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flute to be seen.
    Then she looked at the paper she was holding. Had she somehow missed the listing for the flute? She quickly scanned down the list. The flute was not listed.
    â€œSam, this is really weird,” she said.
    â€œWhat is it?” Sam asked, looking up from her work. “Is there something missing?”
    â€œNo, everything on the list is here,” Jessie said.
    â€œGreat,” Sam said with relief.
    â€œBut I remember something that isn’t here,” Jessie said.
    â€œWhat?” Sam asked, standing up.
    â€œA wooden flute,” Jessie said.
    â€œYes, of course,” Sam said, going to look for herself. “I was planning to put that on display next to the harp. It isn’t here?”
    â€œNo,” Jessie said. “And what’s even stranger, it’s not on the list, either.” She handed the list to Sam.
    Sam flipped slowly through the list, looking carefully at each page. “You’re right, the flute isn’t listed.” Then she looked at the tables. “And I don’t see it anywhere.” Sam made a note at the bottom of the list. “Another missing piece.”
    â€œWhy isn’t it on the list?” Jessie asked.
    â€œI’m not sure,” said Sam. “This is the list I got from the Egyptian Museum. Maybe they added the flute later and forgot to put it on the list.” Sam smiled at Jessie. “Lucky for me you have such a good memory.”
    â€œAre you going to tell Pete about it?” Jessie asked.
    â€œYes, I’ll go right now.” Sam walked to the door. Then she turned around and looked back at Jessie. “Don’t say anything about this to him, though. I don’t think he’d want everyone to know that pieces of the exhibit were missing. You understand, don’t you? Bad publicity for the museum.”
    â€œYes, I understand,” Jessie said.
    After Sam had left, Jessie went into the exhibit hall. She told the others about the missing flute and that it had never even been on the list.
    â€œI can’t believe someone has been stealing things from the exhibit,” Benny said.
    â€œWhat’s Sam going to do about it?” Henry asked.
    â€œShe went to talk to Pete, but she said we shouldn’t say anything about it,” Jessie said.
    â€œWhy not?” Benny asked.
    â€œIt would be bad publicity for the museum if people found out,” Jessie explained. “Sam figured Pete wouldn’t want everyone to know.”
    â€œThat makes sense,” Henry agreed.
    â€œI can’t believe there’s a list of items that isn’t even accurate,” said Violet. “What good is that?”
    â€œI have an idea,” Jessie said. “Let’s make our own list. Then we’ll be sure of everything that’s there—and we’ll know if anything else disappears.”
    â€œGreat idea,” said Violet. “I’ll help you.”
    â€œBenny and I will finish cleaning the display cases,” said Henry.
    Going to her backpack, which she’d left by Sam’s desk, Jessie pulled out a small, blue notebook and a pen. She had written her name on the inside cover, but other than that, the notebook was blank. Jessie flipped open to the first page and wrote at the top: Enter the Mummy’s Tomb . “You look at the table and tell me the items, and I’ll write them down,” Jessie said.
    â€œOkay,” said Violet. “Two gold cat statues ...” she began. Slowly the girls worked their way around the tables, with Violet telling Jessie what was on each table, and Jessie writing the items in her notebook. She wrote down the name of the object and a short description so she’d remember what it was. It took a long time, but at last, they had an accurate list of everything that was there.
    Sam returned as they were finishing the list.
    â€œWhat did Pete say?” Jessie asked.
    â€œHe wasn’t in his office,” Sam