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Although the portal was thick I supposed that I might have been heard on the outside if I had pounded on it with the hilt of my sword. - (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter 25, Sentence #45)

I had made the marks because, unlike others who had entered the tunnels, I fully intended to return. When I came to the portal where I had entered I found it closed as I had known it would be and there was, as I knew, no handle or obvious device for opening the door on this side, for no one returned, supposedly, from the tunnels of the Golden Beetle. The portals were opened occasionally to allow the Beetle its run of the Nest but I had no idea when this might occur again. Although the portal was thick I supposed that I might have been heard on the outside if I had pounded on it with the hilt of my sword. On the other hand I had been informed, graciously, by the Muls who manned the portal that it might not be opened by them to release me once I had decided to enter. As they put it, they simply were not permitted to do so. It was the law of Priest-Kings. - (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter 25)