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INVITED GUESTS PROFILES
SAMANTHA DAWES-SMYTHE - You are the much loved 12 year old great granddaughter of Dame Sarah
Elizabeth and the recipient, this weekend, of the famed heirloom diamond ring, being one of the first females,
with your twin sister, Barbara, born in the family since Dame Sarah Elizabeth. You are a typical, all around,
almost teenager, and you like school, sports, music and dancing, not necessarily in that order. Boys are YUK!
Your friends call you SAM.
Suggested clothing: jeans, T-shirt
Props: school books, soccer or soft ball, dancing shoes or musical instrument.
BARBARA DAWES-SMYTHE - You are the much loved 12 year old great granddaughter of Dame Sarah
Elizabeth and the recipient, this weekend, of the famed heirloom diamond necklace, being one of the first
females, with your twin sister, Samantha, born in the family since Dame Sarah Elizabeth. You are a typical, all
around, almost teenager, and you love caring for your friends and others, volunteering in a local nursing home in
your spare time. You seem to have a healing touch and your friends tell you that you should consider medicine
as a career. Your friends call you BUBBLE.
Suggested clothing: jeans and T-shirt
Props: medical journal
ALLISON KATZ - You are Samantha's best friend and next door neighbor. You love dancing, especially ballet,
better than school or anything. You think this is going to be a super party - staying at a real country estate and
hope there are some boys in the neighborhood. Your friends call you ALLIE.
Suggested clothing: leotards and tights
Props: ballet shoes.
BARBARELLA DAHL - You are descended from an old aristocratic family and want to become a fashion model
more than anything else in the world. You love lots of good and expensive clothes and have more clothes than
any of your friends. You also are very vain about your beautiful hair and are always combing or brushing it. You
are also excited about the upcoming party and look forward to visiting with another member of "royalty". Your
friends call you BARBIE.
Suggested clothing: designer clothes - an outfit before games and after dinner
Props: hair brush and mirror.
ANASTASIA OAKLEY - You tend to be a tomboy - having had to put up with three brothers and no sisters.
You’ve been trying to get on the school wrestling and football teams without any success. You’d like your father
to sue the school to let you play these sports as you are really a good quarterback, thanks to your oldest
brother. You also like poetry and write a fair amount of poetry yourself. Your friends call you ANNIE.
Suggested clothing: football or wrestling jersey, shorts
Props: football and book of poems.
GEORGETTE WHIZ - You are the most intelligent of your friends - especially in math and computer sciences.
You enjoy solving difficult problems and you tutor your friends on Wednesday evenings, over pizza and coke.
You are also a coke freak. Your friends call you GEE.
Suggested clothing: jeans, a college T-shirt or sweat shirt
Props: math book and a 6-pack of caffeine-free coke.
INVITED GUESTS PROFILES
THEODORA BAER - Your family is prominent in the financial world, particularly banking. You are a computer
wiz like your friend, Gee, and are in the process of creating your own web page to introduce other young people
your age to the mysteries of the solar system. Your friends call you TEDDY.
Suggested clothing: jeans and T-shirt
Props: books about the solar system.
VIRGINIA SNAPP - Your flair for creating fashion out of nothing has given you an edge with your friends.
They are always asking your advice on what to wear for special school events. Your friends call you GINGER
Suggested clothes: clothes you have designed.
Props: teen fashion magazines.
CATARINA CUTTER - Architecture is your forte’. Designing homes and office buildings come naturally to you
because your father and grandfather own their own firm. Someday you will undoubtedly work in the same firm.
Your friends call you COOKIE.
Suggested clothing: jeans and T-shirt
Props: drawings of your dream house, or magazine of house design.
GOLDA LOX - You have recently moved to a different city, but still are best friends with Sam and the gang. You
are in touch daily by e-mail and are involved in all their activities. You are attending a fine art’s academy; studying
music, dance and drama. Broadway is your dream. Your friends call you GOLDIE.
Suggested clothing: jeans and T-shirt
Props: Scripts or sheet music.
© SamAntics, 2010 Shirley W. Foster
INVITED GUESTS PROFILES - Sleepover Party
SAMANTHA DAWES-SMYTHE - You are the much loved 12 year old great granddaughter of Dame Sarah Elizabeth
and the recipient, this weekend, of the famed heirloom diamond ring, being one of the first females, with your twin
sister, Barbara, born in the family since Dame Sarah Elizabeth. You are a typical, all around, almost teenager, and
you like school, sports, music and dancing, not necessarily in that order. Boys are YUK! Your friends call you SAM.
Suggested clothing: Jeans, T-shirt, PJs or nighty
Props: school books, soccer or soft ball, dancing shoes or musical instrument.
BARBARA DAWES-SMYTHE - You are the much loved 12 year old great granddaughter of Dame Sarah Elizabeth
and the recipient, this weekend, of the famed heirloom diamond necklace, being one of the first females, with your
twin sister, Samantha, born in the family since Dame Sarah Elizabeth. You are a typical, all around, almost teenager,
and you love caring for your friends and others, volunteering in a local nursing home in your spare time. You seem
to have a healing touch and your friends tell you that you should consider medicine as a career. Your friends call
you BUBBLE.
Suggested clothing: jeans and T-shirt, PJs or nighty
Props: medical journal
ALLISON KATZ - You are Samantha's best friend and next door neighbor. You love dancing, especially ballet,
better than school or anything. You think this is going to be a super weekend - staying at a real country estate and
sleeping in a real mansion and hope there are some boys in the neighborhood. Your friends call you ALLIE.
Suggested clothing: leotards and tights, PJs or nighty
Props: ballet shoes.
BARBARELLA DAHL - You are descended from an old aristocratic family and want to become a fashion model more
than anything else in the world. You love lots of good and expensive clothes and have more clothes than any of your
friends. You also are very vain about your beautiful hair and are always combing or brushing it. You are also excited
about the upcoming weekend and look forward to visiting with another member of "royalty". Your friends call you
BARBIE.
Suggested clothing: designer clothes - an outfit before games and after dinner, next morning and nighty
Props: hair brush and mirror.
ANASTASIA OAKLEY - You tend to be a tomboy - having had to put up with three brothers and no sisters. You’ve
been trying to get on the school wrestling and football teams without any success. You’d like your father to sue
the school to let you play these sports as you are really a good quarterback, thanks to your oldest brother. You
also like poetry and write a fair amount of poetry yourself. Your friends call you ANNIE.
Suggested clothing: football or wrestling jersey, shorts, and PJs
Props: football and book of poems.
GEORGETTE WHIZ - You are the most intelligent of your friends - especially in math and computer sciences. You
enjoy solving difficult problems and you tutor your friends on Wednesday evenings, over pizza and coke. You are
also a coke freak. Your friends call you GEE.
Suggested clothing: jeans, a college T-shirt or sweat shirt, and PJs
Props: math book and a 6-pack of caffeine-free coke.
INVITED GUESTS PROFILES - Sleepover Party
THEODORA BAER - Your family is prominent in the financial world, particularly banking. You are a computer wiz
like your friend, Gee, and are in the process of creating your own web page to introduce other young people your
age to the mysteries of the solar system. Your friends call you TEDDY.
Suggested clothing: jeans and T-shirt and PJs
Props: books about the solar system.
VIRGINIA SNAPP - Your flair for creating fashion out of nothing has given you an edge with your friends. They
are always asking your advice on what to wear for special school events. Your friends call you GINGER
Suggested clothes: clothes you have designed.
Props: teen fashion magazines.
CATARINA CUTTER - Architecture is your forte’. Designing homes and office buildings come naturally to you
because your father and grandfather own their own firm. Someday you will undoubtedly work in the same firm.
Your friends call you COOKIE.
Suggested clothing: jeans and T-shirt and PJs
Props: drawings of your dream house, or magazine of house design.
GOLDA LOX - You have recently moved to a different city, but still are best friends with Sam and the gang. You
are in touch daily by e-mail and are involved in all their activities. You are attending a fine art’s academy; studying
music, dance and drama. Broadway is your dream. Your friends call you GOLDIE.
Suggested clothing: jeans and T-shirt and PJs
Props: Scripts or sheet music.
© SamAntics, 2010 Shirley W. Foster
PROFILES OF ADULT CHARACTERS
Active Characters in GameDAME SARAH ELIZABETH DAWES-SMYTHE - matriarch of the Smythe family - 97 years old .
Dame Sarah has decided, because of her advancing years, to finally pass along her diamond heirloom
antique ring and necklace to her great-granddaughters, Samantha and Barbara. This set has been passed
down through generations to the first female born in each generation. It originated with the Duchess of
Nottingham, England, who is said to have received the ring from a duke in Barcelona, Spain when she was
14 years old.
MARTY, the cook and all around “handy” person - 40 years old.
Marty has been with Dame Sarah Elizabeth for 20 years as of last Tuesday. Marty is an excellent cook
and prepares Dame Sarah’s favorite dishes. Since Dame Sarah and Marty are the only occupants of the
“big house”, not much heavy cleaning is required on a daily basis and Marty is considered to have a “cushy”
job. Marty also doubles as ‘butler’ when Moreland is away.
Characters in AbsentiaCHAUNCEY, the chauffeur - 25 years old.
Chauncey has been driving for Dame Sarah for five years, having replaced James who died in a mysterious,
tragic accident involving a hit and run, never found. Chauncey has no known traffic violations, and came to
work for Dame Sarah with several very good references.
MORELAND, the butler - 70 years old.
Moreland has been with Dame Sarah for 50 years next May. He’s been a faithful servant, though, for the
past six months, he’s been asking for more and more time off - saying he’s visiting a sick niece in a nearby
town. Moreland lives in half of a duplex cottage at the southwest corner of the estate.
HENRY, the gardener - 60 years old
Henry lives at home on the other side of town with his wife of 40 years. He works at the Dawes-Smythe
estate on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and has been on medical retirement from Dinkus Aircraft
for 20 years. He has worked for Dame Sarah since his retirement. He uses a riding mower and electric
hedge trimmer, so as not to do anything strenuous, he says, so he will not endanger his medical retirement
benefits. He has informed Dame Sarah he would like to retire from the gardening job in two years. By
the way, Henry also works on Mary Jane Stanford’s adjoining estate, Tuesday, Thursdays and Saturdays.
He has also mentioned to Ms. Stanford that he would like to retire in two years.
MARY JANE STANFORD, known as MJ - 97 years old
Ms. Stanford is Dame Sarah’s lifelong friend and partner in the Greentree Jewelry Company. The company
is for sale and the partners hope that it will sell this year so they can retire. Ms Stanford never married
- giving her whole life to the Greentree Jewelry Company. She lives on the adjoining estate. MJ’s hobby
is architectural drawing and she rather fancies herself to be an amateur architect.
© SamAntics, 2010 Shirley W. Foster
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SamAntics
presentsa
SAMANTHA ELIZABETH MYSTERY
CASE OF THE MISSING RING
PARTIPLANNER FOR ADULT HOST (Dame Sarah)
© 2009 Shirley W. Foster
SamAntics Party Games for Tweens and Teens
Distributed by: SimpliFun Studios www.SimpliFun.com
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CASE OF THE MISSING RING
This guide is designed to aid the ADULT HOST, playingthe part of DAME SARAH, in preparing for the party,and guiding the mystery party game guests througheach scene, resulting in the mystery being solved in atimely and organized fashion.
Your character, Dame Sarah Elizabeth Dawes-Smythe,is the 97 year-old matriarch of the Smythe family. Sheis the great- grandmother of twins Samantha andBarbara. Dame Sarah has decided, because of heradvancing years, to finally pass along her diamondheirloom antique ring and bracelet to her great-granddaughters. This ring and necklace have beenpassed down through generations to the first femaleborn in each generation. It originated with the Duchessof Nottingham, England, who is said to have receivedthe ring from a duke in Barcelona, Spain when she was14 years old. This party takes place in Dame Sarah'scountry estate in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada.She has asked her great-granddaughter to bring alongsome of her closest friends and to arrive mid-afternoonfor games, supper, and the presentation.
Dame Sarah’s character, which has a major part in thescript, is designed to help keep the party organized, therules observed, and the young players in order. TheAdult Host, as Dame Sarah, may want to dress the part.
Marty, Dame Sarah’s cook, may be played by anadditional adult or older teen. NOTE: Marty is ageneric name and Marty’s part may be played by
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either male or female.
The Adult Host is also responsible for aiding the younghostess, playing Sam, in casting her guests accordingto the character profiles printed with the invitations andmailing the invitations early enough to receive herRSVPs.It is also the Adult Host’s duty to help bring each sceneto an end (appropriate times to go to the buffet, end themeal, begin discussions, end the day, etc.) The timeslisted are for reference only, there are no rigid time-lines. You may even reset your clock to reflect the timein the scene. The most important objective is to
have fun!
The Adult Host is responsible for setting the scene,identifying the various rooms in the mansion by utilizingroom signs, and placing the sketch of mansion floorplans on dining room wall. The Adult Host will discussthe family portraits hung on your “drawing room” wall.
Please remind the young guests that they should notread beyond the end of each scene, nor read clues untildirected to do so in their GUEST MANUALS.
Remember to lead the players to use the MANSIONFLOOR PLAN SKETCH and PROFILES OFCHARACTERS IN THE ESTATE in discussions andafter CLUES are read.
NOTE: In the Adult Guide, the adult instructions areprinted in RED CAPS. Adult dialogue is printed in redsmaller case. The adult instructions and dialogue areNOT included in the Guest Guides.
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Guest instructions are printed in green in all guides.
The guests may want to use paper and pencils to jotdown the facts they learn as each scene is played.
You may want to encourage additional discussions asthe mystery progresses.
The game begins at supper and is played in tenscenes.
GAME CONTENTS
Mark the check box to ensure a complete kit.
� PartiPlanner Guide for Adult Host (you’re readingit)includes:Shopping list and recipesParty planner
� Sam’s text for use before Scene 1� Game ideas� Mansion floor plan sketch� 8 invitations� 8 thank you cards� 10 invited guest’s profiles ( to be included in the
invitations and given to Sam and Barbara)
� 10 guest guides for the young players (the page
numbers will not match the adult guide page
numbers but can be used to assemble the
booklets)
� 2 guides for 2 adult players (Dame Sarah andMarty)
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� 10 clues� 10 place setting cards� 14 profiles of adult characters � Room signs� Entrance door signs� Room decorations of 5 family portraits� Checks for Sam and Barbara
PARTY PROPS YOU PROVIDE
� Fake heirloom diamond ring and necklace(unless you’d like to give your child a good ringas a gift).
� Long sleeved button shirt with button missingfrom left sleeve cuff.
� Button from the shirt.� Empty cans including “coke cans” in a black
plastic bag and extra “empty coke can” forScenes 10A or 10
� Empty recycling bin
MATERIALS
� Announcement size envelopes for the invitationsand thank you cards.
� Any size envelopes for the clues. (9)� Optional ring party favors for each� Pencils and paper for each player for taking
notes
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THE GUESTS
Samantha Elizabeth Dawes-Smythe (Sam)Allison Katz (Allie)Anastasia Oakley (Annie)Barbarella Dahl (Barbie)Georgette Whiz (Gee)Theodora Baer (Teddy)Virginia Snapp (Ginger)Catarina Cutter (Cookie)Golda Lox (Goldie)Barbara Bath (Bubble)
**Adult Host: Dame Sarah Elizabeth Dawes-Smythe -Great-Grandmother of Sam, and owner of countryestate.
OTHER CHARACTERS Active Player
**Marty - Dame Sarah's cook and all around handyperson (may be played by male or female)
In AbsentiaMoreland - Dame Sarah’s butlerHenry - Dame Sarah’s gardener Mary Jane Stanford (MJ) - Dame Sarah’s partner inGreentree Jewelry Co.Chauncey - Dame Sarah’s chauffeur
** Adult characters as players (Dame Sarah typically is
the host’s Mom, Marty can be dad, brother, sister, or
adult friend)
Characters in absentia (do not make an appearance in
the script)
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PARTY PREPARATIONCheck the box when you’ve collected or completed the tasks.
It is assumed you have printed all the materials from theweb page before continuing to prepare for the party.Use the Party Planner at the end of this booklet to helpkeep yourself organized.
2 weeks before your party:� Make a list of friends to invite. Call and see if
they can come to the party, in this way you willnot assign a character to someone who youknow cannot come.
� Assign your friends to the characters. Mail outyour invitations. .
The week before the party:� If you have not received an RSVP, phone the
guest and confirm she is planning to attend. Youneed all characters at the party so finding out inplenty of time to invite another guest is highlyrecommended. If you find you are short players,you can have guests share the extra part,switching each scene.
� Review the recipes to make sure you have all theingredients necessary
� Purchase your food supplies, see the shoppinglist near the end of this booklet
� Purchase ring and ring party favors� Purchase T-shirts and T-shirt iron-on transfer
paper (office supply or craft store)� Make the character iron-ons� Choose the type of clothes/costume you want to
wear to dress for the character of Dame Sarah
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� Ask person playing Marty to dress appropriately.(“Marty” should wear a shirt with the left sleeve
button missing) � Review the activity/game ideas with “Sam” and
choose the ones she thinks her guests will enjoy.“Sam” will be responsible for teaching the gamesto her guests.
The day before the party:� Collect the props (see prop section)
Prepare the food� Prepare the DREAM BARS, (recipes included in
this booklet)
Prepare the materials (Enlist the help of Adult Players)� Cut out each clue and put them in separate
envelopes with the guest’s character name and“clue #” written on the envelope.
Each game has 10 “clues”. Place “clues” in their properlocations at the appropriate time (see below and alsothe Adult Guide for instructions)
� Sam’s Clue - 1 - give Sam’s Clue #1 toMarty to carry in Marty’s pocket beforeparty begins.
� Allie’s Clue - 2 - place Allie’s Clue #2 ontable in the drawing room before Scene 2
� Annie’s Clue - 3 - place Annie’s Clue #3 inback of her Guest Guide before partybegins
� Barbie’s Clue - 4 - place Barbie’s Clue #4on Dame Sarah’s floor by the balconydoor before Scene 4
� Gee’s Clue - 5 - place Gee’s clue #5 on
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top of the coke cans in refrigerator beforeScene 5
� Teddy’s Clue - 6 - place Teddy’s Clue #6on Dame Sarah’s bathroom sink beforeScene 4
� Ginger’s Clue - 7 - place Ginger’s Clue #7at her place on the dining room tableduring beginning of Scene 8 or 8A. (SeeAdult Guide)
� Cookie’s Clue - 8 - place Cookie’s Clue#8 outside Dining Room on floor beforeScene 8 or 8A
� Goldie’s Clue - 9 - place Goldie’s Clue #9under the pile of clothes at bottom oflaundry chute for Scene 9A or 9
� Bubble’s Clue - 10 - place Bubble’s Clue#10 on the kitchen counter for last scene
� Assemble the guest manuals� Assemble the guest place setting name tags
Prepare the party areas (Enlist the help of Adult Player)
� Hang the room signs� Hang the door signs� Hang the portraits in the drawing room� Hang the mansion sketch in the dining room� Set the table with a tablecloth, china or attractive
paper plates, candles, place settings, and aflower center piece. You may be serving pizzabut you’re hosting in a very elaborate andexpensive turn of the century mansion!
� Place a guest name tag at each table location� Place button on ground by “recycling bins” out
back during Scene 6 for Scene 7
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� Place black plastic bag of empty “coke” cans atside of house and inform Marty where they are(or have Marty place them where (s)he wantsthem)
� Make sure you have an envelope in your pocketwith check inside for Scene 10A or 10
� Make sure Marty has “ring” and empty coke canfor Scene 10A or 10
One hour before party time:� Get dressed as Dame Sarah� Ask your other Adult Player to be present before
young guests arrive, give player a “Guide forDame Sarah & Marty”, and prompt him/her onhis/her part
� Make sure props and clues are in place� Make sure “Marty’s” RIGHT sleeve button is on
his/her shirt and you have the left one handy, toput into place before Scene 7
While young guests are playing games:� Order the pizza� Place the food at the table
SUGGESTED SUPPER BUFFET MENU
PizzaRanch Dressing for dippingFresh Veggie TrayDream BarsFresh Fruit TrayLemonade or Punch
Supper takes little preparation and is so simple to eat
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that the game is easily played while the guests areserving themselves and dining. Place sauce dishes ofranch dressing at each guest’s place. The entire suppermay be placed on the buffet table during thegame/activity time.
PIZZA: Order to be delivered while girls are playinggames in library or outside.
VEGGIE AND FRUIT TRAYS: Prepared by local delior prepare them yourself and refrigerate untilsuppertime.
RECIPE FOR DREAM BARS ( this recipe usesingredients you have on hand)
½ Cup Margarine1 Cup Flour½ Cup Brown Sugar
Combine ingredients. Pat into bottom of greased 9" x 9"pan. Bake in 350 degree oven until light brown, about20 minutes.
1 Cup Brown Sugar2 T. Flour1 Tsp. Vanilla1/4 Tsp. Salt
½ Tsp. Baking Powder½ to 1 Cup Nuts2 Eggs
Mix ingredients together. Pour over baked crust. Bakein 350 degree oven for 25 minutes. When cool, cut intobars.
FOR 1 DAY GAME: Near the end of Scene 10, you may
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want to offer simple snacks and drinks before the youngguests depart for home. (At Dame Sarah’s suggestion)
FOR SLEEPOVER PARTY: At the end of SCENE 7,you may want to offer simple bedtime snacks andbeverages, perhaps while the young guests are in thedrawing room watching a movie or playing cards, or justtalking before going to bed. (At Dame Sarah’ssuggestion)
SUGGESTED BREAKFAST MENUSleepover Party:
Frozen BananasHearthstone Inn French Toast with Spiced ButterHot Chocolate with Mini Marshmallows
RECIPE FOR FROZEN BANANAS
1 banana per personSugar1 pint half and half or whipping creamCinnamon
Peel each banana and slice crosswise for round ½ inchslices. Wrap tightly in clear plastic wrap. Freeze for upto 1 week. Mix small amount of cinnamon and sugar forsprinkling over the top. Remove bananas from thefreezer. Put in individual serving bowls and cover withcream (do not whip). Sprinkle cinnamon-sugar lightlyover top and serve.
(Children especially like this, as the cream freezes onthe banana slices, coating them. Wait a minute or two
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before eating, as the frozen slices are quite hard).
* Takes approximately 10 minutes
RECIPE FOR HEARTHSTONE INN FRENCH TOAST
6 eggs½ cup baking mix (biscuit mix)2 tablespoons sugar1-1/2 cups milk½ teaspoon ground cinnamon½ teaspoon nutmegFrench bread, cut into 1-inch slices
In a medium sized bowl, beat eggs. Blend in bakingmix, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and milk; mix untilsmooth. Dip bread in batter until covered but notsoaked. Add approximately ½ inch of cooking oil to alarge skillet and heat. When oil is hot, add slices andcook until golden brown on both sides. Serve withSpiced Butter.
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SPICED BUTTER
½ Cup softened butter or margarine3 tablespoons firmly packed brown sugar1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon1/4 teaspoon allspice1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Combine above ingredients in a small bowl and beatuntil fluffy.
Begin preparing French Toast and Spiced Butterapproximately 1 hour before breakfast and keep toast inwarm oven until time to serve. Place a sauce dish ofSpiced Butter at each guest’s place.
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SHOPPING LIST
G Ranch DressingG Lemonade or punch mixG 2 EggsG Fresh veggie and fruit trayG drinks, including 6 pack coke (for Gee and Dame
Sarah)G Camera and filmG Flowers for the tableG Attractive designer paper plates, cups, and
napkinsG Heirloom diamond ring and necklace (Fake or
gift quality)G Ring party favors (optional)G 10 T-shirtsG Iron-on transfer paper for iron-ons (sold in most
office supply and craft stores)G Announcement size envelopes for the invitations
and thank you cards (approx. 4.5" x 5.75")G Any size envelopes for the clues (qty 8)G Envelope for “check”G Pizza for everyone
BREAKFAST-SLEEPOVER VERSION
G Bananas (10) G 1 pint half and half or whipping cream G 6 EggsG Biscuit mix G French bread G Swiss Miss hot chocolate mix G Mini-marshmallows
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Party Planner
Date and Time:
Character assignments:
Allison Katz (Allie)
Anastasia Oakley (Annie)
Barbarella Dahl (Barbie)
Georgette Whiz (Gee)
Thedora Baer (Teddy)
Virginia Snapp (Ginger)
Catarina Cutter (Cookie)
Golda Lox (Goldie)
Barbara Bath (Bubble)
Case of the Missing Ring all Player
Adult Players
Dame Sarah
Marty (male or female)
Cut out and give this text below to Sam before Scene 1,before dinner.
SAM: I'm starved; sure hope Great-Grandmother is here soon. Wonderwhat's keeping her? She's never late forANYTHING.
Case of the Missing Ring all Player 1
PLACE THESE PAGES IN YOUR ADULT GUIDE
SETTING THE SCENE - 1 DAY GAME
MARTY: Welcome to Dame Sarah’s. Come withme and I’ll show you to the drawing room,where Dame Sarah will greet you. Gee,I’ll place your coke in the refrigerator.
ASSIST THE YOUNG LADIES TO THE DRAWINGROOM WHERE DAME SARAH AWAITS THEM.
ORSETTING THE SCENE - SLEEPOVER PARTY
MARTY: Welcome to Dame Sarah’s. Come withme and I’ll direct you to your 3 floorrd
bedrooms. Please let me help you withyour luggage, then I’ll show you to thedrawing room, where Dame Sarah willgreet you. Gee, I’ll place your coke in therefrigerator.
ASSIST THE YOUNG LADIES WITH THEIR LUGGAGEAS YOU DIRECT THEM TO THEIR 3 FLOORRD
BEDROOMS AND THEN TO THE DRAWING ROOMWHERE DAME SARAH AWAITS THEM.
OFFER THE LADIES BEVERAGES, GIVE GEE ACOKE AND TAKE THE REST OF GEE’S COKE TOTHE REFRIGERATOR AND RETURN TO THEDRAWING ROOM WITH THE DRINKS.
DAME SARAH (in drawing room at 4:45)Welcome ladies. I’m so glad you all
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decided to come to my humble home. Ido hope my chauffeur, Chauncey, gaveyou a smooth ride from the airport andthat you have been taken good care of.Marty, my cook, is in the kitchen and willhave a buffet supper all ready for youpromptly at 6 PM in the dining room.After supper, we will adjourn back here inthe drawing room for some conversation,and, of course you all know about the ringSamantha is about to inherit. I’ll presentit to her then. But, for right now, whydon’t you go into the library and playsome of those darling games you galsplay nowadays! I’ll see you all at sixsharp in the dining room. I’ll only benapping for the next hour.
MARTY, DURING THE ACTIVITY/GAME TIME IN THELIBRARY, PLEASE STAND NEAR THE LIBRARYDOOR READY TO HELP WITH THE GAMES, OR TOHELP THE ADULT HOST (DAME SARAH), PREPARETHE TABLE FOR SUPPER IN THE DINING ROOM.
ACTIVITY/GAME TIME IN THE LIBRARY -APPROXIMATELY ONE HOUR. SEE GAMESUGGESTIONS.
ADULT HOST (DAME SARAH) AND MARTY, THECOOK, PREPARE THE SUPPER TABLE.
DAME SARAH, STAY OUT OF SIGHT BECAUSE YOUARE TAKING A NAP.
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MARTY, AFTER GAMES, ETC., AT 6 PM SHARP,PLEASE LEAD THE YOUNG GUESTS TO THEDINING ROOM.
MARTY: Ladies, I believe it’s time for supper. Dame Sarah will meet you in the diningroom. Please follow me.
6:05 PM AT SUPPER BUFFET IN FORMAL DININGROOM, WAITING FOR DAME SARAH. EVERYONEELSE IS PRESENT.
MARTY: May I take your drink orders, ladies, whilewe are waiting for Dame Sarah? I’ll beginwith you, Miss Samantha.
TAKE ORDERS TO THE KITCHEN AND PREPARE TOSERVE
GIVE SAM HER TEXT TO READ TO THE GROUP
SAM: I'm starved; sure hope Great-Grandmother is here soon. Wonderwhat's keeping her? She's never late forANYTHING
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DAME SARAH:ENTER DINING ROOMLadies - sorry to keep you waiting. I'mafraid I won't be joining you for suppertonight. I'm so upset.... the ring is missingand I must try to find it. I'll check backwith you a little later.
EVERYONE PLEASE GO TO THE BUFFET.
MARTY, PLEASE GO TO THE BUFFET AHEAD OFTHE LADIES AND PERHAPS POINT OUT THEVARIOUS DISHES ON THE TABLE FOR THEM.
CHECK AND MAKE SURE YOU HAVE SAM’S CLUEIN YOUR POCKET AND ANNIE’S CLUE IS IN BACKOF HER SCRIPT FOR SCENE 3.
THEN, GIVE ALL PLAYERS THEIR SCRIPTS ANDASK THE YOUNG GUESTS TO OPEN THEIRSCRIPTS AND BEGIN DIALOGUE
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CLUE 1 - read by SAMDame Sarah’s bedroom suite, including bedroom, sitting room, walk-in closetand dressing room/bathroom, take up the entire second floor of the mansion. Located on the south side of the house is a set of steps leading up from theground to a balcony, located off her sitting room. See sketch.
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CLUE 2 - read by ALLIEChauncey drove the guests from the airport, arriving precisely at the frontdoor of the mansion at 4:25, and unloaded their luggage, greeted Dame Sarah,then drove off to park the limo in its garage and went immediately to his halfof the duplex at the southwest corner of the estate.
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CLUE 3 - read by ANNIEFor the past 6 months, Moreland has been asking for more and more time off- saying he’s visiting a sick niece in a nearby town.
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CLUE 4 - read by BARBIEChauncey and Dame Sarah’s partner, MJ Stanford, are known to each other,but don’t be fooled by the obvious! Dame Sarah did more at the bank thanjust get the ring.
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CLUE 5 - read by GEEMarty’s room and the laundry are located directly below Dame Sarah’s walk-incloset, which has a laundry chute, and is adjacent to her bathroom Seesketch.
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CLUE 6 - read by TeddyThe unexpected and the unknown are about to surface. Be careful not totravel the wrong path.
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CLUE 7 - read by GingerA relative is introduced and then watch carefully for something that ismissing.
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CLUE 8 - read by Cookie Hurray! The Greentree Jewelry Company has been sold to someone in New York City. Who will get all that money?
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CLUE 9 -read by GoldieCool surprises are about to happen to some very deserving people!
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CLUE 10 - read by BubbleYou never know what a plain, old envelope will reveal.
Find the center of the page by folding the first page inhalf. Cut all other pages in the center. Staple these ½sheets together. Wrap this page around the cut pagesto form your booklet.
SamAntics
presentsa
SAMANTHA and BARBARA MYSTERY
CASE OF THE MISSING RING
for Twins
GUIDE FOR ADULT PLAYERS
(Dame Sarah & Marty)for 10 Players
© 2010 Shirley W. Foster
SamAntics Party Games for Tweens and Teens
Distributed by: SimpliFun Studios www.SimpliFun.com
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SCENE 1 - IN THE DINING ROOM
SAM: Oh, how awful! Poor Great-Grandmother!I wonder where she keeps the ring?
ALLIE: I wonder when she saw it last?
ANNIE: Well, she is rather ancient. She probablyhid it and doesn't remember where she hidit. You know how old people forget things.
BARBIE: Well, Sam says her great-grandmother ismore alert and smarter than all of us mostof the time, even though she is 97 yearsold!
GEE: I think we ought to find out the answers toSam and Allie's questions. Perhaps thatwill help. We need to go at this morescientifically. Need a coke, be right back.(Go to fridge and bring coke back)
GOLDIE: Gee, you always think we need to bescientific - how can we find a missing ringscientifically?
MARTY, COME INTO DINING ROOM AND HAND SAMTHE ENVELOPE YOU HAVE IN YOUR POCKET.
This has your name on it, Miss Samantha.
SAM: (take envelope from Marty)What is it? Shall I open it?
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MARTY, LEAVE IMMEDIATELY
ALL: Sure
SAM: It appears to be a clue. I’ll read it to you.
READ ALOUD CLUE #1 - SAMDame Sarah’s bedroom suite; including bedroom, sittingroom, walk-in closet and dressing room/bathroom, takeup the entire second floor of the mansion. Located onthe south side of the house is a set of steps leading upfrom the ground to a balcony, located off her sittingroom. See grounds drawing.
BUBBLE: There’s your answer, Goldie. We canfigure out who would have access to Great-Grandmother’s bedroom.
GOLDIE: Do we even know she kept the ring in herbedroom?
DAME SARAH, COME INTO THE DINING ROOM
SAM: Here's Great-Grandmother now. We've gotlots of questions. We're so glad you'rehere. Is Bubble’s necklace missing, too?
DAME SARAH:No, it’s safe and sound, Samantha. But, you all know I wanted to give my heirloomring and necklace, which were passeddown through several generations, to mydear great-granddaughters, Samantha andBarbara, tonight after supper. I am beside
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myself because the ring is still missing.
BUBBLE: Don’t be upset, Great-Grandmother, we’llfind it. Didn’t the ring once belong to aduchess? Please tell us about it.
TEDDY: A duchess? Really? Duchess of what?
GINGER: Where was the duchess from?
COOKIE: Where did she get it? How MANYgenerations ago?
GEE: Well, you know Cookie, probably somehandsome prince gave it to her!
DAME SARAH:Ladies, let’s move into the drawing roomand I’ll tell you what I know about theorigins of my ring.
MARTY, ON CUE, PLEASE COME INTO DININGROOM AND GO WITH DAME SARAH AS SHEESCORTS THE GROUP TO THE DRAWING ROOMAND HELP DAME SARAH TO A CHAIR ANDCONFIRM THAT ALLIE’S CLUE #2 IS ON THE TABLEIN THE DRAWING ROOM. THEN EXCUSEYOURSELF AND LEAVE THE ROOM.
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SCENE 2 - SEATED IN THE DRAWING ROOM
DAME SARAH:It seems, according to a sketchy familyhistory, that a very young and handsomeduke from Barcelona, Spain, while with hisfather in Nottingham, England, was outriding on the estate of his host’s. Heaccidentally ventured onto an adjoiningestate. He saw a young lady riding herhorse and was captivated by her beauty. Itwas like he was enchanted! She was my,and of course, Sam’s ancestor. The dukeimmediately apologized for venturing ontoanother’s property. The young andbeautiful woman told him it was okay andasked him to ride with her the rest of themorning. They secretly rode together a fewmore times while he was visiting.
On the evening before he was to return toSpain, he gave the young lady a ring. Heexplained it had belonged to his mother andhad been in his family for manygenerations. She had given it to him justbefore she had died and instructed him togive it to the woman he falls in love with. Itwas very special to him and the beauty ofthe ring reminded him of the beauty of hisnew love. He told our great-great-great-grandmother that the twinkle of thejewel was the same as the sparkle in hereyes. She told HIM he should give the ringto the one he fell in love with. He just
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smiled and insisted that she keep it toremember him by.
GOLDIE: Didn’t they ever see each other again,Dame Sarah?
DAME SARAH:No, the duke eventually married a younglady his family arranged for him to marry.
ALLIE: His family told him whom he should marry?How awful!
ANNIE: Yeah! They used to do that - arrangemarriages I mean. Sometimes when theywere only babies their marriage would bedecided, they were forced to marry whenthey came of age, and their futures werealready known.
BUBBLE: Yes, it’s true, I read the same books Anniereads. They were so into arrangingmarriages back then.
BARBIE: (Run your fingers thru’ your hair whiletalking).Whatever happened to your great-great-great-grandmother? Who did she marry?
GEE: She was probably promised to someone,too.
DAME SARAH:Yes Gee, my ancestor married two years
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later, when she was sixteen to a duke fromLondon, they had four sons and only onedaughter. Here, I’ll show you their portraits.
ESCORT THE GROUP TO THE PORTRAITS YOUPRINTED AND DISPLAYED IN YOUR PARTY AREA.USE THE PORTRAIT EXPLANATION GUIDE.
SAM: And Daphne was married at only sixteen?
DAME SARAH:Yes, young ladies married very early backthen. In fact, sometimes if they weren’tmarried by the ripe old age of twenty-fivethey were considered to be “Old Maids”!
Daphne had only one daughter, named Ivy,so she decided she would pass the ring toher daughter instead of her eldest son,Chesterton. Chesterton was rather a wildone and she was afraid the wrong womanwould eventually get the ring or he mightlose it in a gambling bet.
Daphne began the tradition of giving thetreasured ring to the first born girl in eachgeneration. Samantha is the first girl in thefamily since I was born 97 years ago.
TEDDY: Girls, we have GOT to find that ring!
GINGER: If we don’t find it - the TRADITION will end.
COOKIE: Let’s go over the facts one more time and
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see if we can figure anything out.
GEE: Yeah - let’s be scientific about it. This isVERY important!
DAME SARAH:Okay, at about 4:50, I checked when I wentup for my nap, the ring was in its hidingplace. I usually keep it in a safety depositbox at the bank, but I brought it homeyesterday. I only told two people where Iwas going to put it. I know I’m getting alittle forgetful and didn’t want to take ANYchances that I would misplace it. Now, itseems I might have done just that. Or,could anyone else have found out? It wasgone at 5:50, when I went to get it.
SAM: Well, we know it was there at 4:50 andgone at 5:50.
ALLIE: It disappeared in an hour.
ANNIE: Yes, while Dame Sarah was napping.
BARBIE: How convenient for someone.
GEE: I wonder who else besides us knew youwere napping, Dame Sarah? Or, ....do younap every day at the same time?
DAME SARAH:
Oh, how really bright you all are. Yes, my
dears, I do take a nap every day for an hour
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- but usually an hour EARLIER than this.
I've just been so busy helping Marty with the
cooking in the kitchen that I never got
around to it until after you arrived. I thought
the perfect opportunity to rest would be
while you were all playing games in the
library before supper.
ALLIE: (pick up an envelope from the table in the
drawing room)
Hey, this has my name on it. Guess I
probably can open it, huh?
ALL: Sure!
READ ALOUD CLUE # 2 - ALLIE
Chauncey drove the guests from the airport, arriving
precisely at the front door of the mansion at 4:25, and
unloaded their luggage, greeted Dame Sarah, then
drove off to park the limo in its garage and went
immediately to his half of the duplex at the southwest
corner of the estate.
DISCUSSION
MARTY, DURING SCENE 3, PLEASE VERIFY THAT
BARBIE’S CLUE #4 IS ON DAME SARAH’S SITTING ROOM
FLOOR BY THE BALCONY DOOR AND THAT TEDDY’S
CLUE #6 IS ON DAME SARAH’S BATHROOM SINK.
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SCENE 3 - STILL IN THE DRAWING ROOM
BUBBLE: Well looks like Marty knew she didn't take
her nap at the regular time, because they
were together in the kitchen until 4:45.
TEDDY: And...Chauncey, your chauffeur, saw you
when he dropped us off, and Moreland,
your butler, left shortly before supper.
SAM: So, Marty knew what time great-
grandmother took her nap because Marty
was in the library with us until Marty
escorted us into the dining room at 6:00
PM. We went into the library about 4:45
and Great- Grandmother went up to her
suite at 4:50.
GOLDIE: And Chauncey left right after he dropped us
off at 4:25. We haven’t seen him since.
BUBBLE: No, we haven’t.
GINGER: Well, I wonder where Henry, the gardener,
was during that hour?
COOKIE: I saw him clipping hedges on the west side
of the house toward the kitchen, when I
looked out the library window.
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GEE: So, no one saw Chauncey since we
arrived? I need a coke - be right back.
(Get coke from refrigerator and return)
GOLDIE: No - he just disappeared after he dropped
us off and said hello to Dame Sarah.
BUBBLE: Right!
ANNIE: (find envelope in back of your guest guide).
I also have an envelope. Gosh, are we all
going to get one? May I read this, too?
ALL: Sure, Annie, go for it!
READ ALOUD CLUE #3 - ANNIE
For the past 6 months, Moreland has been asking for
more and more time off - saying he’s visiting a sick
niece in a nearby town.
BUBBLE: So, Moreland’s been visiting his sick niece.
What does that have to do with anything?
ANNIE: Yeah, let’s get back to the problem at hand.
Maybe something about Moreland’s niece
will come up later.
BUBBLE: Yeah, right now, it’s so not useful
information.
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SAM: Well, it is certainly obvious that no one saw
Chauncey after he dropped us off. He left
and put the limo in the garage, then went to
the duplex and no one has seen him since.
ALLIE: Was Marty in the library with us the whole
time?
GINGER: I believe so.
ANNIE: Well, it is obvious that the gardener, Henry
had the opportunity to sneak up the stairs to
Dame Sarah's dressing room while he was at
the south end of the house clipping hedges.
The timing is right and look at the drawing of
the mansion. (Go to the blueprint drawing on
the wall). See ... the outside steps up to the
second floor lead from the balcony right into
Dame Sarah's sitting room and access to her
whole suite.
GOLDIE: Henry’s probably the one most likely to have
access to Dame Sarah’s suite 24/7 - besides
Marty, of course.
GINGER: May we go up and have a look, Dame
Sarah?
DAME SARAH:
Of course. I’ll go with you. Bring the drawing
with you, OK?
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SCENE 4 - IN DAME SARAH’S BEDROOM SUITE
BARBIE: Anyone would have the opportunity
normally, to sneak up the stairs to the
balcony and into the sitting room, but NOT
while Henry was clipping hedges. He
would see them.
GEE: Let’s ask him...no, maybe not yet. Is Henry
our leading suspect? Cool! Let's see - he
wants to retire in two years. Why would he
want the ring?
COOKIE: Well, duh, WHY would he want the ring?
He could leave the area and then sell the
ring and retire in STYLE!
DAME SARAH:
You know - he works for MJ Stanford, my
partner, on Tues., Thurs. and Saturday.
But, not for a minute would I think Henry
has taken my ring. No one in my employ
would do such a thing. Nope, it is an
“outside job”, as they say. Or, a case of
forgetfulness on my part. Most likely the
latter.
LOOK ALL AROUND DAME SARAH’S SITTING
ROOM, BEDROOM, AND BALCONY.
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SAM: Doesn’t seem to be anything here. I know
you don’t want anyone to know where you
hid the ring when you brought it home,
Great-Grandmother, but it might help us if
we knew.
BARBIE: (notice an envelope on Dame Sarah’s floor
by the balcony door and pick it up)
What’s this on the floor, Dame Sarah? Did
you drop this?
DAME SARAH:
Let me see...why, Barbie, it has your name
on it. You’d better open it.
READ ALOUD CLUE #4 - BARBIE
Chauncey and Dame Sarah’s partner, MJ Stanford, are
known to each other, but don’t be fooled by the obvious!
Dame Sarah did more at the bank than just get the ring.
DISCUSSION OF ALL KNOWN FACTS AND CLUES
ALLIE: And who are the 2 people who know where
you put it?
DAME SARAH:
Ok, you’ve convinced me. I’ll tell you who
knows, but that doesn’t mean anything. I
mentioned to Jon Blackstone, my attorney
and to MJ, my partner that I hid the ring
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temporarily, the moment I arrived home
from the bank, ... just in case I forgot. I
truly hate to admit that I’m becoming a little
forgetful.
MARTY, BEFORE SCENE 5, PLEASE DOUBLE
CHECK THAT GEE’S CLUE #5 IS ON TOP OF THE
COKE CANS IN THE REFRIGERATOR IN THE
KITCHEN.
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SCENE 5 - STILL IN DAME SARAH’S SUITE
ANNIE: Well, I guess we can eliminate Mr.
Blackstone and MJ as our suspects since
they haven’t been here since Dame Sarah
brought the ring home from the bank
yesterday.
GOLDIE: Gosh - this sure is getting complicated.
Chauncey your chauffeur, and MJ your
partner, know each other? I wonder what
the relationship is?
TEDDY: Could they be related in some way? Or if
not - could they have been introduced by
Henry, your gardener?
GINGER: But, why would Chauncey and MJ be seen
together? He's a chauffeur and she's a
wealthy gemologist.
SAM: Now - here’s a thought... MJ knew where
the ring was hidden and MJ knows
Chauncey and Chauncey has not been
seen since he brought us to the mansion.
COOKIE: And then there’s Henry. Could he be
involved? He's really the only one with
opportunity, besides Marty. And we know
he’s been here because I saw him clipping
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hedges when we were in the library.
GEE: There must be another explanation we
aren’t thinking about. I need a coke - be
right back. (Get coke and stay in kitchen
until called)
BUBBLE: Well, it seems pretty obvious to me.
ANNIE: What does?
BUBBLE: Well, just think about it. MJ knew the hiding
place. Chauncey knows MJ. She could
have mentioned it to Chauncey. Chauncey
is not around. Henry had the opportunity
24/7. So, it is either Chauncey or Henry.
ALLIE: Too cut and dried!
DAME SARAH:
And you all forget...I trust everyone in my
home and I trust MJ explicitly. She would
have no reason whatsoever to tell
Chauncey. No, I must be forgetting about
something I did with the ring.
BUBBLE: Could have been a slip of the tongue.
COOKIE: But Dame Sarah says she trusts Chauncey
and Henry and everyone else in her
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household. So, it wouldn’t have really
mattered.
Gee, you OK in there?
GEE: (Returning from kitchen, holding envelope
in the air and waving it around)
Well, I found one, too!
GOLDIE: Found one what, Gee?
GEE: An envelope. It was, guess where...on top
of the coke cans in the fridge.
ALLIE: Read it, Gee.
READ ALOUD CLUE # 5 - GEE
Marty’s room and the laundry are located directly below
Dame Sarah’s walk-in closet, which has a laundry
chute, and is adjacent to her bathroom. See sketch
ALLIE: Yeah, see, right here (point to sketch).
Maybe this will come in handy.
DAME SARAH:
Well, darlings, I’m sorry you’re spending
your entire evening looking for Samantha’s
ring, I feel so bad - I've not found the ring -
only fresh towels in my bathroom, replaced
by my faithful Marty. Do you have some
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conclusions about the missing ring? Let's
talk about it.
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SCENE 6 - STILL IN DAME SARAH’S SUITE
SAM: We all think Henry had the opportunity.
Cookie saw him trimming hedges around
the house while we were in the library
playing games.
ALLIE: We hadn't seen Chauncey since 4:45 and
Moreland left shortly before supper and
wasn’t seen returning.
BARBIE: Some strange goings-on between
Chauncey and MJ. They know each other.
ANNIE: Wonder where you put the ring, Dame
Sarah? Didn’t Chauncey know you brought
it home?
DAME SARAH:
Actually, everyone in the house knew I
brought it home and was giving it to
Samantha today. Everyone except for
Henry, that is.
GEE: Henry didn’t know? Why is that?
DAME SARAH:
Well, I haven’t had the chance to tell him
yet. He’s been extremely busy pruning
bushes and planting roses.
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GEE: But, I remember you telling us Henry works
for MJ also. He may have found out from
her.
ALLIE: So, MJ could have mentioned it to both
Henry and Chauncey. What is the
relationship between MJ and Chauncey,
Dame Sarah?
DAME SARAH:
Chauncey has driven for MJ in the past,
when her own chauffeur has been on
vacation. In fact, we used to share
Chauncey and Moreland quite a bit, before
she hired her own chauffeur and butler.
BUBBLE: So, that’s the relationship. We were
wondering. It is just not getting any easier
to come up with a suspect.
SAM: Marty came to your room while you were
sleeping to change your towels. Could
Marty have found it and taken it? But, I
have to ask, why?
DAME SARAH:
Marty didn’t know where I put it. Marty’d
never find it in a million years. But I’ll go
talk to Marty right now. I’ll see you in a few
minutes, but I still have complete faith and
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trust in everyone in my home.
DAME SARAH, LEAVE ROOM, PLACE BUTTON ON
GROUND BY RECYCLING BIN.
SAM: Well, nothing here. Why don’t we go back
to the drawing room!
TEDDY: Ok, just let me take another look. We didn’t
really look in Dame Sarah’s bathroom, did
we? Isn’t that near where her laundry chute
is located?
(Go into bathroom, find envelope, come
back out immediately with envelope in
hand).
Found another one!!!
ALL: Oh, wow!
GINGER: I’ll look in her closet. That’s where the
laundry chute is located. (Go into the closet
and right out again) Nothing in here!
TEDDY: I’d better read this clue. May tell us
something important.
READ ALOUD CLUE #6 - TEDDY
The unexpected and the unknown are about to surface.
Be careful not to travel the wrong path.
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COOKIE: Now, what does that mean?
DISCUSSION OF ALL KNOWN FACTS AND CLUES.
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SCENE 7 - BACK IN THE DRAWING ROOM
DAME SARAH:
RETURN TO THE DRAWING ROOM
OK, ladies, here’s what I found out from
Marty. Marty, indeed, gave me fresh towels
while I was napping. Marty also cleaned
out the mini-refrigerator in my sitting room
and threw all the empty cans I saved into
the laundry chute so Marty could retrieve
them down below.
GEE: I need a coke. It keeps me going. Be right
back. (Start to the kitchen and stop)
SAM: YUK, another coke. She’s nuts!
She’ll rot her stomach!
DAME SARAH:
Please bring me one, too, would you Gee?
You see, I’ve become quite fond of the stuff
myself, and always have quite a collection
of empty cans around my sitting room.
GEE: (Now you can go get the cokes)
SAM: Oops! I didn’t mean it would rot your
stomach, Great-Grandmother. Gee’s been
at it a whole lot longer.
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DAME SARAH:
That’s OK, Samantha. Well, anyway,
here’s the stupid part. I’d hidden the ring in
an empty coke can in the fridge. So,
naturally, Marty took out that empty can and
with all the other ones, threw it down the
laundry chute to put in the trash later.
ALLIE: Dame Sarah, can we check the laundry
chute at the other end?
DAME SARAH:
Well, Marty said all the cans were put out
for recycling. I’m afraid the ring may already
be with a million cans at the recycling
center.
BUBBLE: You’re sure Marty didn’t find the ring and
take it out of the can?
DAME SARAH:
Marty says not.
GEE: (coming back into the drawing room)
Dame Sarah, while I was getting our cokes
from the kitchen, I happened to notice a
strange person going through the recycling
and bagging the cans. I’m fairly certain this
person saw me but kept right on bagging
the cans. What could I do? Run out and
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attack a complete stranger?
SAM: Let’s go out and look around. We might
find the ring or another clue.
EVERYONE GOES OUT TO LOOK AROUND THE
RECYCLING
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BEFORE SCENE 8A - USE THIS AND SCENES 8A, 9A
AND 10A IF THE GAME IS BEING PLAYED IN ONE DAY
DAME SARAH, PLACE GINGER’S CLUE #7 ON THE
DINING ROOM TABLE AT HER PLACE WHILE THE
GIRLS ARE OUTSIDE, THEN GO OUT, CHECK THEIR
PROGRESS AND ACCOMPANY THEM BACK TO THE
DINING ROOM.
ANNIE: Look here, guys! A nice pearl-like button, like
it came from a nice shirt or blouse. That’s all
there is here on the ground, though. All the
cans are gone. (Slip button in your pocket)
ALLIE: Someone must have dropped it here. Hey,
wait...maybe the person that Gee saw
bagging the cans dropped it.
BARBIE: How was the stranger dressed, Gee?
GEE: Actually, not like anyone should look who
rummages around in garbage. But, I didn’t
get a real good look at what the person was
wearing - some long-sleeved shirt, I guess.
DAME SARAH:
It looks like the ring is long gone. Let’s go
back inside. Maybe Marty will fix us a snack.
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SCENE 8A - IN THE DINING ROOM
EVERYONE IS BACK INSIDE SITTING AT THE
DINING ROOM TABLE
MARTY, PLEASE PREPARE A SNACK AND DRINKS
AND BRING IT TO THE DINING ROOM
DAME SARAH, MAKE SURE THAT COOKIE AND
GINGER SIT BESIDE EACH OTHER AT THE TABLE
AND THAT ANNIE STILL HAS THE BUTTON IN HER
POCKET.
GINGER: Hey, there’s an envelope at my place.
Shall I read it to you?
GOLDIE: Sure, why not! Might be enlightening.
READ ALOUD CLUE #7 - GINGER
A relative is introduced and then watch carefully for
something that is missing.
MARTY, AS SOON AS GINGER FINISHES READING
HER CLUE, PLACE COOKIE’S CLUE #8 ON FLOOR
OUTSIDE DINING ROOM, THEN ENTER THE DINING
ROOM.
MARTY: Hello, Dame Sarah...hello girls. What’s
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wrong? You all look so sad.
DAME SARAH:
Well, Marty, we lost my treasured ring for
sure.
MARTY: Not the one you were giving to Samantha
today! You haven’t found it?
DAME SARAH:
Afraid not! It’s such a long, sad story.
MARTY, MAKE SURE THE LEFT SLEEVE ON YOUR
SHIRT THAT IS MISSING THE BUTTON IS VISIBLE
TO COOKIE. HOLD IT WHERE SHE CAN SEE IT.
COOKIE: (hit Ginger under the table and whisper to
her loudly)
Hey look, Ginger, Marty’s left sleeve button
is missing.
GINGER: (whisper to Cookie)
The right sleeve button kinda looks like the
one Annie found today. I think Annie still
has it.
GEE: I think I saw you out back earlier. Was that
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you I saw?
MARTY: And, I think I saw you looking out the
kitchen window, so yes, it must have been
me.
COOKIE AND GINGER TOGETHER:
Dame Sarah, Annie, come with us for a
moment, please.
MARTY, KEEP GEE TALKING WITH YOU WHILE
THE OTHERS LEAVE THE ROOM. STOP WHEN
THEY RETURN
COOKIE, GINGER, DAME SARAH, ANNIE, LEAVE
DINING ROOM FOR A MOMENT.
OUTSIDE THE DOOR, COOKIE, PICK UP AN
ENVELOPE OFF THE FLOOR - WITH YOUR NAME
ON IT.
COOKIE AND GINGER, TELL DAME SARAH AND
ANNIE WHAT YOU HAVE DISCOVERED
ANNIE, YOU STILL HAVE THE BUTTON IN YOUR
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PLEASE RE-ENTER THE DINING ROOM
COOKIE: I’ve found another clue, so I’ll read it, then
we have something very important to tell
you all.
READ ALOUD CLUE #8 - COOKIE
Hurray! The Greentree Jewelry Company has been
sold to someone in New York City. Who will get all that
money?
ALL: Hmmmm! Very interesting!
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SCENE 9A - WHAT’S THE STORY?
TEDDY: Marty, you are missing a button from your
sleeve. See, look at your left sleeve. I
believe Annie found it out on the ground by
the recycling bins today.
MARTY: You did, Annie? Oh, thanks. I wondered
what happened to it.
GINGER: Why did we find it there?
GEE: Well, while you, Cookie and Annie left the
room for a minute, we came to the
conclusion that Marty was the person I saw
out back when I was in the kitchen.
ANNIE: Was that you, Marty?
MARTY: Yes and maybe I can explain.
DAME SARAH:
Explain what? What’s going on?
MARTY: I wanted to collect all the cans before the
recycling truck came today.
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ALLIE: Why did you want to do that, Marty?
MARTY: For extra money, Allie. Fannie is
Moreland’s niece. He says she has been
very ill and she has had extremely large
housing bills this winter. It was so very cold
in Canada, as Dame Sarah well knows.
Fanny has no extra money for these high
bills, and also to buy her food, so I’m just
trying to help all I can. Moreland visits her
as often as he can, but that’s all he can do.
BUBBLE: We sure can understand that. How can we
help?
GOLDIE: Yeah, wish we could do something.
COOKIE: Well, I guess that collecting cans is a good
way to earn extra money, but certainly not
a lot.
MARTY: No, not by any means. Anyway, that is the
story.
ANNIE: (hand button to Marty)
Here’s the button, Marty.
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MARTY: Thanks, I’ll sew it on later.
TEDDY: If I may ask, Marty, did you sell the cans
today?
MARTY: Why, no, not yet. I thought I’d do that
tomorrow. Moreland helped bag them and
he’ll take them to town.
ALLIE: Girls, maybe the ring is still around!
GEE: Marty, did you by chance find a ring in one
of the cans while you were collecting them?
MARTY: No again, but you don’t think the “treasured
ring” could be in with the cans, do you?
SAM: Yeah, weird, huh?
BARBIE: (running fingers thru’ hair)
Well, we’re right back where we started.
ANNIE: Well, I say we need to go through those
cans anyway before Moreland takes them
away tomorrow.
BARBIE: Let’s do it right now. Marty, will you show
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us where they are?
SAM: Is it okay, Great-Grandmother?
DAME SARAH:
Sure, go ahead, if you want to. I don’t hold
out much hope, though.
MARTY: Okay, I’d be happy to take you where they
are. Come on, it’s a walk down to the
duplex.
LADIES, LEAVE YOUR GUIDES ON THE TABLE
UNTIL YOU RETURN
DAME SARAH, WHILE THE GIRLS ARE OUTSIDE
WITH MARTY, PLACE GOLDIE’S CLUE #9 UNDER
THE PILE OF CLOTHES AT BOTTOM OF LAUNDRY
CHUTE FOR SCENE 9A OR 9, AND PLACE
BUBBLE’S CLUE #10 ON THE KITCHEN COUNTER
FOR LAST SCENE.
MARTY, TAKE YOUR GUIDE WITH YOU AS YOU
TAKE THE GIRLS AROUND ONE SIDE OF THE
HOUSE OR GARAGE, WHEREVER THE BAGGED
CANS ARE LOCATED.
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OPEN THE BAG AND LET THEM DUMP THEM OUT.
YOU MAY TELL THEM TO SHAKE ALL THE CANS
AND SHAKE OUT THE BAG TO MAKE SURE THE
RING IS NOT STUCK IN THE BAG.
WHEN THEY’RE FINISHED - TAKE THEM BACK INTO
THE DINING ROOM TO ANNOUNCE THE SAD NEWS
TO DAME SARAH.
AS THE GIRLS COME BACK INTO THE ROOM, ASK
GEE TO TELL DAME SARAH THERE WAS NO RING
IN THE EMPTY COKE CANS. THEN LEAVE THE
ROOM.
DAME SARAH, AFTER GEE RELAYS THE SAD
NEWS, AND AFTER EVERYONE IS SEATED, ASK
THE GUESTS TO RESUME DIALOGUE.
DAME SARAH:
Well, I’m not surprised, but thanks for
looking anyway.
SAM: We’re not finished yet! Let’s go look
through the laundry at the bottom of the
laundry chute. We didn’t do that yet, you
know.
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GEE: Good idea! Gotta be THERE! Nowhere
else to look.
GINGER: No, it wasn’t with the cans, so...it must be
with the clothes.
COOKIE: Must be, if it came down the chute.
GOLDIE: Yeah, must have fallen out of the can and
into the clothes as everything was coming
down the chute.
BUBBLE: Marty just must have missed it. Hope Marty
hasn’t done the laundry yet.
ALLIE: Quit talking about it, let’s go see if it’s there.
LADIES, TAKE YOUR GUIDES, GO TO THE BOTTOM
OF THE CHUTE.
GOLDIE: (Arrive first) I’ll go thru’ this stuff. Let me
hand the clothes to you one by one so you
can go thru’ the pockets. (As you are
handing the pieces of clothing to the others,
reach under the pile and pull out an
envelope) Hey, look what’s here! Another
envelope!!! And it’s got my name on it.
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ALLIE: Well, who knew we were going to be here
doing this?
ANNIE: Let’s open it. Hurry!
GOLDIE: OK, I’m hurrying!
READ ALOUD CLUE #9 - GOLDIE
Cool surprises are about to happen to some very
deserving people.
BARBIE: Now, what can that possibly mean? Are we
finished here?
GEE: Just a few more clothes to go through.
ALL, CONTINUE LOOKING THROUGH POCKETS,
THEN HEAD BACK TO THE DINING ROOM WHERE
DAME SARAH WAITS FOR YOU
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SCENE 10A - UNEXPECTED SURPRISES
ANNIE: Well, no ring.
GOLDIE: But, we found another clue. It only said
some people were gonna be surprised.
GEE: Yeah, that’s all it said.
ALLIE: Sorry, Dame Sarah. Where else can we
look?
MARTY, COME RUSHING IN, ALL EXCITED, UNABLE
TO CATCH YOUR BREATH, UNABLE TO SPEAK
BUBBLE: Marty, here, sit down,....take it easy. Deep
breaths. Annie, get a wet cloth and a glass
of water.
ANNIE, GO TO KITCHEN, PICK UP AN ENVELOPE
FROM THE KITCHEN COUNTER, GET A WET
TOWEL AND GLASS OF WATER AND BRING BACK
TO BUBBLE. GIVE THE ENVELOPE TO BUBBLE.
BUBBLE: Thanks, Annie.
(Apply wet towel to Marty’s forehead and
hand Marty the glass of water)
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SAM: Marty, slow down. What are you trying to
say?
MARTY: I’m okay now. I was just so flabbergasted,
I couldn’t catch my breath.
DAME SARAH:
Where were you? What happened? What
upset you so?
MARTY: Well, just a few minutes ago, actually after
I left you all, my banker called me - he
never calls me ‘cause I have such a very
small account at his bank and he’d never
have any cause to call me.
DAME SARAH:
Slow down. Why did your banker call?
MARTY: I wondered that myself! But, he said there
is a lot of money in my account. When I
told him that he’d made a big mistake, it
must be someone else’s account, he said
that, no, it was my account. Money, a lot of
money, was wired to my account today, and
the only thing he would tell me over the
phone was that it is from the sale of some
company. If I’d come into the bank early
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tomorrow morning with you, Dame Sarah,
he’d tell me more. I still think it’s a mistake.
DAME SARAH:
Well, it is all clear, to me. Let me explain.
Everything seems to happen at once,
doesn’t it?
COOKIE: The clue,....my clue - it said the “Greentree
Jewelry Co.” has been sold to someone in
New York City.
DAME SARAH:
Right you are, Cookie. You see, when MJ
and I decided to sell the company, I told Mr.
Blackstone that when it finally sold, to wire
a portion of my share of the profits to the
accounts of my dear faithful, trusted
servants, $75,000 apiece. You have
served me faithfully all these years.
ALL: GASP!! WOW!! COOL!!
TEDDY: Dame Sarah, you are awesome!
MARTY: You mean that all that money in my
account is mine?
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DAME SARAH:
And money in Moreland’s and Chauncey’s
and Henry’s accounts as well, belongs to
them. Moreland won’t have to sell the cans
tomorrow.
MARTY: Oh, thank you, Dame Sarah, now he can
pay all Fanny’s housing and food bills and
find her a good doctor, too. Fanny won’t
have a thing to worry about. Aren’t we
fortunate that we are healthy and don’t
have large food bills also.
DAME SARAH:
Where is Moreland, Marty?
MARTY: I don’t have a clue, Dame Sarah. I haven’t
seen him all day. I’ll check his apartment
and give him the great news!
MARTY, ON YOUR WAY, PUT RING IN EMPTY COKE
CAN AND PLACE IN FRIDGE.
BUBBLE: Speaking of clues - I found an envelope
with my name on it in the kitchen. Let me
open it and read it to you.
READ ALOUD CLUE #10 - BUBBLE
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You never know what a plain, old envelope will reveal.
COOKIE: What plain, old envelope?
BUBBLE: I have no idea. It’s a puzzle to me.
DAME SARAH:
Well, now, I have another little something to
tell you. As long as everyone knows about
the sale of the company, now is the time for
this surprise to become known.
SAM: What surprise?
DAME SARAH:
This surprise is for you, Samantha, and for
you, Barbara..
SAM: But, the ring is enough. I sure wasn’t
expecting anything else. I’m just so sad
and disappointed we couldn’t find it.
BUBBLE: Me, too.
DAME SARAH:
I am disappointed too, ladies, but let me
give you this. This is the other half of an
early inheritance, you might say.
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DAME SARAH, TAKE ENVELOPES FROM YOUR
POCKET AND HAND ONE TO SAM AND ONE TO
BUBBLE.
GEE: Another envelope?
GINGER: Another clue?
GOLDIE: What is it, Sam?
BUBBLE: Oh, hurry and open it! I’m quite on pins and
needles!
TEDDY: Gee, Bubble, my grandmother used to say
that!
ALL: LAUGHTER
SAM: (Open envelope and pull out a piece of
paper) A check!!!
ALL: A check??? Wow!!! Let’s see!!!
SAM: What is this for? (Looking at the check) It’s
an awful lot of money! What’s in your
envelope, Bubble?
BUBBLE: (Empty envelope) Wow! It’s an awesome
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necklace and a check, too!
ANNIE: Think of this, Sam and Bubble - college
year after next and you’ve got a head start.
You won’t even have to get summer jobs
like the rest of us will.
DAME SARAH:
You are worth it, dear Samantha and
Barbara.. Hopefully these little checks will
see you through all your college years.
Have Mom and Dad invest it for you when
you get home.
BUBBLE: I bet mine is for med school, huh, Great-
Grandmother?
ALL: LAUGHTER!
DAME SARAH:
Now, I believe Marty has prepared some
snacks for us. (CALL TO MARTY) Marty,
will you bring it in, please??
GEE: I’m SO ready for something to eat.
TEDDY: You are always ready to eat, Gee.
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GOLDIE: Yeah, 24/7.
DAME SARAH:
It was wonderful having you all visit. I want
to thank you all so much for looking so hard
for Samantha’s ring, even tho’ we didn’t find
it. I truly look forward to your next visit.
SAM: Thank you also, Great-Grandmother. We
had a wonderful time, and again, thank you
from the bottom of my heart for my college
education. I’m overwhelmed!
Wonder where Marty is. Oh, yeah, Marty
went to find Moreland.
ALLIE: What a neat surprise!
ANNIE: Uh, I just thought of something that none of
us thought of before.
BARBIE: What’s that, Annie?
ANNIE: Moreland—Moreland helped Marty bag the
cans. We don’t know— maybe he found
the ring?
GEE: Gads, I never thought of that— but, you’re
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right!
TEDDY: You are so right!
GOLDIE: Why didn’t we think about it before?
GINGER: Well, duh, we just found out that he helped
bag the cans!
COOKIE: Yeah, she’s right!
BUBBLE: Wish Marty would get back.
MARTY, BURST IN BREATHLESSLY Moreland’s
gone! He left a message...HAND ENVELOPE TO SAM
SAM: (Open envelope) Okay, I’ll read it. It says:
“Dear Miss Samantha. I found your ring!”
ANNIE: What? He found the ring? How long ago?
ALLIE: Well, where is it? And where is Moreland?
BARBIE: Yeah, if he has the ring and he ran away,
why would he confess to finding it?
GEE: Wait, let Sam finish reading the note.
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SAM: Thank you. He writes, “When I learned
from my banker that Dame Sarah had left
me so much money, I didn’t have the heart
to keep the ring, even though my family in
Spain says it rightfully belongs to my niece.
TEDDY: To his niece? Fannie? What’s he talking
about?
GOLDIE: Wait! Could it be that he and his niece,
Fannie are...
GINGER: Related to Daphne?
COOKIE: No, not Daphne—there were certainly no
other boys in the family, remember? So,
Moreland couldn’t be one of her true
descendants.
BUBBLE: Then, who?
SAM: Chesterton! Let me read some more.
He says, “My ancestor is Chesterton, the
eldest son of the Duke of Barcelona. I’m a
direct descendant. Some people in
Barcelona found a family tree and six
months ago wrote me about the family and
the ring.
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They had traced the location of the ring
through Daphne’s family and by luck I
happen to be working for Dame Sarah, who
has the ring in her possession. The family
asked me to retrieve it for them.”
ALLIE: This is so not real! What a coincidence!
ANNIE: It sure is! It’s just crazy!
BARBIE: But, where is the ring?
GEE: Maybe he tells us.
TEDDY: Go on, Sam, read some more.
SAM: Okay, it gets weird. “Fannie is my niece,
and she does live in Canada. I was taking
time off to visit her and she’s a demanding
little woman who threatened to have me
killed if I didn’t bring the ring to her. She
and the family claim it rightfully belonged to
Chesterton, not Daphne.” That’s all it says.
He signed his name.
GOLDIE: But, he didn’t say where the ring is.
GINGER: Did he take it with him?
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COOKIE: No, he said he “didn’t have the heart to
keep the ring.”
BUBBLE: But, I wonder where it is!
MARTY: I don’t know—unless he left it in his
apartment.
DAME SARAH:
Well, there is nothing else to do but to look
for it in his apartment. Let’s go. (TAKE
THEM TO A ROOM WHICH IS SET ASIDE
FOR MORELAND’S APARTMENT)
ALL: FOLLOW DAME SARAH TO MORELAND’S
APARTMENT
MARTY, TAG ALONG WITH THEM.
SAM: Okay, here we are! Where do we start
looking?
BUBBLE: My clue—remember my clue? It said
something about a plain white envelope
revealing something.
ANNIE: But, we thought that meant Sam’s envelope
with the check in it from Dame Sarah...
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ALLIE: Maybe not. It was the last clue.
BARBIE: So, perhaps...
GEE: Let’s look around.
GINGER: My clue said something about a relative
and something missing.
COOKIE: But we thought that was the pearl button off
Marty’s shirt.
TEDDY: Well, it could be something else. What else
is missing? We now know the relationship
between Moreland and Chesterton.
SAM: What’s missing? Gosh, I can’t think
straight. The ring’s missing!!!
TEDDY: Yeah, and think about my clue for a minute.
GINGER: You mean the one about “the unexpected
and the unknown are about to surface...?”
COOKIE: And, “be careful not to travel the wrong
path”???
TEDDY: Yeah, that one!
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GOLDIE: Well, what could it mean and do you think
there’s a connection here?
BUBBLE: Maybe...
SAM: Well, we know the ring’s missing. That
must be the answer to Ginger’s clue...
ANNIE: But, now, what about Teddy’s clue?
ALLIE: The first part we know. “The unexpected
and unknown” are the connection between
Moreland and Chesterton and Fannie.
BARBIE: Must be. Now we just need to know
enough to not “travel the wrong path.”
GEE: Path to where? Path to where? Let’s think
scientifically about this for a moment.
SAM: A path?
GEE: Yeah, a path—a wrong path! Maybe,
looking for the ring in the obvious place,
Moreland’s apartment, is the wrong path.
TEDDY: Well, what could possibly be the right path?
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GINGER: Where was it hidden to begin with?
COOKIE: Dame Sarah hid it in an empty coke can.
GOLDIE: But, we looked in Dame Sarah’s suite, we
looked in all the recycling before and after
it was bagged. We looked at the bottom of
the laundry chute. Where else would it be?
Is there another place an empty can could
be?
BUBBLE: Let’s go back to the kitchen. Gee thinks
better there. We need her to think about
this.
EVERYONE, HEAD BACK TO THE KITCHEN.
GEE: Thanks, guys! Thanks for unloading the
burden on me!
SAM: Gee, where would you look if you thought
about Teddy’s clue?
GEE: I’ll have to think about that awhile. A coke
will help me think better. (Go to fridge and
pull out empty coke can). Look, an empty
coke can! No full ones in here! And, I’m
thirsty!
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TEDDY: Give me that. (Shake can) I think we’ve
found it.
GINGER: Well, empty it—let’s see!
TEDDY: (Shake ring out on counter top)
GEE: I knew it all along! Why do you think I went
to the fridge to get a coke? Takes a
scientific brain, that’s all.
ALL: Yeah, you knew it!!! Ha!!!
SAM: Wow, it is a ring! Could this be my ring?
DAME SARAH:
Let me see it. Yes, Sam, that’s your ring.
ALL: Wow! It’s beautiful!
ALLIE: But, how did Moreland know about the ring
in an empty coke can?
MARTY: I mentioned it as we were bagging the
cans. That’s how he knew.
ANNIE: And, he found the right can and hid it from
you. And the only place he could put it
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where we’d find it would be in the fridge.
He knew Gee would find it.
DAME SARAH:
Well, ladies, you’ve done it again! I can’t
thank you enough for all you did to find the
ring.
GEE: I think Moreland had this planned six
months ago. Before he knew we were
coming.
SAM: Yeah, trying to find it, maybe. It was just
luck that Marty told him the ring was in an
empty can.
TEDDY: Then, when he found out about the money,
he found his conscience.
GINGER: Good thing! Do you realize how close Sam
came to losing the ring forever?
COOKIE: And, the tradition?
SAM: Yes, especially the TRADITION!
THE END!
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BEFORE SCENE 8 - OUT AT THE RECYCLING BIN
USE THIS AND SCENES 8, 9, AND 10 IF YOU ARE
HAVING A SLEEP OVER PARTY.
ANNIE: Look here, guys! A nice pearl-like button,
like it came from a nice shirt or blouse.
That’s all there is here on the ground,
though. All the cans are gone. (Slip button
in your pocket)
ALLIE: Someone must have dropped it here. Hey,
wait...maybe the person that Gee saw
bagging the cans, dropped it.
BARBIE: How was the stranger dressed, Gee?
GEE: Actually, not like anyone should look,
rummaging around in garbage. But, I didn’t
get a real good look at what the person was
wearing - some long-sleeved shirt, I guess.
DAME SARAH:
It looks like the ring is long-gone. Let’s go
back inside. Marty will fix you a bedtime
snack and bring it to the drawing room
while you wind down. Then, I think you all
need to go to bed. I’m going right now.
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GEE: Yeah, our brains need to be refreshed - so
we can find this missing ring. I always think
more clearly in the morning anyway.
ALL: Me, too!
DAME SARAH:
Good night, ladies.
ALL: Good night, Dame Sarah.
EVERYONE, RETIRE FOR THE EVENING TO THE
DRAWING ROOM FOR CARDS, A MOVIE, OR JUST
TO TALK, THEN TO BED, TO MEET AGAIN AT
BREAKFAST IN THE MORNING, REFRESHED AND
READY TO FIND THE “TREASURED RING”.
DAME SARAH, PLACE GINGER’S CLUE #7 AT
GINGER’S PLACE AT THE TABLE BEFORE
BREAKFAST AND PLACE COOKIE’S CLUE #8
OUTSIDE THE DINING ROOM ON THE FLOOR -
BOTH NEEDED IN SCENE 8.
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SCENE 8 - IN THE DINING ROOM AT BREAKFAST
DAME SARAH, MAKE SURE THAT COOKIE AND
GINGER SIT BESIDE EACH OTHER AT THE TABLE
AND THAT ANNIE STILL HAS THE BUTTON IN HER
POCKET.
GINGER: Hey, there’s an envelope at my place.
Shall I read it to you?
GOLDIE: Sure, why not! Might be enlightening.
READ ALOUD CLUE #7 - GINGER
A relative is introduced and then watch carefully for
something that is missing.
MARTY, AS SOON AS GINGER FINISHES READING
HER CLUE, PLACE ANNIE’S CLUE #8 ON FLOOR
OUTSIDE DINING ROOM, THEN ENTER THE DINING
ROOM.
MARTY: Hello, Dame Sarah...hello girls. What’s
wrong? You all look so sad.
DAME SARAH:
Well, Marty, we lost my treasured ring for
sure.
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MARTY: Not the one you were giving to Samantha
yesterday! You haven’t found it?
DAME SARAH:
Afraid not. It’s such a long, sad story.
MARTY, MAKE SURE THE LEFT SLEEVE ON YOUR
SHIRT THAT IS MISSING THE BUTTON IS VISIBLE
TO COOKIE. HOLD IT WHERE SHE CAN SEE IT.
COOKIE: (hit Ginger under the table and whisper to
her loudly)
Hey look, Ginger, Marty’s left sleeve button
is missing.
GINGER: (whisper to Cookie)
The right sleeve button kinda looks like the
one Annie found yesterday. I think Annie
still has it.
GEE: I think I saw you out back yesterday. Was
that you I saw?
MARTY: And, I think I saw you looking out the
kitchen window, so yes, it must have been
me.
COOKIE AND GINGER TOGETHER:
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Dame Sarah, Annie, come with us for a
moment, please.
MARTY, KEEP GEE TALKING WITH YOU WHILE
THE OTHERS LEAVE THE ROOM. STOP WHEN
THEY RETURN
COOKIE, GINGER, DAME SARAH, ANNIE, LEAVE
DINING ROOM FOR A MOMENT.
OUTSIDE THE DOOR, COOKIE, PICK AN ENVELOPE
OFF THE FLOOR - WITH YOUR NAME ON IT.
COOKIE AND GINGER, TELL DAME SARAH AND
ANNIE WHAT YOU HAVE DISCOVERED
ANNIE, YOU STILL HAVE THE BUTTON IN YOUR
PLEASE RE-ENTER THE DINING ROOM
COOKIE: I’ve found another clue, so I’ll read it, then
we have something very important to tell
you all.
READ ALOUD CLUE #8 - COOKIE
Hurray! The Greentree Jewelry Company has been
sold to someone in New York City. Who will get all that
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money?
ALL: Hmmm! Very interesting!
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SCENE 9 - WHAT’S THE STORY?
TEDDY: Marty, you are missing a button from your
sleeve. See, look at your left sleeve. I
believe Annie found it out on the ground by
the recycling bins yesterday.
MARTY: You did, Annie? Oh, thanks. I wondered
what happened to it.
GINGER: Why did we find it there?
GEE: Well, while you, Cookie and Annie left the
room for a minute, we came to the
conclusion that Marty was the person I saw
out back yesterday when I was in the
kitchen.
ANNIE: Was that you, Marty?
MARTY: Yes, it was and maybe I can explain.
DAME SARAH:
Explain what? What’s going on?
MARTY: I wanted to collect all the cans before the
recycling truck came yesterday.
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ALLIE: Why did you want to do that, Marty ?
MARTY: For extra money, Allie. Fannie is
Moreland’s niece. Moreland says she has
been very ill and she has had extremely
large housing bills this winter. It was so
very cold in Canada, as Dame Sarah well
knows. Fanny has no extra money for
these high bills, and also to buy her food,
so I’m just trying to help all I can. Moreland
visits her as often as he can, but that’s all
he can do.
BUBBLE: We sure can understand that. How can we
help?
GOLDIE: Yeah, wish we could do something.
COOKIE: Well, I guess that collecting cans is a good
way to earn extra money, but certainly not
a lot.
MARTY: No, by any means. Anyway, that is the
story.
ANNIE: (hand button to Marty), Here’s the button,
Marty.
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MARTY: Thanks, I’ll sew it on later.
TEDDY: If I may ask, Marty, did you sell the cans
yet?
MARTY: Why, no, not yet. I thought I’d do that this
morning. Moreland helped bag them and
he’ll take them to town.
ALLIE: Girls, maybe the ring is still around!
GEE: Marty, did you by chance find a ring in one
of the cans while you were collecting them?
MARTY: No again, but you don’t think the “treasured
ring” could be in with the cans, do you?
SAM: Yeah, weird, huh?
BARBIE: (running fingers thru’ hair)
Well, we’re right back where we started.
ANNIE: Well, I say we need to go through those
cans anyway before Moreland takes them
away.
BARBIE: Let’s do it right now. Marty, will you show
us where they are?
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SAM: Is it okay, Great-Grandmother?
DAME SARAH:
Sure, go ahead, if you want to. I don’t hold
out much hope, though.
MARTY: Okay, I’d be happy to take you where they
are. Come on, it’s a walk down to the
duplex.
LADIES, LEAVE YOUR GUIDES ON THE TABLE
UNTIL YOU RETURN
DAME SARAH, WHILE THE GIRLS ARE OUTSIDE
WITH MARTY, PLACE GOLDIE’S CLUE #9 UNDER
THE PILE OF CLOTHES AT BOTTOM OF LAUNDRY
CHUTE FOR SCENE 9A OR 9. PLACE BUBBLE’S
CLUE #10 ON THE KITCHEN COUNTER FOR LAST
SCENE.
MARTY, TAKE YOUR GUIDE WITH YOU AS YOU
TAKE THE GIRLS AROUND ONE SIDE OF THE
HOUSE OR GARAGE, WHEREVER THE BAGGED
CANS ARE LOCATED.
OPEN THE BAG AND LET THEM FALL OUT.
YOU MAY TELL THEM TO SHAKE ALL THE CANS
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AND SHAKE OUT THE BAG TO MAKE SURE THE
RING IS NOT STUCK IN THE BAG.
WHEN THEY’RE FINISHED - TAKE THEM BACK INTO
THE DINING ROOM TO ANNOUNCE THE SAD NEWS
TO DAME SARAH.
AS THE GIRLS COME BACK INTO THE ROOM, ASK
GEE TO TELL DAME SARAH THERE WAS NO RING
IN THE EMPTY COKE CANS. THEN LEAVE THE
ROOM.
DAME SARAH, AFTER GEE RELAYS THE SAD NEWS
AND EVERYONE IS AGAIN SEATED AT THE TABLE,
ASK THEM TO PICK THEIR GUIDES AND RESUME
DIALOGUE.
DAME SARAH:
Well, I’m not surprised, but thanks for
looking anyway.
SAM: We’re not finished yet! Let’s go look
through the laundry at the bottom of the
laundry chute. We didn’t do that yet, you
know.
GEE: Good idea! Gotta be THERE! Nowhere
else to look.
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GINGER: No, it wasn’t with the cans, so...it must be
with the clothes.
COOKIE: Must be, if it came down the chute.
GOLDIE: Yeah, must have fallen out of the can and
into the clothes as everything was coming
down the chute.
BUBBLE: Marty just must have missed it. Hope Marty
hasn’t done the laundry yet.
ALLIE: Quit talking about it, let’s go see if it’s there.
LADIES, TAKE YOUR GUIDES, GO TO THE BOTTOM
OF THE CHUTE.
GOLDIE: (Arrive first) I’ll go thru’ this stuff. Let me
hand the clothes to you one by one so you
can go thru’ the pockets. (As you are
handing the pieces of clothing to the others,
reach under the pile and pull out an
envelope). Hey, look what’s here! Another
envelope!!! And it’s got my name on it.
ALLIE: Well, who knew we were going to be here
doing this?
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ANNIE: Let’s open it. Hurry!
GOLDIE: OK, I’m hurrying!
READ ALOUD CLUE #9 - GOLDIE
Cool surprises are about to happen to some very
deserving people.
BARBIE: Now, what can that possibly mean? Are we
finished here?
GEE: Just a few more clothes to go through.
ALL, CONTINUE LOOKING THROUGH POCKETS,
THEN HEAD BACK TO THE DINING ROOM WHERE
DAME SARAH WAITS FOR YOU
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SCENE 10 - UNEXPECTED SURPRISES
ANNIE: Well, no ring.
GOLDIE: But, we found another clue. It only said
some people were gonna be surprised.
GEE: Yeah, that’s all it said.
ALLIE: Sorry, Dame Sarah. Where else can we
look?
MARTY, COME RUSHING IN, ALL EXCITED, UNABLE
TO CATCH YOUR BREATH, UNABLE TO SPEAK
BUBBLE: Marty, here, sit down,....take it easy. Deep
breaths. Annie, get a wet cloth and a glass
of water.
ANNIE, GO TO KITCHEN, PICK UP AN ENVELOPE
FROM THE KITCHEN COUNTER, GET A WET TOWEL
AND GLASS OF WATER AND BRING BACK TO
BUBBLE. GIVE THE ENVELOPE TO BUBBLE.
BUBBLE: Thanks, Annie.
(Apply wet towel to Marty’s forehead and
hand Marty the glass of water)
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SAM: Marty, slow down. What are you trying to
say?
MARTY: I’m okay now. I was just so flabbergasted,
I couldn’t catch my breath.
DAME SARAH:
Where were you? What happened? What
upset you so?
MARTY: Well, just a few minutes ago, actually after I
left you all, my banker called me - he never
calls me ‘cause I have such a very small
account at his bank and he’d never have
any cause to call me.
DAME SARAH:
Slow down. Why did your banker call?
MARTY: I wondered that myself! But, he said there
is a lot of money in my account. When I told
him that he’d made a big mistake, it must be
someone else’s account, he said that, no, it
was my account. Money, a lot of money,
was wired to my account today, and the only
thing he would tell me over the phone was
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that it is from the sale of some company. If
I’d come into the bank early tomorrow
morning with you, Dame Sarah, he’d tell me
more. I still think it’s a mistake.
DAME SARAH:
Well, it is all clear, to me. Let me explain.
Everything seems to happen at once,
doesn’t it?
COOKIE: The clue,....my clue - it said the “Greentree
Jewelry Co.” has been sold to someone in
New York City.
DAME SARAH:
Right you are, Cookie, You see, when MJ
and I decided to sell the company, I told Mr.
Blackstone that when it finally sold, to wire
a portion of my share of the profits to the
accounts of my dear faithful, trusted
servants, $75,000 apiece. You have served
me faithfully all these years.
ALL: GASP!! WOW!! COOL!!
TEDDY: Dame Sarah, you are awesome!
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MARTY: You mean that all that money in my account
is mine?
DAME SARAH:
And money in Moreland’s and Chauncey’s
and Henry’s accounts as well, belongs to
them. Moreland won’t have to sell the cans.
MARTY: Oh, thank you, Dame Sarah, now he can
pay all Fanny’s housing and food bills and
find her a good doctor, too. Fanny won’t
have a thing to worry about. And, aren’t we
fortunate that we are healthy and don’t have
large food bills also.
DAME SARAH:
Where is Moreland, Marty?
MARTY: I don’t have a clue, Dame Sarah. I haven’t
seen him all day. I’ll check his apartment
and give him the great news!
MARTY, ON YOUR WAY, PUT RING IN EMPTY COKE
CAN AND PLACE IN FRIDGE.
BUBBLE: Speaking of clues - I found an envelope with
my name on it in the kitchen. Let me open
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it and read it to you.
READ ALOUD CLUE #10 - BUBBLE
You never know what a plain, old envelope will reveal.
COOKIE: What plain, old envelope?
BUBBLE: I have no idea. It’s a puzzle to me.
DAME SARAH:
Well, now I have another little something to
tell you. As long as everyone knows about
the sale of the company, now is the time for
this surprise to become known.
SAM: What surprise?
DAME SARAH:
This surprise is for you, Samantha and for
you, Barbara.
SAM: But, the ring is enough. I sure wasn’t
expecting anything else. I’m just so sad and
disappointed we couldn’t find it.
BUBBLE: Me, too.
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DAME SARAH:
I am disappointed too, ladies, but let me
give you this. This is the other half of an
early inheritance, you might say.
DAME SARAH, TAKE ENVELOPES FROM YOUR
POCKET AND HAND ONE TO SAM AND ONE TO
BARBARA.
GEE: Another envelope?
GINGER: Another clue?
GOLDIE: What is it, Sam?
BUBBLE: Oh, hurry and open it! I’m quite on pins and
needles!
TEDDY: Gee, Bubble, my grandmother used to say
that!
ALL: LAUGHTER
SAM: (Open envelope and pull out a piece of
paper) A check!!!
ALL: A check??? Wow!!! Let’s see!!!
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SAM: What is this for? (Looking at the check) It’s
an awful lot of money! What’s in your
envelope, Bubble?
BUBBLE: (Empty envelope) wow! It’s an awesome
necklace and a check, too!
ANNIE: Think of this, Sam and Bubble—college
year after next and you’ve got a head start.
You won’t even have to get summer jobs
like the rest of us will.
DAME SARAH:
You are worth it, dear Samantha and
Barbara. Hopefully these little checks will
see you through all your college years.
Have Mom and Dad invest it for you when
you get home.
BUBBLE: I bet mine is for med school, huh, Great-
Grandmother?
ALL: LAUGHTER!!
DAME SARAH:
Now, I believe Marty has prepared some
snacks for us. (CALL TO MARTY) Marty,
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will you bring it in, please??
GEE: I’m SO ready for something to eat.
TEDDY: You are always ready to eat, Gee.
GOLDIE: Yeah, 24/7.
DAME SARAH:
It was wonderful having you all visit. I want
to thank you all so much for looking so hard
for Samantha’s ring, even tho’ we didn’t find
it. I truly look forward to your next visit.
SAM: Thank you also, Great-Grandmother. We
had a wonderful time, and again, thank you
from the bottom of my heart for my college
education. I’m overwhelmed!
Wonder where Marty is. Oh, yeah, Marty
went to find Moreland.
ALLIE: What a neat surprise!
ANNIE: Uh, I just thought of something that none of
us thought of before.
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BARBIE: What’s that, Annie?
ANNIE: Moreland—Moreland helped Marty bag the
cans. We don’t know—maybe he found the
ring?
GEE: Gads, I never thought of that—but, you’re
right!
TEDDY: You are so right!
GOLDIE: Why didn’t we think about it before?
GINGER: Well, duh, we just found out that he helped
bag the cans!
COOKIE: Yeah, she’s right!
BUBBLE: Wish Marty would get back.
MARTY, BURST IN BREATHLESSLY
Moreland’s gone! He left a message...
HAND ENVELOPE TO SAM
SAM: (Open envelope) Okay, I’ll read it. It says:
“Dear Miss Samantha. I found your ring!”
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ANNIE: What? He found the ring? How long ago?
ALLIE: Well, where is it? And where is Moreland?
BARBIE: Yeah, if he has the ring and he ran away,
why would he confess to finding it?
GEE: Wait, let Sam finish reading the note.
SAM: Thank you. He writes, “When I learned from
my banker that Dame Sarah had left me so
much money, I didn’t have the heart to keep
the ring, even though my family in Spain
says it rightfully belongs to my niece.
TEDDY: To his niece? Fannie? What’s he talking
about?
GOLDIE: Wait! Could it be that he and his niece,
Fannie are...
GINGER: Related to Daphne?
COOKIE: No, not Daphne—there were certainly no
other boys in the family, remember? So,
Moreland couldn’t be one of her true
descendants.
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BUBBLE: Then, who?
SAM: Chesterton! Let me read some more. He
says, “My ancestor is Chesterton, the eldest
son of the Duke of Barcelona. I’m a direct
descendant. Some people in Barcelona
found a family tree and six months ago
wrote me about the family and the ring.
They had traced the location of the ring
through Daphne’s family and by luck I
happen to be working for Dame Sarah, who
has the ring in her possession. The family
asked me to retrieve it for them.”
ALLIE: This is so not real! What a coincidence!
ANNIE: It sure is! It’s just crazy!
BARBIE: But, where is the ring?
GEE: Maybe he tells us.
TEDDY: Go on, Sam, read some more.
SAM: Okay, it gets weird. “Fannie is my niece,
and she does live in Canada. I was taking
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time off to visit her and she’s a demanding
little woman who threatened to have me
killed if I didn’t bring the ring to her. She
and the family claim it rightfully belonged to
Chesterton, not Daphne.” That’s all it says.
He signed his name.
GOLDIE: But, he didn’t say where the ring it.
GINGER: Did he take it with him?
COOKIE: No, he said he “didn’t have the heart to keep
the ring.”
BUBBLE: But, I wonder where it is!
MARTY: I don’t know—unless he left it in his
apartment.
DAME SARAH:
Well, there is nothing else to do but to look
for it in his apartment. Let’s go. (TAKE
THEM TO A ROOM WHICH IS SET ASIDE
FOR MORELAND’S APARTMENT)
ALL: FOLLOW DAME SARAH TO MORELAND’S
APARTMENT
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MARTY, TAG ALONG WITH THEM.
SAM: Okay, here we are! Where do we start
looking?
BUBBLE: My clue—remember my clue? It said
something about a plain white envelope
revealing something.
ANNIE: But, we thought that meant Sam’s envelope
with the check in it from Same Sarah...
ALLIE: Maybe not. It was the last clue.
BARBIE: So, perhaps...
GEE: Let’s look around.
GINGER: My clue said something about a relative and
something missing.
COOKIE: But we thought that was the pearl button off
Marty’s shirt.
TEDDY: Well, it could be something else. What else
is missing? We now know the relationship
between Moreland and Chesterton.
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SAM: What’s missing? Gosh, I can’t think straight.
The ring’s missing!!!
TEDDY: Yeah, and think about my clue for a minute.
GINGER: You mean the one about “the unexpected
and the unknown are about to surface...?”
COOKIE: And, “be careful not to travel the wrong
path”???
TEDDY: Yeah, that one!
GOLDIE: Well, what could it mean and do you think
there’s a connection here?
BUBBLE: Maybe...
SAM: Well, we know the ring’s missing. That must
be the answer to Ginger’s clue...
ANNIE: But, now, what about Teddy’s clue?
ALLIE: The first part we know. “The unexpected
and unknown” are the connection between
Moreland and Chesterton and Fannie.
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BARBIE: Must be. Now we just need to know enough
to not “travel the wrong path.”
GEE: Path to where? Path to where? Let’s think
scientifically about this for a moment.
SAM: A path?
GEE: Yeah, a path—a wrong path! Maybe,
looking for the ring in the obvious place,
Moreland’s apartment, is the wrong path.
TEDDY: Well, what could possibly be the right path?
GINGER: Where was it hidden to begin with?
COOKIE: Dame Sarah hid it in an empty coke can.
GOLDIE: But, we looked in Dame Sarah’s suite, we
looked in all the recycling before and after it
was bagged. We looked at the bottom of
the laundry chute. Where else would it be?
Is there another place an empty can could
be?
BUBBLE: Let’s go back to the kitchen. Gee thinks
better there. We need her to think about
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this.
EVERYONE, HEAD BACK TO THE KITCHEN.
GEE: Thanks, buys! Thanks for unloading the
burden on me!
SAM: Gee, where would you look if you thought
about Teddy’s clue?
GEE: I’ll have to think about that while. A coke
will help me think better. (Go to fridge and
pull out empty coke can). Look, an empty
coke can. No full ones in here. And, I’m
thirsty!
TEDDY: Give me that. (Shake can) I think we’ve
found it.
GINGER: Well, empty it—let’s see!
TEDDY: (Shake ring out on counter top)
GEE: I knew it all along! Why do you think I went
to the fridge to get a coke? Takes a
scientific brain, that’s all.
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ALL: Yea, you knew it!!! Ha!!!
SAM: Wow, it is a ring! Could this be my ring?
DAME SARAH:
Let me see it. Yes, Sam, that’s your ring.
ALL: Wow! It’s beautiful!
ALLIE: But, how did Moreland know about the ring
in an empty coke can?
MARTY: I mentioned it as we were bagging the cans.
That’s how he knew.
ANNIE: Ane, he found the right can and hid it from
you. And the only place he could put it
where we’d find it would be in the fridge. He
knew Gee would find it.
DAME SARAH:
Well, ladies, you’ve done it again! I can’t
thank you enough for all you did to find the
ring.
GEE: Moreland had this planned six months ago.
Before he knew we were coming.
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SAM: Yeah, trying to find it, maybe. It was just
luck that Marty told him the ring was in an
empty can.
TEDDY: Then, when he found out about the money,
he found his conscience.
GINGER: Good thing! Do you realize how close Sam
came to losing the ring forever?
COOKIE: And the tradition?
SAM: Yes, especially the TRADITION!
THE END
SamAntics
presents
a
SAMANTHA and BARBARA
MYSTERY
CASE OF THE MISSING RING
for Twins
GUEST GUIDE
for 10 Players
© 2010 Shirley W. Foster
SamAntics Party Games for Tweens and Teens
Distributed by: SimpliFun Studios
www.SimpliFun.com
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SCENE 1 - IN THE DINING ROOM
SAM: Oh, how awful! Poor Great-Grandmother!
I wonder where she keeps the ring?
ALLIE: I wonder when she saw it last?
ANNIE: Well, she is rather ancient. She probably hid
it and doesn't remember where she hid it.
You know how old people forget things.
BARBIE: Well, Sam says her great-grandmother is
more alert and smarter than all of us most of
the time, even though she is 97 years old!
GEE: I think we ought to find out the answers to
Sam and Allie's questions. Perhaps that will
help. We need to go at this more
scientifically. Need a coke, be right back.
(Go to fridge and bring coke back)
GOLDIE: Gee, you always think we need to be
scientific - how can we find a missing ring
scientifically?
MARTY:
SAM: (take envelope from Marty)
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What is it? Shall I open it?
ALL: Sure
SAM: It appears to be a clue. I’ll read it to you.
READ ALOUD CLUE #1 - SAM
BUBBLE: There’s your answer, Goldie. We can figure
out who would have access to Great-
Grandmother’s bedroom.
GOLDIE: Do we even know she kept the ring in her
bedroom?
DAME SARAH ARRIVES
SAM: Here's Great-Grandmother now. We've got
lots of questions. We're so glad you're here.
Is Bubble’s necklace missing, too?
DAME SARAH:
BUBBLE: Don’t be upset, Great-Grandmother, we’ll
find it. Didn’t the ring once belong to a
duchess? Please tell us about it.
TEDDY: A duchess? Really? Duchess of what?
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GINGER: Where was the duchess from?
COOKIE: Where did she get it? How MANY
generations ago?
GEE: Well, you know Cookie, probably some
handsome prince gave it to her!
DAME SARAH:
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SCENE 2 - SEATED IN THE DRAWING ROOM
DAME SARAH:
GOLDIE: Didn’t they ever see each other again, Dame
Sarah?
DAME SARAH:
ALLIE: His family told him whom he should marry?
How awful!
ANNIE: Yeah! They used to do that - arrange
marriages I mean. Sometimes when they
were only babies their marriage would be
decided, they were forced to marry when
they came of age, and their futures were
already known.
BUBBLE: Yes, it’s true, I read the same books Annie
reads. They were so into arranging
marriages back then.
BARBIE: (Run your fingers thru’ your hair while
talking).
Whatever happened to your great-great-
great-grandmother? Who did she marry?
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GEE: She was probably promised to someone too.
DAME SARAH:
SAM: And Daphne was married at only sixteen?
DAME SARAH:
TEDDY: Girls, we have GOT to find that ring!
GINGER: If we don’t find it - the TRADITION will end.
COOKIE: Let’s go over the facts one more time and
see if we can figure anything out.
GEE: Yeah - let’s be scientific about it. This is
VERY important!
DAME SARAH:
SAM: Well, we know it was there at 4:50 and gone
at 5:50.
ALLIE: It disappeared in an hour.
ANNIE: Yes, while Dame Sarah was napping.
BARBIE: How convenient for someone.
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GEE: I wonder who else besides us knew you
were napping, Dame Sarah? Or, ....do you
nap every day at the same time?
DAME SARAH:
ALLIE: (pick up an envelope from the table in the
drawing room) Hey, this has my name on it.
Guess I probably can open it, huh?
ALL: Sure!
READ ALOUD CLUE # 2 - ALLIE
DISCUSSION
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SCENE 3 - STILL IN THE DRAWING ROOM
BUBBLE: Well, looks like Marty knew she didn't take
her nap at the regular time, because they
were together in the kitchen until 4: 45.
TEDDY: And...Chauncey, your chauffeur, saw you
when he dropped us off, and Moreland, your
butler, left shortly before supper.
SAM: So, Marty knew what time great-
grandmother took her nap because Marty
was in the library with us until Marty
escorted us into the dining room at 6:00 PM.
We went into the library about 4:45 and
Great- Grandmother went up to her suite at
4:50.
GOLDIE: And Chauncey left right after he dropped us
off at 4:25. We haven’t seen him since.
BUBBLE: No, we haven’t.
GINGER: Well, I wonder where Henry, the gardener,
was during that hour?
COOKIE: I saw him clipping hedges on the west side
of the house toward the kitchen, when I
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looked out the library window.
GEE: So, no one saw Chauncey since we arrived?
I need a coke - be right back.
(Get coke from refrigerator and return)
GOLDIE: No - he just disappeared after he dropped us
off and said hello to Dame Sarah.
BUBBLE: Right!
ANNIE: (find envelope in back of your guest guide).
I also have an envelope. Gosh, are we all
going to get one? May I read this, too?
ALL: Sure, Annie, go for it!
READ ALOUD CLUE #3 - ANNIE
BUBBLE: So, Moreland’s been visiting his sick niece.
What does that have to do with anything?
ANNIE: Yeah, let’s get back to the problem at hand.
Maybe something about Moreland’s niece
will come up later in our investigation.
BUBBLE: Yeah, right now, it’s so not useful
information.
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SAM: Well, it is certainly obvious that no one saw
Chauncey after he dropped us off. He left
and put the limo in the garage, then went to
the duplex and no one has seen him since.
ALLIE: Was Marty in the library with us the whole
time?
GINGER: I believe so.
ANNIE: Well, it is obvious that the gardener, Henry
had the opportunity to sneak up the stairs to
Dame Sarah's dressing room while he was
at the south end of the house clipping
hedges. The timing is right and look at the
drawing of the mansion. (Go to the blueprint
drawing on the wall). See ... the outside
steps up to the second floor lead from the
balcony right into Dame Sarah's sitting room
and access to her whole suite.
GOLDIE: Henry’s probably the one most likely to have
access to Dame Sarah’s suite 24/7 - besides
Marty, of course.
GINGER: May we go up and have a look, Dame
Sarah?
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DAME SARAH:
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SCENE 4 - IN DAME SARAH’S BEDROOM SUITE
BARBIE: Anyone would have the opportunity
normally, to sneak up the stairs to the
balcony and into the sitting room, but NOT
while Henry was clipping hedges. He would
see them.
GEE: Let’s ask him...no, maybe not yet. Is Henry
our leading suspect? Cool! Let's see - he
wants to retire in two years. Why would he
want the ring?
COOKIE: Well, duh, WHY would he want the ring? He
could leave the area and then sell the ring
and retire in STYLE!
DAME SARAH:
LOOK ALL AROUND DAME SARAH’S SITTING
ROOM, BEDROOM, AND BALCONY.
SAM: Doesn’t seem to be anything here. I know
you don’t want anyone to know where you
hid the ring when you brought it home,
Great-Grandmother, but it might help us if
we knew.
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BARBIE: (notice an envelope on Dame Sarah’s floor
by the balcony door and pick it up)
What’s this on the floor, Dame Sarah? Did
you drop this?
DAME SARAH:
READ ALOUD CLUE #4 - BARBIE
DISCUSSION OF ALL KNOWN FACTS AND CLUES
ALLIE: And who are the 2 people who know where
you put it?
DAME SARAH:
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SCENE 5 - STILL IN DAME SARAH’S SUITE
ANNIE: Well, I guess we can eliminate Mr.
Blackstone and MJ as our suspects since
they haven’t been here since Dame Sarah
brought the ring home from the bank
yesterday.
GOLDIE: Gosh - this sure is getting complicated.
Chauncey your chauffeur, and MJ your
partner, know each other? I wonder what
the relationship is?
TEDDY: Could they be related in some way? Or if
not - could they have been introduced by
Henry, your gardener?
GINGER: But, why would Chauncey and MJ be seen
together? He's a chauffeur and she's a
wealthy gemologist.
SAM: Now - here’s a thought... MJ knew where the
ring was hidden and MJ knows Chauncey
and Chauncey has not been seen since he
brought us to the mansion.
COOKIE: And then there’s Henry. Could he be
involved? He's really the only one with
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opportunity, besides Marty. And we know
he’s been here because I saw him clipping
hedges when we were in the library.
GEE: There must be another explanation we aren’t
thinking about. I need a coke - be right
back. (Get coke and stay in kitchen until
called)
BUBBLE: Well, it seems pretty obvious to me.
ANNIE: What does?
BUBBLE: Well, just think about it. MJ knew the hiding
place. Chauncey knows MJ. She could
have mentioned it to Chauncey. Chauncey
is not around. Henry had the opportunity
24/7. So, it is either Chauncey or Henry.
ALLIE: Too cut and dried!
DAME SARAH:
BUBBLE: Could have been a slip of the tongue.
COOKIE: But Dame Sarah says she trusts Chauncey
and Henry and everyone else in her
household. So, it wouldn’t have really
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mattered.
Gee, you OK in there?
GEE: (returning from kitchen, holding envelope in
the air and waving it around)
Well, I found one, too!
GOLDIE: Found one what, Gee?
GEE: An envelope. It was, guess where...on top
of the coke cans in the fridge.
ALLIE: Read it, Gee.
READ ALOUD CLUE # 5 - GEE
ALLIE: Yeah, see, right here (point to sketch).
Maybe this will come in handy.
DAME SARAH:
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SCENE 6 - STILL IN DAME SARAH’S SUITE
SAM: We all think Henry had the opportunity.
Cookie saw him trimming hedges around the
house while we were in the library playing
games.
ALLIE: We hadn't seen Chauncey since 4:45 and
Moreland left shortly before supper and
wasn’t seen returning.
BARBIE: Some strange goings-on between Chauncey
and MJ. They know each other.
ANNIE: Wonder where you put the ring, Dame
Sarah? Didn’t Chauncey know you brought
it home?
DAME SARAH:
GEE: Henry didn’t know? Why is that?
DAME SARAH:
GEE: But, I remember you telling us Henry works
for MJ also. He may have found out from
her.
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ALLIE: So, MJ could have mentioned it to both
Henry and Chauncey. What is the
relationship between MJ and Chauncey,
Dame Sarah?
DAME SARAH:
BUBBLE: So, that’s the relationship. We were
wondering. It is just not getting any easier to
come up with a suspect.
SAM: Marty came to your room while you were
sleeping to change your towels. Could
Marty have found it and taken it? But, I have
to ask, why?
DAME SARAH:
SAM: Well, nothing here. Why don’t we go back to
the drawing room!
TEDDY: Ok, just let me take another look. We didn’t
really look in Dame Sarah’s bathroom, did
we? Isn’t that near where her laundry chute
is located? (Go into bathroom, find
envelope, come back out immediately with
envelope in hand). Found another one!!!
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ALL: Oh, wow!
GINGER: I’ll look in her closet. That’s where the
laundry chute is located. (Go into the closet
and right out again) Nothing in here!
TEDDY: I’d better read this clue. May tell us
something important.
READ ALOUD CLUE #6 - TEDDY
COOKIE: Now, what does that mean?
DISCUSSION OF ALL KNOWN FACTS AND CLUES.
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SCENE 7 - BACK IN THE DRAWING ROOM
DAME SARAH:
GEE: I need a coke. It keeps me going. Be right
back. (Start to the kitchen and stop)
SAM: YUK, another coke. She’s nuts!
She’ll rot her stomach!
DAME SARAH:
GEE: (Now you can go get the cokes)
SAM: Oops! I didn’t mean it would rot your
stomach, Great-Grandmother. Gee’s been
at it a whole lot longer.
DAME SARAH:
ALLIE: Dame Sarah, can we check the laundry
chute at the other end?
DAME SARAH:
BUBBLE: You’re sure Marty didn’t find the ring and
take it out of the can?
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DAME SARAH:
GEE: (coming back into the drawing room)
Dame Sarah, while I was getting our cokes
from the kitchen, I happened to notice a
strange person going through the recycling
and bagging the cans. I’m fairly certain this
person saw me but kept right on bagging
the cans. What could I do? Run out and
attack a complete stranger?
SAM: Let’s go out and look around. We might find
the ring or another clue.
EVERYONE GOES OUT TO LOOK AROUND THE
RECYCLING
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BEFORE SCENE 8A - USE THIS AND SCENES 8A, 9A
AND 10A IF THE GAME IS BEING PLAYED IN ONE
DAY
ANNIE: Look here, guys! A nice pearl-like button,
like it came from a nice shirt or blouse.
That’s all there is here on the ground,
though. All the cans are gone. (Slip button
in your pocket)
ALLIE: Someone must have dropped it here. Hey,
wait...maybe the person that Gee saw
bagging the cans dropped it.
BARBIE: How was the stranger dressed, Gee?
GEE: Actually, not like anyone should look who
rummages around in garbage. But, I didn’t
get a real good look at what the person was
wearing - some long-sleeved shirt, I guess.
DAME SARAH:
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SCENE 8A - IN THE DINING ROOM
EVERYONE IS BACK INSIDE SITTING AT THE
DINING ROOM TABLE
GINGER: Hey, there’s an envelope at my place. Shall
I read it to you?
GOLDIE: Sure, why not! Might be enlightening.
READ ALOUD CLUE #7 - GINGER
MARTY:
DAME SARAH:
MARTY:
DAME SARAH:
COOKIE: (hit Ginger under the table and whisper to
her loudly)
Hey look, Ginger, Marty’s left sleeve button
is missing.
GINGER: (whisper to Cookie)
The right sleeve button kinda looks like the
one Annie found today. I think Annie still
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has it.
GEE: I think I saw you out back earlier. Was that
you I saw?
MARTY:
COOKIE AND GINGER TOGETHER:
Dame Sarah, Annie, come with us for a
moment, please.
COOKIE, GINGER, DAME SARAH, ANNIE, LEAVE
DINING ROOM FOR A MOMENT.
OUTSIDE THE DOOR, COOKIE, PICK UP AN
ENVELOPE OFF THE FLOOR - WITH YOUR NAME
ON IT.
COOKIE AND GINGER, TELL DAME SARAH AND
ANNIE WHAT YOU HAVE DISCOVERED
ANNIE, YOU STILL HAVE THE BUTTON IN YOUR
PLEASE RE-ENTER THE DINING ROOM
COOKIE: I’ve found another clue, so I’ll read it, then
we have something very important to tell you
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all.
READ ALOUD CLUE #8 - COOKIE
ALL: Hmmmm! Very interesting!
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SCENE 9A - WHAT’S THE STORY?
TEDDY: Marty, you are missing a button from your
sleeve. See, look at your left sleeve. I
believe Annie found it out on the ground by
the recycling bins today.
MARTY:
GINGER: Why did we find it there?
GEE: Well, while you and Cookie and Annie left
the room for a minute, we came to the
conclusion that Marty was the person I saw
out back when I was in the kitchen.
ANNIE: Was that you, Marty?
MARTY:
DAME SARAH:
MARTY:
ALLIE: Why did you want to do that, Marty?
MARTY:
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BUBBLE: We sure can understand that. How can we
help?
GOLDIE: Yeah, wish we could do something.
COOKIE: Well, I guess that collecting cans is a good
way to earn extra money, but certainly not a
lot.
MARTY:
ANNIE: (hand button to Marty)
Here’s the button, Marty.
MARTY:
TEDDY: If I may ask, Marty, did you sell the cans
today?
MARTY:
ALLIE: Girls, maybe the ring is still around!
GEE: Marty, did you by chance find a ring in one
of the cans while you were collecting them?
MARTY:
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SAM: Yeah, weird, huh?
BARBIE: (running fingers thru’ hair)
Well, we’re right back where we started.
ANNIE: Well, I say we need to go through those
cans anyway before Moreland takes them
away tomorrow.
BARBIE: Let’s do it right now. Marty, will you show us
where they are?
SAM: Is it okay, Great-Grandmother?
DAME SARAH:
MARTY:
LADIES, LEAVE YOUR GUIDES ON THE TABLE
UNTIL YOU RETURN. AFTER ENTERING THE
DINING ROOM, GEE, PLEASE RELAY THE SAD
NEWS.
DAME SARAH:
SAM: We’re not finished yet! Let’s go look through
the laundry at the bottom of the laundry
chute. We didn’t do that yet, you know.
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GEE: Good idea! Gotta be THERE! Nowhere
else to look.
GINGER: No, it wasn’t with the cans, so...it must be
with the clothes.
COOKIE: Must be, if it came down the chute.
GOLDIE: Yeah, must have fallen out of the can and
into the clothes as everything was coming
down the chute.
BUBBLE: Marty just must have missed it. Hope Marty
hasn’t done the laundry yet.
ALLIE: Quit talking about it, let’s go see if it’s there.
LADIES, TAKE YOUR GUIDES, GO TO THE BOTTOM
OF THE CHUTE.
GOLDIE: (Arrive first) I’ll go thru’ this stuff. Let me
hand the clothes to you one by one so you
can go thru’ the pockets. (As you are
handing the pieces of clothing to the others,
reach under the pile and pull out an
envelope) Hey, look what’s here! Another
envelope!!! And it’s got my name on it.
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ALLIE: Well, who knew we were going to be here
doing this?
ANNIE: Let’s open it. Hurry!
GOLDIE: OK, I’m hurrying!
READ ALOUD CLUE #9 - GOLDIE
BARBIE: Now, what can that possibly mean? Are we
finished here?
GEE: Just a few more clothes to go through.
ALL, CONTINUE LOOKING THROUGH POCKETS,
THEN HEAD BACK TO THE DINING ROOM WHERE
DAME SARAH WAITS FOR YOU.
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SCENE 10A - UNEXPECTED SURPRISES
ANNIE: Well, no ring.
GOLDIE: But, we found another clue. It only said
some people were gonna be surprised.
GEE: Yeah, that’s all it said.
ALLIE: Sorry, Dame Sarah. Where else can we
look?
BUBBLE: Marty, here, sit down,....take it easy. Deep
breaths. Annie, get a wet cloth and a glass
of water.
ANNIE, GO TO KITCHEN PICK UP AN ENVELOPE
FROM THE KITCHEN COUNTER, GET A WET
TOWEL AND GLASS OF WATER AND BRING BACK
TO BUBBLE. GIVE THE ENVELOPE TO BUBBLE.
BUBBLE: Thanks, Annie.
(Apply wet towel to Marty’s forehead and
hand Marty the glass of water)
SAM: Marty, slow down. What are you trying to
say?
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MARTY:
DAME SARAH:
MARTY:
DAME SARAH:
MARTY:.
DAME SARAH:
COOKIE: The clue,....my clue - it said the “Greentree
Jewelry Co.” has been sold to someone in
New York City.
DAME SARAH:
ALL: GASP!! WOW!! COOL!!
TEDDY: Dame Sarah, you are awesome!
MARTY:
DAME SARAH:
MARTY:
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DAME SARAH:
BUBBLE: Speaking of clues - I found an envelope with
my name on it in the kitchen. Let me open
it and read it to you.
READ ALOUD CLUE #10 - BUBBLE
COOKIE: What plain, old envelope?
BUBBLE: I have no idea. It’s a puzzle to me.
DAME SARAH:
SAM: What surprise?
DAME SARAH:
SAM: But, the ring is enough. I sure wasn’t
expecting anything else. I’m just so sad and
disappointed we couldn’t find it.
BUBBLE: Me, too.
DAME SARAH:
GEE: Another envelope?
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GINGER: Another clue?
GOLDIE: What is it, Sam?
BUBBLE: Oh, hurry and open it! I’m quite on pins and
needles!
TEDDY: Gee, Bubble, my grandmother used to say
that!
ALL: LAUGHTER
SAM: (Open envelope and pull out a piece of
paper) A check!
ALL: A check??? Wow!!! Let’s see!!!
SAM: What is this for? (Looking at the check)...It’s
an awful lot of money! What’s in your
envelope, Bubble?
BUBBLE: (Empty envelope) Wow! It’s an awesome
necklace and a check, too!
ANNIE: Think of this, Sam and Bubble—college year
after next and you’ve got a head start. You
won’t even have to get summer jobs like the
rest of us will.
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DAME SARAH:
BUBBLE: I bet mine is for med school, huh, Great-
Grandmother?
ALL: LAUGHTER!
DAME SARAH:
GEE: I’m SO ready for something to eat.
TEDDY: You are always ready to eat, Gee.
GOLDIE: Yeah, 24/7.
DAME SARAH:
SAM: Thank you also, Great-Grandmother. We
had a wonderful time, and again, thank you
from the bottom of my heart for my college
education. I’m overwhelmed!
Wonder where Marty is. Oh, yeah, Marty
went to find Moreland.
ALLIE: What a neat surprise!
ANNIE: Uh, I just thought of something that none of
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us thought of before.
BARBIE: What’s that, Annie?
ANNIE: Moreland—Moreland helped Marty bag the
cans. We don’t know—maybe he found the
ring?
GEE: Gads, I never thought of that—but, you’re
right!
TEDDY: You are so right!
GOLDIE: Why didn’t we think about it before?
GINGER: Well, duh, we just found out that he helped
bag the cans!
COOKIE: Yeah, she’s right!
BUBBLE: Wish Marty would get back.
MARTY:
SAM: (Open envelope) Okay, I’ll read it. It says:
“Dear Miss Samantha. I found your ring!”
ANNIE: What? He found the ring? How long ago?
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ALLIE: Well, where is it? And where is Moreland?
BARBIE: Yeah, if he has the ring and he ran away,
why would he confess to finding it?
GEE: Wait, let Sam finish reading the note.
SAM: Thank you. He writes, “When I learned from
my banker that Dame Sarah had left me so
much money, I didn’t have the heart to keep
the ring, even though my family in Spain
says it rightfully belongs to my niece.
TEDDY: To his niece? Fannie? What’s he talking
about?
GOLDIE: Wait! Could it be that he and his niece,
Fannie are...
GINGER: Related to Daphne?
COOKIE: No, not Daphne—there were certainly no
other boys in the family, remember? So,
Moreland couldn’t be one of her true
descendants.
BUBBLE: Then, who?
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SAM: Chesterton! Let me read some more. He
says, “My ancestor is Chesterton, the eldest
son of the Duke of Barcelona. I’m a direct
descendant. Some people in Barcelona
found a family tree and six months ago
wrote me about the family and the ring.
They had traced the location of the ring
through Daphne’s family and by luck I
happen to be working for Dame Sarah, who
has the ring in her possession. The family
asked me to retrieve it for them.”
ALLIE: This is so not real!! What a coincidence!
ANNIE: It sure is! It’s just crazy!
BARBIE: But, where is the ring?
GEE: Maybe he tells us.
TEDDY: Go on, Sam, read some more.
SAM: Okay, it gets weird. “Fannie is my niece,
and she does live in Canada. I was taking
time off to visit her and she’s a demanding
little woman who threatened to have me
killed if I didn’t bring the ring to her. She and
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the family claim it rightfully belonged to
Chesterton, not Daphne.” That’s all it says.
He signed his name.
GOLDIE: But, he didn’t say where the ring is.
GINGER: Did he take it with him?
COOKIE: No, he said he “didn’t have the heart to keep
the ring.”
BUBBLE: But, I wonder where it is!
MARTY:
DAME SARAH:
ALL, FOLLOW DAME SARAH TO MORELAND’S
APARTMENT.
SAM: Okay, here we are! Where do we start
looking?
BUBBLE: My clue—remember my clue? It said
something about a plain white envelope
revealing something.
ANNIE: But, we thought that meant Sam’s envelope
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with the check in it from Dame Sarah...
ALLIE: Maybe not. It was the last clue.
BARBIE: So, perhaps...
GEE: Let’s look around.
GINGER: My clue said something about a relative and
something missing.
COOKIE: But, we thought that was the pearl button off
Marty’s shirt.
TEDDY: Well, it could be something else. What else
is missing? We now know the relationship
between Moreland and Chesterton.
SAM: What’s missing? Gosh, I can’t think straight.
The ring’s missing!!!
TEDDY: Yeah, and think about my clue for a minute.
GINGER: You mean the one about “the unexpected
and the unknown are about to surface...?”
COOKIE: And, “be careful not to travel the wrong
path”???
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TEDDY: Yeah, that one!
GOLDIE: Well, what could it mean and do you think
there’s a connection here?
BUBBLE: Maybe...
SAM: Well, we know the ring’s missing. That must
be the answer to Ginger’s clue...
ANNIE: But, now, what about Teddy’s clue?
ALLIE: The first part we know. “The unexpected
and unknown” are the connection between
Moreland and Chesterton and Fannie.
BARBIE: Must be. Now we just need to know enough
to not “travel the wrong path.”
GEE: Path to where? Path to where? Let’s think
scientifically about this for a moment.
SAM: A path?
GEE: Yeah, a path—a wrong path! Maybe,
looking for the ring in the obvious place,
Moreland’s apartment, is the wrong path.
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TEDDY: Well, what could possibly be the right path?
GINGER: Where was it hidden to begin with?
COOKIE: Dame Sarah hid it in an empty coke can.
GOLDIE: But, we looked in Dame Sarah’s suite, we
looked in all the recycling before and after it
was bagged. We looked at the bottom of the
laundry chute. Where else would it be? Is
there another place an empty can could be?
BUBBLE: Let’s go back to the kitchen. Gee thinks
better there. We need her to think about
this.
EVERYONE, HEAD BACK TO THE KITCHEN
GEE: Thanks, guys! Thanks for unloading the
burden on me!
SAM: Gee, where would you look if you thought
about Teddy’s clue?
GEE: I’ll have to think about that awhile. A coke
will help me think better. (Go to fridge and
pull out empty coke can). Look an empty
coke can. No full ones in here! And, I’m
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thirsty!
TEDDY: Give me that. (Shake can) I think we’ve
found it.
GINGER: Well, empty it—let’s see!
TEDDY: (Shake ring out on counter top)
GEE: I knew it all along! Why do you think I went
to the fridge to get a coke? Takes a
scientific brain, that’s all.
ALL: Yeah, you knew it!!! Ha !!!
SAM: Wow, it is a ring! Could this be my ring?
DAME SARAH:
ALL: Wow! It’s beautiful!
ALLIE: But, how did Moreland know about the ring
in an empty coke can?
MARTY:
ANNIE: And, he found the right can and hid it from
you. And the only place he could put it
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where we’d find it would be in the fridge. He
knew Gee would find it.
DAME SARAH:
GEE: Moreland had this planned six months ago.
Before he knew we were coming.
SAM: Yeah, trying to find it, maybe. It was just
luck that Marty told him the ring was in an
empty can.
TEDDY: Then, when he found out about the money,
he found his conscience.
GINGER: Good thing! Do you realize how close Sam
came to losing the ring forever?
COOKIE: And the tradition?
SAM: Yes, especially the TRADITION!
THE END
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BEFORE SCENE 8 - OUT AT THE RECYCLING BIN
USE THIS AND SCENES 8, 9, AND 10 IF YOU ARE
HAVING A SLEEP OVER PARTY.
ANNIE: Look here, guys! A nice pearl-like button,
like it came from a nice shirt or blouse.
That’s all there is here on the ground,
though. All the cans are gone.
(Slip button in your pocket)
ALLIE: Someone must have dropped it here. Hey,
wait...maybe the person that Gee saw
bagging the cans, dropped it.
BARBIE: How was the stranger dressed, Gee?
GEE: Actually, not like anyone should look,
rummaging around in garbage. But, I didn’t
get a real good look at what the person was
wearing - some long-sleeved shirt, I guess.
DAME SARAH:
GEE: Yeah, our brains need to be refreshed - so
we can find this missing ring. I always think
more clearly in the morning anyway.
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ALL: Me, too!
DAME SARAH:
ALL: Good night, Dame Sarah.
EVERYONE, RETIRE FOR THE EVENING TO THE
DRAWING ROOM FOR CARDS, A MOVIE, OR JUST
TO TALK, THEN TO BED, TO MEET AGAIN AT
BREAKFAST IN THE MORNING, REFRESHED AND
READY TO FIND THE “TREASURED RING”.
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SCENE 8 - IN THE DINING ROOM AT BREAKFAST
GINGER: Hey, there’s an envelope at my place. Shall
I read it to you?
GOLDIE: Sure, why not! Might be enlightening.
READ ALOUD CLUE #7 - GINGER
MARTY:
DAME SARAH:
MARTY:
DAME SARAH:
COOKIE: (hit Ginger under the table and whisper to
her loudly) Hey look, Ginger, Marty’s left
sleeve button is missing.
GINGER: (whisper to Cookie)
The right sleeve button kinda looks like the
one Annie found yesterday. I think Annie still
has it.
GEE: I think I saw you out back yesterday. Was
that you I saw?
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MARTY:
COOKIE AND GINGER TOGETHER:
Dame Sarah, Annie, come with us for a
moment, please.
COOKIE, GINGER, DAME SARAH, AND ANNIE, LEAVE
DINING ROOM FOR A MOMENT.
OUTSIDE THE DOOR, COOKIE, PICK AN ENVELOPE
OFF THE FLOOR - WITH YOUR NAME ON IT.
COOKIE AND GINGER, TELL DAME SARAH AND
ANNIE WHAT YOU HAVE DISCOVERED
ANNIE, YOU STILL HAVE THE BUTTON IN YOUR
PLEASE RE-ENTER THE DINING ROOM
COOKIE: I’ve found another clue, so I’ll read it, then we
have something very important to tell you all.
READ ALOUD CLUE #8 - COOKIE
ALL: Hmmm! Very interesting!
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SCENE 9 - WHAT’S THE STORY?
TEDDY: Marty, you are missing a button from your
sleeve. See, look at your left sleeve. I
believe Annie found it out on the ground by
the recycling bins yesterday.
MARTY:
GINGER: Why did we find it there?
GEE: Well, while you, Cookie and Annie left the
room for a minute, we came to the
conclusion that Marty was the person I saw
out back yesterday when I was in the
kitchen.
ANNIE: Was that you, Marty?
MARTY:
DAME SARAH:
MARTY:
ALLIE: Why did you want to do that, Marty ?
MARTY:
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BUBBLE: We sure can understand that. How can we
help?
GOLDIE: Yeah, wish we could do something.
COOKIE: Well, I guess that collecting cans is a good
way to earn extra money, but certainly not a
lot.
MARTY:
ANNIE: (hand button to Marty)
Here’s the button, Marty.
MARTY:
TEDDY: If I may ask, Marty, did you sell the cans
yet?
MARTY:
ALLIE: Girls, maybe the ring is still around!
GEE: Marty, did you by chance find a ring in one
of the cans while you were collecting them?
MARTY:
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SAM: Yeah, weird, huh?
BARBIE: (running fingers thru’ hair)
Well, we’re right back where we started.
ANNIE: Well, I say we need to go through those
cans anyway before Marty sells them today.
BARBIE: Let’s do it right now. Marty, will you show us
where they are?
SAM: Is it okay, Great-Grandmother?
DAME SARAH:
MARTY:
LADIES, LEAVE YOUR GUIDES ON THE TABLE
UNTIL YOU RETURN. AFTER ENTERING THE
DINING ROOM, GEE, PLEASE RELAY THE SAD
NEWS.
DAME SARAH:
SAM: We’re not finished yet! Let’s go look through
the laundry at the bottom of the laundry
chute. We didn’t do that yet, you know.
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GEE: Good idea! Gotta be THERE! Nowhere
else to look.
GINGER: No, it wasn’t with the cans, so...it must be
with the clothes.
COOKIE: Must be, if it came down the chute.
GOLDIE: Yeah, must have fallen out of the can and
into the clothes as everything was coming
down the chute.
BUBBLE: Marty just must have missed it. Hope Marty
hasn’t done the laundry yet.
ALLIE: Quit talking about it, let’s go see if it’s there.
LADIES, TAKE YOUR GUIDES, GO TO THE BOTTOM
OF THE CHUTE.
GOLDIE: (Arrive first) I’ll go thru’ this stuff. Let me
hand the clothes to you one by one so you
can go thru’ the pockets. (As you are
handing the pieces of clothing to the others,
reach under the pile and pullout an
envelope) Hey, look what’s here! Another
envelope!!! And it’s got my name on it.
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ALLIE: Well, who knew we were going to be here
doing this?
ANNIE: Let’s open it. Hurry!
GOLDIE: OK, I’m hurrying!
READ ALOUD CLUE #9 - GOLDIE
BARBIE: Now, what can that possibly mean? Are we
finished here?
GEE: Just a few more clothes to go through.
ALL, CONTINUE LOOKING THROUGH POCKETS,
THEN HEAD BACK TO THE DINING ROOM WHERE
DAME SARAH WAITS FOR YOU.
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SCENE 10 - UNEXPECTED SURPRISES
ANNIE: Well, no ring.
GOLDIE: But, we found another clue. It only said
some people were gonna be surprised.
GEE: Yeah, that’s all it said.
ALLIE: Sorry, Dame Sarah. Where else can we
look?
BUBBLE: Marty, here, sit down,....take it easy. Deep
breaths. Annie, get a wet cloth and a glass
of water.
ANNIE, GO TO KITCHEN, PICK UP AN ENVELOPE
FROM THE KITCHEN COUNTER, GET A WET
TOWEL AND GLASS OF WATER AND BRING BACK
TO BUBBLE. GIVE THE ENVELOPE TO BUBBLE.
BUBBLE: Thanks, Annie. (Apply wet towel to Marty’s
forehead and hand Marty the glass of water)
SAM: Marty, slow down. What are you trying to
say?
MARTY:
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DAME SARAH:
MARTY:
DAME SARAH:
MARTY:
DAME SARAH:
COOKIE: The clue,....my clue - it said the “Greentree
Jewelry Co.” has been sold to someone in
New York City.
DAME SARAH:
ALL: GASP!! WOW!! COOL!!
TEDDY: Dame Sarah, you are awesome!
MARTY:
DAME SARAH:
MARTY:
DAME SARAH:
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MARTY:
BUBBLE: Speaking of clues - I found an envelope with
my name on it in the kitchen. Let me open
it and read it to you.
READ ALOUD CLUE #10 - BUBBLE
COOKIE: What plain, old envelope?
BUBBLE: I have no idea. It’s a puzzle to me.
DAME SARAH:
SAM: What surprise?
DAME SARAH:
SAM: But, the ring is enough. I sure wasn’t
expecting anything else. I’m just so sad and
disappointed we couldn’t find it.
BUBBLE: Me, too!
DAME SARAH:
GEE: Another envelope?
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GINGER: Another clue?
GOLDIE: What is it, Sam?
BUBBLE: Oh, hurry and open it! I’m quite on pins and
needles!
TEDDY: Gee, Bubble, my grandmother used to say
that!
ALL: LAUGHTER
SAM: (Open envelope and pull out a piece of
paper) A check!!!
ALL: A check??? Wow!!! Let’s see!!!
SAM: What is this for? (Looking at the check) It’s
an awful lot of money! What’s in your
envelope, Bubble?
BUBBLE: (Empty envelope) Wow! It’s an awesome
necklace and a check, too.
ANNIE: Think of this, Sam and Bubble—college year
after next and you’ve got a head start. You
won’t even have to get summer jobs like the
rest of us will.
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DAME SARAH:
BUBBLE: I bet mine is for med school, huh, Great-
Grandmother?
ALL: LAUGHTER!
DAME SARAH:
GEE: I’m SO ready for something to eat.
TEDDY: You are always ready to eat, Gee.
GOLDIE: Yeah, 24/7.
DAME SARAH:
SAM: Thank you also, Great-Grandmother. We
had a wonderful time, and again, thank you
from the bottom of my heart for my college
education. I’m overwhelmed!
Wonder where Marty is. Oh, yeah, Marty
went to find Moreland.
ALLIE: What a neat surprise!
ANNIE: Uh, I just thought of something that none of
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us thought of before.
BARBIE: What’s that, Annie?
ANNIE: Moreland—Moreland helped Marty big the
cans. We don’t know—maybe he found the
ring?
GEE: Gads, I never thought of that—but, you’re
right!
TEDDY: You are so right!
GOLDIE: Why didn’t we think about it before?
GINGER: Well, duh, we just found out that he helped
bag the cans!
COOKIE: Yeah, she’s right!
BUBBLE: Wish Marty would get back.
SAM: (Open envelope) Okay, I’ll read it. It says:
“Dear Miss Samantha. I found your ring!”
ANNIE: What? He found the ring? How long ago?
ALLIE: Well, where is it? And where is Moreland?
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BARBIE: Yeah, if he has the ring and he ran away,
why would he confess to finding it?
GEE: Wait, let Sam finish reading the note.
SAM: Thank you. He writes, “When I learned from
my banker that Dame Sarah had left me so
much money, I didn’t have the heart to keep
the ring, even though my family in Spain
says it rightfully belongs to my niece.
TEDDY: To his niece? Fannie? What’s he talking
about?
GOLDIE: Wait! Could it be that he and his niece,
Fannie are...
GINGER: Related to Daphne?
COOKIE: No, not Daphne—there were certainly no
other boys in the family, remember? So,
Moreland couldn’t be one of her true
descendants.
BUBBLE: Then, who?
SAM: Chesterton! Let me read some more. He
says, “My ancestor is Chesterton, the eldest
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son of the Duke of Barcelona. I’m a direct
descendant. Some people in Barcelona
found a family tree and six months ago
wrote me about the family and the ring.
They had traced the location of the ring
through Daphne’s family, and by luck I
happen to be working for Dame Sarah, who
has the ring in her possession. The family
asked me to retrieve it for them.”
ALLIE: This is so not real! What a coincidence!
ANNIE: It sure is! It’s just crazy!
BARBIE: But, where is the ring?
GEE: Maybe he tells us.
TEDDY: Go on, Sam, read some more.
SAM: Okay, it gets weird. “Fannie is my niece,
and she does live in Canada. I was taking
time off to visit her and she’s a demanding
little woman who threatened to have me
killed if I didn’t bring the ring to her. She and
the family claim it rightfully belonged to
Chesterton, not Daphne.” That’s all it says.
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He signed his name.
GOLDIE: But, he didn’t say where the ring is.
GINGER: Did he take it with him?
COOKIE: No, he said he “didn’t have the heart to keep
the ring.”
BUBBLE: But, I wonder where it is!
MARTY:
DAME SARAH:
ALL, FOLLOW DAME SARAH TO MORELAND’S
APARTMENT
SAM: Okay, here we are! Where do we start
looking?
BUBBLE: My clue—remember my clue? It said
something about a plain white envelope
revealing something.
ANNIE: But, we thought that meant Sam’s envelope
with the check in it from Dame Sarah...
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ALLIE: Maybe not. It was the last clue.
BARBIE: So, perhaps...
GEE: Let’s look around.
GINGER: My clue said something about a relative and
something missing.
COOKIE: But, we thought that was the pearl button off
Marty’s shirt.
TEDDY: Well, it could be something else. What else
is missing? We now know the relationship
between Moreland and Chesterton.
SAM: What’s missing? Gosh, I can’t think straight.
The ring’s missing!!!
TEDDY: Yeah, and think about my clue for a minute.
GINGER: You mean the one about “the unexpected
and the unknown are about to surface...?”
COOKIE: And, “be careful not to travel the wrong
path”???
TEDDY: Yeah, that one!
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GOLDIE: Well, what could it mean and do you think
there’s a connection here?
BUBBLE: Maybe...
SAM: Well, we know the ring’s missing. That must
be the answer to Ginger’s clue...
ANNIE: But, now, what about Teddy’s clue?
ALLIE: The first part we know. “The unexpected
and unknown” are the connection between
Moreland and Chesterton and Fannie.
BARBIE: Must be. Now we just need to know enough
to not “travel the wrong path.”
GEE: Path to where? Path to where? Let’s think
scientifically about this for a moment.
SAM: A path?
GEE: Yeah, a path—a wrong path! Maybe,
looking for the ring in the obvious place,
Moreland’s apartment, is the wrong path.
TEDDY: Well, what could possibly be the right path?
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GINGER: Where was it hidden to begin with?
COOKIE: Dame Sarah hid it in an empty coke can.
GOLDIE: But we looked in Dame Sarah’s suite, we
looked in all the recycling before and after it
was bagged. We looked at the bottom of the
laundry chute. Where else would it be? Is
there another place an empty can could be?
BUBBLE: Let’s go back to the kitchen. Gee thinks
better there. We need her to think about
this.
EVERYONE, HEAD BACK TO THE KITCHEN
GEE: Thanks, guys! Thanks for unloading the
burden on me!
SAM: Gee, where would you look if you thought
about Teddy’s clue?
GEE: I’ll have to think about that while. A coke will
help me think better. (Go to fridge and pull
out empty coke can). Look, an empty coke
can. No full ones in here! And, I’m thirsty!
TEDDY: Give me that. (Shake can) I think we’ve
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found it.
GINGER: Well, empty it—let’s ssee!
TEDDY: (Shake ring out on counter top)
GEE: I knew it all along! Why do you think I went
to the fridge to get a coke? Takes a
scientific brain, that’s all.
ALL: Yeah, you knew it!!! Ha !!!
SAM: Wow, it is a ring! Could this be my ring?
DAME SARAH:
ALL: Wow! It’s beautiful!
ALLIE: But, how did Moreland know about the ring
in an empty coke can?
MARTY:
ANNIE: And, he found the right can and hid it from
you. And the only place he could put it
where we’d find it would be in the fridge. He
knew Gee would find it.
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DAME SARAH:
GEE: Moreland had this planned six months ago.
Before he knew we were coming.
SAM: Yeah, trying to find it, maybe. It was just
luck that Marty told him the ring was in an
empty can.
TEDDY: Then, when he found out about the money,
he found his conscience.
GINGER: Good thing! Do you realize how close Sam
came to losing the ring forever?
COOKIE: And the tradition?
SAM: Yes, especially the TRADITION!
THE END
Hot potatoObject: not to be caught with the ball when the music stops.
Preparations: you’ll need a beach ball and some fast, upbeat music. All players form acircle.
The game: while the music plays toss the ball from player to player around the circle.
When the music stops (you’ll need a person to do this) the player with the ball is out ofthe game. Play until only one player has not been caught with the potato.
Or, have the “out” player go to the center until someone else is caught and they can
trade places and get back into the game. In this case play for as long as the kids arelaughing.
GotchaObject: the person in the center tries to guess who has the button while those in the
circle try to avoid being caught with the button.
Preparation: have two buttons, coins or similar small objects available.
The game: the players sit in a circle, and one child is chosen to be the guesser. Theguesser sits in the center of the circle and closes his eyes, while another child is given
the button. Upon instruction, the players begin to pass the button from hand to handaround the circle. They all keep their hands in constant motion so that it looks as if
they all are passing the button at the same time. The guesser at any time can say“gotcha” and opens her eyes. The players quickly stop passing the button and the
center player tries to guess who has the button. When she guesses correctly bypointing and saying "gotcha" she trades places with that player, who then takes his turn
in the center and the passing and guessing continues.
We can whistleObject: to be the first person to successfully eat their crackers and whistle as soon afterchewing them as possible (but not swallowing).
Preparation: provide a cracker to each player.
The game: to begin the game, have all the players practice whistling. The players are
each given a cracker. When instructed, chew the cracker but don’t swallow it. The firstone to whistle is the winner.
Printing and assembling instructions for multi-paper decorations found in this kit. Lay the pieces next to one another to resemble the finished poster.
Cut the bottom margin from the top two papers (1 and 2).Cut the right margins from the two left papers (1 and 3).
Line the papers together so the image is lined up correctly at the top and the bottom..Put small pieces of tape to secure the papers, use just enough to be able to turn it overand still have the image stay together.
Attach as much tape as you want to the back of the poster to secure it together.
You may wish to trim the overall margins so they are even.
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Case of the Missing Ring Mansion Floor Plans
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Printing Instructions for Girl’s Case of the Missing Ring Mystery Party Kit
Print these pages and use to help you print your party
Use the bookmarks on the left of the acrobat screen. If you do not see them, look far left andclick on the tab (Acrobat 9.+)
Page: 2Print and review this page (print current page in the print menu) before you begin printing.
Page: 3 and Page 4 InvitationsSam is played by your daughter.Choose the correct invitation (one day party or sleepover)
Set printer options to print in landscape format. Use print current page option.
You will print one invitation for each guest. Since your guests become characters as chosenby you and your child; be sure to add the correct character before printing each invitation. You must either remove or add the custom information where the invitation reads 'type...'before printing. To delete, select the box and use the delete key.
Choose one of each character name below. Highlight to select and paste into invitation byusing the Edit/Copy and Edit/Paste menu options. Press enter after adding the nameAllison KatzBarbarella DahlAnastasia OakleyGeorgette WhizTheodora Baer
Virginia SnappCatarina CutterGolda LoxBarbara Bath
Go to the correct guest profiles (one day party or sleep over).One day print pages 4 and 5Sleepover print pages 6 and 7
Print pages 8 to 19, the adult profiles and party planner. Assemble the party planner.
Game materials
CluesPrint pages 20 to 22Cut each clue to separate them.
Player Game Script for one day party
Adult guides Print 2 copies (one for Dame Sarah and one for Marty)pages 23 to 51Assemble before continuingMark cover page, one for Dame Sarah and the other for Marty
Go to the guest guide
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Guest guidePrint 10 copies pages 68 to 90Assemble before continuingGo to the Game suggestions
Sleepover party
Adult guides Print 2 copies (one for Dame Sarah and one for Marty)pages 23 to 36 AND 52 to 67Assemble before continuingMark cover page, one for Dame Sarah and the other for Marty
Go to the guest guide
Guest guidePrint 10 copies pages 68 to 78 AND 91 to 102Assemble before continuingGo to the Game suggestions
Game suggestions and room signs Print 1 copy of pages 103 to 115Go to Portraits
PortraitsYou will use this 'cheat sheet' when you show the girls the portraits. Print current page, then go to the Scrapbook portraits.
ScrapbookSome customers have not wanted to use as much ink as the large wall hanging portraitsrequire.
This and the next page include an alternative 2 page scrapbook.You decide what's more fun for you, the 5 portraits which are each printed on 4 sheets ofpaper and hang on your walls, or the 2 page scrapbook. Or, use them all!Print pages 119 to 138
For the scrapbook, 2 page option; print pages 116 to 118
Go to the Place Settings or if you want to use the large portraits, select Large portraits fromthe left bookmark.
Large portraitsPrint pages 119 to 138Assembly instructions were printed with the game instructions earlier.Go to the Place settings.
Place settingsPrint pages 139 to 148Go to checks
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Print checksType your party day and date, press enter then print current page. Page 149Go to the optional T-shirt iron-ons or the thank you cards.
Optional T-shirts This file has graphics for Tshirts. The Tshirts are not required to play the game and areoptional to the plot. You will need special t-shirt iron-on transfer paper. You can purchase thispaper on line at http://www.paper-paper.com/transfer.html as well as from your local craftstore. Follow instructions on the transfer paper package. You may need to use the reversedtext or not.Reversed:Print pages 151 to 160 on the transfer paper
Not Reversed:Print pages 161 to 170 on the transfer paper
Go to the Thank you cardsPrint 2 copies of page 171
Printing is complete.Have a great party