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I certainly dont mean to camp out till Krag condescends to come He picked up an old iron bolt from the yard andretreating to a safe distancehurled it against a sash dow on the ground floor The lower pane was completely shattered Carefully avoiding the broken glMaskull thrust his hand through the aperture and pushed back the frame fastening A minute later they had climbed through and were standing inside the house The roomwhich was a kitchenwas in an indescribably filthy and neglected condition The furniture scarcely held togetherbroken utensils and rubbish lay on the floor instead of on the dust heapeverything was covered with a deep deposit of dust The atmosphere was so foul that Maskull judged that no fresh air had ped into the room for several months Insects were crawling on the walls They went into the other rooms on the lower floor a scullerya barely furnished dining roomand a storing place for lumber The same dirtmustinessand neglect met their eyes At least half a year must have elapsed since these rooms were last touchedor even entered Does your faith in Krag still hold asked Maskull I confess mine is at vanishing point If this affair isnt one big practical jokeit has every promise of being one Krag never lived here in his life Come upstairs firstsaid Nightspore The upstairs rooms proved to consist of a library and three bedrooms All the dows were tightly closedand the air was insufferable The beds had been slept inevidently a long time agoand had never been made since The tumbleddiscoloured bed linen actually preserved the impressions of the sleepers There was no doubt that these impressions were ancientfor all sorts of floating dirt had accumulated on the sheets and coverlets Who could have slept heredo you think interrogated Maskull The observatory staff More likely travellers like ourselves They left suddenly Maskull flung the dows wide open in every room he came toand held his breath until he had done so Two of the bedrooms faced the sea the thirdthe librarythe upward sloping moorland This library was now the only room left unvisitedand unless they discovered signs of recent occupation here Maskull made up his mind to regard the whole business as a gigantic hoax But the librarylike all the other roomswas foul with stale air and dust laden Maskullhaving flung the dow up and downfell heavily into an armchair and looked disgustedly at his friend Now what is your opinion of Krag
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