To the Students
Past, Present and Future
In My Creative Writing Classes
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I [A Stolen Typewriter] 1 II [Help for Holly] 9 III [A Rude Shopkeeper] 15 IV [A Mysterious Truck] 23 V [Another Green Car] 31 VI [The Woods Road] 37 VII [At the Beaver Dam] 43 VIII [An Impossible Discovery] 50 IX [More Puzzles] 58 X [“My Name Is Danny”] 66 XI [A Born Crusader] 72 XII [At the Library] 79 XIII [What the Pictures Revealed] 86 XIV [Together] 93 XV [A Band of Gold] 100 XVI [Danny’s Confession] 107 XVII [Fire!] 114 XVIII [Questions and Answers] 121 XIX [Homes for the Homeless] 125 XX [Was It All a Mistake?] 132 XXI [The Key to a Mystery] 138 XXII [Promised] 144 XXIII [Identified] 150 XXIV [Discovered] 157 XXV [An Everlasting Thing] 164
The Puzzle in the Pond
CHAPTER I
A Stolen Typewriter
“Here’s something Miss Pringle can use!”
Judy ran her fingers over the tiny, embossed Reward of Merit card as if she couldn’t bear to part with it even for the short time it would be on exhibit at the Roulsville library.
“Mrs. Wheatley is still Miss Pringle to you, isn’t she?” asked Peter Dobbs, smiling at his young wife as she knelt beside the open drawer of the old chest where her grandmother’s keepsakes were stored.