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The girl was given but brief opportunity for further observation of the pitiful creatures in the enclosure as her captor, after having directed the others to return to the fields, led her toward the tohich they entered, passing into an apart, in one end of which was a stairway leading to an upper level and in the other an opening to a sih on a level with the ground, was brilliantly lighted by s in its inner wall, the light co from a circular court in the center of the tower The walls of this court appeared to be faced hat reselazed, white tile and the whole interior of it was flooded with dazzling light, a fact which ilass prisms of which the domes were constructed The stairways themselves were sufficient to cause remark, since in nearly all Barsoomian architecture inclined runways are utilized for purposes of communication between different levels, and especially is this true of the more ancient fores have come to alter the customs of antiquity

Down the stairway her captor led Tara of Heliuhted fro in the opposite direction and these always stopped to exairl and ask questions of her captor

"I know nothing but that she was found in the fields and that I caught her after a fight in which she sleo rykors and in which I slew a Moak, and that I take her to Luud, to whos If Luud wishes to question her that is for Luud to do-not for me" Thus always he answered the curious

Presently they reached a room from which a circular tunnel led away from the tower, and into this the creature conducted her The tunnel was some seven feet in diameter and flattened on the bottom to form a walk For a hundred feet from the tower it was lined with the saht well and aht from that source Beyond it was faced with stone of various shapes and sizes, neatly cut and fitted together-a very fine mosaic without a pattern There were branches, too, and other tunnels which crossed this, and occasionally openings notusually close to the floor Above each of these ss was painted a different device, while upon the walls of the larger tunnels at all intersections and points of convergence hieroglyphics appeared These the girl could not read though she guessed that they were the na the points to which they led She tried to study some of them out, but there was not a character that was fae, since, while the written languages of the various nations of Barsoom differ, it still is true that they have many characters and words in common