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The hideous face, incapable of registering e in the enorer, of hate, of revenge? Tara of Heliuuess, nor did she care The worst had happened She had tried to escape and she had failed There would never be another opportunity

"Come!" said Ghek "We will return to the tower" The deadly er, for it revealed nothing of his intentions It but increased her horror of these great brains that were beyond the possibility of hued back to her prison in the tower and Ghek took up his vigil again, squatting by the doorway, but now he carried a naked sword in his hand and did not quit his rykor, only to change to another that he had brought to hiirl sat looking at hiratitude, nor, on the other hand, any sense of hatred The brains, incapable themselves of any of the finer sentiratitude, or affection, or hatred of the sense of horror in their presence She had heard great scientists discuss the future of the red race and she recalled that some had maintained that eventually the brain would entirely dominate the man There would be nowould be done on impulse; but on the contrary reason would direct our every act The propounder of the theory regretted that he ued, would result in the ideal life for mankind

Tara of Heliuht be here to experience to the full the practical results of the fulfillment of his prophecy Between the purely physical rykor and the purely mental kaldane there was little choice; but in the happy medium of normal, and imperfect man, as she knew him, lay the most desirable state of existence It would have been a splendid object lesson, she thought, to all those idealists who seek mass perfection in any phase of huht discover the truth that absolute perfection is as little to be desired as is its antithesis

Gloohts that filled the mind of Tara of Helium as she awaited the summons fro; death She guessed why he had sent for her and she knew that she ht was over; but still she clung to hope and to life She would not give up until there was no other way She startled Ghek once by exclai aloud, almost fiercely: "I still live!"