I occupied one of the rooms on the first floor of the four-storey building.

(Pub. abroad as Top storey murder)

In the centre is the administrative building which is a one storey cottage having on the ground floor a small office which doubles up as reception area, a room which holds the display exhibits like the king cobra, python etc., a store room and a toilet.

The astonishing pluck of the people, reconstructing the whole town with twenty storey houses on the old sites!

The three storeys overhang one another, and are faced with shingles.

The diminutive town hall, which in reality was nothing but a watch-house, seemed to be a mere incident on its irregular expanse, to which the two-storey shops and dwellings made a low border.

The two large upper-storey windows that project from the N. and S. sides, light a gallery running the whole length of the house.

Viewed from the front it looks like the second storey bedroom of a cottage; eyed from the side it seems like a long office, four yards from the ground, with a pair of round-headed folding doors below, and at the extreme end a narrow aperture, which apparently leads round the corner.

" "But where was Captain Monk all the while?" "Right here," Monk answered for himself; "sitting tight and saying nothing, and duly grateful that the blue prints and specifications of the Great Architect didn't design me for second-storey work.

Wednesday, September 25.The abomination of desolation wrought by the flood is borne in upon one more and more as an inspection of the town reveals the damage done more fullythe houses standing empty, their lower storeys dank and slimy, the ruined gardens, and muddy, slippery roads.

On the south side of the street, just in front of the church, stood the old schoolhousea low one storey building, roofed with the red tiles characteristic of the neighbourhood, and built on to the schoolmaster's two-storey dwelling.