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After many hours of profound and dreaor for the tasks that lay ahead His splendid vitality, quickly recuperating, calmed his mind; and now the problems, the anxieties and fears of the day before--to call it such, though there was neither night nor day in this strange place--see uneasiness about the girl still clung to hiht of love, he reflected that soon he should be back again with her; and so, resolutely grasping the labor that noaited him, he felt fresh confidence and hope

After a breakfast of the fas, he bade Vreenya (who see, or tribal council, at the Place of Skeletons

Here they gathered, men, women and children, all of fifteen hundred, in close-packed, silentonly the inner circle under the stone posts and iron rods clear for Allan and for Vreenya and so upward soeon, formed a very shallow natural amphitheater, so that the majority could see as well as hear

No platform was there for their Kromno to speak from He had not even a block of stone In the true native style he was expected to address the back and forth the while

In his early days as His quick wit prompted a close imitation of their ceremonies and ancient customs

First, Vreenya sprinkled the open space between the poles and the dungeon with a kind of sea-weed swab dipped in the waters of the boiling vat, then with a bit of the coarse brown cloth washed Allan's lips--a pledge of truth

The councillor raised both hands toward the roaring flame back there by the cliff, and all inclined theious cere them

Allan likewise saluted the flaan, striving to speak clearly above the noise of the fire-jet, his voice sounding dull and heavy in that coreet you! There be s to tell that you reat peril in oodness

"Easily could I have stayed in those places of light and plenty, but ht and day The woht of you Alone, we could not enjoy those happy places So I returned to tell you and to show you the way to liberty Thus have we proved our love for you, my folk!"