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“Oh no!” Mrs. Clause shrieked as her glasses went up and smashed on the ground. Santa is missing and it’s only two more days till Christmas. Mrs. Clause sent out a search party for Santa.
== The next morning Mrs. Clause was so upset that she forgot to change her clothes and brush her hair. She looked like a ragamuffin. She went for a walk to get her mind off things. Now there were missing Santa flyers everywhere. While she was walking, she ran into the detective team. She asked them if they would like to find Santa. Of course, they said yes. ==

Mrs. Clause replied “In the elves' workshop.”
== As fast as you could say marshmallows, they were at the elves workshop. They were looking for awhile and they couldn’t find any clues. Then Gabe found a clue. It was a bell off of an elf’s shoe. They decided to line up all the elves so they could look at the shoes. When they were all lined up, they started down the line. There was one elf missing a bell on his shoe, but they forgot to look at his face. == == The detectives decided to split up and search the village for more clues. Gabe, Madison, and Paul searched the north side of the village and Jenna, Jabar, and Anna searched the south side. Then Paul found an elf’s paintbrush near a cave. Good thing that Madison brought her phone. She texted Jenna. She wrote we found a clue so borrow a snowmobile to get here fast. Jenna got the text and replied I got your message. We will be right over. And they were. ==

“I know, I know. Can you please help me?“ said Santa.
== As they untied the knots, an unexpected visitor came. It was one of Santa’s elves. He had on a black shirt that was all ripped up and don’t even get me started with the black pants. And on his right shoe he was missing a bell. “Allow me to introduce myself,” said the elf. “My name is Bob and I was the one who stole Santa.” The detective team was shocked that one of Santa’s elves did the crime. ==

== They hurried back to the village on the snowmobile. They were just in time. Santa and Bob went on the sleigh and Mrs. Clause came running up and kissed him on the cheek. Then they were off to deliver the presents. ==