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was nearby
.
    The first two batters hit the ball to the outfield. Laura caught them both.
    But maybe it wasn’t G9. Maybe another group did it
, Cam thought.
The younger girls’ groups pass our bunk all the time
.
    The ball was hit on the ground.
    “Get it! Get it!” Fran shouted.
    Cam looked at Fran. Then she looked for the ball. It was headed right between her and Terri. Luckily Terri had been paying attention to the game. She ran to her right, reached down, and got the ball. She threw it to first base for the third out.
    On her way back to the bench, Cam passed Eric.
    “G9 didn’t do it,” Eric said. “I’ve been thinking about it and I’m sure. We were on the basketball courts closest to your bunk. If anyone from G9 raided your bunk, she would have walked past us. And no one did.”
    Maybe
, Cam thought,
one of the younger girls’ bunks did it
.

C HAPTER F OUR
    When they sat on the bench Terri told Cam, “I don’t want to put popcorn in anyone’s sneakers. I just want whoever messed up our bunk to put everything back where it was. The beds. The sneakers. The shirts. The pants. Raids are just a big mess.”
    Cam nodded. She also didn’t want to fill sneakers with popcorn. She’d rather
eat
popcorn and potato chips. And she wanted to solve this mystery.
    G8 got a few hits and scored two runs. Then Terri grounded out. It was Cam’s turn to bat.
    “Let’s go!” Fran shouted. “Hit it a mile!”
    Cam stepped up to the plate. She looked out at Jim and waited. He pitched and Cam swung. She hit the ball just out of the reach of the first baseman. The ball rolled into the outfield.
    Cam ran to first base.
    “Go,” Fran shouted. “Keep going!”
    Cam kept running.
    “Stop!” Fran shouted and held up her hands.
    Cam stopped on second base.
    “Nice hit,” Eric said.
    Laura, the next batter, stood at the plate. Jim pitched and Laura swung.
    Cam started toward third base.
    Laura hit the ball right at Eric near second base. He caught it and Laura was out. He raced to the base, stepped on it, and Cam was out, too.
    “Nice going,” Jim said. “It’s a double play.”
    Tweet! Tweet!
He blew his whistle.
    “That’s it,” he called. “We’ll finish the game tomorrow.”
    “We have tennis next,” Eric told Cam as they walked off the field. “But first we have to go back to our bunk to get our rackets and tennis balls.”
    Cam stopped. “What did you just say?” she asked.
    “We have tennis next,” Eric said.
    “Yes, and of course you need a tennis racket to play tennis.” Cam smiled.
    She folded her arms and thought for a moment.
    “I think you did it,” she told Eric. “I think you helped me solve another mystery.”
    Cam closed her eyes. She said, “
Click
!” She said, “
Click
!” again.
    Cam opened her eyes and told Eric, “Come with me. I think I know who raided our bunk.”
    Eric followed Cam off the field. They walked toward Fran and Terri.
    “Hi, Fran,” Cam said, and smiled. “When you came to the lake you should have told us our bunk was such a mess.”
    “How would she know it was a mess?” Terri asked.
    “Fran was playing tennis while we were swimming,” Cam said. “But she didn’t have her tennis racket with her when she came to the lake.”
    “That’s right,” Terri said. “If she put her racket away before she came to pick us up, she would have seen the mess.”
    “Fran, you dipped both of your hands in the lake and said, ‘Nice and warm.”’
    “It
was
nice and warm,” Fran said.
    “But I bet you didn’t care how warm the water was,” Cam said. “I bet you dipped your hands in the water to wash off the chalk dust.”
    “What chalk dust?” Fran asked.
    “You used chalk to write HELLO G8. GUESS WHO! on the ceiling. Well, I guessed who,” Cam said. “You! While we were swimming, you had plenty of time to raid our bunk.”
    “You think
I
did that!” Fran said. “You think I raided my own bunk!”
    Cam nodded.
    “But why?” Fran asked.
    “Yes,