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And now the avenue widened into an imleas surrounding it and its scarlet sward and gaily-flowering, green-foliaged shrubbery Toward this U-Dor led his prisoners and their guard to the great arched entrance before which a line of fifty uard recognized U-Dor the guardsh which the party passed Directly inside the entrance were inclined runways leading upward on either side U-Dor turned to the left and led the corridor Here they passed other mounted men and in chambers upon either side they saweither up or down A warrior, his steed at full gallop, dashed into sight from one of these and raced swiftly past them upon some errand

Nowhere as yet had Tara of Heliu; but when at a turn, U-Dor led thelimpses of chambers in whichwhere disames of skill or chance and many there ho played at jetan, and then the party passed into a long, wide hall of state, as hty Heliu ablaze with countless radiu the vast floor unbroken by a single column The arches were of white e blocks from which each arch was cut co was set solid about the radium bulbs with precious stones whose scintillant fire and color and beauty filled the whole apartular fringe for a few feet, where they appeared to hang like a beautiful and gorgeous drapery against the white marble of the wall The marble ended some six or seven feet fro wainscoted in solid gold The floor itself was of le rooe city

But what riveted the girl's attention even more than the fabulous treasure of decorations were the files of gorgeously harnessed warriors who sat their thoats in grim silence and immobility on either side of the central aisle, rank after rank of them to the farther walls, and as the party passed between them she could not note soof a thoat's ear