12
ROOT CELLAR. This room has a
ceiling height of eleven feet. Wooden rafters criss-cross at about
ten feet and several strings of rotting onions and garlic dangle
here. Wooden shelves line the north wall. There are swarms of large
flies and a the room has an unpleasant small. A fireplace is against
the south wall.
Bags
of carrots, parsnips, radishes, and white and yellow turnips fill the
shelves, but they are all rotten and turning to mush which is what is
attracting the flies and causing the odor.
The
fireplace has three vertical black metal levers on the outside,
apparently to open and close the flue. All are in the 'down'
position. What they actually do is open the secret door in the back
of the fireplace. Putting any two of the levers in the 'up'
position will cause the back of the fireplace to slide away to one
side. The small corridor leading to Room 14 has a height of only
four feet. The small door going into Room 14 is not concealed from
this side.
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