Chapter Two Summary

Chapter 2 begins with Violet and Klaus going through the items they managed to save from the caravan in preparation for hiking back up the mountain. they take some warm clothing and other items and set out following the Stricken Stream. The children had recently learned from some friends of theirs at the Prufrock Preperatory School about a secret organization called the VFD which had its headquarters in the Mortmain Mountains in a place called the Valley of the Four Drafts. They hope to find the headquarters and perhaps get some help from the VFD. A document uncovered by the children in an earlier book suggests that one of their parents at least might be alive and somehow associated with the group. Their friends at the Prufrock school are called Isidora and Duncan Quagmire. Their parents, like the Baudelaire's parents, had been...