixie asked.
    “No, he didn’t, but he did give me a special message for you, Trixie.”
    “You don’t even need to tell me. I promised I’d not take any chances, and I won’t. That’s what you were going to say to me, wasn’t it?”
    “Substantially, yes. He put it a little plainer. He said to tell you again to please let them handle the case from now on... that if they wanted your cooperation—that is, the cooperation of the Belden-Wheeler Agency—they’d ask for it.”
    “He needn’t have said that,” Trixie answered unhappily.
    “Stick close to us, and we’ll see that you remember what he said,” Mart told her. “Shall we get going? I’ve got the map all marked, Jim. It’s a straight shoot north from here. Boy, am I glad we’re going! This motel is jinxed. I’ll be glad to get away to where there’s some fun—Jackson’s Island, the old cave! Huck Finn, here we come!”
    They said good-bye hastily to Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Brandio and all crowded into the car. With Jim at the wheel, they rounded the curve from the airport and headed south first, then turned directly north. For the moment, they seemed to have forgotten the events of the early morning.
    Mercifully, they didn’t know what still lay ahead of them.

Surprise at Jackson’s Island • 11

    WASN’T IT GOOD of Mr. Brandio to let us take this car?” Jim said as he guided the little automobile along the busy highway. “We sure wouldn’t have been able to get very far without it.”
    “He’s been great!” Mart said as he squirmed to find more room in the backseat. “Boy, this car wouldn’t carry another pound, would it?”
    “But there are only six people in it,” Trixie said, laughing. “Why, back home we’ve crowded more than that into a car.”
    “Not if they weighed as much as Brian and Dan.”
    “You know where you’d be sitting now if Diana could be with us? I miss her so much!” Trixie sighed, then settled back in her seat.
    “Since I’m the youngest, I’d be out on the hood, I guess,” Honey chuckled. “There or back of the rear seat, up against the window. I wish Diana could be here, too. We could use her. She can almost read people’s minds at times, can’t she?”
    “We could sure use a mind reader right now,” Brian said solemnly. “I’m about as much in the dark as a person could be about Pierre Lontard and those papers.”
    Trixie spoke up thoughtfully. “Do you know something? I wish we’d made a copy of those papers.”
    “How did we know they were going to be taken away from us, silly?” Mart answered. “Anyway, who’d want the old things?”
    “The government,” Dan answered sharply. “What would you want the papers for, Trixie? I think we’re better off to have them in the hands of the authorities. It isn’t so dangerous.”
    “You mean it wouldn’t be so dangerous for us if Lontard knew the authorities have them. He still thinks they’re in my purse. I’d at least like to have that map of the Mississippi, with those queer sketches. I know they mean something. I didn’t have the papers long enough to study them carefully.”
    “I still think the authorities may come up with egg on their faces,” Mart insisted. “They’ll find they’ve been chasing up a blind alley. Nothing much has happened lately, has it?”
    “Nothing much except that Trixie nearly drowned,” Dan said

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