This was, indeed, a problem.
Barney again lit his taper and looked in vain for some method by which he might climb out of the place.
This was impossible.
There seemed but one way, and this was to follow the passage which the new-comers had just taken.
Barney made no doubt that they were of the strange people who had built the temple, but he was not by any means assured that they would be especially friendly to invaders like himself.
“Bejabers, it’s well to first git acquainted with the nature av the baste,” he muttered, “an’ thin av it’s all right go ahead.”
This was certainly sound logic, and it was well for Barney that he adopted it.
The strange people would not have received him cordially, and indeed his precaution may be said to have been the saving of his life.
But there seemed no other safe method of procedure but to attempt the passage.
Accordingly Barney entered it.