The two servitors had barely time to accomplish this move when the snake glided swift as the wind up over the temple steps.
“Look—look!” cried Buckden.
An astounding sight was next witnessed. Out from the archway there emerged more of the huge reptiles.
Some of them were monstrous in proportions.
The archway was literally choked with them.
All seemed to be making for the temple. Truly, the wonderful tale rendered by Metlo was true after all.
There seemed legions of the snakes. They swarmed over the temple wall and through all the passages.
Dumfounded, our adventurers stood and watched them.
“Great heavens!” gasped Frank Reade, Jr., “what a sight that is!”
“I never saw its equal!”