Some of them were full three inches thick, but I slashed and tugged, with breath that came and went immoderately fast, with bleeding hands and thumping heart, until little by little the stone was bared and its outlines revealed themselves.
"But as they grew distinct and I saw what I had uncovered, I fell back in terror.

The stone was about five feet ten inches in height, and was roughly shaped to represent a human head and neck.

But the face it was that froze my heated blood in horror.

Never until I die shall I forget that hellish expression.

It was the smoothly-shaven face of a man of about fifty years of age, roughly carved after the fashion of many of the ruins on this mountain.