As I delivered the blow a low laugh rang out behind me, and, turning, I beheld Tars Tarkas, Sola, and three or four warriors standing in the
doorway of the chamber.
'em since Adam," he thought, and then he crossed and entered the building through the doorway that had been pointed out to him.
Finally, seeing that no one came to collect, Bradley arose and started for the doorway. He had covered half the distance when he heard the voice of mine host calling to him: "Come back, jaal-lu," screamed the Wieroo; and Bradley did as he was bid.
Inside the
doorway he discovered a passage turning abruptly to the right and almost immediately thereafter to the left.
As I crossed the chamber to attack the Kadabrans from the rear a small
doorway at my left opened, and, to my surprise, revealed the figures of Matai Shang, Father of Therns and Phaidor, his daughter, peering into the room.
Dorothy knew the King at once, because she had seen his head carved on the arch and over the
doorway of the palace.
The wall behind the dais was pierced by two small
doorways, hidden by heavy hangings.
It seemed ages that I stood in the shadow of that
doorway, in the ill-lit corridor of the palace of Menelek XIV.
"It is even so," said one of the beasts in the
doorway.
Then the Arabs melted through the
doorway into the darkness of the court.
At the doors of huts groups of women turned to look after him, warbling softly, and with gleaming eyes; armed men stood out of the way, submissive and erect; others approached from the side, bending their backs to address him humbly; an old woman stretched out a draped lean arm--"Blessings on thy head!" she cried from a dark
doorway; a fiery-eyed man showed above the low fence of a plantain-patch a streaming face, a bare breast scarred in two places, and bellowed out pantingly after him, "God give victory to our master!" Karain walked fast, and with firm long strides; he answered greetings right and left by quick piercing glances.
I noticed during the period of this new persecution that the beasts appeared only when our backs were turned; we never saw one really materialize from thin air, nor did I for an instant sufficiently lose my excellent reasoning faculties to be once deluded into the belief that the beasts came into the room other than through some concealed and well-contrived
doorway.
