Faintly from beyond the wall Jane heard a voice calling, but whose
it was and what the words she could not distinguish. Then she saw
Lu-don jerk upon another thong and wait in evident expectancy of
some consequent happening. He did not have long to wait. She saw
the thong move suddenly as though jerked from above and then Lu-don
smiled and with another signal put in motion whatever machinery it
was that raised the partition again to its place in the ceiling.
Advancing into that portion of the room that the partition had
shut off from them, the high priest knelt upon the floor, and down
tilting a section of it, revealed the dark mouth of a shaft leading
below. Laughing loudly he shouted into the hole: "Return to thy
father, O Dor-ul-Otho!"
Making fast the catch that prevented the trapdoor from opening
beneath the feet of the unwary until such time as Lu-don chose the
high priest rose again to his feet.
"Now, Beautiful One!" he cried, and then, "Ja-don! what do you
here?"
Jane Clayton turned to follow the direction of Lu-don's eyes and
there she saw framed in the entrance-way to the apartment the mighty
figure of a warrior, upon whose massive features sat an expression
of stern and uncompromising authority.
"I come from Ko-tan, the king," replied Ja-don, "to remove the
beautiful stranger to the Forbidden Garden.
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