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BY the time he reached 'Mecca' the river had sunk well below the level of the wharf coping. The raiding party, some of them wet through to the waist, had been relieved by another and better-equipped body of men drawn from the police reserves. Three throbbing fire-engines were standing in the street, pumping out the flooded basement of the warehouse, and the wood cellar had been pumped dry. The little room was now an indescribable confusion of logs and sodden kindling wood.
John opened the secret door and examined, with a little shudder, the place of his imprisonment. He had already decided that this was not the first time the cellar had been flooded. The place had been under water before, as he guessed. One of the detectives had been told by Mrs. Oaks that four years previous the water had come into the cellar and reached the roof.