“A’right, I’sh!”
In fact, it did not look to be a difficult thing to tumble the whole pile of masonry down. However, the two explorers now entered another passage.
Suddenly they came to a curious niche in the wall of stone. Barney scanned it a moment carefully in the light of the lantern.
Then he said:
“On my honor, naygur, this is a big dure in the wall.”
“A door, yo’ say?” asked the darky.
“Yis.”
“A stone door? I don’t see it.”
“Begorra, yez will!”
Barney put his hand in the niche and began to pull upon a metal bar which he saw there. It was consumed with rust, and crumbled in his grasp.