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It was approached by means of a narrow, winding staircase, closed by a trap-door at the farther end of the kitchen. When Berthine returned she was smiling mysteriously to herself. She gave the Germans her jug of cider. Then she and her mother supped apart, at the other end of the kitchen. The soldiers had finished eating, and were all six falling asleep as they sat round the table.
I descended from the tree and, raising the trap-door, went down into the underground dwelling where everything reminded me of the youth; and I looked upon the poor remains of him and began repeating these verses: Then, O my lady, I went up again by the trap-door, and every day I used to wander round about the island and every night I returned to the underground hall.
"Now, my dear, take care of yourself, for this bolt slides very easily, and if, while you happened to be walking across this place, you were to push the bolt back, the trap-door would drop and you fall down heaven knows where!" "Is there a cellar under there?" inquired Capitola, gazing with interest upon the door. "Lord knows, child; I don't.
A former student of this famous Jesuit college, who was instrumental in the discovery of a "priest's hole," has provided us with the following particulars: "It would be too long to tell you how I first discovered that in the floor of my bedroom, in the recess of the huge Elizabethan bay window, was a trap-door concealed by a thin veneering of oak; suffice it say that with a companion I devoted a delightful half-holiday to stripping off the veneering and breaking the lock of the trap-door.
"Did he never come back then?" asked Lars Peter slowly. Hansine shook her head. And he had threatened to return and claim her, if she broke her word. He had said, he would tap on the trap-door in the ceiling. "Did you promise of your own free will?" Lars Peter said ponderously. No, Hansine thought he had pressed her. "Then you're not bound by it," said he.
Look, madame, into this lumber-room; you see it seems to be quite full of wood for firing; well, if you creep in behind, you can hide yourself quite sung in the loft above, and here's a trap-door into the loft that nobody ever would think of, for we have hung these old things from the top of it, and who could guess it was a trap-door?
The first horse disappeared in a moment as though he had fallen through a trap-door. His load was taken off, and he was pulled up with ropes. Then the Kirghizes thought of a grand way of getting over the treacherous snow. They took the felt covers of the tent and spread them over the snow and led the horses one by one over this yielding bridge.
He sat down on a box, and commenced drumming tunes with his heels on its sides. This disturbed Mr. Stone. He looked at him sharply, so he stopped and sauntered out into a corner of the back store, where there was a trap-door leading down into the water.
"Well, mausoleum or muskiloleum makes no difference to me, sir. What I wants ter know is 'ow do we get out of this charmin' little country seat? Try the trap-door, you ses. Right you are!" He was up the rough steps like a shot, forgetful of the fact that, though the door might be closed, there might also be others strolling along in that secluded spot.
I cried out again, beginning to weep myself for pity at my thought, "where are you? Speak to me. You are my playmate." Then I ran to the roof, and, though the stones chilled me to the bone and the frost-bitten iron hasps of the fastenings burned me like fire, I opened the trap-door and looked out.
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