When Old Hai asked what he had been doing that day, Trinket told him that he had been helping supervise the confiscation of Oboi's estate. He concluded his account -- which of course omitted any mention of the dagger and various other valuables that he had pocketed for himself -- by telling him about the two copies of the Sutra in Forty-Two Sections that had been discovered in Oboi's house. The old eunuch jumped up in surprise. 'Did you say there were two copies at Oboi's place?' 'Yes,' said Trinket. 'We were told to look for them by the Empress Dowager; otherwise I could have brought them to you without anyone knowing.'

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