Sorcerer's Stone

Excerpt: "It was dark in the marea, yet not so dark but that the Marquis and I could see about us. We had been inside this New Guinea temple, or club-house, or Parliament building—you might call it a little of all three, and not go very far wrong—for over half an hour, and our eyes were getting accustomed to the gloom There were thirty or forty men in it, squatting about the floor, or lying on the...