"
"It will hold him," said Mo-sar; "doubtless too it would hold a
gryf, but first you would have to get the gryf into it."
The priests pondered this bit of wisdom thoughtfully and then one
of those from A-lur spoke. "It should not be difficult," he said,
"if we use the wits that Jad-ben-Otho gave us instead of the
worldly muscles which were handed down to us from our fathers and
our mothers and which have not even the power possessed by those
of the beasts that run about on four feet."
"Lu-don matched his wits with the stranger and lost," suggested
Mo-sar. "But this is your own affair. Carry it out as you see best."
"At A-lur, Ko-tan made much of this Dor-ul-Otho and the priests
conducted him through the temple. It would arouse in his mind
no suspicion were you to do the same, and let the high priest of
Tu-lur invite him to the temple and gathering all the priests make
a great show of belief in his kinship to Jad-ben-Otho. And what
more natural then than that the high priest should wish to show
him through the temple as did Lu-don at A-lur when Ko-tan commanded
it, and if by chance he should be led through the lion pit it would
be a simple matter for those who bear the torches to extinguish them
suddenly and before the stranger was aware of what had happened,
the stone gates could be dropped, thus safely securing him.
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