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The boy and girl seemed to have decided that arguing was pointless and chose a different approach.
"We broke the windows," they whimpered. "A mean goblin made us do it! He said he would kill us if we didn't! A mean goblin!"
"Hmm, and what was this gentleman doing there?" asked the gendarme in a helmet.
"We don't know!"
"And is it true that you were doing something there?"