The stairs came to an end in front of the basement door.

The real basement door behind it had been taken down out of the way.

The basement door was open as well, the light on.

She looked back down the hall toward the basement door.

Within a few minutes, I could hear the basement door open.

He and his men came out through a basement door on a side street.

For a week or so he just stood outside the basement door and looked in.

I expected to see the basement door open, but it wasn't.

But the minute he left, her eyes fell on the basement door.

In the kitchen everything was still the same, except, he saw, for the basement door.