human
I want to get out of this place, he growled.
gpt
It isn't natural--it's cramped, dark, uncanny, with the dried skin of a snake on the wall, and in its evil-smelling corners the lurking superstition of a mysterious and bloody past. If we stay here we'll deserve the worst kind of ill-luck.
human
How large are these ruins?
gpt
About fifty yards across, but with a multitude of passages coiling round the centre chamber, from which we escaped into this hole, which, I take it, lies between the first curve of the passage and the inner chamber.
human
Then, if the Zulus, knowing we are concealed somewhere in the pile, made a systematic search, they must find us?
gpt
Certainly; and knowing we were in the inner chamber they will begin their search from that point, and discover our hiding-place at once.
human
Would it not be best, then, to find out what the Zulus are about?
gpt
Good; anything to get out of this place. I'd better get out the way I squeezed in. Where's the port-hole--the loose stone?
human
Stop; Jim, you must not go; you're too clumsy for this work. Klaas!
gpt
Sieur!
human
We are in great danger here. To get free we need the help of a brave man, a man who can move softly, and use his eyes and ears well. You are he.
gpt
Eweh, Inkose, I am that man.
human
You will get out of this place, and, keeping yourself concealed, see where the Zulus are and what they do.
gpt
I will do it,
human
Stay, said Hume;
gpt
I have been thinking. There must be another outlet. The woman was here when we entered; I heard her voice. She must have crept in by another way after bringing us water when we were bound.
human
I never thought of that,