CHAPTER 11.
Hands and Brains Rushton & Co.'s premises were situated in one of the principal streets of Mugsborough and consisted of a double-fronted shop with plate glass windows.

The shop extended right through to the narrow back street which ran behind it.

The front part of the shop was stocked with wall-hangings, mouldings, stands showing patterns of embossed wall and ceiling decorations, cases of brushes, tins of varnish and enamel, and similar things.
The office was at the rear and was separated from the rest of the shop by a partition, glazed with muranese obscured glass.

This office had two doors, one in the partition, giving access to the front shop, and the other by the side of the window and opening on to the back street.
The glass of the lower sash of the back window consisted of one large pane on which was painted 'Rushton & Co.' in black letters on a white ground.
Owen stood outside this window for two or three seconds before knocking.

There was a bright light in the office.