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"Jacques was lying on the ground with his eyes closed, and two members of the Council of Elders were pulling a white sheet over him, as if they were tucking him in for a nap. But as dearly as I wish I could write that it was so, he was not sleeping. The Baudelaires had reached the uptown jail before the citizens of V.F.D. could burn him at the stake, but they still had not arrived in the nick of time."

""The message is this," said the third member of the Council of Elders and she leaned her head in close so that the children could see every felt feather of her crow hat, "Count Olaf has been captured," she said, and the Baudelaires felt as if a bolt of lightning had struck them once more."

"The Baudelaire orphans had been barking up the wrong tree all evening, because the only thing the children found that morning was another scrap of paper, rolled into a scroll, among all the black feathers that the crows had left behind."

"For at the bottom of the list, below Paltryville and Tedia and Ophelia, was the most important thing they had read all morning. Printed in flowery script, on the back page of the brochure Mr. Poe had given them, were the letters V.F.D."