with these words he got up on his feet (for he had been sitting all this time in japanese fashion with his feet under him) and stealthily crept towards the forbidden spot. with trembling hands he pushed back the sliding door and looked in. what he saw froze the blood in his veins. the room was full of dead men's bones and the walls were splashed and the floor was covered with human blood. in one corner skull upon skull rose to the ceiling, in another was a heap of arm bones, in another a heap of leg bones. the sickening smell made him faint. he fell backwards with horror, and for some time lay in a heap with fright on the floor, a pitiful sight. he trembled all over and his teeth chattered, and he could hardly crawl away from the dreadful spot.