The Temple does indeed lie several hundred feet away in a southwesterly direction from the tower. As far as Dara can tell, two boxes of some sort and a small leather bag or pouch may have once sit upon the table. What they contained, however, is open only to your imagination.
You push on after the bandit captain, following the twisting and turning passage. After what you can only guess to be many hundred feet, the corridor opens again into another chamber. This appears to be a natural cavern of some type, oval in shape and some forty feet in diameter. The northern wall of this chamber is pierced by another narrow passageway.