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The next morning Bratz awoke feeling very irritable. He felt twinges in one of his knee joints, and was afraid it portended another attack of his dreaded enemy--gout. When he went into breakfast Hygar handed him a small key tied to a short length of white silk ribbon with torn ends.
"Found it on the lady when I undressed her," she remarked, with no interest. "It was under her stocking above her knee. I had to tear it to get it off. It was tight."