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The
Case of the
Broken Window
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One evening as Max was out walking, Mrs. Zenitt called his name.
 He hurried
across the street. She was standing in her front yard, but she
guided him around to the back. "I was watching TV in the living
room," she told him, "and I heard a crash. Just
look!" She pointed to her back porch window. "Someone
threw a rock through it. It's broken into a dozen pieces!"
"Do
you know who did it?" Max asked.
"No.
He ran off. But I think maybe it was David Loring. We had a spat the
other day because I told his parents he had to stop using my yard as
a short cut. But I wouldn't accuse him of breaking a window without
more proof."
"I'll
talk to him," Max said.
He found
David panting as he bounced a basketball under the light on his
garage. "Did you just run from Mrs. Zenitt's?" Max asked.
"Did you break her window?"
David
shook his head. "No. I'm all out of breath because I've been
out here shooting baskets. I don't know anything about a broken
porch window."
"You're
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