CHAPTER X
THE MYSTERIOUS ROOM
The boys hung back for a moment on the threshold of the room Sammy had so strangely discovered. Truth to tell they were a little afraid to enter, and no one could have blamed them. For surely there were some queer looking objects in the secret apartment.
That it was a secret room, intended to be hidden from the ordinary person going through the old house, was plain. As one looked at the wall, before Sammy had pushed on what must have been a secret spring, it did not seem different from the rest of the building. There had been a little piece of carved wood sticking out, and this must have worked on some springs and levers to slide back the hidden door.
"Say, this is great!" cried Sammy, delighted at his discovery.
"It sure is," agreed Bob. "How'd you come to do it?"
"I just happened to," answered Sammy. "I saw that carved wood bulging out, and it looked as though it was meant to press on. So I did."
"You're a great one!" cried Frank. "You're all the time talking about finding something mysterious, but it never before amounted to anything. This time you did hit it, Sammy Brown!"
"And I guess you fellows won't laugh at me any more; will you?"
"I won't," said Bob, with a sigh, wishing he had discovered the secret room.
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