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They had reached the door to Lovell’s shop, and Cathy looked at her keys to select the correct one As she did, Max, Pro, and Chu pulled out latex gloves and began to put them on

“So what did you find, Max?” Pro said

“Didn’t I teach you anything, pumpkin?” Max smirked “Show, don’t tell”

The door opened and Max handed a pair of gloves to the baffled Cathy, as Chu et aith it”

“He also savedin trouble,” Pro acquiesced “I’ll let him enjoy himself, this once”

Max hit the light switch with his gloved hand “The city has e stories, but one of them is that the mail used to be shot around the city at thirty miles per hour in pneumatic tubes”

“Really?” Cathy said “That’s a”

Pro and Tolance

Max led theh the curtain and to the back room

“But also a was that the Ansonia was part of that route, and it also had pneu, for not only uests to staff”

There were shelves of props in the back roo units, all carefully marked Max walked over to the one empty wall and knocked on it as the others watched He came to a place where the sound was remarkably hollow

“Ah, and I think we have it,” Max said as he tapped up and down and studied the wall At last he put his hands on it and pressed so that a part of the wall sprung open on a hidden hinge

“Hey, that’s not supposed to do that,” Cathy said, annoyed

“That’s all right,” Max stated as he peeked behind thepanel He opened the door wide, and you could see the brick of the original wall, and in front of it, three large tubes The pipes each had aover the end Max tried them one at a time, and on the third one, it turned easily in his hand “I believe we have found e are looking for”

He untwisted the loved fingers, shoved the around