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did you want to do with these dinosaurs?”
    “Set them free.”
    “But why?” she asked in amazement.
    “They’re sad and restless. They’re big animals, and much smarter than you might think. And it can’t be very comfortable for them, being crammed into the swimming pool.”
    “No,” said Miss Frost, “I suppose not.”
    She looked back at the money in the briefcase with a small smile.
    She’s going to say no, thought Giles glumly. So much for that idea. All he’d done was make a fool of himself. He should have known she’d never go for it.
    “This,” said Miss Frost, looking up at Giles, “is the best deal that’s ever been offered to me.”
    Giles gaped.
    Kevin’s sunglasses fell off his face.
    “Are you serious?” Giles exclaimed.
    “I am,” replied Miss Frost. “You drive a hard bargain, Giles, but you’ve got yourself a deal. I only wish I could take a good, close look at those dinosaurs before they go.”
    “But why can’t you?” Giles asked, confused. He thought of her secretly watching from the window. Why hadn’t she ever just come down to the pool?
    “I can’t possibly leave my office,” she explained. “I might miss an important phone call.”
    “Wouldn’t they call back?” Kevin asked.
    “Or I might miss a blip on one of the monitors,” she said, waving her hand at the wall of flashing screens.
    “A blip?” said Kevin. “Is that serious?”
    “It could be,” she replied. “It could be very serious. It depends on what kind of blip we’re talking about. It might be a zig or a zag.”
    “A zig or a zag?” said Giles.
    “That would be quite serious.”
    “I see,” said Kevin.
    “But not as serious as a dip,” she went on. “It would be disastrous if I missed a dip. Or a peak, or a trough, a swing, a boom, or a bust—”
    Suddenly she started to laugh.
    “It sounds so ridiculous really, doesn’t it?” she said. “I stay trapped in this room, year after year, watching screens and shouting into phones. It’s ridiculous! I’m coming out to see the dinosaurs!”
    “Great!” said Giles.
    Miss Frost stood up. She walked out from behind her desk.
    The three of them had almost reached the door when the phone rang.
    Oh, no, Giles thought.
    Miss Frost hesitated. She looked at the ringing phone, then back at Giles and Kevin.
    “It’s only money, after all,” she said with a smile, and then turned and walked out the door of her office.

Chapter 7
Hatched
    “They’re beautiful!” exclaimed Miss Frost, peering at the dinosaurs through the bathysphere’s glass hatch. “It’s been far too long since I’ve taken the time to really look at things! Look at them move!”
    Giles guided the bathysphere smoothly down to the bottom of the pool. He’d watched Tina enough times to know how to use the controls. The two hydrosaurs glided gracefully through the water around them.
    “Did you ever figure out why they came in the first place?” Miss Frost asked.
    Giles shook his head. “Not really. Tina thought that maybe they got lost on their way to the ocean.”
    In the distance, in the far corner of the pool, Gilesmade out a small mound of stones that he’d never noticed before.
    “What’s that?” he said, steering the bathysphere over for a closer look.
    All at once the two dinosaurs cut in front of him, blocking his way. Again and again, they streaked anxiously past the hatch, making a low, gurgling moan.
    “They don’t want you to get any closer!” Kevin exclaimed.
    “I wonder why?” said Miss Frost.
    Giles squinted at the strange mound and caught a glimpse of something white nestled among the rocks.
    Suddenly, everything made sense.
    “Look! It’s an egg!” Giles shouted. “That’s why they came here. To make a nest. It’s the perfect place for it, too. Safe and quiet!”
    As they all watched, the egg began to shudder slightly.
    “It’s hatching!” said Kevin.
    The two hydrosaurs swam in close and swirled around the egg. At first, Giles couldn’t