Word: stairway
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...stair creaked. . . . The sound rang through the empty house like a shout. On the dim stairway a shoe was hastily withdrawn from the articulate board; a girl crouched against the balusters listening. The noise had been her own fault, but she was too bundled up to move altogether without clumsiness; she had on two dresses, one under the other; there was a package under her arm. No echo answered her mistep. She could smell the chlorides from the bathroom under the staircase; she could hear far away, the day's first milk-train chuff and clank on its siding...
...Chenchomac, Muyel, or Chunyazehe, Xkarel-Chakalol, Paalmul, Ac, and Ocomal. At Muyel which is about 10 miles inland from Boca Pails above Ascension Bay we found a rather fine castillo 54 feet high with a round cupolo on the roof mask panels, door ways with columns and a fine stairway. Also at this site there was built over another temple. The two side doors of the lower temple were filled in but the middle one was left open and was entered by a long tunnel under the stairway...
Nevertheless they quarried out the plaster, came to the first step, then to other and removed blocks of masonry. Finally they came to the bottom and found that their surmises were correct. There was no tomb entrance at the foot of the stairway. Perhaps, after some great ruler had had the cut made, he decided to be buried elsewhere. Perhaps the ancient king had died prematurely, had been disposed of hastily and the stairs filled...
...False Stairway is Blind...
Rowe and Greenless decided that the presence of the false stairway denoted the presence of a true entrance not far away. Brushes were applied to the rock nearby and every particle of dust and mud was removed. Nothing was found. Then knives were procured and the surface was scraped. Finally the efforts of the workers were rewarded, by the finding of a block of grey limestone set into the same kind of rock in the platform. The block was fitted so carefully that the edge of a razor could not enter the cracks which were all but invisible even after...