"As Fung say, there no house without door, although plenty people made blind and can't see it.

But we not blind, or we dead long ago.

Find door by and by, but here come man to talk to you." The man proved to be Japhet, who had been sent by the Child of Kings to summon us, as she had news to tell.

So I woke the others, and after I had dressed the Professor's flesh wounds, which were stiff and sore, we joined her where she sat in the gateway tower of the inner wall.

She greeted us rather sadly, asked Oliver how he had slept and Higgs if his cuts hurt him.