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"Hopefully Watson won't screw up this time and make me fail in another
case," I thought to myself as I waited for the bottle rocket to come
through the window.
"Fire!" I cried. Thinking that this trick would certainly prove my
superior wit to the know-it-all lady, I smirked to myself as I waited
for her to betray the hiding place. As soon as she turned her eyes to
an ugly, old bench in the corner, I thought to myself, "Aha! It
worked!" and jumped with great force and grace onto the top of the
bench.
"What pain!" I thought, and then "What a woman!" as the bench cracked
under my weight and sent me crashing to the floor. Forever after
that, whenever it rained and my back ached, I thought of the lady, her
beauty, her elegance, her luck (for I never once doubted that it was
through luck that she escaped that day with her document in hand).
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