Did you see that Polynesian?
I really felt as if he were going to spring out on us." "They are rather uncanny," I admitted, "but the danger is over now.

We are passing out of their sphere of influence." We came out on a landing as I spoke and then turned sharply to the left along the North Gallery, from the centre of which we entered the Fourth Egyptian Room.
Almost immediately, a door in the opposite wall opened; a peculiar, high-pitched humming sound became audible, and Jervis came out on tiptoe with his hand raised.
"Tread as lightly as you can," he said.

"We are just making an exposure." The attendant turned back with his lantern, and we followed Jervis into the room from whence he had come.

It was a large room, and little lighter than the galleries, for the single glow-lamp that burned at the end where we entered left the rest of the apartment in almost complete obscurity.

We seated ourselves at once on the chairs that had been placed for us, and, when the mutual salutations had been exchanged, I looked about me.