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Show and Maureen. "I was even kind of nice to her one day at lunch, and I took a lot heat for it from Isabel and Elizabeth. I can't think of one reason she..." All of a sudden, Kim stopped dead in the middle of her sentence. "Unl-e-s-s-Kim dragged out the words as she thought, unless she's mad at me about basketball." "What happened in basketball?" "Oh, I elbowed her a little in tryouts and she didn't make the team." "That's a possibility." But it was obvious Mimi didn't it was the right possibility. "What about Carol Ann?" Kim's eyes widened. She ignored Mimi's question. The more she thought about it, the more she realized it had to be Pilar. Not only had she wanted the stereo, but she had a perfect reason to take it. Kim had kept her off the basketball team. "You're right," said Kim. "It was Pilar." "I didn't say it was Pilar. I simply said-" "What does that book say about getting the stolen stuff back?" A flash of hope flickered in Kim's mind. She thumbed quickly through the book's pages. "It's only a description of various kinds of abnormal behavior, not a detective book," Mimi said. "Well if you can figure out why these people are stealing, there ought to be some way to figure out how to get them to give back the things they've stolen." Then she 101 |