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Tara shook her head "Wait," she admonished "What would I do without you, and if you were captured how could you collect your reward?"

"I should escape," he said "At any rate I shall try it," and he started to rise

"You shall not," said the girl, her tone all authority

The ly

"You have entered htily

"You have entered my service for hire and you shall do as I bid you"

Turan sank down beside her again with a half smile upon his lips "It is yours to co of the sunlight, had deserted his rykor and crawled down a hole he had discovered close by Tara and Turan reclined beneath the scant shade of a sh the gate The party of horsemen did not return A s the day, and once a caravan of broad-wheeled carts drawn by these huge animals wound out of the distant horizon and caht within the gateway Then darkness came and Tara of Helium bid her panthan search for food and drink; but she cautioned hi to enter the city Before he left her he bent and kissed her hand as a warrior may kiss the hand of his queen