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An Alibi and An Unfortunate Burglary

Uncle Louie:

Well, we called ourselves the Baskerville Bandits. To be more precise, the police were the ones who called us that first. We don’t much like the name, but there’s not much we can do about it at this point.

It stemmed from our first, rather unfortunate burglary. You see, we were trying to rob a bank. A nice, honorable thing for a respectable bandit to do. But, we accidentally broke into the bookstore on the next block, and instead of a couple thousand dollars, we ended up with a couple thousand copies of Sherlock Holmes. The Hound of the Baskervilles, to be precises; hence the name.

So that’s the story. And, we needed an excuse to be in town, hence Uncle Louie and the Polka Dots. It was a perfect alibi. Everyone loves a good rock star, right? And there’s this weird kid who’s totally cleaning us out of all the Polka Dots merchandise….we may get that thousand, yet.

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