The scarf was quickly removed. And Dan found himself in a low-
ceilinged attic having a sloping roof and one shuttered window.
A shadeless electric lamp hung from the ceiling. Excepting the
cane-seated chair in which he had been deposited and a certain
amount of nondescript lumber, the attic was unfurnished. Dan
rapidly considered what his father would have done in the
circumstances.
"Make sure that the door is locked," he muttered.
He tried it, and it was locked beyond any shadow of doubt.
"The window."
Shutters covered it, and these were fastened with a padlock.
He considered this padlock attentively; then, drawing from his
pocket one of those wonderful knives which are really miniature
tool-chests, he raised from a grove the screw-driver which formed
part of its equipment, and with neatness and dispatch unscrewed
the staple to which the padlock was attached!
A moment later he had opened the shutters and was looking out
into the drizzle of the night.
The room in which he was confined was on the third floor of a
dingy, brick-built house; a portion of some other building faced
him; down below was a stone-paved courtyard. To the left stood a
high wall, and beyond it he obtained a glimpse of other dingy
buildings.
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