At least, this is their custom with Black Windows--ask me not how I know it; this is truth, I swear it on my life, which is at stake.

Now this is my plan.
We have with us a ladder which will reach from where we stand to the tail of the idol.

Should the foreign lord appear upon the back of the god, which, if he still lives, as I believe he does, he is almost sure to do at sundown, as a man who dwells in the dark all day will love the light and air when he can get them, then some of us must cross and bring him back with us.

Perhaps it had best be you, my lord Orme, since if I went alone, or even with these men, after what is past Black Windows might not altogether trust me." "Fool," broke in Maqueda, "how can a man do such a thing ?" "O Lady, it is not so difficult as it looks.

A few steps across the gulf, and then a hundred feet or so along the tail of the lion which is flat on the top and so broad that one may run down it if careful to follow the curves, that is on a still day--nothing more.