all these questions would eventually resolve themselves and one week later the list , which had taken on the characteristics of a book , was completed and delivered by another messenger to the kim brothers who chapter nineteen back to the present the tell-tell creaking of the floor upstairs should have alerted forrest that someone had crossed those boards and , at this very moment , was silently stepping slowly down the stairs to the door leading into the basement the door handle turned and with a gentle push open it swung .