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<section name="247" boxes="1">
<p>
<if ticks="1">If there is a tick in the box, <goto section="169"/> immediately.</if> If not, <tick>put a tick there now</tick>, and read on.
</p>
<p>
You grab the box. Just then, a masked lord, accompanied by a couple of footmen, steps out of the house.
</p>
<p><difficulty ability="thievery" level="13"/>.</p>
<outcomes>
<success section="418"/>
<failure section="614"/>
</outcomes>
</section>