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The two carried a long rope to which were fastened, at intervals of about two sofads, what she later guessed were lightthe poor creatures in the enclosure and about the right wrist of each they fastened one of the manacles When all had been thus fastened to the rope one of the warriors co to drag the headless co theht hich he flicked them upon the naked skin Slowly, dully, the creatures rose to their feet and between the tugging of the warrior in front and the lashing of him behind the hopeless band was finally herded within the tower Tara of Helium shuddered as she turned away What ht The Barsooht that renders the transition fro off of an electric light, and Tara of Helium had found no sanctuary But perhaps there were no beasts to fear, or rather to avoid-Tara of Heliulad, however, had there been a cabin, even a very tiny cabin, upon her small flier; but there was no cabin The interior of the hull was completely taken up by the buoyancy tanks Ah, she had it! How stupid of her not to have thought of it before! She could moor the craft to the tree beneath which it rested and let it rise the length of the rope Lashed to the deck rings she would then be safe fro she could drop to the ground again before the craft was discovered

As Tara of Helium crept over the brow of the hill doard the valley, her presence was hidden by the darkness of the night fro by ain the nearby tower Cluros, the fartherabove the horizon to coht zodes later he would set-a trifle over nineteen and a half Earth hours-and during that time Thuria, his vivacious mate, would have circled the planet twice and be more than half way around on her third trip She had but just set It would be more than three and a half hours before she shot above the opposite horizon to hurtle, swift and low, across the face of the dying planet During this temporary absence of the mad ain again the safety of her flier's deck