For a moment I hesitated, asking myself for what purpose we hastened on thus into the very arms of our enemies then, propelled by instinct or premonition-I know not what-I took a firmer grasp on my spear and followed Harry without word, throwing caution to the winds. There was no longer any doubt of it: we were on our way to the great cavern. Follow me keep your spear ready not a sound, if you love her." "They have fired the column-you remember. But all the Incas appeared to have assembled within, for the corridor remained deserted. Yet we avoided foolhardiness, for as we approached the last turn we proceeded slowly, keeping an eye on the rear. With the surprise announcement of three new REMIX levels, I decided to dive in and livestream my blind attempt at the Mitton University challenge. We followed in the direction they had taken, turning to the right. We waited a while longer, then as no more appeared we started forward and soon had reached the corridor down which they had passed. I saw that he understood, and saw too, by the expression that shot into his face, that it would go ill with any Incas who tried to stop us then. ![]() It was the same sound we had heard twice before a sound as of a great, deep-toned bell ringing sonorously throughout the passages and caverns with a roar that was deafening. Her profile was toward us it could not have been her eyes or any expression of her face but there was a tenseness about her pose, a stiffening of the muscles of her body, an air of lofty scorn and supreme triumph coming somehow from every line of her motionless figure, that flashed certainty into my brain. It was something indefinable in Desiree's attitude that told me the truth-what, I cannot tell. But so fast did we go that it seemed to me we had left the great cavern scarcely a minute behind us when I suddenly saw the steps of a steep stairway leading down from an opening on our right. ![]() I do not know what led us whether a remorseful Providence, who suddenly decided that we had been played with long enough, or the mere animal instinct of direction, or blind luck. ![]() She was standing on the top of the lofty column in the center of the lake. I felt within me the strength and resolve of ten men, and I knew then that there was something I must do and would do before I died, though a thousand devils stood in my way. It was necessary to half encircle the cavern, and the passages were so often crossed by other passages that many times we had to guess at the proper road.īut not for an instant did we hesitate we flew rather than ran. The corridor in which we now found ourselves stretched straight ahead for a distance, then turned to one side and the corner thus formed was flooded with a brilliant blaze of lightĪs I have said, we had entered the great cavern at a point almost directly opposite the alcove, and therefore at a distance from the entrance we sought. We had no sooner turned than we saw that which caused us to glance quickly at each other and hasten our step, while I smothered the ejaculation that rose to my lips. Neither Harry nor I spoke our eyes were concentrated on the scene before us, trying to comprehend its meaning.
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