Was it a strange statue or a living being?
“Come!” Chandra was speaking from the hall.
Margaret stepped between the curtains. She turned to see the brass door sliding down into the opening. Chandra conducted her back to Henri Zayata’s living room.
“You have seen the temple?” asked Zayata, with a thin smile.
“Yes,” Margaret replied. “It is wonderful.”
“It is called the Temple of Silence,” replied Zayata.
The Temple of Silence! The name was graphically descriptive. How well it suited! — Margaret thought.
“Those who enter it must remain silent,” smiled Zayata.
“Those who enter it!” The phrase burned itself in Margaret’s brain. She had entered it — so had Chandra. But there was another there; one who had remained after they had left!
Vividly, Margaret recalled that strange form clad in black. A silent figure in the Temple of Silence! Who could the man have been?