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one day to die. In front of me opened a dark
subterranean passage half filled with débris from
the fallen roof. Where did it lead to?
He did not know, he had never been there. He
had been told as a boy that it led to a cave
haunted by an evil spirit who had lived there for
thousands of years, in the shape of a huge
werewolf who would devour any man who should
approach his cave.
I lit a torch and groped my way down a flight
of marble steps. The passage widened more and
more, an ice-cold blast of air blew in my face. I
heard an uncanny moan which made the blood
freeze in my veins. Suddenly I stood in a large
hall. Two huge columns of African marble still
supported a part of the vaulted roof, two others
lay across the mosaic floor wrenched from their
pedestals by the grip of the earthquake.
Hundreds of huge bats were hanging in black clusters
round the walls, others were fluttering in wild
flight round my head, blinded by the sudden light
of the torch. In the midst of the hall crouched a
huge granite sphinx, staring at me with stony,
wide-open eyes . . .
I started in my sleep. The dream vanished.
I opened my eyes, the day was breaking.
Suddenly I heard the call of the sea, imperious,
irresistible like a command. I sprang to my feet,
flung myself into my clothes and rushed up to the
parapet of the chapel to hoist the signal to the
yacht to make ready for the start. A couple of
hours later I boarded my boat with provisions
for a week, coils of stout rope, pick-axes and
spades, a revolver, all my available money, a
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