Suddenly I felt myself drawn with the speed of thought through the trackless wastes of interplanetary space.

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As he stared down upon me through enormous, many lensed spectacles I found the opportunity to examine him as minutely in return.

“She had nothing to recommend her to a sane person—not even beauty. You know, you saw her.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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.

“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