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Just then, it hit me. Trap was Smoothie’s

partner. That’s why he wanted me to book a

trip with Smoothie. He was making money

off me. Oh, what a cheesebrain I’d been!

I ran to my cousin’s thrift shop, Cheap

Junk for Less.

There was a card in this window, too.

CLOSED FOR VACATION

— SMOOTHIE SLICKMOUSE

P. S. IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY, PLEASE

contact my partner, Mr.Trap Stilton

THERE MUST BE SOME MISTAKE!

CLOSED, SUPER-CLOSED, I’M AWAY, GOT

IT? I’M AT THE HIGH-CLASS RODENT

LUXURYRESORT. (NOTINARAT’S NEST LIKE

THE ONE THAT MY

CHEESEBRAIN

COUSIN GERONIMO WENT TO.)