The Spiral Stairway to the Mens Room

The bathroom was at the end of a narrow dimly lit corridor and around the corner from the dining room. At the far end of the corridor was a spiral staircase leading down. That, in itself, was suspicious. Even in the 1800s New Orleans had been New Orleans,. where the dead could not be buried below ground and dowsers ran mad in white linen - basements were as mythical as unicorns.