“After the air leaves the spray chamber it goes over some plates that take all the moisture out of it, and then the fan forces it through the pipes that go into every room.”
“Are those the little gratings I noticed in all the rooms the other day?” asked Ethel Blue.
“Those are the ventilators. Don’t you think we’ve made everything very compact here? All these pipes take up very little room.”
“Mighty little!” commended Roger. “And they’re all open so you can get at them without any trouble.”
“Here’s a scheme Patrick suggested,” laughed Dorothy, pointing upward to what looked like a concrete shelf with an upturned border almost at the top of the cellar wall.
“What’s it for?” asked Ethel Brown.
“That shelf is directly underneath the seat beside the fireplace in the drawing room. Patrick plans to save himself the trouble of carrying up the logs by piling them on this shelf down here. Then he lifts the cover of the seat upstairs and all he has to do is to take out his wood and make his fire!”
“That certainly is a cracker-jack labor saving device! Good for Patrick!”
“He’s especially tickled with the vacuum cleaner run by this same little motor. You ought to hear him talk about it.”
“What are these cupboards for?” asked Helen who had been exploring.