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You cover fifty yards before the passage opens into a large, circular chamber. There, on a plinth in the centre of the floor, rests a severed human hand. The skin is mottled and swollen, the fingers black and decayed. Beyond the plinth, the passage continues straight ahead, flanked by two pillars of speckled green stone.

If you wish to examine the severed hand, turn to 226.

If you wish to skirt around the plinth and enter the passage beyond, turn to 302.

Text copyright © 1986 Joe Dever.
Illustrations copyright © 1986 Gary Chalk.