... and the mighty walls of the Temple reared themselves around his mind, and the music of the pleas-ure house became the chanting of the priests at the high altar.He stood at the rear of the ... he could hear the cries of the people in the courtyard outside, and feel the trembling of the pillars, the very pillars of the Temple, and the groaning of stone onmassive stone in the great, shadowed ... Above all, the chanting before the altar of the Dark One, rising, rising toward hysteria.And then, like a knife in the darkness, the scream, and the straining tosee which of the maidens the sacred...