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One False Note

The document is about siblings Amy and Dan Cahill and their au pair Nellie traveling by train to Vienna to search for clues about their missing grandfather. Their cat Saladin refuses to eat canned cat food, holding out for fresh fish. Dan is impatient with the slow train and wants to move faster in the competition. Later, their lawyer McIntyre meets with another man and reports that Amy and Dan found a tracking device planted on them and have seemingly lost their trackers.

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One False Note

The document is about siblings Amy and Dan Cahill and their au pair Nellie traveling by train to Vienna to search for clues about their missing grandfather. Their cat Saladin refuses to eat canned cat food, holding out for fresh fish. Dan is impatient with the slow train and wants to move faster in the competition. Later, their lawyer McIntyre meets with another man and reports that Amy and Dan found a tracking device planted on them and have seemingly lost their trackers.

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  • Chapter 1
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ONE FALSE NOTE

The 39 Clues Book 02

Gordon Korman
CHAPTER 1
The hunger strike began two hours east of Paris.
Saladin took a single dainty whiff of the open cat food tin and turned up his
nose.

"Come on, Saladin," coaxed fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill. "Here's your


dinner. It's a long way to Vienna."

The Egyptian Mau emitted a haughty snort that was a clinic in nonverbal
communication:

You've got to be kidding me.

"He's used to red snapper," Amy said apologetically to Nellie Gomez, the
Cahills' au pair.

Nellie was unmoved. "Do you have any idea how much fresh fish costs?
We've got to make our money last. Who knows how long we'll be running
around looking for these precious clues of yours?"

Saladin let out a disapproving

"Mrrp!"

Dan Cahill, Amy's eleven-year-old brother, looked up from the page of


sheet music he was examining. "I'm with you, dude. I can't believe we had
to take the slowest train in Europe. We've got to get moving!

The competition has private jets, and we're wasting time on the Loser
Express. Are we going to stop in every podunk town in France?"
"There was a clue from the tunnel at St. Peter's," Alistair said coldly. "When
I went to retrieve it to have it translated, I found it missing and your

homing pin in the head of my cane. Your explanation, if you please."

"I have none."

"So you confess that you're trying to influence this contest." His eyes
narrowed. "Or perhaps your plan is to hijack it entirely and take the prize
for yourself."

McIntyre rose to his full height. "I resent that. You may well have been
bamboozled, but not by me. You ought to know that, with the stakes this
high, treachery is to be expected. And Cahills are capable of almost
anything."

"You haven't heard the last of this. When I win the contest, I'll see to it that
you never work again!" Alistair spun on his heel and stalked away.

With a sigh, McIntyre retrieved the homing pin from Mozart's lapel -- it had
been affixed with chewing gum. Pocketing it, he exited the square and
walked three blocks to an outdoor cafe in a secluded courtyard. He seated
himself at a quiet table, across from a man dressed entirely in black.

177

"You won't believe it," the lawyer announced in a despairing tone. "They
found the homing device under the cat's collar and planted it on Alistair
Oh."

The man in black stroked his furrowed brow. "So what you're saying is
we've lost the children."

McIntyre nodded glumly. "It's more like the children have lost us. It's
possible that they are more resourceful than even Madame Grace had
imagined."

High above their table, the vapor trail of a jetliner left a white ribbon in the
clear blue sky, heading east.

ONE FALSE NOTE The 39 Clues Book 02 Gordon Korman
CHAPTER 1 The hunger strike began two hours east of Paris. Saladin took a single dainty whiff of the open cat food tin and tu
"There was a clue from the tunnel at St. Peter's," Alistair said coldly. "When I went to retrieve it to have it translated, I

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