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That, in the fume-laden air of the vault there are always fumes in spite of the best ventilation system made caused the first big blast and started all the damage." Mackay had rejoined us in time to hear the explanation. "Ingenious," he murmured. "As ingenious as the methods used to murder the girl and her director." Breathless, Wagnalls returned with the collodion.
It almost seemed as if there clung a radiance in that shadowy corner where the eyes of an enthusiast had sought and found the memory of the Divine Teacher; and that in the fume-laden air there lingered the odour of the sacrifice offered by a rough, untutored heart to the Man Who had spoken unforgettable words seven years ago in Galilee. "That the world through Him might be saved."
The fume-laden room seemed to swim around me as I looked down at the dreadfully contorted features over which was creeping that greenish tint which had characterized the face of Sir Marcus as I had seen it on the morning of the body's recovery from the hold of the Oritoga. "Drag him out," said Gatton huskily; "he may be alive."
For I knew that in this fume-laden room a thing more horrible and more strange than any within my experience had taken place that night. Part III The Assistant Commissioner lighted a cigarette.
Yet Kismet, in whose omnipotence he more than half believed, had ordained otherwise; for man is merely an instrument in the hand of Fate. The inner room was in darkness and the fume-laden air almost unbreathable.
Yet, now that temporarily he was free of it, he realized that there was that within him which responded to the call of the catacombs; there was a fascination in the fume-laden air of those underground passages; there was a charm, a mysterious charm, in the cave of the golden dragon, in that unforgettable place which he assumed to mark the center of the labyrinth; in the wicked, black eyes of the Eurasian.
"Many ascribe success to wit," he replied, "and failure to bad luck; but the Arab says 'Kismet." Mrs. Sin, aroused by her husband from the deep opium sleep, came out into the fume-laden vault.
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