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Al cry rose fro, ominous sound; and, with instant coot up, some of them--somehow!" Stern cried "They'll be at our throats, here, in a ive 'eirl hastily threw invials of the explosive

These, garnered along his wounded ar row of death His left hand relass bombs

"Coether they crept noiselessly into the other room and thence to the corridor-door

Out they peered

"Look! Torches!" whispered he

There at the far end of the hallway, a red glare already flickered on the wall around the turn by the elevator-shaft Already the confused sounds of the attackers were drawing near

"They'veaway the barricade, somehow," said Stern "And now they're out for business--clubs, poisoned darts and all--and fangs, and claws! How many of 'em? God knows! A swarm, that's all!"

His mouth felt hot and dry, with fever, and thebattle His skin seemed tense and drawn, especially upon the forehead As he stood there, waiting, he heard the girl's quick breathing Though he could hardly see her in the gloom, he felt her presence and he loved it

"Beatrice," said he, and for a irl o' ether and there's no to- outcry interrupted hirew

"Allan!" she whispered "Coet up those stairs, there, at the other end of the hall This is no kind of place to meet theht" he answered "Coh the enshrouding gloo stairway, the scouts of the Horde, flaring their torches into each room they passed, ca, hideous beyond all words by the fire-gleas swarfrouttural jabber of their beast-talk, the clicking play of their fangs; could see the craning necks, the talons that held spears, bludgeons, blow-guns, even jagged rocks