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"Can I be of assistance?"
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"Your presence might be invaluable."
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"Then I shall certainly come."
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"It is very kind of you."
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"You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms than was visible to me."
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"No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine that you saw all that I did."
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"I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine."
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"You saw the ventilator, too?"
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"Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a rat could hardly pass through."
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"I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to Stoke Moran.
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