27.The window he found open was of a small room that probably served as a closet; so many objects of all sizes stacked on a table in the centre and on some side shelves. They were also on the ground, at the corners, and leaning against the walls.
Boxes very well sealed didn't reveal their contents; others open, instead, from which emerged drawers, parts of old furniture, or dusty books. You could see lamps and fruit stands; then again, decorative tiles and vases of various sizes; There were antique cupboards and old bedside tables, a statue representing a Venus and a couple of coat hangers.
Nicholas Abbot was cautious: he knew that there was no one in the house, but the prudence acquired in so many years of investigations and a certain reverence for Mrs. Archer's world, which might have
