![]() Then Daddy said he was going to drive around to the bowling alley and to the ice cream parlor, just in case Andrea had gone there. Right away he and Mommy had started calling all of Andrea's friends, but no one had seen her. Daddy was a lieutenant in the New York State Police. Mommy had come back home worried and almost crying, just as Daddy got in from work. ![]() At quarter of nine, Mommy went to Joan's house to walk Andrea home, but they said Andrea had left at eight o'clock. ![]() She had promised to be home by nine o'clock. After dinner, she had gone to her best friend Joan's house to study for a math test. Then Ellie remembered what was wrong: Andrea hadn't come home last night. ![]() When she'd had her seventh birthday last month, Andrea, her fifteen-year-old sister, had teased her that it was time to toss Bones in the attic. Instinctively she reached for Bones, the soft and cuddly stuffed dog who had shared her pillow ever since she could remember. When Ellie awoke that morning, it was with the sense that something terrible had happened. ![]()
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