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red carelessly, leaving me wondering what on earth she meant. We came to the statue and the sepulchre beneath without trouble, for the glint of her hair, and I may add of Tommy's back, were quite sufficient to guide us through the gloom. The crystal coffins were still there, for Bastin flashed his torch and we saw them, but the boxes of radium had gone. "Let that light die," she said to Bastin. "Humphrey, give me your right hand and give your left to Bickley. Let Bastin cling to him and fear nothing." We passed to the end of the tomb and stood against what appeared to be a rock wall, all close together, as she directed. "Fear nothing," she said again, but next second I was never more full of fear in my life, for we were whirling downwards at a speed that would have made an American elevator attendant turn pale. "Don't choke me," I heard Bickley say to Bastin, and the latter's murmured reply of: "I never could bear these moving staircases and tubelifts. They always make me feel sick." I admit that for my part I also felt rather sick and clung tightly to the hand of the Glittering Lady. She, however, placed her other hand upon my shoulder, saying in a low voice: "Did I not tell you to have no fear?" Then I felt comforted, for somehow I knew that it was not her desire to harm and much less to destroy me. Also Tommy was seated quite at his ease with his head resting against my leg, and his absence of alarm was reassuring. The only stoic of the party was Bickley. I have no doubt that he was quite as frightened as we were, but rather than show it he would have died. "I presume this machinery is pneumatic," he began when suddenly and without shock, we arrived at the end of our journey. How far we had fallen I am sure I do not know, but I should judge from the awful speed at which we travelled, that it must have been several thousand feet, probably four or five. "Everything seems steady now," remarked Bastin, "so I suppose this luggage lift has stopped. The odd thing is that I can't see anything of it. There ought to be a shaft, but we seem to be standing on a level floor." "The odd thing is," said Bickley, "that we can see at all. Where the devil does the light come from thousands of feet underground?" "I don't know," answered Bastin, "unless there is natural gas here, as I am told there is at a town called Medicine Hat in Canada." "Natural gas be blowed," said Bickley. "It is more like moonlig
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