The gates opened inward, and three heavy bars were held in place by means of stout staples riveted to the sheets of steel.

The boy had been told that the power of the Blue Pearl would enable him to accomplish any feat of strength, and he believed that this was true.
The warriors, under the direction of King Gos, continued to hurl arrows and darts and spears and axes and huge stones upon the invaders, all without avail.

The ground below was thickly covered with weapons, yet not one of the three before the gates had been injured in the slightest manner.

When everything had been cast that was available and not a single weapon of any sort remained at hand, the amazed warriors saw the boy put his shoulder against the gates and burst asunder the huge staples that held the bars in place.

A thousand of their men could not have accomplished this feat, yet the small, slight boy did it with seeming ease.