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Stern got a glimpse of a circular row of stone posts, each about nine feet high--he saw not the coe its diameter as some fifty feet In the center stood a round andstretched a asped Beatrice, and pointed

Then, deadly pale, she hid her face in both her hands and crouched away, as though to blot the sight fro with a hideous load--a row of huhastliness All were headless All, suspended by the cervical vertebrae, swayed lightly as the blue-green light glared on them with its weird, unearthly radiance

Before either Stern or the girl had tile or so ht, they were both pushed roughly between two of the posts into the frightful circle

Stern saw a door yawn black before them in the massive hut of stone

Toward this the Folk of the Abyss were thrusting them

"No, you don't, damn you!" he hoith sudden passion "None o' that for us! Shoot, Beta! Shoot!"

But even as her hand jerked at the butt of the auto force flung theeon A ed shut Absolute darkness fell

"My God!" cried Stern "Beta! Where are you? Beta! Beta!"

But answer there was none The girl had fainted