Notes for #16 The Mystery of the Missing Heiress © 1970
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Brian stopped his battered, stripped-down
car in front of the Manor House. |
| 14 |
Honey, a tall, graceful blonde just
Trixie's age, came out of the house. |
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Tom: "Take
a look in the garage." Brand new Continental sedan, shiny and
blue. Honey: "Daddy is giving our station
wagon to the Bob-Whites of the Glen." Mart out of sheer joy at
the news, turned cartwheel after cartwheel down the concrete drive. |
| 17 |
Regan: "Inside
the stable I have riding horses begging to be taken out. Don't forget
the Turf Show next month." "One thing at a time, Miss Fidget!
I just might help." |
| 18 |
Regan: "You
ride well enough that you could almost have your choice of horses."
Regan never was lavish with his praise. Jim:
"You can't ride Jupiter! Brian's the only one who rides him,
except me." Honey: "You forget
Daddy. Jupiter's really his horse." |
| 19 |
- The west boundary (of the preserve) ended only ten feet from
the edge of the great bluffs that hung over the Hudson River.
- Three generations of Beldens had lived here, adding rooms as
needed.
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| 20 |
In the driveway of Diana Lynch's great
stone home. |
| 21 |
Trixie: "Jim's
going to paint our club name on the door." Di:
"Even the Sleepyside Turf Club doesn't own a car!" |
| 22 |
Honey: "Daddy's
so proud of the way we fixed it (the clubhouse) up without any help
from anyone. That's one reason that he gave us the station wagon.
He likes the things the Bob-Whites do." |
| 23 |
Jim: "I
sure think I fell into a great life with some great friends. It took
a punk like that stepfather of mine to make me realize this."
Trixie: "It doesn't hurt anyone, though,
to stop now and then and think about good things people do. Too many
people are running down our country and everyone in it, with a special
hate for teenagers." |
| 25 |
They could feel the soft touch of late
summer wind on their tanned faces. Jim:
"I wish Dad owned this part between here and the bluff. He'd
do more than warn people." |
| 26 |
- Jim: "He'd fence off this part.
He may do it yet, if the county will let him."
- A strip of marshy land to be reached by a worn and precipitous
footpath. Even when the Belden's grandfather had been a boy, botany
classes from Sleepyside schools had hunted there.
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| 27 |
- Mart: "Girls! They have to be
watched just like babies!" Trixie:
"You're a fine one to talk! You'd have drowned half a dozen
times in the Wheeler lake if a girl — Honey — hadn't
pulled you out when you were learning to dive off the high board."
- Man: "Some outfit from Canada
is going to build a factory here. They're going to drain the swamp."
Brian: "There's no bottom to the
marsh." Man: "Some engineers
came up with a new way of doing it."
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| 30 |
- Brian: "I'm in the middle of
a study of herbs. I've never found any of them outside that marsh."
"They were used by our great-grandmothers for medicine. I
want to do some research with them."
- Di: "I wish I had some sort of
career to work toward. Honey and Trixie are so sure they want
to be detectives. Mart's so sure he wants to be a farmer, Brian
a doctor, and Dan a New York policeman."
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| 31 |
- Di: "I used to think I wanted
to be a stewardess, but now I'm not sure I want to be anything
— except a mother, maybe."
- Miss Trask had been Honey's teacher at Briar Hall.
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| 33 |
- Trixie: We did agree to use Bob-White
funds for a once-a-month movie."
- They (Trixie and Mart) were so near the same age that they constantly
baited one another. But let an outsider say anything critical
about either one, and watch the fur fly!
- Jim was sketching the words BOB-WHITES OF THE GLEN, to be filled
in later with bright red enamel.
- Trixie: "Jim, who is Betje Maadsen?"
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| 34 |
- Trixie: "A gruff, mysterious
voice asked for you. I said you weren't there — and could
I take a message? He said yes, if I thought I had sense enough
to remember it."
- Mart: "Jim would agree with you
if you said you saw a dinosaur disappearing into the shrubbery."
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| 35 |
Trixie: "Then
he asked me if you ever had an aunt by the name of Betje Maadsen.
Didn't you ever have an Aunt Betje, Jim?" Jim:
"Say, wait a minute. My mother had an older sister — lots
older. But she was Aunt Betty. I never saw her. Her maiden name was
Vanderheiden, the same as my mother's." Honey:
"Betty could be Betje." Jim: "That's
right. My own mother was Katje, but my father always called her Katie." |
| 37 |
Dateline Sleepyside: The International
Pine Company, of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, plans to build a million-dollar
furniture factory in Sleepyside. It will offer employment to several
hundred men and women. The factory is to be built on the strip known
as Blue Heron Marsh, lying west of our city. |
| 39 |
Brian: "Last
week he (Bobby) opened my butterfly collection and put all the specimens
out on the porch to see if they'd fly." Honey:
"Buttons, buttons, buttons! Sometimes I think Bobby pulls them
off just to keep me busy." |
| 41 |
Trixie: "Bobby
tried to make a deal with Dr. Morrison, didn't he? Bobby wanted him
to save all the teeth he pulled, so he could put them under his own
pillow and collect for them from the Tooth Fairy." |
| 42 |
Mrs. Belden:
"I learned to drive before you (Mart) were born. And I learned
to ride and not to scare horses long before Brian was born."
"You'll have to take Bobby." Bobby:
"I'll go to see Old Brom while you're at Mrs. Vanderpoel's house,
Trixie, so you can quit frownin'." |
| 43 |
Bobby: "Larry
and Jerry can come with me to visit Old Brom." Trixie:
"He doesn't seem to want many friends — just you and Mrs.
Vanderpoel." |
| 44 |
They entered the woods far down Glen
Road, for the brick cottage was just on the fringe of the game preserve. |
| 46 |
Mrs. Vanderpoel:
"Seems to me I remember she (Betje) went to Holland to live when
she married. She married a big blond giant of a man … Wilhelm." |
| 47 |
Mrs. Vanderpoel:
"Here we are Jim! (shows photo) Your Aunt Betje and her husband
and their little girl." Jim: "Why
didn't you ever show me this picture before? I thought I hadn't a
relative in the world." Mrs. Vanderpoel:
"You haven't. A very tragic thing happened to all of them. The
automobile in which they were riding went off the road and into a
canal. They were drowned." |
| 48 |
- (On back of photo) Betje and Wilhelm Maasden and Juliana. Sixteen
Seestrasse, The Hague.
- Mrs. Vanderpoel: "There wasn't
any other kin to Betje Maasden but your mother, Jim. I guess,
since she's gone and your Aunt Betje is gone, that means the land
properly belongs in your name."
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| 49 |
Brian: "Don't
forget that strip of land is valued at one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars. It seems as though it will be yours, Jim." Jim:
"If it is, it'll go for a special dormitory for my orphan boys,
and I'll call it —" Trixie: "The
Betje Maasden Dormitory!" |
| 51 |
Routine activity helped — work
at the hospital with other Candy Stripers. |
| 52 |
Trixie: "I'll
never be the jumper you are, no matter how I try. It scares me."
Jim: "It's the only thing I've ever
known that frightened you." |
| 53 |
- Trixie: "Jupiter's such a big
show-off." Jim: "I hope he
shows off at the Turf Club next month. Don't forget that Dad took
a blue with him this summer at the International Show."
- Regan would have liked it if the Wheeler horses could have entered
every show in a four-county area around Sleepyside.
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| 54 |
Di: "Dan
said Spartan can dance!" Dan: "He
can. The man Mr. Wheeler bought him from said he used to be in a circus.
I took my transistor along … I noticed that Spartan was doing
some fancy wriggling. He was waltzing!" |
| 55 |
Regan: "We
can dress Spartan up and use him for the clown at the horse show."
Dan: "Spartan's no clown! Just because
he's old and maybe not a Thoroughbred." Regan:
"Nobody's running down your horse. He has more Arabian blood
than any of these other horses, except Susie." |
| 56 |
Diana intended only to watch the practice,
because Sunny was not a jumper. There were only three other palominos
in the county, and all they would do in the show would be to march
and look beautiful. |
| 57 |
Trixie told Susie secrets she didn't
even tell Honey. |
| 59 |
Regan: "Susie
can take those jumps without half trying. The trouble is with you
(Trixie). Try it again. This time put your heart into it." |
| 61 |
Regan: "Look
at those legs. Look at that chest and shoulders. He (Spartan) jumped
in the circus. He was one of the Cossack horses, too." |
| 66 |
(letter from Holland) It
is not true, however, that their daughter, Juliana, was drowned. I
took Juliana into my home. Eight years ago my daughter, Mrs. Walter
De Jong, and her husband moved to the United States. They now live
in the Bronx. Juliana went with them and is now in your country. |
| 67 |
Signed Minna Schimmel |
| 69 |
Jim: "I
wish my mother could have lived. She was a lot like your (Trixie)
mom." |
| 76 |
Mrs. Hendricks:
"The De Jong family left yesterday for a vacation in the Poconos."
Honey: "Did Juliana go too?" Mrs.
Hendricks: "She intended to go with them. She changed
her mind when she saw an article. It seems there's some land involved
in a little village north of here. Juliana left this morning. She
has her own car, a blue Volkswagen." |
| 78 |
Tommy: "She
(Juliana) gave me some wooden shoes." |
| 82 |
Trixie: "I've
smelled that tobacco before." |
| 83 |
Mrs. Belden:
"You know how hospitable she (Mrs. Vanderpoel) is — and
lonesome, too, since Spider Webster and his brother moved away." |
| 87 |
- Mrs. Vanderpoel: "Spider accepted
a better position in White Plains."
- Juliana: "I'm sorry I do not
have a car." Trixie: "Mrs.
Hendricks said you drove your own car." Juliana:
"I put my car in storage and came here by bus."
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| 89 |
Sumac was just beginning to redden around
the edges — the first reminder that soon junior-senior high
would begin its fall semester. |
| 90 |
Trixie: "Don't
you wish the Bob-Whites could just go on and on as we are now, just
the same age as we are now?" |
| 92 |
Trixie: "Yesterday
the police found a girl unconscious on Glen Road!" |
| 93 |
Trixie: "She
was in a coma for several hours. The worst is that she doesn't even
know her own name or where she came from." Honey:
"The accident happened right near Ten Acres." |
| 95 |
Juliana: "I
see, just kid stuff. You do seem to have a way of ferreting things
out." Juliana smiled indulgently. |
| 96 |
Trixie: "Janie.
Dr. Gregory and the nurses gave her the name." |
| 104 |
The big old-fashioned farmhouse was
ideally arranged to provide a maximum of privacy for a guest. An extra
room and bath had been built downstairs for Trixie's father and mother
just after they had married. A big picture window looked out on Mrs.
Belden's rose garden. The room was gay with yellow-flowered chintz
and pale green walls. The furniture was pine, with twin spool beds,
bookcases, and a matching desk. |
| 106 |
Brian: "You're
(Trixie) more of a slave driver than Moms. I'd sure hate to be the
guy that you marry." Mart: "Why?
Trixie is already a good cook, and boy, does this room look neat!" |
| 107 |
Mart: "Look
who's coming up the drive now — Juliana! We'll have to put her
to work." Brian: "She doesn't
seem to be the working kind." |
| 113 |
Moms's inflexible rule: No one enters
a room with a closed door without knocking. |
| 116 |
Trixie spread out a newspaper from Lakeside,
Illinois. Honey read the headline WHAT HAPPENS TO MISSING PEOPLE?
Trixie read Beth Meredith's answer to the query: Ten days ago my younger
sister, Barbara Crane, went to the southern part of New York State
to take her first teaching job. |
| 117 |
Trixie: "I
was supposed to pay the laundryman this morning." |
| 122 |
Janie: "I
never heard that voice before in all my life. She seemed certain I
am her sister." Honey: "My dad
will be home tonight. He has his own plane. I know he'll fly you to
Lakeside." |
| 130 |
Trixie: "He's
(Bobby) putting a lot of things in that flight bag Dad brought him.
You'd think he was going around the world." Mart:
"He's only been on a plane once before. He keeps saying Mr. Wheeler's
plane is a jet fighter." |
| 132 |
Mr. Wheeler:
"Do you (Bob) mind if Bobby sits with you? He wants to help spot
enemy planes." |
| 133 |
Trixie: Maybe
Moms is right — that I hate to share any of the Bob-Whites
with anyone else. To be real honest, I hate particularly to share
Jim. |
| 136 |
Janie: "I'm
still nobody." Mrs. Meredith: "You
can't be nobody — not with friends like yours." |
| 140 |
Brian: "I
never knew anything about loss of memory till that day Trixie and
Honey came home from the hospital and told us about Janie." |
| 142 |
Trixie: "Miss
Trask always wants us to buy all the groceries we can from him (Mr.
Lytell)." Mart: "I think she and
Mr. Lytell are sorta —" Honey:
"Of course they like one another and they have for a long time." |
| 144 |
Trixie added candy wrapper to a growing
list (for the treasure hunt): light bulb, horseshow, fresh egg, yellow
rose, old glove, five green mulberries, apple core, dog bone. |
| 145 |
Brian: "The first one back with
the whole list gets a pocket transistor, gift of Diana's father." |
| 146 |
Suddenly she heard Reddy's sharp bark,
closely followed by Bobby's frightened cry. Reddy growled low in this
throat. |
| 151 |
Trixie, She's
(Juliana) done it again. She's broken the spell. Why does she always
interrupt when Janie is about to remember? |
| 152 |
Jim: "A
car was parked at Mrs. Vanderpoel's. A green buick." |
| 159 |
Dan: "I
know the place she (Janie) most always goes. There's a stump there,
and the grass is all tramped down. I've seen Janie sitting there reading
a book." A paperback book of Robert Frost's poems was there. |
| 169 |
Jim: "She
(Trixie) might as well go. If we don't let her do it, she'll just
take off into space, and darned if I don't believe she can even fly!" |
| 171 |
Trixie: "I
prayed my way down here, and I'll pray us both back to firm ground." |
| 173 |
Mrs. Belden:
"Only my hairdresser will know, and she'll touch up the gray
spots in my hair!" |
| 175 |
Mrs. Belden:
"Use the phone on the sun porch." |
| 181 |
Mrs. Vanderpoel:
"Juliana doesn't show emotion. Dutch people don't. Not on the
surface, but we feel things deep down." |
| 182 |
Mrs. Vanderpoel:
"Juliana is working on some dolls for a booth at the Show. Every
day she goes to work with some woman named Thompson." |
| 188 |
Sgt. Molinson:
"At least three people have been to see the mayor today about
a medal for bravery for you, Trixie. I'll have to admit she gets in
my hair; nevertheless, I could name some of my men who could use a
little of Detective Belden's perseverance and inquisitive turn of
mind." |
| 191 |
Spider: "My
brother is working at a summer camp upstate in the woods." |
| 193 |
Spider: "Someone
like that stepfather of yours, Jim. Nobody cried up a storm when he
disappeared. I guess he knows better than to show his face around
these parts again." Mart: "When
he realized he wasn't going to get anything out of Mr. Frayne's estate,
he beat it." Spider: "It's a good
thing he did, or he'd have landed in the clink." |
| 196 |
Spider: "I
always thought your stepfather escaped this way (path to marsh), Jim.
That old river has provided a getaway for many a crook." Absentmindedly
he kicked the dirt with his hell and uncovered a tobacco can. |
| 200 |
Afterward, Mart picked out lively rock
music on Mrs. Vanderpoel's melodian. |
| 202 |
Spider: "I
saw a couple of your good friends in Sleepyside today. Snipe Thompson
and his nephew Bull. I guess their time is up in the pen." |
| 204 |
Honey: "Nobody
who's ever lived in Sleepyside is completely happy anywhere else.
I know I'd never be." |
| 210 |
Trixie: "How
could Jim's mother ever married a man who even looked like Jones?
Sleek, city-slicker type, coal black hair, a crooked gash for a mouth. |
| 218 |
Just then a flash of lightning picked
out his features. Black, shining hair gleamed. From a crooked, contorted
mouth, a hoarse voice snarled, "You!" Trixie:
"It's Jim's stepfather!" |
| 219 |
Trixie: "Where's
Reddy?" Brian: "Not twenty feet
from the garage. Asleep. Drugged." Mart:
"Here's the thing that did it. Jim's stepfather was going to
drug Janie." |
| 222 |
Trixie: "Juliana
isn't there. She didn't even say goodbye." |
| 224 |
In a few minutes she (Trixie) came back
with a tall, handsome, blond young man. Trixie:
"This is Hans." |
| 230 |
Hans: "Didn't
anyone suspect your stepfather, Jim?" Trixie:
"How could we at that point? He hadn't been seen around here
for two years." |
| 232 |
Trixie: "He
(Sheriff) has Jones and his niece in jail. Spider and Sgt. Molinson's
men have jailed Snipe Thompson, his wife, and his nephew for questioning." |
| 235 |
Jones: "I'd
have gotten away with it, too, if that outfit that called themselves
the Bob-Whites — and mostly that girl Trixie Belden —
hadn't been in my hair." |
