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Wysłany: Sob 6:07, 05 Mar 2011 Temat postu: On the Makaloa Mat LondonJack Published ccaaikbz |
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there was no cast-off linenand the shirts in the drawersthough cleanhad the peculiar yellowishfaded
appearance that linen acquires when long out of use. In shortthe rooms had the appearance of not having
been lived in at allbut only visited at intervals.
Against this viewhoweverwas the statement of the night porter that he had often seen a light in Jeffrey's
sitting-room at one o'clock in the morningwith the apparent implication that it was then turned out. Now a
light may be left in an empty roombut its extinction implies the presence of some person to extinguish it;
unless some automatic device be adopted for putting it out at a given time. Such a device--the alarm
movement of a clockfor instancewith a suitable attachment--is a simple enough matterbut my search of the
rooms failed to discover anything of the kind. Howeverwhen looking over the drawers in the bedroomI
came upon a large box that had held a considerable quantity of hard stearine candles. There were only a few
leftbut a flat candlestick with numerous wick-ends in its socket accounted for the r [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][link widoczny dla zalogowanych]inder.
These candles seemed to dispose of the difficulty. They were not necessary for ordinary lightingsince gas
was laid on in all three rooms.yilai:
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