CHAPTER THREE Mamoon

CHAPTER THREE Mamoon

Annie stuck her head out the tree house window. "Hey!" she called.

"Shh!" said Jack, pulling her back in."Don't let them see us up here! It's too hard to explain the tree house. Let's go down."

"Good point," said Annie. She handed Merlin's letter to Jack and started down the rope ladder.Jack grabbed his shoulder bag.He put the letter inside, then added their research book and rhyme book.He slung the leather bag across his chest and climbed down.

When he stepped onto the ground,Jack twisted the rope ladder behind the tree trunk so it wouldn't be noticed."Okay," he said to Annie.

"Hey!" Annie called again, waving. She and Jack stepped out into the open.

The camel riders headed toward the palm trees.The man in the lead made his camel kneel.As he climbed off, Jack and Annie ran over to him.The man wore a long white robe. He had a black beard and stern, dark eyes."Who are you?" he asked, unsmiling. "From where do you come?"

"I am Annie, and this is my brother, Jack," said Annie."Our home is far away in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania."

"I have not heard of such a place," the man said."How do you come to be here in the desert alone?"

"Uh..." Jack didn't know what to say.

"We were riding with our family," Annie said. "We stopped to rest here.My brother and I took a nap behind these trees.When we woke up, everyone was gone. They left us by mistake.See, we have a really big family. There are many brothers and sisters -"

"Annie," said Jack. She was saying too much, he thought.

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