The Muscular "God's Warrior" Was The First To Follow The Colonel.
He Was So Tall That When He Stood On A Broken Pillar The Opening
Came Down To The Middle Of His Breast, And So He Had No Difficulty
In Transporting Himself To The Upper Story.
The slender Babu
joined him with a single monkey-like jump.
Then, with the Akali
pulling from above and Narayan pushing from below, I safely made
the passage, though the narrowness of the hole proved most
disagreeable, and the roughness of the rock left considerable
traces on my hands. However trying archeological explorations
may be for a person afflicted by an unusually fine presence, I
felt perfectly confident that with two such Hercules-like helpers
as Narayan and Ram-Runjit-Das the ascent of the Himalayas would
be perfectly possible for me. Miss X - - came next, under the
escort of Mulji, but Mr. Y - - stayed behind.
The secret cell was a room of twelve feet square. Straight above
the black hole in the floor there was another in the ceiling, but
this time we did not discover any "stopper." The cell was perfectly
empty with the exception of black spiders as big as crabs. Our
apparition, and especially the bright light of the torches, maddened
them; panic-stricken they ran in hundreds over the walls, rushed
down, and tumbled on our heads, tearing their thin ropes in their
inconsiderate haste. The first movement of Miss X - - was to kill
as many as she could.
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