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on out of that courtyard into another doorway,and up a great flight of steps and through vast rooms that opened out of one another till you were dizzy with the mere size of the place. Every now and then they thought they were going to get out into the open and see what sort of country lay around the enormous palace. But each time they only got into another courtyard.They must have been magnificent places when people were still living there.In one there had once been a fountain.A great stone monster with wide-spread wings stood with its mouth open and you could still see a bit of piping at the back of its mouth,out of which the water used to pour.Under it was a wide stone basin to hold the water;but it was as dry as a bone.In other places there were the dry sticks of some sort of climbing plant which had wound itself round the pillars and helped to pull some of them down.But it had died long ago.And there were no ants or spiders or any of the other living things you expect to see in a