"And get
that absurd notion out of your head."
"All right." He flushed. "But you don't think I'm afraid,
do you?"
"If what you're thinking were true, you'd have a right
to be," I replied tartly. "And I want to tell you I'D be
afraid. Damned afraid."
For perhaps two hundred paces we skirted the base of
the wall. We came abruptly to an opening, an oblong
passageway fully fifty foot wide by twice as high. At its
entrance the mellow, saffron light was cut off as though
by an invisible screen. The tunnel itself was filled with a
dim grayish blue luster. For an instant we contemplated it.
"I wouldn't care to be caught in there by any rush," I
hesitated.
"There's not much good in thinking of that now," said
Drake, grimly. "A few chances more or less in a joint of
this kind is nothing between friends, Goodwin; take it
from me. Come on."
We entered. Walls, floor and roof were composed of
the same substance as the great pillars, the wall of the
outer chamber; filled like them with dimmed replicas of
the twinkling eye points.
"Odd that all the places in here are square," muttered
Drake. "They don't seem to have used any spherical or
pyramidal ideas in their building--if it is a building."
It was true. All was mathematically straight up and
down and across.
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