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While, the Gurkha was putting his ear to the door and, at not noticing any danger, he
checked with the dagger that the guads were well dead.

In reality, we could have left through the door of the Temple, because the exterior
guards ran towards the village at hearing the explosions; but then we didn’t know it and we not
desired to risk ourselves to sustain an unequal combat. What we did, instead, was to leave the
four of us through the window: first climbed the lopa; then Oskar, standing on my shoulders,
he received help and passed to the exterior cornice; and, finally, Bangi and I went up.

We surrounded the Temple and verified that the front was unguarded. We crossed then,
the passage that united the White Isle with the beach and we hidden ourselves behind the little
wall to observe, fifty metres ahead, what was happening in the Monastery. In the next minutes
we would meet with our Comrades again!

Chapter XXVI

The environs of the wall had been cleaned from rocks, so they had to crawl themselves

fifty metres. Just remaining five minutes to the one von Grossen, the three officers , and
three lopas, were stuck on the ground at twenty metres from the main door. The rest four
monks were in charge to eliminate the watchmen, displayed in adequate positions for such
finality.

Their action was very fast and watchmen «saw nothing» when the lopas emerged from
the ground with the velocity of the cobra, they bow down on a knee, and threw four arrows.

Four arrows in the night, four accurate targets! It’d be said that such sacred arrows
searched the heart of the worshippers of the Lord of Shambalah.

Von Grossen and his group ran then towards the door, joining the two archers; the other
two were marching, separately, to liquidate the sentinels of the extreme towers of the wall,
those which were over the waters of the lake. All tightened against the wall, while Kloster and
Hans were holding I hinges and locks the four demolition petards. The main entrance of the
village was guarded by an enormous gate of unique blade, constructed with assambled tables
and fittings that covered the apertures completely. It was a really strong fence, that would have
resisted more than one charge of battering ram, but undoubtedly ineffective in the modern
war, before the artillery or the bombs that we put. Kloster looked the hour: two minutes to the

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