The sounds of digging and of rack moving grew louder, as did the sound of goblin voices, occasionally punctuated by a sharp order in t7-.

There was a goblin voice somewhere, calling something.

It was a goblin voice - there could be no doubt about that - and this time he could make out the words.

At the top, behind carefully placed bushes and branches, lay a cave, and, every so often, goblin voices rolled out.

"Men see so poorly at night," a goblin voice lisped, from the wall above his head.

The clangor filled his ears, rang over the wailing protests of the ghost, rang over the goblin voices and into the watery walls that shook to the sound of blades.

Many goblin voices came from that chamber.

And in a shrill goblin voice he squealed a chilling array of dire imprecations.