The jungle had crept in at all points, and gorgeous creepers had wreathed themselves round the necks of the statues above the gateway.
"I don't see any sign of steps," said Hayle, when they had examined the place in silence for some minutes.

"I thought you said a flight of stone steps led up to where the king's throne was placed ?" "Codd certainly read it so," Kitwater answered, looking about him as if he did not quite realize the situation.

"And how are we to know that there are not some steps here?
They may be hidden.

What do you think, little man ?" He turned to Codd, who was looking about him with eyes in which a curious light was shining.
"Steps must be somewhere," the latter replied.

"We've got to find them--but not to-night.