8 Ch8-Spying on a Spy

Chapter 8 Spying on a Spy We decided the only way to find out if Mrs. Cooney was really a spy would be to spy on her. So we watched her like a hawk the whole next day. Andrea listened to Mrs. Cooney's conversations whenever she talked with the teachers. Me and Ryan

snuck in the nurse's office during recess. Emily pretended to be sick so she could gather more information. Finally, when school let out at three o'clock, we got together at the monkey bars in the playground to compare notes. "There's a cabinet in the nurse's office that's locked at all times," Emily said, "and I saw the word 'poison' on a bottle inside!" "Poison!" Michael said. "Spies are always poisoning people!" "And she took my temperature with that weird thing she sticks in your ear," said Emily. "How do we know that thing is really a

thermometer?" asked Ryan. "Maybe it's a secret brain scope." "She has all kinds of spy gadgets," said Ryan. "Like those machines she uses to

test our eyesight and hearing every year. Maybe she really uses them to transmit secret coded messages." "What about that tape measure thing she's got?" I asked. "The one where she pushes a button and the whole tape goes flying into her hand. That thing is cool." "Mrs. Cooney is always weighing and measuring things," Emily said. "She's obsessed," said Andrea. "She's constantly gathering information about us and writing it all down." "Like a spy," Michael added. "You know, when I was in her office today," Emily said, "she told me she isn't allowed to give kids medicine."

"That's true," Michael said. "She'll give you a cough drop or some crackers. That's it." "Once she had me gargle with salt water," Ryan said. "A lot of good that did." "Or she'll put a bag of frozen vegeta- bles on your head," said Michael. "What kind of nurse can't give medi- cine?" Emily asked. "A fake one," Michael said. "A spy nurse." "This morning I saw her standing in the hallway," Andrea said, "and she was whispering into the phone." "She was probably passing secrets to that bad guy who wants to take over the

world," said Ryan. Wow, the evidence against Mrs. Cooney was mounting. Maybe she really was a spy! "We've got to do something!" Emily said.