But Muriel really believed the magician had been there.
“He’s going to be at Wally’s house. He could make a tree talk if he wanted to,” she insisted.
“Maybe he could trick you into thinking he could,” Horace admitted. “Somebody is playing tricks, that’s for certain. It may be this magician.”
“I’m afraid of him,” Anne confessed. “Wally says he will pick me to disappear because I’m the littlest—”
“You won’t be if I join the club,” Penny spoke up. “Could I, Mommy?”
“We’ll see,” she replied. “Who is this magician?”
“We don’t know his name,” Ricky said. “Even Wally doesn’t know it. The Dran boys will introduce him.”
“He’s going to do tricks for us if we sell enough tickets,” Muriel put in. “I don’t want to sell them. Wally said I couldn’t keep the money—”
“Of course not. It goes into the club treasury, probably. By the way, who is the treasurer?” Horace wanted to know.
“I was,” Muriel said with a pout, “but they’re going to have an election, so I guess I won’t be any more.”