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Allan shuddered Only too well he understood Gorilla nature had not changed in fifteen hundred years

"After that?" he questioned eagerly

"Oh, after that I don't re I knew, everything was dark and the forest was all about I screa Once rew black And after that--"

"Well?"

"Why--I was here on the bed, and you were beside me, Allan--and these men of our Folk were here! But how it all happened, God knows!"

"I'll tell you some time You shall have the story fro--if it hadn't been for Zangamon here and Bremilu--well--"

"You mean they helped rescue me?"

He nodded

"Without them I'd have been helpless as a child They traced you in the dark, for they could see as plainly as we see by day It was a blow from Bremilu's stone ax that killed the brute They saved you, Beatrice! Not I!"

She kept a little silence, then said thoughtfully: "How can I ever thank them, Allan? How can I thank them best?"

"You can't thank them There's no way I tried it, but they didn't understand They only did what seees, remember; not civilizedyou can do, or I can do, is work for thereatest efforts and sacrifices for these men will be small payment for their deed And if--as I believe--the whole race is dowered with the sae we certainly did see in the Battle of the Wall--then we need have no fear of our transplanted nation dying out!"

Much ht have been to say, but now the er spoke in no uncertain tones All four of the adventurers ate in silence, thoughtful and grave, cross-legged, about the meat and drink, which lay on palm-leaves or in clay bowls hard-burned and red

A kind of embarrassment seemed to rest on all, for this was the first tiether--these barbarians with the two folk of the upper world

But the meal was soon at an end, and the prospect of labors to be undertaken cheered Allan's spirit Despite his stiff and painful ared to be at work

"The very first thing we uests They've got to stay here, out of the light, till nightfall That will give us plenty of tiet theular routine of life and labor, before they have a chance to get homesick and dejected"