Also in the
centre of the room was a place for a furnace, with a cavity
wherein to heat the historic pot. But the most dreadful
thing about the cave was that over each slab was a
sculptured illustration of the appropriate torture being
applied. These sculptures were so awful that I will not
harrow the reader by attempting a description of them.--L.
H. H.
She ceased, and a faint murmur of horror ran round the cave. As for the
victims, as soon as they realised the full hideousness of their doom,
their stoicism forsook them, and they flung themselves down upon the
ground, and wept and implored for mercy in a way that was dreadful to
behold. I, too, turned to Ayesha, and begged her to spare them, or at
least to mete out their fate in some less awful way. But she was hard as
adamant about it.
"My Holly," she said, again speaking in Greek, which, to tell the truth,
although I have always been considered a better scholar of the language
than most men, I found it rather difficult to follow, chiefly because of
the change in the fall of the accent.
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