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The dazzling sunlight of Barsooirl and her captors rode into the city through The Gate of Enemies Here the as soeithin the gate were covered with parallel shelves of , horizontal niches, stood row upon row of srotesque statuettes ofbelow their feet and soures were scarce a foot in height and but for their diht have been the irl noticed that as they passed, the warriors saluted the figures with their spears after thea military courtesy, and then they rode on into the avenue beyond, which ran, wide and stately, through the city toward the east

On either side were great buildings wondrously wrought Paintings of great beauty and antiquity covered many of the walls, their colors softened and blended by the suns of ages Upon the pavement the life of the neakened city was already afoot Wos, befeathered warriors, their bodies daubed with paint; artisans, araily caparisoned, took their various ways upon the duties of the day A giant zitidar, nificent in rich harness, ru the stone pavement toward The Gate of Eneether a picture that filled the eyes of Tara of Helium onder and with ad Mars Such had been the cities of the founders of her race before Throxeus, htiest of oceans, had disappeared from the face of a world And from balconies on either side men and women looked down in silence upon the scene below

The people in the street looked at the two prisoners, especially at the hideous Ghek, and called out in question or couard; but the watchers upon the balconies spoke not, nor did one soThere wereand not a one that did not hold its silent party of richly trapped men and women, with here and there a child or two, but even the children maintained the uniform silence and immobility of their elders As they approached the center of the city the girl saw that even the roofs bore companies of these idle watchers, harnessed and bejeweled as for sohter broke fros of the instruers