Violet knew at once what Klaus had been thinking when he humped up and said Jerome and she tied her hair up into a bun almost instantly. Anyone who knew Violet well would have known she did that when she was thinking so that something as trivial as her hair wouldn't stop her inventive mind. She remembered the note to "JS" and everything about the jam-jar and was actually happy that they were going to the last safe place that Olaf would be headed to as well. Violet knew that whoever "JS" was whether it was the late Jacques Snicket or Jerome Squalor. They knew that Jerome would know. And would help them stop the bad side of VFD from getting the Sugar Bowl, whatever it did and the Baudelaire and Quagmire fortune. Sunny who had been sitting on Klaus' lap had hit the ground when Klaus jolted up a small bit, so she had crawled to Violet because she was a bit scared.
"Here you are ma'am" The driver said to Steph who was sat in the front in a rather common tone, Steph put a ten pound note in his hands, then got out and walked to the doors. Klaus got out followed by Emma and Sunny was still in the car biting at a chunk of wood she had found on the floor. Violet picked her up and got out of the car. They walked up to where Steph was standing and Steph opened the door. Steph and Emma saw what looked like exactly the same hotel as it did 20 years ago. It was still a large entrance room with a pillar bearing the words "The World Is Quite Here" on them and Violet remembered what a waiter had told them in the Anxious Clown restaurant. "I didn't realise this was a sad occasion" was what a tall skinny man with bony fingers and a large top hat told them. He had a tattoo of an eye on his ankle and had one long eyebrow. Klaus looked at him "It can't be"
The man looked down at Klaus as though he didn't know him. "What can't be?" he asked Klaus who was gazing at his eyes. "You look like a man who was familiar to us" Klaus told him. The man with the top hat jumped back in surprise "Count Olaf?" He said as though the name was something to be very scared of. Klaus looked up "You do look like Count Olaf, but he wasn't the person I was thinking of, I was thinking of Jacques Snicket."
The man smiled "So I should, I am his brother" Klaus looked astonished. And then he asked this man a question he had never dared ask Jacques "Why do you look like Count Olaf?" Klaus asked him, and the man looked very sad indeed "He" The man paused for a short while "He is my cousin" he told the Baudelaire's and this time it was Sunny who remembered, Count Olaf was a distant cousin of theirs.
The man took of his hat to reveal a lot of grey hair. "What brings you to the Hotel then?" The Baudelaires looked at each other then at Steph expecting her to tell him everything. "The Valley of Four Draughts burned down a while ago." Steph told the man, he looked at his watch "4 hours ago" he told her. Steph nodded "On a near hilltop Count Olaf captured a lot of children, and one of his own henchmen. He was with them." She told him the word them very slowly as though it needed to be emphasised so much. The man looked shocked "Are they headed here?" He asked the mysterious women who he didn't know. "For the sugar Bowl" Steph told him. The man nodded. "We shall be ready for them." He told Emma and Steph and turned around "oh" he turned around again and faced the Baudelaire's "Have you children come to help VFD, or are you just with these charming ladies?" He asked Violet because she did look the eldest. "We are here to help" Violet told him and he smiled. "Are you in charge?" Klaus asked the man who they now knew but they did not know his name. "Yes" He smiled. "It is a very long story and we don't have the time for long stories now. We have a battle to prepare for." Emma smiled at the man who she recognised as the man at the dinner table 20 years ago. "We shall help you too, Lemony" He looked astonished. "You know my name?" Emma smiled "We never forgot." Lemony stared at them "You were there! At the schism" He jumped up. Steph smiled. "When Jacques died we got news that the man with a beard's wife was also in control of the bad VFD, so we knew Olaf wasn't as high a rank, therefore we recruited 2 of our own leaders." Lemony told Steph. "Who are they?" Klaus asked. Lemony sat down at a chair "Me, obviously because I was Jacques' brother." He stopped for a moment. "Who else leads the good VFD?" Klaus asked Lemony.
"I do!" A woman shouted who had come from behind a pillar. "Beatrice!" Emma and Steph said with a lot of joy in their voices.