They passed through this room into another the same size. Around it ran deep shelves, in which were piled the treasury papers; with the accounts of the royal revenues, and the tributes paid by the various cities and villages and land owners of the kingdom. In one corner stood a small cupboard of about four feet high, also filled with papers. The queen put her hand inside, and touched a small spring at the back. "Now," she said to Roger; "pull at that corner of the cupboard." He obeyed her instructions, and at a vigorous pull the cupboard, which had appeared solidly embedded in the wall, swung round on one of its angles. Nothing, however, was to be seen save a bare wall behind it. "Now, Roger Hawkshaw, take your dagger and cut away that plaster--for it is but plaster, though it looks like stone." Roger obeyed. The task was an easy one, for the plaster was but half an inch thick, and came off in flakes; showing a massive copper door, three feet six in height, and three feet in width, behind it. No keyhole was visible. "Press upwards against the lintel," the queen said. "That will release the catch of the door." Roger did so, and at the same moment pushed with his shoulder against the door, and it swung round with ease. "Do you enter first, with the torch, and we will follow," the queen said. Roger found himself in a room about twelve feet square. At the farther end was a pile of gold bars, four feet deep and as much high, extending right across the room. On the floor, along the other two sides, were ranged a number of large chests. "Open these," the queen said. "The gold is of no use to us." The chests were full of manufactured gold ornaments, many of them studded with jewels. Roger was astounded at the amount of wealth thus stored away. "Cacama told me," the queen said, "that even the treasure houses of Montezuma are poor, in comparison to the treasure his grandfather and father stowed away here; and I can well believe it. You have not opened that small chest, yet." This was opened, and was found to contain a number of bags which were full of pearls, turquoise, and other precious stones, of large size and immense value. "We will take this chest away, as it stands," the queen said. "It would be awkward to carry," Roger objected. "It is very heavy, and its shape would tell at once that it contained valuables. The contents do not weigh many pounds, and could easily be wrapped up in a cloth and put into one of the litters, without exciting observation. If you will allow me, I will go back to one of the sleeping rooms and fetch two or three thick rugs."