Seeing that the coast was clear, Tarzan stepped into the darkened
entrance where he tried the bars only to discover that they
were ingeniously locked in place by some device with which he was
unfamiliar and that they also were probably too strong to be broken
even if he could have risked the noise which would have resulted.
Nothing was visible within the darkened interior and so, momentarily
baffled, he sought the windows. Here also the bars refused to
yield up their secret, but again Tarzan was not dismayed since he
had counted upon nothing different.
If the bars would not yield to his cunning they would yield to
his giant strength if there proved no other means of ingress, but
first he would assure himself that this latter was the case. Moving
entirely around the building he examined it carefully. There were
other windows but they were similarly barred. He stopped often to
look and listen but he saw no one and the sounds that he heard were
too far away to cause him any apprehension.
He glanced above him at the wall of the building. Like so many of
the other walls of the city, palace, and temple, it was ornately
carved and there were too the peculiar ledges that ran sometimes
in a horizontal plane and again were tilted at an angle, giving
ofttimes an impression of irregularity and even crookedness to
the buildings.
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