Sardou's Cleopatra — page 122: what you’re looking at

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-SARDOU’S. CLECPATRA. 107 CHAPTER IX. FAREWELL. From the ante-room Pharon turned abruptly into a narrow, winding hall, and, advancing a step or two, he studied closely for a moment the hier- oglyphics upon the walls, and then pressed his finger upon one of the horns of a pictured sem- blance of the bull Apis. Slowly and noiselessly a panel slid aside, revealing a narrow, dark pass- age-way. The Greek closed the panel, and, feeling his way cautiously, proceeded until his hand struck a wall in front of him. He passed his hand over this wall, found the spring which opened an- | other secret door, and finally emerged into a ruined aqueduct just outside the walls of the gardens of the palace. It was this way that he had escaped after fring the arrow, and this way that he had _ been able to penetrate into the palace without alarming the guards. The sun was setting. The west was ablaze with (E(@) =} =GOomicbooks