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shall probably discover a gang of desperate criminals and get a reward．It’s all not to say a house would be empty all those years unless there was some mystery．”
“Daddy thought it must be the drains，”said Polly．
“Pooh ！ Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations，”said Digory．Now that they were talking by daylight in the attic instead of by candlelight in the Smugglers’ Cave it seemed much less likely that the empty house would be haunted．
When they had measured the attic they had to get a pencil and do a sum．They both got different answers to it at first，and even when they agreed I am not sure they got it right．They were in a hurry to start on the exploration．
“We mustn’t make a sound，”said Polly as they climbed in again behind the cistern．Because it was such an important occasion they took a candle each（Polly had a good store of these in her cave）.
It was very dark and dusty and draughty and they stepped from rafter to rafter without
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