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"Where we cohtily, "you don’t question people who coes, either!" said Olive

Just then a tre went off in the middle of the camp The Gypsy boy lost his balance and fell off the rarass, and the rest of us ducked as pots and pans went flying through the air away fro it sped off screaht’ve run all the way to the ocean if so bucket and doused her with it

A mo up the rae "That’s what happens when you try and !" said Millard, out of breath and laughing

"You did that?" said Horace

"Everything was too orderly and quiet … bad weather for pickpocketing! So I slipped one of our eggs in with theirs, et voilà!" Millard made a key appear out of thin air "People are much less likely to notice my hand in their pockets when dinner’s just exploded in their faces"

"Took you long enough," said Enoch "Now let us out of here!"

But before Millard could get the key in the door, the Gypsy boy stood up and shouted, "Help! They’re trying to get away!"

The boy had heard everything--but in the confusion following the blast, hardly anyone noticed his shouts

Millard twisted the key in the lock The door wouldn’t open

"Oh, drat," he said "Perhaps I stole the wrong key?"

"Ahhhh!" the boy screahost!"

"Will soed, reaching through the cage to grab the boy’s arainst the bars

"Haaaaalp!" he screaot mmmfff--"

She slapped a hand over his mouth, but she’d silenced hies!"

And suddenly, without really e Gypsy ht

"What are you doing?" cried Millard "Let that boy go before they murder us!"

"No, don’t!" Emma said, and then she screamed, "Free us or the boy dies!"

The Gypsies surrounded us, shouting threats "If you harm him in any way," the leader yelled, "I’ll kill every last one of you with o and on’t hurt anyone"