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"Give it to 'eet in--we're dead!"

He snatched her weapon, reloaded, and again rained the steel-jacketed bolts of death against the attackers

In the tu seemed to produce little effect If Stern expected that this unknoeapon would at once bring panic and quick victory he reckoned without the berserkerLanskaarn

White e cries and frightful yells, pressed on and on, up to the walls, and up the ladders ever; and now cah the dark air--and now sth and skill by the slingers beloed down the defenders

Here, there, , pierced by the iron spears, shattered by the swift and heavy rocks

The place was becoled horribly in the glooed half a dozen of the Merucaans with it; and at the botto eddy of the Lanskaarn despatched the fighting Folk besiegers

Blows, howls and screa fro the inside of the wall--these, and the sling bodies, the press and jaave Stern a kaleidoscopic picture of ar as it once was, in the long ago--war, naked and terrible, such as he had never even dreamed!

But,now

"Shoot! Shoot!" he kept howling, beside hies, he crairl's weapon and his oeapons now burning hot with the quick, long-continued firing

The battle seemed to dance, to waver there before his eyes, in the haze ofair The dark scene, blue-lit by the guttering torches, grew ever uinary,the walls and up the mists hid them and the defenders froger and fall back

To her he leaped

"Wounded?" he gasped

She answered nothing, but fell lie!"