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Leading the way cautiously, he brought the young man into an open unpartitioned recess beside her stateroom. It seemed to be used as a storeroom, and Renshaw's eye was caught by a trunk the size and shape of the one that had provided Rosey with the materials of her masquerade. Pointing to it Mr. Nott said in a grave whisper: "This yer trunk is the companion trunk to Rosey's.
"Well, I gotta say this," said Maurice graciously: "You stuck to your bargain all right and treated me fair." Stricken with a sudden horrible suspicion, Penrod entered the storeroom in one stride and lifted the bottle of licorice water to his nose then to his lips. It was weak, but good; he had made no mistake.
The expressman came heavily up the steps with a green chest on his shoulder. It had handles of tarred rope and had plainly seen much service; indeed, it was brother to the box in the storeroom which Louise had found filled with nautical literature.
But if you were, say for me what I am willing to say for myself: I shall tell what I know, and there is not money enough in the world to prevent my telling it straight. The right man is going to be punished, and the key to the storeroom will be given to the police, and to no one else." "But the other key?" "That is not in my keeping." "I do not believe you!" "I am sorry," I said shortly.
The storeroom was a most voluptuous place, with its piles of biscuit boxes and spice tins, the rack for buttered eggs, the little window that let in the sunshine and the flickering shadows of leaves, and the strong sweet odor of everything that pleaseth the taste of men....
And how appallingly different was the viewpoint from which they were now being observed here where the human observers were equal in size, and doomed at any moment perhaps to be paralyzed and piled with the helpless live things that made up the rest of the "larder"! And the presiding genius of this mysterious, underground storeroom where was it?
"They wouldn't have green apples in the storeroom," Angelica thought. "Oh, yes, they might," Diavolo considered. "Those big cooking fellows, you know they're green enough." "But they're not nice," said Angelica. "No, but you don't think of that till you've got them," was the outcome of Diavolo's experience. "Is your storeroom on the ground floor?" he asked Evadne. "No," she answered.
It read: "DEAR ANDY. I watched you play to-day. You did well. I've got a peach of a mushroom bat that I don't want, for I'm going in for rowing instead of baseball this season. I left the bat in the storeroom on your corridor when I moved out of Wright Hall. You can have it if you like. I gave it to Mortimer Gaffington once, but he said he never could find it.
Tell us!" exclaimed Jack, almost in his last breath, for, a few seconds later he too toppled over senseless. Then Washington went down, while Andy, Bill and Tom succumbed to the terrible heat. Mark felt his head swimming. His eyes were almost bulging from their sockets. He dimly remembered trying to force himself to go to the storeroom and see what was there.
Damon remarked: "I guess I'll go back in the storeroom, Tom, and see how much food he ate." "Oh, I guess he didn't take much," declared the lad. "He wasn't there long enough." "Well, Farley Munson, so it's you, is it?" asked Mr. Jenks, as he surveyed the prisoner. "Do you know him?" asked Tom, in some surprise. "He was in with the diamond makers," said Mr. Jenks.
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