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She had tried to converse with her guard but he had not seemed inclined to talk with her and she had finally desisted She could not but note that he had offered her no indignities, nor had he been either unnecessarily rough or in any way cruel The fact that she had slain two of the bodies with her dagger had apparently aroused no anie heads that surmounted the bodies-even those whose bodies had been killed She did not try to understand it, since she could not approach the peculiar relationship between the heads and the bodies of these creatures froe or experience of her own So far their treatht arouse her fears Perhaps, after all, she had been fortunate to fall into the hands of these strange people, who ht not only protect her fro to Heliuet, but if they meant her no harm she could, at least, overlook their repulsiveness Renewed hope aroused within her a spirit of greater cheerfulness, and it was almost blithely now that she ht herself huay little tune that was then popular in Helium The creature at her side turned its expressionless eyes upon her

"What is that noise that you arean air," she replied

"'Hu an air,'" he repeated "I do not knohat youthe words, while her coave no indication of as passing in that strange head It was as devoid of expression as that of a spider It reminded her of a spider When she had finished he turned toward her again

"That was different," he said "I liked that better, even, than the other How do you do it?"

"Why," she said, "it is singing Do you not knohat song is?"

"No," he replied "Tell me how you do it"

"It is difficult to explain," she told hie of melody and of music, while your very question indicates that you have no knowledge of either"

"No," he said, "I do not knohat you are talking about; but tell me how you do it"

"It is merely the melodious ain she sang