Every few steps other lofty and still narrower crevices branched from it on either hand--for McDougal's cave was but a vast labyrinth of crooked aisles that ran into each other and out again and led nowhere.
Tot sovint, mentre hom davallava els graons, altres clivelles altívoles, i encara més estretes, en branquejaven a cada banda, perque la cova de McDougal no era sinó un vast laberint de passadissos retorts que menaven l'un dins de l'altre, i altra vegada a fora, i no portaven enlloc.