No
self-respecting builder had put in that wall of broad, horizontal
boards....
And then, directly beneath the shelf which was set regulation height,
just above the pole on which swung a dozen coat hangers, Dundee found
what he was looking for.
A short length of the cheap board, a queer scrap to have been used even
in so shoddy a job as that wall was.... Eight inches long. And set
square in the center of the wall, just below the shelf and pole. If he
had not been looking for something odd, however, Dundee acknowledged to
himself, he would not have noticed it. Did anyone ever notice the back
walls of closets?
Sure of the result, he pressed with his finger tips upon the lower end
of that short piece of board. And slowly it swung inward, the top
slanting outward.
_He had found the secret hiding place._ And Dundee silently agreed with
Judge Marshall that it was "the simplest and most ingenious arrangement
you ever saw," for it was nothing more nor less than a shelf set between
the two closets, in those eleven inches of unaccounted for space!
"I take off my hat to Roger Crain!" Dundee reflected. "No burglar in the
world would ever have thought of pressing upon a short piece of board in
a foyer closet, in search of a safe..
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