“Does he pay you a decent wage?” inquired Louise.
“Ten dollars a week. I can’t complain on that score. But there’s something about him—I can’t explain—it gives me the creeps.”
“Fenestra is a peculiar type,” admitted Penny. “He didn’t act very friendly toward Louise and me. By the way, why does he keep the storm cellar padlocked?”
“That’s something I wish you would tell me.”
“He wouldn’t allow us to enter it even when the storm was coming.”
“Fenestra always keeps the cave padlocked,” revealed Tillie. “He goes there every day, too. Sometimes he spends hours beneath ground. It rather frightens me.”
“What do you think he does there?”
“I don’t know. Once I asked him about the cave and he flew into a violent rage. He said if he ever caught me near it he would discharge me.”
“He told us that the cave was half filled with water.”
“I don’t believe that,” said Tillie. “He has something hidden down there.”