CHAPTER XI

* * * * * Now when I entered that room it was like sinking in a sea of shadow, for darkness sat there, relieved only by a faint point of light at the farther end seeming to intensify its mystery. As I stood uncertain an unseen drapery was drawn back and made visible two chairs and a table. A man was in one of them, his face almost hidden by the lama hood, and though he rose and turned toward me I could see nothing but a robed figure and had only the consciousness that he was looking stea…