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Jake gave me a curious look. “She said thanks.”
“Anything else?”
“I don’t know what you’ve heard, Snicket, but Miss Knight’s not a friend of mine. She’s just a customer.”
“What was she wearing?”
“The same as in the picture.”
“Let me guess,” I said. “Then she got into a taxi.”
“A taxi?” Jake repeated with a laugh. “You really are a stranger. Cleo in a taxi! Miss Knight’s got a brand-new Dilemma that’s way better than any taxi.”
“There’s no need to insult us, Jake,” said a voice from the door.
Two boys had walked into Hungry’s, and they were two boys I knew. Their names were Bouvard Bellerophon and Pecuchet Bellerophon, which explains why everyone called them Pip and Squeak. They worked as taxi drivers when their father was sick, and it looked like he was
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