Chapter 18

CHAPTER 18 As Merle got close to the back of the hotel, he spotted a window on the third floor with the window cracked open and the shades drawn. Most of the windows he'd seen were closed with the shades wide open.

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What do we have here? Merle wondered. He bounced from windowsill to tree branch to windowsill until he reached the room near the very back. Squirrels are quite agile and can fit through very small openings, so Merle had no problem squeezing in through the cracked-open window. Once inside the room, he poked his nose though the curtains. It took his eyes a moment to adjust to the darkened room, but soon he was able to make out a cage on top of a desk. Inside sat... Pearl! "PSSSSST! Pearl!" Merle whispered loudly. "Merle!" Pearl jumped up. "You found me! Thank goodness!" "It wasn't easy!" Merle said as he leaped over to the cage. "Actually, come to think of it, it wasn't that bad." He unlatched the cage and swung the door open. Pearl jumped into Merle's arms. "My hero!" she said. No sooner had the words left her mouth than the room door swung open— revealing the man in the suit and sunglasses! The next word out of Pearl's mouth was...

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!" In the hall, Michael recognized Pearl's scream and sprang into action! He jumped up and pushed the cleaning cart into the room. As the man in the suit and sunglasses came toward the terrified squirrels, a cleaning cart appeared in the doorway behind him. "AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Michael yelled as he barreled the cart into the man's back, sending him flying face-first onto the bed. Thinking fast, Merle and Pearl jumped onto the cleaning cart and each grabbed a dirty sheet. With the speed of a spider wrapping a fly in silk, the two squirrels covered the squirrelnapper's head in used bedding. "AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!" yelled the man in the suit, sunglasses, and dirty-sheet helmet. "Let's get out of here!" Merle yelled. As the man struggled to free his head, Merle and Pearl leaped out the window, and Michael took off running down the hall toward the stairs.

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