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"Most assuredly," replied Gahan, "but not to the extent of occupying all our time-at least not objectively You, Ghek, are an exaotism of which I spoke Because you and your kind devote your lives to the worship of s think And possibly we do not in the sense that you do, who think only of yourselves and your great brains We think of s that concern the welfare of a world Had it not been for the red men of Barsoom even the kaldanes had perished fros upon which you depend for existence cannot, and there had been no air in sufficient quantities upon Barsooreat at world

"What have all the brains of all the kaldanes that have ever lived done to cole reda kaldane he knew that brains spelled the sum total of universal achievement, but it had never occurred to him that they should be put to use in practical and profitable ways He turned away and looked down upon the valley of his ancestors across which he was slowly drifting, into what unknoorld? He should be a veritable god as, he knew; but somehow a doubt assailed him It was evident that these two from that other world were ready to question his pree a suspicion that they patronized hian to wonder as to becoer would he have le one and when it died there could not be another When it tired, Ghek must lie almost helpless while it rested He wished that he had never seen this red woht him only discontent and dishonor and now exile Presently Tara of Helium commenced to hum a tune and Ghek, the kaldane, was content

Gently they drifted beneath the hurtlingof the banths ca volume to their ears as their craft passed on beyond the boundaries of Bantoo behind the terrors of that unhappy land But to ere they being borne? The girl looked at the azing off into the night ahead, apparently absorbed in thought