A row of lockers under the windows
provides an unupholstered windowseat interrupted by twin glass
doors, respectively halfway between the stern post and the sides.
Another door strains the illusion a little by being apparently in
the ship's port side, and yet leading, not to the open sea, but
to the entrance hall of the house. Between this door and the
stern gallery are bookshelves. There are electric light switches
beside the door leading to the hall and the glass doors in the
stern gallery. Against the starboard wall is a carpenter's bench.
The vice has a board in its jaws; and the floor is littered with
shavings, overflowing from a waste-paper basket. A couple of
planes and a centrebit are on the bench. In the same wall,
between the bench and the windows, is a narrow doorway with a
half door, above which a glimpse of the room beyond shows that it
is a shelved pantry with bottles and kitchen crockery.
On the starboard side, but close to the middle, is a plain oak
drawing-table with drawing-board, T-square, straightedges, set
squares, mathematical instruments, saucers of water color, a
tumbler of discolored water, Indian ink, pencils, and brushes on
it. The drawing-board is set so that the draughtsman's chair has
the window on its left hand. On the floor at the end of the
table, on its right, is a ship's fire bucket.
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