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not rare for them to have miners’ tools at their command.
These miners’ candlesticks are of massive iron, terminated
at the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they
are stuck into the rock.
He took the candlestick in his right hand; holding his
breath and trying to deaden the sound of his tread, he di-
rected his steps to the door of the adjoining room, occupied
by the Bishop, as we already know.
On arriving at this door, he found it ajar. The Bishop had
not closed it.

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