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 dank smell of moist earth assailed his nostrils. Involuntarily he slackened his pace.

"Where are you taking me?" he asked again.

The man with the lamp walked on without replying. Hugh raised his voice slightly.

"I will not go another step until I have an answer. For the last time—where am I?"

"At the end of your journey, Doctor Trenchard."

Abruptly the light was extinguished, leaving him in a darkness complete and impenetrable as that of a sealed tomb.