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his lips. “Are you absolutely sure?”
    â€œWhat is it?” his wife asked anxiously.
    Mr. Bing held up a finger. “Right — we’ll be there as soon as we can.” He hung up and dialed Griffin’s cell. The call went straight to voicemail.
    â€œWhat’s going on?” Mrs. Bing demanded.
    Her husband’s face was gray. “Griffin’s disappeared.”
    â€œWhat do you mean, ‘disappeared’?”
    â€œHe and one other camper never came to the mess hall for dinner. No one’s seen them for at least a few hours.”
    They were in the car, heading north, inside of three minutes.
    Waiting in line to pay the toll at the Throgs Neck Bridge, Mrs. Bing frowned as a familiar SUV roared past in the E-ZPass lane. “Wasn’t that Rick Drysdale’s car?”
    â€œWith Griffin missing, I hardly think that’s our number one priority right now.”
    â€œGriffin’s missing
along with one other camper
,” she persisted. “Isn’t Savannah at Ebony Lake, too?”
    When the phone rang inside the SUV, Mr. Drysdale had no time for a conversation. “Sorry, can’t talk now. We’re heading up to Ebony Lake. Savannah’s gone missing.”
    â€œSo has Griffin,” Mrs. Bing told him. “How much do you want to bet that, wherever they are, they’re together?”
    A quarter mile farther on, the Bings’ van pulled alongside the stopped SUV on the shoulder. Mrs. Bing and Mr. Drysdale rolled down their windows.
    â€œWhat do you think the kids have gotten themselves into this time?” Mrs. Drysdale called anxiously.
    Mrs. Bing didn’t answer. She was staring at a sedan that had just sped past them on the highway. “Wasn’t that Pete and Estelle Slovak?”
    It took a moment for the significance of that statement to sink in.
    â€œHow could Ben be with Savannah and Griffin?” Mr. Drysdale asked. “He went to a different camp entirely.”
    Griffin’s mother was already dialing her phone. “There’s one way to find out.” And when Mrs. Slovak’s voice came on the line, she asked, “Estelle — is everything all right with Ben?”
    Ben’s mother sounded distraught. “Endless Pines just called. Nobody’s seen Benjamin since — ” Sudden silence on the line. “How could you know something’s wrong?”
    â€œGriffin and Savannah Drysdale have vanished from Ebony Lake.”
    Mrs. Slovak was amazed. “And you think they’re with my Benjamin? These camps are scattered across the north woods, with no transportation at all! That’s impossible.”
    â€œOne thing I’ve learned from Griffin is that
nothing
is impossible,” Mrs. Bing said in a determined tone.
    â€œI’m going to call the Benson girl’s family,” Mrs. Slovak decided. “She was at camp with Benjamin. Maybe they’ve heard something from her.”
    When Mrs. Slovak finally reached Pitch’s father, she made an alarming discovery: Pitch’s parents were at a rest area on the New York State Thruway about ten miles ahead. While stopped to ask directions to Camp Endless Pines, they had spotted the Kellermans’ car at the gas pump. And in the Kellermans’ backseat were none other than Mr. and Mrs. Dukakis.
    â€œAre you saying that Antonia, Logan, and Melissa all disappeared from their camps today?” Ben’s mother cried.
    Mr. Benson was stunned. “How did you know?”
    Mrs. Slovak was hyperventilating as she gasped out the details of the missing Griffin, Savannah, and Ben.
    Six campers AWOL. Six Cedarville friends. Six members of Griffin’s team.
    This was no coincidence. There was only one thing it could possibly be.
    A plan.

    T he two parent parades sped north on the Thruway, connected via cell phone conference call. At a fuel stop, all five vehicles met up, and the two groups merged into one. The procession