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there’s a geocaching club here in Greenfield,” Mr. Robertson said. “We meet at the nature center. Maybe you’d like to check out one of our meetings? You might even be able to borrow a GPS from the club if you want to do some more geocaching on your own.”
    “Can we?” Benny asked his brother and sisters.
    “Sure,” Henry said. “Do you know when the next meeting is?”
    “I think we’re meeting this Friday at noon,” Mr. Robertson replied. “But check the website to be sure.”
    “We will,” Jessie said. “Thanks for teaching us about geocaching!”
    “It was our pleasure,” Mr. Robertson said.
    “See you on Friday!” Henry said.
    “I wonder what we’ll find the next time we go geocaching,” Violet said.
    “Maybe we’ll find a mystery!” Benny said.
    “Oh, Benny,” Jessie laughed. “We don’t find mysteries everywhere we go.”
    “No, but a lot of times they find us, ” Benny said.

Chapter 3
Treasure Found and Lost
    “All you have to do is enter a zip code and the website will show you all the caches that are nearby,” Violet told Grandfather and their housekeeper, Mrs. MacGregor, that evening.
    The children had spent some time exploring www.geocaching.com . They had tried to tell Grandfather and Mrs. MacGregor what geocaching was during dinner, but everyone agreed it would be easier if the children could show them. So after dinner they all gathered around the computer. Jessie sat at the keyboard and Watch curled up at her feet.
    Mrs. MacGregor squinted at the screen. “All of those are names of … what did you call them? Caches?”
    “Yes,” Jessie said. “A cache is a sort of treasure box. And look.” She pointed at a number on the screen. “This tells us how far away each cache is from our house.”
    “These two, ‘Walk in the Woods’ and ‘Edge of the Forest’ are the ones we found today,” Henry said. “You can read what we wrote here.”
    “But if you wrote in the notebook that you found the box, why do you need to go to the website and write it again?” Grandfather asked.
    “You don’t have to,” Jessie said. “But it’s fun to read about the cache before you try to find it.”
    “And if there’s something wrong with the cache, if it’s missing or damaged in some way, you can let people know that by leaving a comment on the website,” Henry said.
    “This is all very interesting,” Mrs. Mac-Gregor said, peering over Jessie’s shoulder.
    “All we need is a GPS unit and we can go geocaching on our own,” Henry said. “Mr. Robertson told us the local geocaching club has a few to lend to new members.”
    “Hmm,” Grandfather said. “I believe I have a little handheld GPS.”
    “You do?” Benny asked.
    “Yes. I bought it a couple of months ago,” Grandfather said. “I thought it would be useful for hiking.”
    “Could we see your GPS, Grandfather?” Henry asked.
    “I’ll go get it.” Grandfather got up and went to the closet. He came back with a small canvas case that looked like a camera bag. Grandfather unzipped the case and pulled out a rectangular object with buttons and a screen.
    “Hey, that looks just like the Robertsons’ GPS!” Benny cried.
    “Do you have a cable to hook it up to the computer?” Jessie asked.
    Grandfather reached inside the case and pulled out a black cord. “I’ll bet that’s what this is,” he said, holding it up. “I think there are some instructions in here, too.” He looked inside the case again and pulled out a sheet of paper.
    “Looks easy enough to set up,” Henry said, looking over the instructions.
    “Can we borrow your GPS for geocaching?” Violet asked.
    “Sure,” Grandfather said.
    “Can we go geocaching tomorrow?” Benny asked.
    “I don’t see why not,” Grandfather said.
    So the children got everything set up. Then they decided which caches they wanted to try and find next.
    “ ‘Squires Point,’ ” Jessie read the name of one of the caches in the list. “Isn’t that the name