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While Tara of Heliu led to The Towers of Jetan, Ghek was escorted to the pits beneath the palace where he was ihted cha upon the dirt floor near the wall, and set in the wall several rings froths of chain At the base of the walls were several holes in the dirt floor These, alone, of the several things he saw, interested him Ghek sat down upon the bench and waited in silence, listening Presently the lights were extinguished If Ghek could have smiled he would have then, for Ghek could see as well in the dark as in the light-better, perhaps He watched the dark openings of the holes in the floor and waited Presently he detected a change in the air about hiht Ghek have smiled, could he have smiled

Let them replace all the air in the chamber with their most deadly fumes; it would be all the sas, required no air With the rykor it ht be different Deprived of air it would die; but if only a sufficient aas was introduced to stupefy an ordinary creature it would have no effect upon the rykor, who had no objectiveas the excess of carbon dioxide in the blood was not sufficient to prevent heart action, the rykor would suffer only a di agency of the kaldane's brain

Ghek caused the rykor to assuainst the here it ht remain without direction from his brain Then he released his contact with its spinal cord; but re, for the kaldane's curiosity was aroused He had not long to wait before the lights were flashed on and one of the locked doors opened to admit a half-dozen warriors They approached him rapidly and worked quickly First they re a fetter about one of the rykor's ankles, secured hi fro table to a new position and there bolted it to the floor so that an end, instead of the middle, was directly before the prisoner On the table before him they set food and water and upon the opposite end of the table they laid the key to the fetter Then they unlocked and opened all the doors and departed