By Edgar Allan Poe
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(Part 2)

Dupin stopped smoking. "Tell me how you looked for it," he said. German moved forward in his chair.

"We took our time," he said. "First, we examined the furniture in every room. We opened all the drawers. We looked under the rugs. We searched behind all the paintings on the walls.

"We opened every book. We removed the boards of the floor. We even took the tops off the tables. We thought he might have hidden the letter in the table legs. But we cann...