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As you step over the dead guard, you follow the line of the hanging rope to a pair of locking pins, which secures the bridge to the edge of the mine shaft. If the guard had pulled the rope, the bridge would have fallen away, and you would have been trapped on this side of the chamber.

You run across the bridge just as your pursuers enter. A rope, similar to the one opposite, hangs from the ceiling next to the tunnel entrance in the west wall. You look back to see that your pursuers are now halfway across the bridge.

If you wish to pull the rope, turn to 125.

If you wish to ignore the rope and escape into the tunnel, turn to 348.

Text copyright © 1985 Joe Dever.
Illustrations copyright © 1985 Gary Chalk.