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And Gahan, Jed of Gathol-what of him? Plummet-like he fell for a thousand feet and then the storain As a bit of paper borne upon a gale he was tossed about inof the wind Over and over it turned him and upward and doard it carried hiht nearer to the ground The freaks of cyclonic storiant trees, and in the saust they transport frail infants for miles and deposit them unharmed in their wake

And so it ith Gahan of Gathol Expecting momentarily to be dashed to destruction he presently found hiently upon the soft, ochre moss of a dead sea-botto adventure than in the possession of a slight swelling upon his forehead where the metal hook had struck hiently with hih more than half convinced that he should discover crushed and splintered bones that would not support his weight But he was intact He looked about him in a vain effort at orientation The air was filled with flying dust and debris The Sun was obliterated His vision was confined to a radius of a few hundred yards of ochre moss and dust-filled air Five hundred yards away in any direction there reat city and he not known it It was useless to move from where he was until the air cleared, since he could not knohat direction he was , and so he stretched hi the fate of his warriors and his ship, but giving little thought to his own precarious situation

Lashed to his harness were his swords, his pistols, and a dagger, and in his pocket-pouch a small quantity of the concentrated rations that for ether with trained e, and an undaunted spirit sufficed hiht lie between him and Gathol, which lay in what direction he knew not, nor at what distance

The as falling rapidly and with it the dust that obscured the landscape That the storm was over he was convinced, but he chafed at the inactivity the low visibility put upon hiht fell, so that he was forced to await the new day at the very spot at which the te silks and furs he spent a far fros of unmixed relief that he saw the sudden dawn burst upon hiht of the new day he saw an undulating plain stretching in all directions about him, while to the northwest there were barely discernible the outlines of low hills Toward the southeast of Gathol was such a country, and as Gahan surmised the direction and the velocity of the storm to have carried hinized, he assumed that Gathol lay behind the hills he nohereas, in reality, it lay far to the northeast