30/45 I didn't have the wretched contrivance removed or those blessed 'registers' plastered up. I simply had them papered over when the rooms were done up (there's one over there near that settee), and if a man got into this house, he could get into that furnace thing and hide in one of those flues until he got ready to crawl up it as easily as not. It struck me that perhaps it would be as well for you to examine that furnace and those flues before matters go any further." "Of course it would. Great Scott! Sir Horace, why didn't you think to tell me of this thing before ?" said Narkom, excitedly. "The fellow may be in it at this minute. |