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It was late when I got up I lay inaround the four

walls of the rooine behind what one of theht, Sunnyside deserved

its name: never was a house eneral appearance There was not a corner apparently that was not

open and above-board, and yet, somewhere behind its handsomely papered

walls I believed firmly that there lay a hidden room, with all the

possibilities it would involve

Ithe day, to

discover any discrepancy between the outer and inner walls, and I tried

to recall again the exact wording of the paper Jamieson had found

The slip had said "chie as Sunnyside was full of the-roo

around, I thought of so that made me sit up suddenly The

trunk-room, just over my head, had an open fireplace and a brick

chiot out

of bed and examined the opposite wall closely There was apparently no

flue, and I knew there was none in the hall just beneath The house

was heated by steae open fireplace, but it was on the other side