Now, what can it mean?
Who is digging out the bricks, and for what purpose?
And how, with the alarms all over the house, to account for the footprints in the flour ?" "It is quite likely that something is hidden in the chimney, and some one knows that it is worth hunting for.

This chimney is the original, I should judge." Fitzgerald addressed this observation to the admiral.
"Never been touched during my time or my father's.

But we can soon find out.

I'll have a man up here.

If there is anything in the chimney that ought not to be there, he'll dig it out, and save our midnight visitor any further trouble." "Why not wait a little while ?" Fitzgerald ventured.