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yard. Mr. Rinkle catches him and throws him in his toolshed. Then Mr. Rinkle decides he enjoys dognapping, and he dognaps all the dogs in the neighborhood and stuffs them in with Bobby.”
    “That’s a lot of action,” Bruce said, beginning to feel excited. “I could get some dramatic footage of Mr. Rinkle grabbing the dogs. How does the story end?”
    “Bobby convinces the dogs to work as a team,” Andi said. “They climb on top of each other to forma pyramid with Bobby at the top. Then, all together, when Bobby gives the command, they take a big breath and swell up like balloons and push Bobby up through the roof. He pops out and frees the other dogs, and they all run home.”
    “Great!” Bruce said. “This should be a cinch to film. We won’t need any human actors except Mr. Rinkle, and we know a lot of dogs we can use as extras. We can film it in our backyard. We don’t have a wall or a toolshed, but we do have a chain-link fence, and Tim and I can build a shed.”
    “Tim!” Andi exclaimed. “Why does Tim have to be involved in this? This is our movie — yours and mine! It’s not like the newspaper, where we needed Tim to be the publisher.”
    “I need him to help me build the shed,” Bruce said. “Tim’s got the tools and scrap lumber. Besides, he’s better at things like that than I am. We’ll need to get the shed built fast so we can do the filming next weekend. We’ve got a very tight deadline.”
    “If you’re bringing in Tim, then I’m bringing in Debbie,” Andi said. “It isn’t fair to include your best friend and not mine.”
    “We don’t need Debbie,” Bruce objected. “Debbie’s a ding-a-ling. There’s nothing for her todo except distract you. You’ve got to write the film script while Tim and I build the shed.”
    “Debbie can be a part of the cast,” Andi said. “She can play the role of one of the dog owners. In fact, she can be
all
the owners! She can wear disguises and first be the owner of one dog and then of another, and grieve and cry because she can’t afford to pay the ransom. I can’t wait to get started! I’m certain we can win this contest!”
    The zombie-like girl from the breakfast table had vanished as quickly as she had materialized. Andi’s eyes were sparkling and she was on fire with enthusiasm. Bruce realized that Aunt Alice had been right. All Andi had needed to bring her back to life was a new challenge.
    “Okay,” he said, giving in because he didn’t want to argue with her. “Debbie can grieve for the victims and be our casting director. That will keep her out of our hair while you’re writing the script.”
    Constructing the toolshed turned out to be less of a problem than Bruce had anticipated, because Tim suggested that they build only the front of the shed.
    “That’s how they do it in Hollywood,” he said as the boys lugged the lumber from Tim’s side yard across the street and down the alley to the Walkers’backyard. “In movies, when they show a row of houses, they’re usually not real. They’re just fake fronts, called facades. We’ll build a facade that looks like the front of a toolshed. When Mr. Rinkle shoves the dogs through the door, they’ll come right out the back. Then one of us can grab them and bring them around to the front so Mr. Rinkle can stuff them through again. He’ll have an endless supply of victims.”
    “What about when Bobby bursts through the roof?” Bruce asked. “If we use a facade, there’ll be nothing to support a rooftop.”
    “We won’t need to actually show the rooftop,” Tim said. “You can film the facade straight on but from a low angle, and the girls and I will be hiding behind it. When you’re ready for Bobby to appear, we’ll give him a boost. His head will suddenly pop out over the top of the facade, and it will look like he’s come through the roof, even though there isn’t one. By the way, who’s going to play the part of Bobby? The only basset I know about is Delaney