The "windfall" that had so unexpectedly dropped into the douar; first in the shape of Sailor Bill,-and afterwards, in more generous guise, by the capture of the three "young gentlemen" of the Gunroom,-had caused some change in the plans of their captors.
"The Boy Slaves"
Mayne Reid
Anton was explaining that he had heard a shot and that nobody in the Gunroom answered.
"Murder in the Gunroom"
Henry Beam Piper
You see," she explained, "the library is directly under the Gunroom, and there's a spiral stairway connecting the two rooms.
"Murder in the Gunroom"
Henry Beam Piper