The craving for wealth was in their hearts, rendering them blind to everything else.

They crossed the stone bridge, passed through the outer portion of the city, proceeded over the second moat, and at last, with the familiarity of old friends, made their way up the steps towards the courtyard of the king's palace.
"Now, my friends, listen to me," said Kitwater, as he spoke throwing down the tools he had been carrying, "what we have to do is to thoroughly sound the whole of this courtyard, inch by inch and stone by stone.

We can't be wrong, for that this is the courtyard of the Three Elephants' Heads, there can be no doubt.

You take the right-hand side," he went on addressing Hayle; "you, Coddy, must take the left.

I'll try the middle.