A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Ersatz Elevator Lemony Snicket 259 Pages Copyrighted in 2001 Klaus's Diary 3/31/01 Dear Diary, <Tab/>Today I arrived at the Squalor's apartment, which is located on Dark Avenue. My climb to their apartment wasn't easy since the elevators were out. No, the elevators weren't out of order. They were just out. See in this part of the city, everything has either one of two statuses. Either it is …showed first 75 words of 858 total…

…showed last 75 words of 858 total…this later after we rescue them from their cage. Not wasting any time, we climbed back up to our apartment and found some iron tongs to heat up in the oven. It took us a half-hour to do this, and then we promptly headed back down to rescue the Quagmire triplets. Sadly, when we reached the bottom, the Quagmires were no where to be found. Count Olaf was once again one step ahead of us.