Already I see in your glorious faces that you behold the duty.
Then forward, patriots! To the plaza, and let us tear down, let
us destroy by fire, let us annihilate the statue of the dastard
Megales which defaces our fair city. Citizens, to your patriotic
duty!"
Another wild yell rang skyward, and at once the fringes of the
crowd began to vanish plazaward, its centre began to heave, its
flanks to stir. Three minutes later the grounds of the palace
were again dark and empty. The Irishman's oratory had won the
day.
CHAPTER 15. IN THE SECRET CHAMBER
The escaping party groped its way along the passage in the wall,
down a rough, narrow flight of stone steps to a second tunnel,
and along this underground way for several hundred yards. Since
he was the only one familiar with the path they were traversing,
the governor took the lead and guided the others. At a distance
of perhaps an eighth of a mile from the palace the tunnel forked.
Without hesitation, Megales kept to the right. A stone's throw
beyond this point of divergence there began to be apparent a
perceptible descent which terminated in a stone wall that blocked
completely the way.
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