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Out into the glare of the great fla e as with a virescent pall

Blinking, they stared about the for a moment whither to run or where to shoot

But the patriarch had Stern by the ar s, knobbed clubs and battle-hastly posts whence dangled the headless skeletons

"Where? Which way?" cried Stern "Show me--I'll do the rest!"

"Thither!" the oldwith one hand, while with the other he shoved the engineer forward Blind though he was, he knew the right direction "Thither--to the wall!"

For a second Stern had the thought of leaving Beatrice in the cell, where she reater dangers threatened her, he knew, in his absence

At all hazards they ether And with a cry: "Come! Come--stick close to h the rew darker as he neared the ith Beatrice close beside hilimpses of the battle

Every hut seemed to have poured forth its inhabitants for now the plaza swar this way and that, so wildly hither and yon with unintelligible cries

A spear pierced the vapors; it fell clashing at Stern's feet and slid rattling away over the black stones, worn sreasy by uncounted feet

Past hiered; the whole side of his head was bashed in, as though by a frightful blow fro both ar covered hi folds Stern shuddered that Beatrice should see such hideous sights; but even now he almost fell over another prostrate body, hideously wounded in the back, and still kicking

"Ready, now!" panted Stern "Ready with the pistols!"

Where was the patriarch?

He no longer knew About him the Folk pressed, but none molested either him or Beatrice

In the confusion, the rush of the outskirts of battle, he could have shot down a score of theht, perhaps, be true, who could tell--that safety lay in battling now against the Lanskaarn!

All at once the captives saw vague fire-lights in the gloo comets of blue, that tossed and hurled and disappeared