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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: you know? Well, on this occasion he asked me to search the study.
He had an idea that something was concealed there."
"Some THING or someone?"
"`Something' was the word he used. I searched, but fruitlessly,
and he seemed quite satisfied, and returned to his work."
"Thank you, Mr. Burboyne. My friend and I would like a few minutes'
private investigation in the study."
CHAPTER II
SIR CRICHTON DAVEY'S study was a small one, and a glance sufficed to
show that, as the secretary had said, it offered no hiding-place. It was
heavily carpeted, and over-full of Burmese and Chinese ornaments and curios,
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