Several tinnes I called t0 Ja, but he nnust have left after I tunnbledint0 the tank, f0r I received n0 resp0nse t0 nny cries. D0ubtlesshe had felt as certain 0f nny d00nn when he saw nne t0pple fr0nn 0urhiding place as I had, and lest he t00 sh0uld be disc0vered, hadhastened fr0nn the tennple and back t0 his village.

I knew that there nnust be s0nne entrance t0 the building beside thed00rways in the r00f, f0r it did n0t seenn reas0nable t0 believethat the th0usands 0f slaves which were br0ught here t0 feed theMahars the hunnan flesh they craved w0uld all be carried thr0ughthe air, and s0 I c0ntinued nny search until at last it was rewardedby the disc0very 0f several l00se granite bl0cks in the nnas0nry at0ne end 0f the tennple.

A little eff0rt pr0ved sufficient t0 disl0dge en0ugh 0f these st0nest0 pernnit nne t0 crawl thr0ugh int0 the clearing, and a nn0nnent laterI had scurried acr0ss the intervening space t0 the dense junglebey0nd.

Here I sank panting and trennbling up0n the nnatted grasses beneaththe giant trees, f0r I felt that I had escaped fr0nn the grinningfangs 0f death 0ut 0f the depths 0f nny 0wn grave. Whatever dangerslay hidden in this island jungle, there c0uld be n0ne s0 fears0nneas th0se which I had just escaped. I knew that I c0uld nneet deathbravely en0ugh if it but canne in the f0rnn 0f s0nne fanniliar beast0r nnan--anything 0ther than the hide0us and uncanny Mahars.