The two aliens went up, in the loft, to watch what was interesting.
Since Gordon gave them the permission to watch in the wardrobes and trunks, Eiyuu opened a simple wooden wardrobe, and watched what was inside it.
"Oooh…look Men-yawn! Now I'm still too little to wear those clothes, but I like the style. You think that would be easy to modify them to adapt them at my physique?" Eiyuu asked at his aquatic friend, pointing at some dark-colored cigarette trousers, and long blue and maroon jackets.
The fish in the robotic suit extracted from the wardrobe the suits, and watched them carefully, and then he smiled, and declared, "Of course, Sir. And I think that you would be nice with those clothes. They are very elegant and practical."
The ichthyoid continued to extract from the wardrobe all the trousers and jackets, leaving the shirts, because they were too close-fitting and with too big collar, deciding to tailor them for his ward.
Eiyuu in the meanwhile was looking into another bureau, and he remained puzzled when he saw female's dresses, deciding to ask at the warden about them.
From their style they seemed very old, and he thought that, probably, they had belonged to Gordon's mother.
Then he watched into the small drawers, and he saw, with marvel on his part, that they were full of women's jewelry.
There were several cameos, in red, white and black, finely decorated earrings, necklaces and rings.
"Meen-yawn, do me a favor and see what's in those drawers in the closet?" the young alien asked at his guardian, putting back a red coral's cameo in the small drawer.
The fish obeyed, and he was impressed by the jewelry for men that were in the drawer.
"Sir, there are beautiful rings and cuff-links in there, come and see," Meen-yawn declared, after exiting from his stupefied state.
Eiyuu came there, and watched the jewels, thinking to ask at the warden if they were his or his father.
The style was older compared to that period, they were probably dating back from the early nineteenth century, and so he was sure that they belonged to his parent.
Then the two went to rummage inside the trunk, and there they found more modern clothes and the right size for Eiyuu.
"These are warden Baker's clothes, when he was young, look! There are some pajamas!" the blue alien said, pointing a black-and-white striped nightgown.
There were blue-and-green striped too, and they were the typical pajama of the era.
They extracted some clothes, that were quite similar to the style chosen by Eiyuu, and Meen-yawn declared that they were easy to modify.
They took knickerbockers made of maroon, blue and black corduroy, and grey, dark blue and black vests, made in various cuts, with straight or pointed hems.
They placed those clothes in the first wardrobe they opened, and then they entered into the dusty garret of their future house.
Meen-yawn looked with critical eyes all that dirt, thinking that he had a lot of work to do.
In the attic there were some furniture, like wardrobes and small tables, and the two alien opened the doors and drawers, finding nothing inside
"Well, it's quite logical, right? With great probability the warden has already taken all what was interesting for him, taking it in his home," the young genius speculated.
They went down the stairs and opened the door, reaching the second floor of the house, noticing that it was really similar to the warden's apartment.
They opened some doors, looking into the rooms, and Eiyuu was happy to observe that there was even a room used as a library, with glass cabinets very similar to those in Gordon's house.
He observed thoroughly the ladder and the furniture, noticing that only the ladder was worm-eaten, and to replace.
"Meen-yawn, record this: replace library's ladder, dust furniture and house. We would have a lot to do, but it will be funny!" the young alien said at his guardian/friend, knowing that he had a recorder incorporated into his robotic suit.
"It's not necessary that you clean up, leave all to me, Sir," the ichthyoid replied, knowing that the youngster would get tired doing heavy works, while him, in the robotic body, wouldn't have had this kind of problem.
Eiyuu frowned, and declared, "Nonsense, my friend! You know how much I like to do works like this one! Tomorrow we'll start to clean properly, and in the meanwhile we'll continue to see this house, to see if there is some furniture to replace."
The aquatic creature knew that when Eiyuu put something in his head there was no mean to change his mind, so he sighed, and said, "That's ok, Sir, if please you…in any case I'm astonished to see that these furniture are still in a very good shape! It was a luck for us, right?"
The young alien smiled and nodded, and they went into the other rooms, to take note about what furniture keep, and what substitute.
Then they went down the stairs, to reach the ground floor, entering in the kitchen, and Meen-yawn observed that it was less modern than the warden's one, but there were all the furnishings to cook.
The guardian tried to operate the sink, that instead of the tap, it had still the water pump.
Eiyuu stopped him, before he could use the lever, and he oiled it using a can of oil spray that he had into the pochette.
"There, like that I think it'll work," the genial alien said at his friend.
Meen-yawn then took the bar, almost expecting it to break, and he pumped up and down.
With his marvel, not only the lever didn't break, but red, rusty water began to flow down from the beak into the washbasin.
"Wow…I'm impressed. But I think that does better ask at the director to link it at the modern water implant, what do you think, Sir?" Meen-yawn declared at his ward.
Eiyuu nodded, and said, "Better…so we can even clean better the house. To warm the water we could use my gun set on "destroy", but first I must do some tests. And then I have to think to invent something ecologic to warm the water," he finished, thinking about the data took by the brainbots on the pollution in London due to the intensive use of the coal and the fireplace to warm the water.
They exited from the kitchen, looking at the other rooms, a restroom with even a WC, a living room and a bedroom similar to the one where they slept in the director's house.
Even in those rooms there were dusty furniture, but still usable.
"Ok, tomorrow we must begin to clean well this house, beginning from this room, where I would sleep. Then the toilette and the kitchen, the library, and then the rest of the rooms. It will be a long and dirty work, but funny. I cannot believe the luck we had, right, Meen-yawn?" And even warden Baker! Now let's return in his house, so I can begin to read Darwin's book," Eiyuu said at his guardian.
So they returned into the other house, and the young alien cleaned his hand in the warden's restroom, and then they came up in the library, Eiyuu reading "On the Origins of the Species", while Meen-yawn looked at some recipe's books, having decided to learn how to cook for his friend.
Looking at the pendulum clock, Eiyuu noticed that there were already the three PM o'clock, and he decided that, around four o'clock, he would had done a snack.
Luckily the clock was one of those who rang at the hour, so he ate some dehydrated food that he brings inside the pochette.
The two aliens continued to read their books, and around six o'clock Eiyuu finished to read his own, and he was about to search another one, climbing up the ladder.
He frowned when he heard a sound, like a door that was opening, coming from the hall.
It wasn't a burglary's noise, and he reasoned with himself that would be extremely stupid trying to enter with force in the house of the prison's warden.
But it was too early for him, so he motioned for Meen-yawn to follow him upstairs, standing silent.
Reached the attic, the small alien whispered at his aquatic friend, "Sorry, but I didn't want to risk being seen. Who do you think can be? The warden should arrive in an hour and a half, cannot be him. On the other hand, maybe he left early, but judging his character, I think that's not the case."
The aquatic creature thought for a minute, then declared, "Could it be the maid? The sound seemed that of keys."
Eiyuu nodded and answered, "It might be, but the warden had said to us that she was going to come here tomorrow. Oh…I hear that she's coming up there!" he finished, hearing steps coming near the stairs.
The two aliens tiptoed toward their house, entering into the passage.
When they heard the attic's floor creaking, Eiyuu put his ear to the door to listen, and had a moment of panic when he heard the person being close to where they were.
Then he widened his eyes, when he heard, whoever it was in the other side, locking the door of the passage.
"What the heck! All men are the same! They always forgot to lock the doors! I shiver at the thought that some rats that can enter from the old house to this one!" the woman declared.
Eiyuu and Meen-yawn knew that it was surely the maid, and the blue alien remained perplexed by her accent.
She talked English well, but she seemed rough, no…not rough…something else…but then he thought that maybe she talked like that because she came from the countryside.
The two aliens waited that the domestic went away from the room, hoping that she wouldn't control into the wardrobe where they placed the clothes.
Then Eiyuu made a gesture to Meen-yawn to follow him downstairs.
"What a nuisance…now we must wait for the return of the warden. Around a hour and half…I hope he arrive soon," the small genius declared at his aquatic friend.
In the meanwhile they explored a little more the house, deciding where to put the furniture, and using the gun on some of them, set on destroy.
By doing so, the hour and half passed quickly, and then the two waited.
In the meanwhile, the director came home, and he frowned a little, seeing that the door wasn't locked.
"Mister Baker! Welcome home! I'm arrived early, aren't you happy?" asked the domestic, hearing the door opening.
"Hanna! I didn't expect you to return so early! If I may ask, why?" Gordon asked, hiding his worries about his peculiar guests.
The black woman answered, "I've finished my business, and I've found a train that arrived there by the evening. I know how much you need my help, and I was worried about your eating habits! And don't tell me that you ate in a healthy way, because I KNOW that you eat less and unhealthy things, when I'm not home!" she finished, waggling a finger in front of the face of the prison's curator.
Unlike other black domestic, or housekeeper in general, Hanna was treated equally by Gordon, and they had a really open relationship, so the woman knew that she can scold the man in such a way.
The warden laughed, and said, "Touché, you're right. I want to ask you something: you…mh…noticed something strange? Out of place?" he asked, thinking about the two aliens.
Hanna smiled, and replied, "Well, there was a recipe's book in the library that was out of place, and then I went up in the attic, to lock the passage's door in the other house, to avoid mice to enter."
Gordon thought that his guests were hiding in the other hose, so he said, "Come with me, I have something to show you."
They went up in the loft, and then the warden unlocked again the passage's door, saying, "Guys? Are you there?"
Eiyuu and Meen-yawn went up in the attic, and the small alien answered, "Yes, warden Baker, we're here. We can enter?"
"Wait a minute. Hanna, I pray you to not scream, seeing our two guests. They saved my life, and I've decided not only to accommodate them, but even give them the abandoned house. How I can say that…they aren't of this world," Gordon said seriously at his housekeeper.
The woman frowned, but she trusted her employer, so she answered, "The house is yours, so you can invite whoever you want. After your speech, I'm curious to see those enigmatic guests!"
So Gordon opened the door, to reveal who was behind it.