His eyes rose to the still giant at whose feet the Council sat.

Thence they wandered to the walls of the hall.

It was decorated in long painted panels of a quasi-Japanese type, many of them very beautiful.

These panels were grouped in a great and elaborate framing of dark metal, which passed into the metallic caryatidae of the galleries, and the great structural lines of the interior.

The facile grace of these panels enhanced the mighty white effort that laboured in the centre of the scheme.