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With the coreat Barsooirl above hirowl, and slunk away toward the hills The girl watched hiave the towers as wide a berth as possible and that he never took his eyes fro it Evidently the ine creatures to respect theht in a narrow defile, nor in any direction that she could see was there another Moirl wondered if she dared to atte of the workmen to the fields as she was sure they would co the headless bodies, and found herself wondering if these things would come out into the fields and work She looked toward the nearest tower There was no sign of life there The valley lay quiet now and deserted She lowered herself stiffly to the ground Her e of pain Pausing a ain at the stream she felt refreshed and then turned without more delay toward the hills To cover the distance as quickly as possible seeer offered concealo out of her way to be near theht, the night before, that she had traveled so far Really it had not been far, but noith the three towers to pass in broad daylight, the distance seereat indeed

The second tower lay almost directly in her path To make a detour would not lessen the chance of detection, it would only lengthen the period of her danger, and so she laid her course straight for the hill where her flier was, regardless of the tower As she passed the first enclosure she thought that she heard the sound of ate did not open and she breathed more easily when it lay behind her She came then to the second enclosure, the outer wall of which she must circle, as it lay across her route As she passed close along it she distinctly heard not only e of Barsoo instructions-so ate this field, so many to cultivate that, and so on, as a foreman lay out the day's work for his crew