This section begins with Klaus, Violet, and Sunny all having an allergic reaction.  They walk into Aunt Josephine’s house and they are in a hurry.  Klaus goes strait to the library and finds books on words, and vocabulary.  Klaus is trying to decode a letter that Aunt Josephine has left them.  The note looks like a suicide note but is really a fake.  Aunt Josephine is not really dead, but she leaves a message in the note that Klaus figures out.  He pulls different letters out of the words in the note and it spells out, “Curdled Cave”.  The Baudelaire children find a map under Aunt Josephine’s bed and began on their journey.  There is a hurricane coming and the house is not sturdy and they know that they must hurry.  The house starts to shake and they run out just in time to see the house crumple down into the lake.  It was a sad moment for the children.  They however have to go on and they go to Damocles Dock, but the ferry is closed for the night.  They see a light shining in a distance and they read a sign that says, “Captain Sham’s Sailboat Rentals”.  They go over to see if they can steal a sailboat from Captain Sham but they need the keys to unlock the gate.  They look inside and they see one of Count Olaf’s comrade inside holding the keys, asleep.  Sunny goes inside and steals the keys and before they can get the gate unlocked Count Olaf’s comrade is after them.  He tries to get them but they are in better shape than he and they get on a sailboat and go out to search for Aunt Josephine.