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And in another instant was the Vanator forgotten as the lofty, scarlet tower that haddeath and dened A fire broke out in the ruins The city's every force seemed crippled, and it was then that The Warlord ordered the men that were about to set forth in search of Tara of Heliuies to the salvation of the city, for he too had witnessed the start of the Vanator and realized the futility of wasting men ere needed sorely if Lesser Helium was to be saved from utter destruction

Shortly after noon of the second day the storm commenced to abate, and before the sun went down, the little craft upon which Tara of Helium had hovered between life and death these entle breeze above a landscape of rolling hills that once had been lofty irl was exhausted from loss of sleep, from lack of food and drink, and fro experiences through which she had passed In the near distance, just topping an intervening hill, she caught a limpse of what appeared to be a dome-capped tower Quickly she dropped the flier until the hill shut it off from the view of the possible occupants of the structure she had seen The towerthe presence of water and, perhaps, of food If the toas the deserted relic of a bygone age she would scarcely find food there, but there was still a chance that there ht be water If it was inhabited, then ht be expected to abide in so far distant a land Tara of Heliurandfather's euessed within even a thousand haads of the reality, she had been stunned by realization of the utter hopelessness of her state

Keeping the craft low, for the buoyancy tanks were still intact, the girl ski wind had carried her to the side of the last hill that intervened between her and the structure she had thought a round a it beneath one where itabove, she made it fast and set forth to reconnoiter Like le slender blade, so that in such an eency as now confronted her sheundiscovered by enemies With utmost caution she crept warily toward the crest of the hill, taking advantage of every natural screen that the landscape afforded to conceal her approach frolances rearward lest she be taken by surprise from that quarter