The next day came early at the Prince Island Lighthouse. Brian was busy doing things around the island and Honey was taking a rest on one of the large chairs that sat above the rocks. It was going to be a hot day and Trixie wanted to go into the old barracks.

Jim volunteered to go with her and as the two of them made their way to the long old stone building, they looked around. There were five separate rooms, each having their won door and everything was made of stone. The chairs everything. Trixie thought of how uncomfortable it must have been there.

As Trixie and Jim went through each room they thought about the people who had once called this place home. The place was cold and dark and each room had only one fireplace for warmth. Jim had lived out in the cold when he had run away and he remembered how cold it could get in the winter.

As they went around the corner at the end of the barracks they ran into one of the geese that resided there on the island. The goose was not friendly and honked a warning as they approached. But Jim was not afraid of him and as he continued toward the goose the goose ran off.

But to Jim's amazement, he found an old rusted medal of some sort on the ground. He turned it over and tried to look at what he had found, but it needed a thorough cleaning. Trixie looked at the piece and thought that it looked as though it was very old.

They both thought of the story of the barracks being from as early as the revolutionary war and they decided to ask Dan if he knew anything about the medal.

As they approached the group that had now gathered outside of the lighthouse, they showed them the medal. Mr. Wheeler took the medal in his hands and said that it would indeed need a good cleaning, but it looked to be a sort of medal that someone who had some medical background would have.

Dan came down to the group and saw that they were all talking about something that they had found. There were lots of things on the island to hunt for and many times the geese had found interesting things. They liked shiny objects and were good at taking them and hiding them in their nests." he told them.

So the Bob Whites of the Glen had another mystery to solve. Who was the person that had received a medal for his service? Dan had something that would help with the cleaning of medals. He had found antique things at the island many times and had bought some stuff that would wash off most of the rust without hurting the medal.

Dan showed Trixie and Jim how to clean the medal and they went to work on it. They needed to leave it in a solution for the next two hours. Trixie wanted to stand there and wait, but the rest of the Bob Whites had something else on their mind. This was a vacation as well. So Trixie and Honey went up to the top of the lighthouse and took a seat on the outside.

From the top of the lighthouse the view was breathtaking and they could watch all the sailboats in the harbor. Every once in a while a boat would go by close enough to the island and they would wave to the people. The two hours were finally up and Trixie and Jim met in the kitchen to see what the medal was hopefully.

The medal was still hard to identify, but they could see that Honey's father had been right. It was a medical medal and it was now time for them to find out more about it. They went upstairs to the small library and started to look for different things that had been found on the island before. Each and every article that had been found on the island that was known was in this book along with a picture.

As the day dragged on Trixie and her friends had no luck finding out what the medal was for. Dan came up and smiled at them. "I have good news for you. There is a friend of mine who lives in Newport. He is very interested in the medal that you found and he would like to meet with you the day after tomorrow here on Prince Island."

Jim and the rest of the Bob Whites thanked Dan and put the medal away carefully in one of the showcases. They would enjoy the time with their families until Dan's friend came out.

Trixie had always been one to do things on a whim, and this was no different. She wanted to spend the night in one of the old barracks room. 'After all when would she and the Bob Whites have another chance to spend the night in a revolutionary barracks again?' she reasoned to herself.

At first Honey and Di had second thoughts on the prospect. It was dark in the rooms and they had heard that it might be haunted. But Jim and Mart offered to spend the night. in the room next door and everyone agreed.

The Belden's and the Wheelers were a little nervous, but they finally decided that it would be all right with them. As long as the group stayed together and knew that they were not to go wandering the island alone, they allowed them to go spend the night in the barracks.

Because of the way the island was set up everyone had brought a sleeping bag and as they laid theirs out on the cold stone floor of the old army barracks, they were excited. The boys came in and they sat around until after ten telling ghost and campfire stories. The strange glow of the fire from the fireplace made the stories even scarier. When the boys left the girls climbed into their sleeping bags hiding their faces, because they were so scared. The boys laughed as they left the room and went into their own room.

Trixie could not sleep and when she looked over at her two friends she could see that neither one of them were sleeping either. Honey and Di's eyes were wide open and staring around the room looking for anything that might jump our in front of them. Trixie laughed but then heard a sound and climbed under her sleeping bag too.

Mart and Jim spent the night sleeping only on and off too. They had heard too many stories and every time there was a noise they woke up and jumped.

The five friends were glad when the sunlight finally showed threw the window on the door. They went up to the lighthouse and found Brian and Dan already at work cleaning up the yard. Brian smiled at the motley crew and asked "Did you have a good nights sleep?"

They all shook their heads yes and Brian laughed. "You are not fooling your old friend Brian. Two weeks after I came here there was no one staying in the barracks, so I decided to give it a go. I have never had such a bad nights sleep in my life. That was when Dan told me that he too had tried once. You don't get much sleep there."