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Search of the upper portion of the premises revealed nothing -- nothing, at least, to arouse the undue suspicions of the searchers.
My eager glance was everywhere, but I discerned nothing further of an unusual nature. The one great truth had become impressed upon me that the man Kirk, madman or master criminal, had got rid of the evidences of his crime.