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The powerful lamp gave splendid illumination, and revealed to the trio a veritable network of galleries, many of which were now impassable. Fortunately the ground was damp, and innumerable footprints marked the trail of Niels's gang. The marks led to an old working that apparently had been recently cleared.
"They have been working here for days," whispered Fouchard. "Look -- here are marks of blasting. Presumably they gave up all hope of reaching the tunnel by the château entrance, and devoted all their energies to forcing a passage this way."