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the first day, I always have trouble getting them to go home. They want to talk to their children. Watch their children. See what’s for lunch.”
    “She may be right about the man and the car,” the officer said. “But we can’t stop every blue car we find.”
    “Wait,” Cam said. “Maybe I can tell you more.”
    Cam closed her eyes again. She said, “
Click
!”
    “I can see the car,” she said. “I can see the license plate.”
    Cam told the officer the license plate number.
    The red-haired officer wrote down the number. He closed his pad and said, “Now we have enough clues. We’ll look for the car. We’ll let you know if we find the box and the money.”
    “And Barry, the man at the gate, may be able to describe the man,” Sadie Rosen said. “He sees everyone who comes in here.”
    The officers got into their car. Cam and the others followed them to the entrance.
    Barry said, “When that man came in, he didn’t give me his name. He pointed to the car just ahead and said, ‘I’m with them.’ When he left, he drove past me really fast.”
    The red-haired officer wrote some noteson his pad. Then he said, “We’ll go looking for him.”
    Sadie Rosen thanked the officers. Then she told Cam and Eric, “Now, please go to your bunks.”
    “Can’t we wait?” Eric asked. “We want to know if the police catch him.”
    “No, I’m sorry. You can’t,” Sadie Rosen said. “It’s time for you to unpack. And I’m sure your parents want to get on the road before the late afternoon traffic.”
    Mr. Shelton nodded. “It sounds like the police have everything under control.”
    “Let’s go,” Mrs. Jansen said to Cam and Eric.

C HAPTER S EVEN
    Cam’s bunk was on the girls’ campus, to the right of the dining hall. Eric’s was on the boys’ campus, to the left.
    In the middle of a row of small bunk buildings was one with a large sign that said G8. Cam and her mother went into the bunk.
    There was a row of cots on each side of the large room. Beside each bed was a wooden nightstand. Girls and their parents were making beds and putting things in the nightstands. At the other end of the bunk was a place to hang clothing. Beyond that were sinks, showers, and bathrooms.
    Cam found the only empty bed. Her mother helped her unpack.
    “It’s almost noon,” Fran announced. “It’s time to say good-bye to your parents.”
    “Here,” Mrs. Jansen whispered. She gave Cam some money. “If they don’t find the thief and the box, you’ll have this for snacks.”
    “But Mom …”
    “Just take it,” Mrs. Jansen said. “And if they catch the thief, you’ll have extra snack money.”

    Mrs. Jansen hugged Cam.
    “I’ll miss you,” Mrs. Jansen said. There were tears in her eyes.
    “I’ll miss you, too, Mom. But I’ll be fine. I’m already having a good time. Trying to solve that snack money mystery was fun.”
    Mrs. Jansen and the other parents left the bunk.
    At lunch, Cam sat next to Terri, the math whiz. Terri told Cam all about camp.
    “We swim in a lake,” Terri said. “It’s better than a pool, because it’s bigger. But after it rains, the water is cold. And arts and crafts is great. Last year I made a jewelry box.”
    After lunch, the G8 girls stood by their table in the dining room. Fran stood with them and held up a Camp Eagle Lake sign. “Smile!” Jim, the sports counselor, said, and took their picture.
    The G8 girls went back to their bunk. They changed clothes and got ready for tennis. They were walking to the courts whenCam’s and Eric’s names were announced on the camp loudspeakers.
    Jennifer Jansen and Eric Shelton, please report to the main office.
    “It’s right by the main entrance,” Terri said.
    Cam walked across the tennis courts to the office. A police car was parked outside. The two police officers and Sadie Rosen were inside. Eric was there, too. He was wearing a bathing suit.
    He told Cam, “We were on our way to the lake.”
    “We found the thief,” the