The bedroom was furnished in the ordinary splendid style of bedrooms at the Grand Babylon Hotel, and in that respect called for no remark.

What most interested Racksole was the flooring.

He pulled up the thick Oriental carpet, and peered along every plank, but could discover nothing unusual.
Then he went to the dressing-room, and finally to the bathroom, both of which opened out of the main room.

But in neither of these smaller chambers was he any more successful than in the bedroom itself.

Finally he came to the bath, which was enclosed in a panelled casing of polished wood, after the manner of baths.