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| 21 | 29 | "What is the matter?" View more quotes about asked">asked Mul-Al-Ka. |
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| 21 | 26 | By the door I saw a series of short bars which emerged from the wall, which might be used as a ladder. |
| 21 | 27 | Taking the torch in my teeth I prepared to climb the set of bars. |
| 21 | 28 | Suddenly I stopped, my hands on one of the bars. |
| 21 | 29 | "What is the matter?" asked Mul-Al-Ka. |
| 21 | 30 | "Listen," I said. |
| 21 | 31 | We listened carefully and in the distance it seemed we heard, incredibly enough, the mournful singing of human voices, as though of many men, and the sound was as we determined by listening for a minute or two gradually nearing. |
| 21 | 32 | "Perhaps they are coming here," said Mul-Al-Ka. |