Before these it quickly yielded, and he thus gained the interior.
Once inside, he gazed about him blankly.

Nothing looked familiar; nothing was as he had expected to find it.

There was the partition, with a door in it, to be sure, and there was the small room beyond the main one; but there was also another partition, and another door beyond this.

There had been but two rooms in the _Venture's_ "shanty," while here were three.

Then again the "shanty" that he had helped to build was only boarded up on the outside, while the interior had been left unceiled, with the frame exposed.