Chapter 18

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​‌​​​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌​⁠As night melted into day and day was swallowed up by night, the problem which confronted Peter took on more serious and baffling proportions. His hope of entering the ivory palace was dismissed. It was imperative for him to give up the idea of entering, of piercing the lines of armed guards and reaching the room where the master of the City of Stolen Lives held forth until some later time.

That had