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When the warriors had departed from the prison in which Ghek was confined, the kaldane crawled from the shoulders of the rykor to the table Here he drank a little water and then directed the hands of the rykor to the balance of it and to the food, upon which the brainless thing fell with avidity While it was thus engaged Ghek took his spider-like way along the table to the opposite end where lay the key to the fetter Seizing it in a chela he leaped to the floor and scurried rapidly toward the ainst the wall, into which he disappeared For long had the brain been conte these burrow entrances They appealed to his kaldanean tastes, and further, they pointed a hiding place for the key and a lair for the only kind of food that the kaldane relished-flesh and blood

Ghek had never seen an ulsio, since these great Martian rats had long ago disappeared froreatly relished by the kaldanes; but Ghek had inherited, almost unimpaired, every memory of every ancestor, and so he knew that ulsio inhabited these lairs and that ulsio was good to eat, and he knehat ulsio looked like and what his habits were, though he had never seen him nor any picture of him As we breed animals for the transmission of physical attributes, so the Kaldanes breed themselves for the trans memory and the power of recollection, and thus have they raised e term instinct, above the level of the threshold of the objective mind where it may be commanded and utilized by recollection Doubtless in our own subjective minds lie many of the ie upon our consciousness in dreaestions that we have before experienced some transient phase of our present existence Ah, if we had but the power to recall theotten story of the lost eons that have preceded us We arden of His stars whileidea within His mind

Ghek descended into the burrow at a steep incline for sohtful network of burrows! The kaldane was elated This indeed was life! He oal as you could to the kitchen of your own hooal lay at a low level in a spheroidal cavity about the size of a large barrel Here, in a nest of torn bits of silk and fur lay six baby ulsios