It was a dark, uninviting tunnel, of just sufficient width and height to admit of a person's passage, and looked as if it might have no connection with any other chamber, as he could see no light to indicate its terminus.
Nothing daunted, however, he entered it and walked along softly, ready for any surprise.
A score of steps he went, and then emerged into what he concluded was another large subterranean chamber, but where all was of Stygian darkness.
Luckily he had a close metal pocket-box of matches with him, and lighting one after another he discovered a half dozen lamps in brackets around the chamber side.
One of them he soon lit, when he proceeded to inspect his situation.
As before stated, the sides of the cavern were walled up like a cellar; and in size it was a hundred and fifty feet square, by ten or twelve in height.
The ceiling overhead was planked, and these supported by rude pillars resting upon the ground floor, as in the outer cave.
Here and there, scattered about, were heaps of straw, pieces of wooden boxes and canvas, and occasionally a bottle, or a piece of damaged silk or lace.
At the opposite side of this chamber was a round hole in the ceiling, similar to a well, down through which hung a rope ladder to the floor.
This seemed to indicate that either there was another chamber, overhead, or else this was a means of access to the open air.