"Dieu!" he grunted. "An accident, eh? Something must have gone wrong—or did the brown devils attack? I hope our men outside made good slaughter of these Moslem pigs, before they died. Eh, my Captain?"
"Well?"
"Is it not possible that Nissr and our men still live? That they will presently bombard the city? That they may rescue us?"
The Master shook his head.
"They may live," he answered, "but as for rescuing us—" His gesture completed the idea. Suddenly he pointed.
"See!" he cried. "Another door!"
CHAPTER XLIV
INTO THE JEWEL-CRYPT
It was time some exit should be discovered. The tumult had notably increased, at the barred entrance. The staples could not hold, much longer.
The Legionaries pressed forward. At the far end of the chamber, another door was indeed visible; smaller than the first, low, almost square, and let into a deep recess in the elaborately carved wall of gold.