Dan quickly dropped the candlestick and backed away from the hideous pile. He looked around the room and confirmed his earlier findings of no windows, doors or seams in the walls. The walls appeared to be cushioned somehow, probably sound proof, he thought. Dan looked at the ceiling and through the faint yellow light he could see a hole, it appeared to be the remenants of a chimney. He remembered seeing a smoke stack on the side of the house when he came here, surely this could not be the same stack. It appeared large enough for him to crawl through, he just needed something to stand on. Frantically Dan looked around the room for anything that he could use. He started pushing things around, and as much as he hated to disturb the disgusting pile, he pulled on the mattress to look behind it. Under the mattress dan saw a crack in the floor. He got on his knees to examine it closer.