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When Larose had been on Dice's station a full week he had reluctantly to admit that so far, but for two things, he had drawn absolutely blank, and of the value of those two things even he could not be very sure.
Firstly, he had found the hurricane lamp, or, to be exact, he had found two hurricane lamps. But there was no mystery or secret about them at all. They were both openly in use every night. The kitchen had one and the stable had another. The latter he had examined most carefully, but there were no signs of accident or ill-usage about it, and both lamps were the very spit of one another.