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Slipping over the side Gahan descended by the trailing anchor-rope until his feet touched the top of the wall, where he had no difficulty in arresting the slow drifting of the ship Then he drew up the anchor and lowered it inside the enclosure Still there was no movement upon the part of the sleepers beneath-they lay as dead s in the tower; but there was no sign of guard or waking in to the rope Gahan lowered himself within the enclosure, where he had his first close view of the creatures lying there in what he had thought sleep With a half smothered exclamation of horror the man drew back froht them the corpses of decapitated huh; but when he saw them move and realized that they were endoith life, his horror and disgust beca he had witnessed that afternoon, when Tara of Helium had struck the back to its body And to think that the pearl of Heliuain the man shuddered, but he hastened to ain to its deck and lower it to the floor of the enclosure Then he strode toward a door in the base of the tower, stepping lightly over the recu the threshold disappeared within