Dodge has a hiding place somewhere in this room.

From the past history of the Academy we know that favorite hiding places have always been under the bricks of the fireplaces.
For use in the winter time the hiding place must be in the outer edge of the brick flooring, close up to where it joins the boards.
In such a hiding place the fire wouldn't harm the hidden objects.
Now, some of you might help me to see what we can find." Anstey, with a gravely judicial air, knelt beside Holmes.

Together they tapped back and forth over the bricks with rulers taken from the study tables.
"This is the brick that hides the place, I reckon, suh," announced the Virginian rather deliberately.
"Let's pry it up, then," suggested Greg.
But the brick resisted rather strenuous efforts.
"That's odd, in itself," muttered Holmes.

"Almost of the bricks in these fireplaces come up as easily as a naval apprentice's dinner.
Anse, we've got to work at this brick until we have loose.

It surely hides something." "We mustn't damage either the wooden or brick flooring," warned Furlong.