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Notes for #38 The Indian Burial Ground Mystery © 1985
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9	Honey: "If you tell me you failed the math final one more time ... You know perfectly well you never fail anything."
10	The two girls had been trying to line up summer jobs. In past summers, Trixie and Honey had volunteered as candy stripers at Sleepyside Hospital, and they expected to work there again this year. Brian was a junior at Sleepyside. Still.
11	Bobby: "Moms says I can grow my own garden because Reddy cleared away the vines for me." Trim, middle-aged Miss Trask had been a math teacher at Honey's boarding school until the Wheelers bought the Manor House.
14	Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler were seated on the sofa facing a stocky, balding man wearing a tweed jacket. Mr. Wheeler: "Victor, this is my daughter Honey and her best friend Trixie Belden. Honey and Trixie, meet Professor Conroy." Conroy: "And I want you also to meet my assistant, Charles Miller." His voice was high-pitched and his accent British. Trixie and Honey turned to see a tall, gangly young man who looked about twenty years old. Although nice looking, with even features and shaggy, brown hair, the young man didn't smile.
15	Charles: "Is that Renoir?" Mr. Wheeler: "It certainly is." Mrs. Wheeler: "Professor Conroy is an archaeologist who will be spending the summer here on the game preserve. He's bringing a group of first-year graduate students for a real archaeological dig." Conroy: "Your parents have kindly consented to allow me to search for artifacts left by the Algonquin and Iroquois tribes."
16	She (Trixie) had indeed, studied the Indians who had lived in the Hudson Valley. But somehow the notion that all Indians lived only in the wild West had persisted. Conroy: "I have reason to believe that there is an important Algonquin burial ground right here on the estate."
18	Trixie: "Can high-school students work on your dig, too?" Conroy: "I was intending to ask if you knew any young people who might like to help out on the dig."
20	Charles: "How could you ask a bunch of dumb high school kids to join us?"
21	Conroy: "I can't afford to have you mess up my carefully laid plans."
24	Trixie: "Brian and Mart will be there, since they'll be working only mornings at the Historical Society." Mrs. Belden: "You know they depend on their volunteers each year. I would be most disappointed if a daughter of mine went back on her word. Perhaps you can work something out, Beatrix. But until you've spoken to Mrs. Beales at the hospital, I don't think you should make any plans."
25	Honey: "Trust Trixie to fix this one. Mrs. Beales always liked her best of all the candy stripers. Jim isn't changing this plans. He's still going to work at camp this summer."
27	Honey: "Di's excited about the dig. Her parents said she had to watch her twin brothers and sisters for only half a day. But Dan can't make it either." Poor Dan, he doesn't get left behind, but he still gets left out of part of the story. Trixie: "Mrs. Beales said we could work half a day."
28	Trixie: "Miss Wilson, one of the kindergarten teachers in the elementary school, asked me to do her a favor and cut out pictures of food that she can use for the class."
29	Trixie: "This news article says there's a gang of thieves hitting all the big mansions and estates in the area."
31	Brian: "I feel much safer now. Knowing that Trixie is around eases a lot of my irrational fears."
32	Bobby: "I'm an arpyologist, too. I found a real, genuine Indian arrowhead. Dad said so!"
34	Mr. Belden: "Maybe we can get through a whole two months without a mystery." Mrs. Belden: "If there isn't a mystery brewing today, she'll make sure one starts tomorrow!"
39	Brian: "Charles is extremely smart, and a real archaeologist. When he heard I worked as a guard at the Historical Society, he immediately asked to see the archives."
42	Trixie: "I almost think I'd rather be an archaeologist."
44	Trixie: "This whole meadow is the Indian burial ground. What if the ghosts of these Indians get angry and come back to haunt us?" Honey and Trixie were assigned to dig in the village site. They were also asked to help out in the cleaning tent. Di had been assigned to the drawing group.
45	She was to make a drawing of each find on a three by five card. Mart and Brian were to help with the packing.
46	Honey turned to see a skinny, seedy-looking man. Suddenly Trixie saw Charles Miller rush over to the man. Charles called the older man Harry, and they seemed to know each other. Trixie distinctly heard the words "a real treasure trove," "map," and "historical society."
47	Brian: "Charles Miller is a very nice, bright guy. Your mind is so full of crooks and mysteries that you seem to have lost the ability to see anything else."
51	Part of their job as candy stripers was to bring the little "libraries on wheels" to each patient.
52	She was worried because Honey and Miss Trask were alone for the next month. Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler were away on a trip, and Jim was off being a camp counselor. Now, if you were Mr. Wheeler, would you leave your estate for a month with all this going on on your property? Without extra security?
55	Conroy: "Check with the student head of the dig before you throw it away. I've assigned that position to Charles Miller."
63	They'd even gotten a wood-burning stove from Mrs. De Keyser. I guess this KK is stick with the story from the KK who wrote #36.
64	Trixie: "Maybe they're looking for Captain Kidd's treasure." Mart: "The only thing people find when they're looking for Captain Kidd's treasure, is other people looking for Captain Kidd's treasure."
66	Girl: "He (Charles) pays his own tuition."
67	Girl: "He works on the dig during the day, and he has a night job."
68	Conroy: "Captain Kidd is said to have buried various treasure caches along the Hudson River. But no one's ever found a bit of it. I can only assume that he never actually buried it."
72	Room 204 of the hospital. Trixie: "Professor Conroy!"
73	Conroy: "Might have a concussion. I'm in here for observation for ten days." For a concussion? And nobody found that suspicious?
76	Charles: "He wasn't knocked unconscious. This morning he complained that he felt ill, something about allergies."
79	Honey was surprised to see Brian and Trixie arguing like this. Usually the two were quite close. But neither would give an inch. Maybe Brian had some more of Loyola's Waldorf salad.
80	They finally reached the library, which was very near the Historical Society. Both were among the oldest houses in Sleepyside.
81	Jake Hanson, the guard. She (Trixie) followed the stoop-shouldered, frail little man. He'd been the guard at the Historical Society for as long as she could remember.
82	It appeared to be someone's diary, and it was open to an entry dated January 3, 1777.
83	The crudely drawn map showed several roads, a forest, three hills, the name "Depew," and a large X next to something that looked like a cave entrance.
84	Turning the book over, she saw a name on the front: EDWARD PALMER. He was a Tory spy who'd been hung on Gallows Hill, right near Sleepyside.
89	A dark-haired man was running across the back lawn. Trixie could see that he was carrying something small, rectangular, and brown in his hand. Trixie: "I bet that was Charles! He stole the diary." Yet Trixie and Honey don't tell security that the book was stolen.
94	Mrs. Field is the librarian.
102	Brom: "Of course, I've heard of the Depews. Long time ago, though." Trixie: "Where was their property?" Brom: "Right here. Back down Glen Road a ways. Right across from the Wheeler place. Used to be a big old mansion, but it burned down in a mysterious fire long about the time of the Revolution. Some say the son went crazy after the place burned down."
106	Brian: "I'm not going to get involved in this nonsense. I don't believe all this stuff about a treasure, and what's more, I think you're all wrong about Charles. I'm sorry. But this is one mystery I'm not interested in. Count me out."
113	Trixie snapped her head around just in time to see a weird, glowing apparition float through the trees and swoop to the edge of the clearing. The horrible thing began to wail. The skeletal figure, draped in moldy-looking rags and tendrils of cobwebs and tree roots. Its head looked like an old skull, with long gray hair that fell down over empty eye sockets. An iridescent yellow glow emanated from its body as it menacingly waved a big gnarled stick in their direction.
114	Trixie: "I told you. The ghosts of those dead Indians are angry at us!" Honey: "It couldn't have been a ghost. I don't believe in them, and neither should you. There has to be another explanation." Go Honey! About time someone lets her have some spine. Trixie: "Remember the headless horseman? That time, someone dressed up as a ghostly horseman to scare us away from a mystery. I'll bet that silly ghost was doing the same thing."
116	There was Miss Trask standing in the middle of a pile of silver and haphazardly scattered paintings. Miss Trask: "Someone tried to rob the house."
117	Regan: "I heard the crash and I heard Miss Trask screaming. It looks as if she interrupted the burglars."
120	She found what she was looking for - deep skid marks in the gravel. At the corner of the well-manicured lawn stood a big oak tree. Hunks of bark had been gouged out of the tree. Trixie: Miss Trask said she'd heard the sound of crunching metal after the car had started.
121	Trixie carefully scanned the damaged tree and found flakes of yellow paint. Di: "It's the Renoir. It must be gone."
123	She switched off the downstairs hall light and climbed slowly up the stairs. Mrs. Belden always kept the light on when the children were out late.
124	Harry drove a yellow Volkswagen.
126	Mrs. Belden: "I'm worried about Reddy. It's very unusual for him to stay out all night like this."
127	She say Professor Conroy's door open and Harry step into the hall.
128	Professor Conroy seemed to be in good spirits, yet he looked much sicker than he had the day before. There were deep, dark circles under his eyes, and his skin looked pale and gray.
129	Her eyes came to rest on a pair of shoes neatly placed at the side of the bed. They were caked with thick, sticky mud.
133	Harry's yellow Volkswagen was parked in the woods, just off the path. The left front fender was dented, and a large area had lost its paint.
134	Before she could grab hold of anything, she found herself shooting down a muddy incline at the base of a fat old tree stump. She was in a cave!
139	Trixie judged that the cave was about nine feet deep, and not large.
140	Trixie: "This place has a funny shape for a cave. It looks almost square. I doubt that Mother Nature would make a square cave.
141	Trixie: "It's an old cellar! These are evenly laid stones. This is an old foundation!"
144	Charles: "You two have been snooping around me and this site since I first got here. Explain what you're doing in my cave, looking for my treasure."
145	Honey: "You can't talk to us that way! It's not your fault that you're poor, and it's not my fault that my parents have money. You have no right to be so nasty." Wow! Twice in one book! Go Honey!
146	Charles's face crumpled. He began to cry. Charles: What an idiot I am. I had thought the gold would make it easier, make it possible for me to get my Ph.D. I can't go on like this, doing part-time jobs and being so tired all the time."
147	Charles: "My grades are going down, so I'm probably going to lose the small scholarship I have."
152	Trixie: "I'm still suspicious. There are too many things about you that don't add up. The first time we met, you were very interested in that painting."
153	Charles: "I was merely surprised that anyone would have a real Renoir in their house."
154	Charles: "I never stole the diary."
155	Charles: "You say you saw Harry Kemp waiting outside the Historical Society, so it could have been Harry who stole the book. By the way, he's not really my friend, he's a friend of Professor Conroy's. The Volkswagen belongs to Professor Conroy, not to Harry."
156	Trixie: "I suppose Harry was the ghost, too?" Charles: "I wanted to scare you girls away from the treasure."
159	Honey: "She (Miss Trask) told me that he (Professor Conroy) came to my father with a letter of introduction from Professor Ingles at Oxford University."
163	The Bob-Whites met at their clubhouse. Brian had been leery of coming until he heard that Charles Miller would be there, too.
171	Miss Trask: "It sounds as if I'm going to spend the evening sitting around in the dark, and all because I know how much you two enjoy playing cops and robbers. I don't know how those two do it ..."
172	Brian, Mart, Dan, and Charles shut off all the lights in the house, and then hid.
173	Brian and Mart were sitting on Professor Conroy. Dan and Charles were holding a large, blue-satin upholstered chair across Harry Kemp's chest.
177	Trixie: "It turns out that Kemp and Professor Conroy are the ones who committed all the other burglaries in the area, too." Charles: "What I find amazing is that Conroy wasn't an archaeologist at all." Mart: "I can't believe how much trouble Conroy went to, just to get money for archaeological research."
178	Charles: "Conroy thinks he knows where the lost continent of Atlantis is located."
179	Brian: "No one in academic circles would help him finance an expedition. So he got the money another way - by stealing it."
184	Trixie: "They found the Renoir in Professor Conroy's tent and they traced the rest to a warehouse in Brooklyn. Harry Kemp had it (the diary.)
186	Mrs. Belden: "So many people think there's gold hidden around this neck of the woods. I've always wondered where they get the idea that hidden gold would stay hidden for very long at the rate people look for it."
187	Mr. Belden: "This concerns Charles. As an officer of the bank, I thought there was something I might do to help. I've cleared it with our loan department. We at the First National Bank would be delighted if you would give us the opportunity to help you finish your education."