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"It is too far," said Ghek "I hate the sun It is much pleasanter here where I can stand beneath the shade of this tree"

"All right," she agreed; "then you stay here and I alk over It will take o with you You want to escape; but you are not going to"

"I cannot escape," she said

"I know it," agreed Ghek; "but you ht try I do not wish you to try Possibly it will be better if we return to the tower at once It would go hard with me should you escape"

Tara of Heliu into oblivion There would never be another after today She cast about for some pretext to lure him even a little nearer to the hills

"It is very little that I ask," she said "Tonight you antto you It will be the last tio and see what those kaldanes are doing I shall never sing to you again"

Ghek hesitated "I will hold you by the arm all the time, then," he said

"Why, of course, if you wish," she assented "Come!"

The two moved toward the workers and the hills The little party was digging tubers froround She had noted this and that nearly always they were stooped low over their work, the hideous eyes bent upon the upturned soil She led Ghek quite close to the that she wished to see exactly how they did the work, and all the tihtly by her left wrist

"It is very interesting," she said, with a sigh, and then, suddenly; "Look, Ghek!" and pointed quickly back in the direction of the tower The kaldane, still holding her turned half away from her to look in the direction she had indicated and simultaneously, with the quickness of a banth, she struck hith she possessed-struck the back of the pulpy head just above the collar The bloas sufficient to acco the kaldane frorasp upon her wrist relaxed as the body, no longer controlled by the brain of Ghek, stumbled aimlessly about for an instant before it sank to its knees and then rolled over on its back; but Tara of Helium waited not to note the full results of her act The instant the fingers loosened upon her wrist she broke away and dashed toward the hills Si whistle broke from Ghek's lips and in instant response the workers leaped to their feet, one aled the outstretched arain toward the hills and freedoht in one of the hoe-like instruments hich the soil had been upturned and which had been left, half i, in a ain her equilibriuain she stuain a heavy body fell upon her and seized her ared to her feet and as she looked around she saw Ghek crawling to his prostrate rykor A moment later he advanced to her side