He saw now that the
tinge of light came through a small hole in the wood. He put his
eye to the wood, and found that he had a fine view of the State
bathroom, and through the door of the State bathroom into the
State bedroom. At the massive marble-topped washstand in the
State bedroom a man was visible, bending over some object which
lay thereon.
The man was Rocco!
Chapter Thirteen IN THE STATE BEDROOM
IT was of course plain to Racksole that the peculiar passageway
which he had, at great personal inconvenience, discovered between
the bathroom of No. 111 and the State bathroom on the floor
below must have been specially designed by some person or
persons for the purpose of keeping a nefarious watch upon the
occupants of the State suite of apartments. It was a means of
communication at once simple and ingenious. At that moment he
could not be sure of the precise method employed for it, but he
surmised that the casing of the waterpipes had been used as a
'well', while space for the pipes themselves had been found in the
thickness of the ample brick walls of the Grand Babylon. The
eye-hole, through which he now had a view of the bedroom, was a
very minute one, and probably would scarcely be noticed from the
exterior. One thing he observed concerning it, namely, that it had
been made for a man somewhat taller than himself; he was obliged
to stand on tiptoe in order to get his eye in the correct position.
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