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Ghek, in his happier days third foreer and his hu had awakened within him the existence of which he had never before even dreaht to do with this unrest and dissatisfaction? He did not know HeCould it be that there were other things ic and undefiled brain power? Was well balanced ih developreat, ulti It would be deaf, and du and dance about it, but it could derive no pleasure fro since it would possess no perceptive faculties Already had the kaldanes shut theratifications of the senses Ghek wondered iftheht came a question as to the whole fabric of their theory After all perhaps the girl was right; what purpose could a great brain serve sealed in the bowels of the earth?

And he, Ghek, was to die for this theory Luud had decreed it The injustice of it overwhele But he was helpless There was no escape Beyond the enclosure the banths awaited him; within, his own kind, equally asas love, or loyalty, or friendship-they were just brains Hewould be loosed from his sealed chamber and Ghek would be killed He did not know it but he would not even have the poor satisfaction of satisfied revenge, since he was not capable of feeling so abstruse a sentiment

Ghek, mounted upon his rykor, paced the floor of the tower chamber in which he had been ordered to remain Ordinarily he would have accepted the sentence of Luud with perfect equaniical result of reason; but now it seeer wo-there were great possibilities in it The dream of the ultiround of his thoughts

At that moment there appeared in the doorway of the chamber a red warrior with naked sword He was a male counterpart of the prisoner whose sweet voice had under reason of the kaldane