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The fact that they are just in a pouch on a nightstand strongly suggests that they cannot be particularly valuable, but whatever they are, you will be more than happy to rescue such beautiful things from this malaised place. There is nothing else on top of the 'stand, but there is a single drawer - and inside there is a handsomely cut wooden pipe. Oh, did you end up buying tobacco from that Dry Goods, or did you decide against it - Maker's Mercy, somehow that feels as if it was years ago ...
While the well might have run dry on this 'stand, it just so happens that there is another one, on the other side of the bed. You head on over, and find that there is a set of tinctures in vials - all without labels, alongside a very handsome comb and the largest hand-mirror that you have ever seen in your life. The drawer on this 'stand is empty, but there other pieces of furniture in the room - the most interesting of which is a tilt-top desk. Inside the drawer of the desk, you find another two inkpots, one of which still has its stopper sealed up with wax. There are also a few more writing utensils, old correspondence, bills of sale, a few loose coins, a letter opener, a pair of scissors, and a ball of twine, all mixed in with detritus - stoppers to inkpots, tips to quills, loose buttons and buckles ... some of which might actually be worth your time after all. On the top of the desk, there are a few more pieces of correspondence, with drawings of plants - some done with great deliberation and some that have clearly been rendered by an idle hand - and documents with letterheads from the University mixed in.
In line with the rest of what you have seen of the house, this room has no antechambers - no doors, save for the one that you walked through. There are no closets, even - though there are a pair of wardrobes flanking a dresser, all along one of the walls, cutting through a little sitting area by the fireplace in the process. As you hustle by the table and chairs, you quickly and keenly take stock of any and all potential swag. There is an unopened bottle of wine, with a transit stamp, indicating that it has been shipped in - and it follows if it is worth the trouble and expense of shipping, then it must be good, or at the very least, expensive. Besides that, there are three wigs on stands with a stand for a fourth empty - if you had to guess, you'd say that Aldoin died wearing it. There are a few more documents with a University letterhead, a couple of books, and the one solely decorative object that you have seen in the room - a true-to-life sculpture, or rather a casting, of a conch's shell in brass or bronze.
