Chapter 13

Techotl instantly mounted a stair leading up to the gallery, beckoning them to follow him, which they did, moving rapidly to keep on his heels. Having reached the gallery, he plunged into a door that opened toward the west, and hurried through chamber after chamber, each lighted by skylights or green fire-jewels. "What sort of a place can this be?" muttered Valeria under her breath. "Crom knows!" answered Conan. "I've seen _his_ kind before, though. They live on the shores of Lake Zuad, near the border of Kush. The…