painting in oil

painting in oil
And then?" asked Rouletabille, deliberately laughing under the bed.
I felt rather vexed and replied:
"I don't know, - but anything appears possible" -
"The examining magistrate had the same idea, monsieur," said Daddy Jacques, "and he carefully examined the mattress. He was obliged to laugh at the idea, monsieur, as your friend is doing now, - for whoever heard of a mattress having a double bottom?"
I was myself obliged to laugh, on seeing that what I had said was absurd; but in an affair like this one hardly knows where an absurdity begins or ends.
My friend alone seemed able to talk intelligently. He called out from under the bed.
"The mat here has been moved out of place, - who did it?"
"We did, monsieur," explained Daddy Jacques. "When we could not find the assassin, we asked ourselves whether there was not some hole in the floor -"
"There is not," replied Rouletabille. "Is there a cellar?"