
Autor: | E. Phillips Oppenheim | Liczba stron: | 92 |
Wydawca: | Ventigo Media | Język publikacji: | polski |
ISBN: | 9788381485876 | Data wydania: | 2019-10-03 |
Kategoria: | ebooki >> kryminał, sensacja, thriller >> kryminał |
BEHOLD! cried Sabul Ahmid, with an upward sweep of his bare, brown arm, behold the Sacred Temple of the people of Astrea! I stood up in the boat, my portfolio under my arm. High on the mountains side, crowning a thick mass of laurel undergrowth, and flanked by a grove of deep, cool, byana trees, was the building to which my servant was pointing. The material whereof it was fashioned I could not at that distance determine. Only in the broad, tropical sunlight it flashed forth, a glorious and spotless white, as flawless and perfect as the purest marble or alabaster. Little minarets rose from the flat roof; and flowering shrubs, planted along the mountain terrace above, drooped about it, a brilliant scintilla of purple coloring. My fingers began to crave for my pencil. I turned to my guide with beaming face.