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Thieving villainess Carmen Sandiego covertly approached two Brown students returning from Trinidad in order to offer them two lucrative positions working for the Villains' International League of Evil (V.I.L.E.), according to an anonymous source.
The red-coated, fedora-wearing nemesis of the ACME detective agency was reportedly impressed by the two students, who managed to evade government search efforts for several days. This stands in marked contrast to most of Sandiego's henchmen, most of whom are usually discovered by ten year olds in less than one hour.
Sandiego praised the students' unique strategy, which involved not leaving clues containing interesting facts and trivia about their current location.
"In that situation my gut instinct would have been to mention to the CIA that I was in a country that was originally settled by the Amerindians and whose primary export was cocoa," said Sandiego, "But these students were cunning, and they kept quiet. Genius."
Another factor that helped the students remain undetected was that they did not attempt to steal any large landmarks. Sandiego was again surprised by the students' restraint, claiming that she "would have been unable to resist stealing Tobago or at least St. Giles Island."
With the V.I.L.E. job offer still pending, the students have since been approached by others looking to benefit from their unusual hiding skills. One man who identified himself only as Waldo was astounded that the two had been able to hide for so long without wearing the exact same clothing as everyone else in Trinidad. Yet another, more mysterious invitation manifested itself when one of the students noted a large blue paw print on her back, which she proceeded to record via crayon in her handy dandy notebook before heading to J Walter Wilson for 'mail time.'
Sandiego, Waldo, and others were perplexed by the students' decision to voluntarily surrender themselves after being so effortlessly lost.
"Why would anyone actually want to be found?" asked Waldo.
Indeed, the students themselves have begun to feel a great sense of remorse and loss of freedom, and to wonder whether returning to Brown was the right decision. One of the students, who asked to remain anonymous, was distraught in an interview on Tuesday:
"We never should have left the island," sobbed the student, "We have to go back!"
Readers are advised to tune in next time for an allegedly exciting conclusion.
