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Sept returned to the chamber "Luud will see you and the captive Coh which Tara of Helium had entered the chairl's captor

"I am Ghek, third foreman of the fields of Luud," he answered

"And hers?"

"I do not know"

"It makes no difference Coh It made no difference, indeed! She, a princess of Heliuhter of The Warlord of Barsoom!

"Wait!" she cried "Itme into the presence of your jed you hter of John Carter, The Warlord of Barsoom"

"Hold your peace!" commanded Sept "Speak when you are spoken to Coer of Tara of Helium all but choked her "Come," admonished Ghek, and took her by the arht but a prisoner Her rank and titles h a short, S-shaped passageway into a chamber entirely lined with the white, tile-like ht as faced Close to the base of the walls were nuer than those of similar aspect that she had noted elsewhere The majority of these apertures were sealed Directly opposite the entrance was one fraold, and above it a peculiar device was inlaid in the same precious irl between the in the opposite wall On the floor beside the aperture lay a headless male body of almost heroic proportions, and on either side of this stood a heavily armed warrior, with draord For perhaps fiveappeared in the opening It was a pair of large chelae and immediately thereafter there crawled forth a hideous kaldane of enore as any that Tara of Helium had yet seen and his whole aspect infinitely ray-this one was of a little bluer tinge and the eyes were ringed with bands of white and scarlet, as was its mouth

From each nostril a band of white and one of scarlet extended outward horizontally the width of the face

No one spoke or moved The creature crawled to the prostrate body and affixed itself to the neck Then the two rose as one and approached the girl He looked at her and then he spoke to her captor