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acted like she didn’t care.
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    Zee stopped writing and thought. That was it! The trouble with the Beans started after Ally arrived. The Beans had had problems before, but nothing like this.
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    Is Ally breaking up the Beans?
    Zee
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    Mr. P banged on the cabin door. “Five minutes until lights-out, girls!” he yelled.
    â€œAnybody need to go to the bathhouse?” Zee asked.
    Chloe looked over the top of the book she was reading. “Nope,” she said. “I want to finish this chapter tonight.”
    â€œI’m good,” Ally told Zee. And a chorus of no s from the other girls followed.
    â€œOkay,” Zee said. “See you in five.”
    When Zee went outside, she heard a strange grumbling voice with a weird accent. “My leg.”
    Zee trembled and looked around. “Who’s there?”
    â€œGive me my leg,” the voice demanded. It sounded as though it was getting closer.
    The Mountain Man!
    Zee rushed back into the cabin. “Did you hear that?”she asked when she got inside.
    Chloe had already put her book down. “I did!” she said.
    â€œMe too,” Missy said. With a suspicious expression, she added, “Are you sure it wasn’t you?”
    â€œNo way!” Ally said. “Zee wouldn’t do that to her friends. Plus, look how scared she is.”
    â€œI thought you didn’t believe in the Mountain Man,” Zee told her.
    â€œI don’t, but I believe you,” Ally said. “If you say you heard something, then someone is definitely out there.”
    â€œEveryone grab a flashlight,” Chloe commanded. “We’re going to find the Mountain Man.”
    Kathi stood up.
    â€œAre we going, too?” Jen asked her.
    â€œI’m losing too much beauty sleep over this horrible creature,” Kathi explained. “Not that I actually need it. The sooner we find out what’s making all that noise, the better.”
    â€œWhat about lights-out?” Missy asked.
    â€œWe’ll just have to take a chance that we’ll get into trouble,” Ally said. “This is really important.”
    The group stormed out of the cabin, shining their flashlight beams into the woods. But all they saw were trees. Silent trees.
    Zee heard voices coming from the boys’ cabin. She pointed her flashlight at it. “If we heard something, maybe they did, too.”
    As the girls approached the cabin, Zee could hear what the boys were saying.
    â€œWho’s your favorite band, Jasper?” Marcus asked.
    â€œI suppose that would be GMT,” Jasper said. “They’re a British band.”
    â€œGreenwich Meantime?” Landon asked.
    â€œDo you know them?” Jasper said. The moody tone he had been using with Landon earlier had disappeared.
    â€œYeah,” Landon told him. “I just downloaded their new CD.”
    Ally stormed into cabin two. “All right! Which one of you lost a leg?” she demanded. The other girls followed.
    â€œHuh?” Landon said.
    â€œDid you find an extra one?” Jasper asked, cracking Marcus and Conrad up.
    â€œDidn’t you guys hear a voice outside?” Chloe asked.
    A puzzled look spread across Conrad’s face. “No.”
    â€œMaybe because we were talking,” Marcus said.
    â€œWe heard the Mountain Man!” Chloe announced.
    â€œHe said something to Zee!” Ally added.

    In an instant, the room buzzed with excitement, and everyone started talking about this latest evidence. Zee looked from one seventh grader to the next and smiled to herself. If the Mountain Man could get the Beans back together like this, maybe he wasn’t so bad after all. Still, she didn’t plan on going to the bathhouse by herself anymore.

10
Fiddling Around
    T he next morning, the girls finally had to take their turn at the worst camp job assignment—breakfast cleanup, which meant helping the camp staff get the dishes ready to be washed