15. CAUGHT IN THE ACT

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"Where is it, where is it?" A frustrated Count Olaf kept asking himself as he rummaged through the back of his wagon, trying to look for a certain carryon.

"Stephano!" Uncle Monty called from the doorway of the house.

"Coming!" 'Stephano' cried back before covering his wagon back up with the piece of cloth and entering the house.

The man scowled as he watched the herpetologist go up the stairs to bid the Baudelaires a goodnight before making his way into the kitchen looking frantically around for something before his eyes landed on Monty's gas stove, a sinister smirk playing upon his lips.

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"Goodnight Bambini," Dr. Montgomery said after putting the children to bed, giving them smiles and receiving them back before he closed the door and headed downstairs.

After waiting for about two hours, Violet and Klaus jumped out of bed and Violet hand Sunny to her brother.

"How are you going to distract them?" Klaus asked his sister.

"I have no idea," The girl told him, shaking her head, "But that's not what's important right now," She said, "What's important is that you need to get that suitcase,"

"But how am I even going to open it if it's locked?" He asked and Violet sighed, reaching over to her bedside table and grabbed a hair grip that was resting on the side of it.

"Here," She said, handing it to him, "Just put it inside the lock and then jiggle it around for a little bit and then it should open," Violet informed the glasses clad boy.

He nodded and the Baudelaires then quietly made their way down the stairs and Klaus - who was carrying Sunny - swiftly made his way outside and to the Incredibly Deadly Viper shaped bush.

He put Sunny down by the base of the shrubbery before looking behind it, smiling in victory once he saw the lumpy suitcase that his sister had cleverly hidden behind the snake bush.

Taking the hair grip given to him by Violet, Klaus took the object out of his pyjama pocket and opened the suitcase.

"What the?" Klaus asked, looking through the items in the bag.

"Yes, 'What the?' indeed," A voice from behind him said and Klaus turned around to see the scowling face of Count Olaf.

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