title: They Scheme
content: |
    <p>The gnomes vary their numbers.</p>

    <p>I mow the lawn on Saturdays.  Usually there are two gnomes
    who are down on the ground at the base of the tree.  They were
    not there.  I do not know where they went.</p>

    <p>The three gnomes who live in the tree are apparently unmolested,
    and unconcerned about the whereabouts of their kin.  Their faces
    wear the same pleasant expressions they always have.</p>

    <p>Your days are numbered, gnomes.  I shall find evidence of
    your conspiracy, and it will be your undoing.</p>