Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-03-30
CHAPTER VI

1t is necessary for the reader TO
know what kind Of building Monken
Abbey was, and something of the
disposition OF the rooms, in order to
follow clearly the action OF the
drama that took place within its
walls. can do no better than TO
give the description By which |
brought the facts home to tho com
preheusion Of my blind partner
"Teil me what you see Thorre, )"
he said. 40 we stood on the lawn.
IAN old Gothic building. Ganked
by two later additions in the Tudor
style, that project beyond il.
Tho great door is the center OF
the old part, the dining-room is on
one side, the library on the other
The floor above is occupied by the
picture gallery. 1t has q gable roof,
and the belfry rises from the middle.
The block on the right and that on
the left are alike The ground floor
is divided into drawing-rooms, sit
ting-rooms, etc"
''Where is the dairy, and the door
that is left open at night for the
Kids"
Eat the back OF te house; it can
not be seen from here"
is that in the right block or the
left?"
"In the right; the kitchen is in the
left On the first floor are tho prin-
cipal bedrooms; the servants are
aboYe- Our rooms ere in the right
block, Sip Edmund's ana Miss Las
celles' are in the left. "
What means Of communication
are thero? For instance, how could
Sir Edmund get to your room9"
by simply passing through the
picture-gallery."
~ understand; go on"
"1here are two oriel windows and
a bay in the end OF the left block
! facing US rs we stand here.
The oriel on the left" / contin-
ued, 'proiects from Sir Edmund s
room. that on the right from Miss
! Lescelies There are stone mulliOAS
at the angles of the oriel aud lattice
win lows between, hung inside with
Venetian blinds. The oricls are sup
! ported by corbels They are per-
fectly inaccessible from the ground
except by ladder"
But from the story above?"
"Ihere are no windows over the
oriel The only means of descent
would be a rope from the root"
"Do the windows open?"
ayes
"And what distance is there be-
tween the windows in the bay and
Miss Lascelle's window"
.'Seven or eight feet at least"
land the wall between is perfectly
fat?"
There is stone mol1ing runs
along parallel with the floor of the
first story and the base of the oriel. "
/ why didn't you tell me that?" he
asked sharply.
because it is perfectly impossible
! for anyone to walk along it."
"What width has it,"
"a few inches. 1t seems TO be
merely a stone gutter to carry OF
the water from the oriel."
ais there no ivy on the house.
nothing TO catch hold OFF"
"There is no ivy. but there Is a
pipe midway between the bay and
the oriel it descends from the gable
to the gutter.
What! and you tell me it is i'm
possible to get from the bay to the
Window"
1.-The pipe is four feet from the
bay and four feet from the oriel.
Now. suppose. ola. for know whom
you suspect, got from the window in
the bay she would have TO advance
holding 60 the mullion of the window
for support, and with ono hand only,
until the other could touch the pipe,
span Of four feet t"
-Four feet; that is not impossible,
unless the girl Is short limbed."
ut is impossible, if in holding to
the mullion or the pipe the girl had
to support part Of her own weight /"
"Let us 60 up and measure the
width OF the ledge" said Van Hoeck;
lit may appear from below less than
it is.
We went up TO my bedroom in the
right block, which, as | have said,
correspondent in every external re-
! spect TO the block on the left; and
from the oriel / measured the width
of the stone ledge outside Van
noeck's supposition was just; it was
wider. measuring trine less than
my span, nine inches. Van Hoecx
placed himself fat against the wall,
and turning out his toes until he OBJ
tanned the limit of width upon which
be could sustain his equilibrium.
babe me measure the distance be-
tween his heel aud the wall l found
it was fully three inches within my
span. and was astonished to perceive
upon how narrow a space one may
stand with safety. This settled the
point Lola might well have passed
along the edge with safety.
! Now" said Van Hoeck, draw