Let me see the bedroom by all means." Juliet led the way into the next room, which was also bare.

There was one window hermetically sealed and with iron shutters.

This looked out on to a kind of well, and light was reflected from above by means of a sheet of silvered tin.

No one could have got out by the window, and even then, it would have been difficult to have climbed up the well which led to the surface of the ground.

The floor and walls had no marks of entrances, and Jennings returned to the sitting-room completely baffled.