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What the creature had told her gave Tara of Heliuht that every created thing fulfilled some useful purpose, and she tried conscientiously to discover just as the rightful place of the kaldane in the universal sches She knew that it must have its place but what that place was it was beyond her to conceive She had to give it up They recalled to her roup of people in Helium who had forsworn the pleasures of life in the pursuit of knowledge They were rather patronizing in their relations with those whoht not so intellectual They considered themselves quite superior She smiled at recollection of a re theotisate Helium Her father liked normal people-people who knew too little and people who knew too much were equally a bore Tara of Helium was like her father in this respect and like him, too, she was both sane and norer there was e world that interested her The rykors aroused her keenest pity, and vast conjecture How and froain and I will tell you," he said "If Luud would let me have you, you should never die I should keep you always to sing to irl marvelled at the effect her voice had upon the creature Somewhere in that enormous brain there was a chord that was touched by melody It was the sole link between herself and the brain when detached froht have other human instincts; but these she dreaded even to think of After she had sung she waited for Ghek to speak For a long tih those awful eyes

"I wonder," he said presently, "if it ?"

"Nearly all, a little," she said; "but we do s We dance and play and work and love and soht, for we are a race of warriors"

"Love!" said the kaldane "I think I knohat you mean; but we, fortunately, are above sentiment-e are detached But e dominate the rykor-ah, that is different, and when I hear you sing and look at your beautiful body I knohat you mean by love I could love you"