If the secret door were not found, nothing else would ever betray this cunning hiding-place.

Doubtless that was why, during the many changes that had prevailed at Chad during the past fifty years, the knowledge of its very existence had been lost.
"Air comes in freely through many cracks and slits," explained the prisoner.

"It is not an unpleasant place save in the heat of the middle day, when it becomes like a veritable oven.

That is why my thirst was so unbearable.

There is a bed, as thou seest, and a chair and a few other things.