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and on the wood that barricaded the doors and windows of abandoned houses. Even the mail-boxes had the posters on them, although from the hurrying roadster I could only read one word on them.
“This is a very crucial matter,” Theodora was saying. “We were given this important case because of our earlier success with the theft of the statue of the Bombinating Beast.”
“I would not call it success,” I said.
“I don’t care what you would call it,” Theodora said. “Try to be more like your prede-cessor, Snicket.”
I was tired of hearing about the appren-tice before me. Theodora had liked him better, which made me think he was worse. “We were hired to return that statue to its rightful own-ers,” I reminded her, “but that turned out to be one of Hangfire’s tricks, and now both the item and the villain could be anywhere.”
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