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THE library was a big oblong room with two tall windows looking into the court, and the observation-window thrown out at the end over the footway of the street. A door in the inner wall close to this window led to a room behind, and a big open fireplace faced the windows on the court. For the rest, the walls were lined with high bookshelves filled with books, except for a vacant space here and there where a volume had been removed. Hanaud put back in its place the book which he had been holding in his hand.
-"One can easily see that this is the library of Simon Harlowe, the collector, " he said. "I have always thought that if one only had the time to study and compare the books which a man buys and reads, one would more surely get the truth of him than in any other way. But alas! one never has the time." He turned towards Jim Frobisher regretfully, "Come and stand with me, Monsieur Frobisher. For even a glance at the backs of them tells one something."