“Never mind; but we could bring some cushions, and store up fruit, and make this our cave. You will not tell anybody?”
“I should think not.”
“Not even Lil.”
“No; she’d go and tell every one directly. Why, Fred, this will be splendid. What a discovery!”
“When we’ve cleaned it up it will be a little palace.”
“And we can keep our stores in the closet there, and— Think there’ll be any rats?”
“No signs of any. Can’t smell ’em.”
“They’ve never found their way here. Dare say there are some bats; but we’ll soon clear them out. Wish there were a fireplace. We could cook the birds and fish we caught.”
“Let’s see what’s in the cupboard.”
Fred crossed the little chamber to the corner where the second door stood ajar, and it was so similar to the panelling that but for its being partly opened, it would not have been seen.