[The Ivory Child by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookThe Ivory Child CHAPTER V 12/22
Then I went outside the room and looked.
As I had hoped might be the case, there ran the wire on the face of the wall connected along its length by other wires with the various rooms it passed. I set to work and followed that wire.
It was not an easy job; indeed once or twice it reminded me of that story of the old Greek hero who found his way through a labyrinth by means of a silken thread.
I forget whether it were a bull or a lady he was looking for, but with care and perseverance he found one or the other, or it may have been both. Down staircases and various passages I went with my eye glued upon the wire, which occasionally got mixed up with other wires, till at length it led me through a swing door covered with red baize into what appeared to be a modern annexe to the castle.
Here at last it terminated on the spring of an alarming-looking and deep-throated bell that hung immediately over a certain door. On this door I knocked, hoping that it might be that of Mr.Savage and praying earnestly that it did not enclose the chaste resting-place of the cook or any other female.
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