[The Metal Monster by A. Merritt]@TWC D-Link bookThe Metal Monster CHAPTER XV 10/21
Four doorways like that in which we stood pierced them.
Through each of their curtainings in turn we peered. All were precisely similar in shape and proportions, radiating in a lunetted, curved base triangle from the middle chamber; the curvature of the enclosing globe forming back wall and roof; the translucent slicings the sides; the circle of floor of the inner hall the truncating lunette. The first of these chambers was utterly bare.
The one opposite held a half-dozen suits of the lacquered armor, as many wicked looking, short and double-edged swords and long javelins.
The third I judged to be the lair of Yuruk; within it was a copper brazier, a stand of spears and a gigantic bow, a quiver full of arrows leaning beside it.
The fourth room was littered with coffers great and small, of wood and of bronze, and all tightly closed. The fifth room was beyond question Norhala's bedchamber.
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