Jack tried to follow their route as the Rajputs dragged him out of the chamber and down a flight of stairs. The walls were bare of decoration, the steps worn by the passage of many feet and the air progressively fouler. They stopped at a long corridor poorly lit by torches, barged through a narrow door and plunged downward again to a vast area with what seemed a score of open arches. One of the guards had taken a torch from the wall, and its flickering light illuminated a series of stone chambers, some large, some small.
The guards moved in silence, not responding to Jack"s demands that they release him until they arrived at a weighty, iron-studded door. One Rajput turned the key in the lock, and the others dragged him inside. The guards shoved Jack against a granite wall and fastened man
