The latest news is that they and everybody else know exactly where the matches are—in the house of a wealthy man whose position is such that even the rash students do not late to risk attacking him. His connexion with the military camps and yamens is too close for comfort and the guards lounging leisurely around his door present an appearance of solid brawn that would make even a patriot think twice before assaulting them.
To crown the discomfiture of the students it has now leaked out that in the same boat with these matches, hidden under some planking was a consignment of Japanese medicine that was of perhaps five times the value of the matches and it escaped their sleuthing altogether
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