I want to have a closer look at that temple." So behind our screen of bushes we wriggled back a little distance till we knew that the slope of the ground would hide us when we stood up.
Then as quickly as we could we made our way eastwards for something over a quarter of a mile and after this turned to the north.

As I expected, beyond the ring of the crater we found ourselves on the rising, tree-clad bosom of the mountain and, threading our path through the cedars, came presently to that track or roadway which led to the eastern gate of the amphitheatre.

This road we followed unseen until presently the gateway appeared before us.

We walked through it without attracting any attention, perhaps because all the people were either talking together, or praying, or perhaps because like themselves we were wrapped in white robes.

At the mouth of the tunnel we stopped and I called out in a loud voice: "The white lords and their servant have come to visit Harut, as he invited them to do.