The stone
passage here was exactly similar, except that more doors opened out of
it, to the passage on the first floor. She opened the two nearest doors,
one after another, at a venture, and discovered that both rooms were
bed-chambers. The fear of being discovered by one of the woman-servants
in a part of the house with which she had no concern, warned her not to
push her investigations on the bedroom floor too far at starting. She
hurriedly walked down the passage to see where it ended, discovered that
it came to its termination in a lumber-room, answering to the position
of the vestibule downstairs, and retraced her steps immediately.
On her way back she noticed an object which had previously escaped her
attention. It was a low truckle-bed, placed parallel with the wall, and
close to one of the doors on the bedroom side. In spite of its strange
and comfortless situation, the bed was apparently occupied at night by
a sleeper; the sheets were on it, and the end of a thick red fisherman's
cap peeped out from under the pillow. She ventured on opening the door
near which the bed was placed, and found herself, as she conjectured
from certain signs and tokens, in the admiral's sleeping chamber.
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