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about.”
    Justin didn’t look cheered up. He looked even worse. “Something’s wrong isn’t it?” he whispered. “I was on the steps to our trailer when the light standard fell. I saw it go over.” He shivered. “It’s the jinx, isn’t it?”
    “No,” Brian said. “Take our word for it. There’s no jinx. There’s just someone who wants this movie to fail, and we’re going to stop him.”
    “How?” Justin asked.
    “We don’t know yet, but we will. Trust us. We’re private investigators. We call ourself the Casebusters, and we’ve managed to solve all kinds of cases.”
    Justin managed a smile. “Okay, Casebusters,” he said. “Go for it.”
    Sean pulled a slightly squashed candy bar out of his pocket and handed it to Justin. “Here,” he said. “I brought you a present.”
    “You shouldn’t have brought him candy. They won’t let him eat it,” Brian said. “He has to eat the hospital food.”
    “Hospital food is yucky. I remember from when I had my tonsils out. That’s why I thought Justin would like a candy bar,” Sean said.
    Justin grinned at Sean and tore at the wrapper. “Thanks. I love candy,” he said. “My mom only lets me eat what she calls healthy foods , so she never allows me to eat candy.”
    The nurse came into Justin’s room, and he slipped the opened candy bar under the sheet. “Time to leave, boys,” the nurse said. She shooed them out into the hall just as Mrs. Moore stepped out of the elevator.
    Mrs. Moore hurried past and into Justin’s room, as though she didn’t really see Brian and Sean. But just as Brian and Sean reached the elevators, they heard Mrs. Moore let out an angry shout.
    “Oh-oh. She found the candy bar,” Sean said. The elevator doors opened and he jumped inside the elevator. He hoped Justin wouldn’t tell her where the candy came from. He didn’t want someone as nervous and excitable as Mrs. Moore to get mad at him.

8

    A S BRIAN AND SEAN left the hospital, Brian said, “Let’s ride home past your school.”
    “Why? Nobody will be there at night,” Sean said.
    “That’s the point,” Brian explained. “The equipment trucks and trailers are parked on the school grounds, and nobody should be around, except maybe for a watchman.”
    “You mean, we’re going to take a look and see if someone’s there who shouldn’t be?” Sean asked.
    “Right,” Brian said.
    “What if the watchman chases us away?”
    “We’ll see what happens when we get there,” Brian said.
    As Brian and Sean rounded the last corner on their bikes, the school building loomed up ahead of them, its darkened windows like rows of closed eyelids.
    Far beyond the building, near the outer fence, however, a light flickered, then went out. Brian and Sean braked quickly.
    “Did you see that light?” Brian whispered.
    “I think it was in one of the trailers,” Sean answered.
    “Third from the right,” Brian said, “Look! There it is again.”
    “Uh-oh. That’s Maria’s makeup trailer,” Sean said. He sneaked a hopeful look at Brian. “Of course, it could be the night watchman.”
    “Let’s find out,” Brian said. He led the way to the main gate and found it padlocked.
    “We can’t get in here,” he said. “Ride around to the back.”
    Slowly, cautiously, they did. The streetlight at the corner lit only a small area, so the low, wide-spreading branches of the trees along the street created a dark tunnel. Brian and Sean rested their bikes against a tree and took off their helmets.
    The lights flickered again, and Sean gave a sigh of relief. “Look, Bri! It’s nowhere near Maria’s trailer.”
    “Maybe it is a night watchman,” Brian said.
    Sean looked over his shoulder at the creepy blackness. “Okay. Good. Let’s go home.”
    “Not until we’re sure,” Brian said. He walked to the fence and along it until he suddenly stopped and held out an arm to stop Sean from going any farther.
    “ Ooof! ” Sean walked right into Brian’s arm.
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