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Ghek noted that she was growing thin and white He spoke to her about it and she told hiround-that she must have fresh air and sunshine, or she would wither and die Evidently he carried her words to Luud, since it was not long after that he told her that the king had ordered that she be confined in the tower and to the tower she was taken She had hoped against hope that this very thing ht result froain was so to her breast a hope that she had not dared to nurse before, while she lay in the terrible labyrinth from which she knew she could never have found her way to the outer world; but now there was soht reason to hope At least she could see the hills and if she could see theht there not come also the opportunity to reach them? If she could have but ten minutes-just ten little minutes! The flier was still there-she knew that it must be Just ten htful place; but the days wore on and she was never alone, not even for half of ten minutes Many times she planned her escape Had it not been for the banths it had been easy of accoht Ghek always detached his body then and sank into what seemed a semi-comatose condition It could not be said that he slept, or at least it did not appear like sleep, since his lidless eyes were unchanged; but he lay quietly in a corner Tara of Helium enacted a thousand times in her mind the scene of her escape She would rush to the side of the rykor and seize the sword that hung in its harness Before Ghek knehat she purposed, she would have this and then before he could give an alarh his hideous head It would take but a moment to reach the enclosure The rykors could not stop her, for they had no brains to tell the She had watched froate that led froreat latch operated She would pass through and make a quick dash for the hill It was so near that they could not overtake her It was so easy! Or it would have been but for the banths! The banths at night and the workers in the fields by day