The Spy Who Came North From The Pole - Plot & Excerpts
Pin sat in his back room, looking at three empty chocolate boxes. Mr. Pin lined them up on his desk next to a microscope. A single light bulb dangling from the ceiling swung gently whenever the elevated train on Wabash went by. “Just empty boxes of chocolate,” said Maggie. “Not quite,” said Mr. Pin. “There’s a clue in each one.” Mr. Pin took out a pair of tweezers from his black bag. He held each box very carefully with gloves. “I don’t want to disturb any fingerprints,” Mr. Pin said. “But I don’t think I’ll find any.” Maggie watched as Mr. Pin removed what looked like a speck of chocolate from two of the boxes. Then he placed the two specks on microscope slides. “I’ve already made a slide from the first box,” explained Mr. Pin. He held another slide up to his beak and said, “It looks like chocolate, but it isn’t. That’s probably why no one thought it was important.” Then he put the slide under the microscope lens. “Now take a look at this,”
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