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At hih to make quite sure he was not hurt in any way, to satisfy herself that he was safe and sound

Then with a little gasp of relief, she ran to hihtly disturbed the rubbish on the floor; dust rose Stern checked her with an upraised hand

"Back! Back! Go back, quick!" he for lips The idea of this girl's close proximity to the beast-horde terrified him, for the moment "Back! What on earth are you here for?"

"I--I woke up I found you gone!" she whispered

"Yes, but didn't you read my letter? This is no place for you!"

"I had to come! How could I stay up there, alone, when you--were--oh! er--maybe in need of me?"

"Come!" he coave hiet out of this! It's too--too near the--"

"The what? What is it, Allan? Tell me, have you seen them? Do you know?"

Even excited as the engineer was, he realized that for the first tiirl had called him by his Christian name Not even the perilous situation could stifle the thrill that ran through him at the sound of it But all he answered was: "No, I don't knohat to call them Have no idea, as yet I've seen them, yes; but what they are, Heaven knows--erly "Is it through that crack in the wall? Is that the place to look?"

She moved toward it, her face blanched with excite, lips parted But Stern held her back By the shoulder he took her

"No, no, little girl!" he whispered "You--you mustn't! Really must not, you know It's too awful!"

Up at hi not what to think or say for a moment Their eyes hted by the dull, aze abode questions unnumbered

"I'd much rather you wouldn't look out at the very low, fearful lest the ht penetrate the wall "Just what they are, frankly, there's no telling"

"You mean--?"

"Come back into the arcade, where we'll be safer from discovery, and we can talk Not here Coether they retreated to the inner court

"You see," he co at the e yet Not very likely to get there for a while, either, unless--well, unless so pretty radical happens I think these chaps have settled down for a good long stay in their happy hunting-ground, after the fight and the big feast It's sort of a notion I've got, that this place, here, is soround of theirs"