Chapter 38

“Can he come up here to the pool?”Jethro said.

“In a word,no,”Josh said.“For one thing,he’d probably jump in the pool,and we don’t want him tracking mud into the house.And,there’s no fence to keep him from falling over the edge of the falls.”

“Would he do that?”Caleb said.

“Well,not on purpose,”Josh said,“but dogs tend to get excited about things,and he might forget and come too close to the edge.”

“So that’s rule one of this household,”Jake said.“Rex doesn’t come up here by the pool.Ever.”

“What are the other rules?”Caleb said.

“What?”Jake said.

“You said that was rule one,so what are the others?”

“We’ll have to write them down for you as we go along,”Josh said.“I guess rule number two is that we never leave the house unlocked.We’ll get spare keys for you guys,and you must remember to always lock up when you leave the house.We’re kind of isolated up here on this mountainside,and bad people could come across the ridge and steal from us.”