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said. He put a teacup carefully on the counter.
    â€œI don’t think he did, either, Benny,” agreed Jessie.
    â€œIt’s going to be a hard mystery to solve,” said Violet. “The Elizabeth Star was in a room without windows and only one door. No one went in or out until we got there. And no one went in or out of the building except residents and their guests, according to the doorman.”
    â€œBut someone did go into that locked room without setting off the alarm. And whoever it was took the diamond. We’ll have a lot of work to do, to figure this mystery out,” Henry said.
    â€œWe will,” said Jessie confidently. “We’ll start first thing tomorrow morning.”

CHAPTER 5
    A Taste for Diamonds
    â€œM r. Leed,” said Jessie the next morning when the Aldens came downstairs after breakfast. “May we ask you some questions?”
    â€œDo you need directions to somewhere in the city?” asked Mr. Leed. He had a fresh newspaper spread out in front of him and was doing the crossword puzzle.
    â€œNo. We’re working on the mystery,” said Benny.
    â€œMystery?” said Mr. Leed. “What mystery?”
    â€œThat one,” said Henry, pointing at the headline of the newspaper. It said, TWINKLE, TWINKLE, ELIZABETH STAR, WE ALL WONDER WHERE YOU ARE .
    â€œOh,” said Mr. Leed. “Interesting.”
    â€œYes. It is. We were in Mr. Pound’s penthouse when the diamond was stolen,” said Benny.
    â€œYou were?” Mr. Leed looked startled.
    â€œNot exactly,” Jessie said quickly. “We were there when Mr. Pound discovered it had been stolen. And we want to help him get it back. So we were wondering if we could look at your logbook. You know, the book where everyone who doesn’t live here and isn’t a guest has to sign in and out.”
    For a long moment, Mr. Leed looked at them. Then he pushed the logbook toward them, flipped the pages back, and said, “Here’s the log from yesterday.”
    â€œWe want to look at who signed in and signed out last night,” Jessie said. “Between six-thirty and eight o’clock. That’s when the robbery happened.”
    â€œGo ahead,” said Mr. Leed. “I don’t know what you expect to find.”
    â€œYou never know,” said Jessie. They bent over the logbook.
    Running her finger down the page, Violet said, “Someone delivered pizza to Apartment 6E at six-thirty and signed out at six-forty-five.”
    Henry took a notebook out of his pocket and wrote it down. Jessie said, “And Lydia was here at six-forty-five. She took the dogs out for Apartment 3W at six-fifty. She came back at seven-twenty, but didn’t sign out again until seven-fifty.”
    â€œThat’s a long time,” said Violet as Henry wrote this down, too. “Thirty minutes. Hmmm.”
    â€œAnd then no one else,” said Jessie.
    â€œSounds like a quiet night. Saunders was lucky,” said Mr. Leed.
    The Aldens looked amazed. “A quiet night!” cried Benny. “But the diamond got stolen.”
    â€œOh,” said Mr. Leed. “Right.”
    Henry had one more question. “If you leave the desk, can anyone come in the door?”
    â€œOf course not!” Now Mr. Leed looked indignant. “We lock the door if we have to leave the front desk. And we’re never gone more than five minutes.”
    â€œThank you,” said Jessie. She turned and led the way back to the elevator.
    â€œWhere are we going?” Violet whispered as the elevator doors closed behind them.
    â€œBenny and I are going to 6E to see if pizza really was delivered there last night. Because if it wasn’t, maybe it was just a trick to get into the building to steal the diamond.”
    â€œRight,” said Henry. “And Violet and I can go to 3W and see if Lydia walked the dogs last night — and why it took her so long to leave. She could have