The Boarded Up House by Augusta Huiell Seaman Ch 11 The Room That Was Locked Free Teens Audiobook.
chapter 11 of the boarded up house this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.com recording by linda lee paquette the boarded up house by augusta huel seaman chapter 11 the room that was locked before cynthia could realize what had happened or was happening joyce seized her and began waltzing madly around the library alternately laughing sobbing hugging and shaking her distractedly stop stop joyce please she baked breathlessly have you gone crazy you act so what is the matter
matter you ask me that panted choice you great big stupid why we've discovered the way to the locked-up room that's what's the matter looked incredulous i certainly continued to joyce can't you see you know that room is right over this where else could those stairs lead then but come along we'll settle all doubts in a moment she snatched up a candle again and led the way cynthia following without more ado oh choice it's horribly dirty and stuffy and cobwebby in here couldn't we wait a few moments till some air gets in implored cynthia in a muffled voice i shan't wait a moment but you may if you wish called back joyce but i know you won't mind your head these are the tiniest lowest stairs i've ever seen they continued to crawl slowly up their candles flickering low in the impoverished air of the long enclosed place what if we can't open the door at the top conjecture cynthia what if it's behind some heavy piece of furniture we'll just have to get in somehow responded to joyce i've gone so far now that i believe i'd be willing to break things open with a charge of dynamite if we couldn't get in any other way here i am at the top now you hold the candle and we'll see what happens she handed her candle to cynthia braced herself and threw her whole weight against the low door which was noblesse like the one below then came the surprise she had expected resistance and prepared to cope with it to her utter amazement there was a ripping tearing sound and she found herself suddenly prone upon the floor of the most mysterious room in the house the reason for this being that the door at the top was covered on the inner side with only a layer or two of wallpaper and no article of furniture happened to stand in front of it consequently it had yielded with ease at the tremendous shove joyce had given it and she found herself thus forcibly and anonymously propelled into the apartment
my she gasped sitting up and dusting her hands but that was sudden i don't care though i'm not a bit hurt and we're in they were indeed in the mysterious locked room was at last to yield up its secrets to them they experienced a delicious thrill of expectation as with their candles raised above their heads they peered eagerly about what they had expected to find within that mysterious room they could not perhaps have explained with any definiteness once they stood within the threshold however they became slowly conscious of a vague disappointment here was nothing so very strange after all the room appeared to be inconsiderable disorder and articles of clothing books and boyish belongings were tossed about as in a hurry of packing but beyond this there was nothing much out of the ordinary about it well breathed cynthia at length isn't this what we've been making all the fuss about
wait said joyce you can't see everything just at one glance let's look about a little oh what a dreadful hole we've made in the wallpaper well it can't be helped now and it's the only damage we've done they commenced to tiptoe about the room glancing curiously at its contents it was plainly a boy's room a pair of fencing foils hung crossed on one wall a couple of boxing gloves on another college trophies decorated the mantle on a center table stood a photograph a daguerreotype in a...