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He warned the Merucaans to cover their heads with their cloaks while Beatrice and he opened the doorway

He closed it then, with other rocks outside, and covered it with his own outer cloak; then, wearing only his belted tunic, he rejoined Beatrice half-way up the path to the cliff-top Both were armed; he with his own automatic, she with the one they had found in the crypt

"Our first s fro of a task, but I don't dare leave theht, when the s to rights the better"

She agreed, and together they took the path toward the landing-place, which they had christened Newport Heights Stern felt grateful that his right arun arm, was uninjured The other mattered little for the present

An idea crossed his orilla and make a trophy of the pelt; but he dismissed it at once The beast was so repellent that the very thought of it fair sickened him

They reached the plane in so uninjured, and loaded theoods and chattels Stern took the bags of edible seaweed and thenet over her shoulders, and together, not without difficulty, they returned to Settlement Cliffs

Pass, now, all the minute details of the installation By noon they had prepared a habitation for the newcohly excluded all direct sunlight

Only the dih noon Here they stowed the freight, built a rock fireplace, and thren quantities of the long, fragrant grass for bedding

They returned to their own cave, bade the colonists oncethe doorway after theether, in true Merucaan style, on the familiar food of the Abyss The colonists seeuished none the less

The afternoon was spent in preparing a second cave; for, in spite of all the girl's entreaties, Allan was detere of the Lost Folk as soon as his arirl," he assured her as they sat resting by the"You'll have two absolutely faithful and efficient guards alithin call by night By day you can barricade yourself with theer"