“Prepare the subject for revivification,” he said, “and make what study you can of all its reactions.” With that he left the room.

The men stopped their game and looked up at me, but there was no sign of suspicion. Similarly they looked at Woola, growling at my heel.

Far ahead, a tiny speck in the distance, I made out another flier late in the afternoon.

He shrugged and there was a cold smile upon his handsome lips. “Very well,” he said, “fetch Xaxa. When do you start?”

“You are a mighty warrior, Dotar Sojat,” he replied, “and when this day is done I shall speak with you again in the great audience chamber.”

“Send for me when you are restless,” I said, “and I will walk and work with you. You should not go about thus at night alone.”

Up the broad center aisle we marched beneath deadly silence, and at the foot of the thrones we halted.

Our landing place had been the roof of a low building built within and against the city wall.

“Bring the rope with you. Beyond the knots lies danger.”

Everyone seemed hostile and yet that might be, and doubtless was, but a reflection of their attitude towards all strangers.

The barrier held—I had been in time, but by the fraction of a second only.

Presently I heard a noise upon the ladder beneath me and a moment later someone climbed upon the circular landing.

I raised her gently in my arms and pointed at the body of Xaxa lying deathlike on the ersite slab beside her.

It did not take me long to start upon that unknown way, nor did I go with caution, although I knew that there might be grave dangers before me.

“Speak as though Xaxa still sat upon the throne of Phundahl,” Dar Tarus told him, “for though I am Dar Tarus, whom you wronged, and not Sag Or, yet need you hav

At sight of us they halted in their tracks, and then an ugly smile overspread the features of their leader.

"Good work, Tippet," he said. "Mightily obliged to you—awful waste of ammunition, really."

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