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"I'll get her," Monk said sheepishly. "She's got a room down the hall."



"Wait a minute," Doc said. He went into the bedroom of the suite, threw up a window he found there, and examined a convenient fire escape. "Come on," he said. "We're going to skip without seeing Pat."





MONK grinned. "I wish I could be around to hear what she has to say about it."



"Better get our clothes," Ham said. "Or are we coming back here?"



"Grab what you'll need," Doc said.



Ham and Monk did some hasty scooping of garments into a handbag, and Ham climbed out on the fire escape. Monk followed him, then Doc.



They went down two floors and there was a clattering uproar and a crash as a champagne bottle fell off a window sill, hit the areaway below and broke.



"Blazes!" Monk said. "Somebody had a thread stretched across -- "



Pat Savage put her head out of a window above and said, "That's right, Monk. A thread. And guess who put it there."







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