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AT the open door of the office Alf paused; the room was empty and dark, / but in the corner stood the safe, still apparently fast locked; so at / least the key had not been found.
All the other lower rooms had been overhauled and looted, everything / valuable having been carried away, unless indeed it had proved too big / to be handled.