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"Yet A-Kor is one of them," said Tara

"He is a son of O-Tar, the jeddak," replied Lan-O; "but his h born Gatholian, captured and made slave by O-Tar, and A-Kor boasts that in his veins runs only the blood of his mother, and indeed is he different froh not even his worst enee, while his skill with the sword, and the spear, and the thoat is fath and breadth of Manator"

"What think you they will do with hiaered he ame, in which case he may come out alive; but if O-Tar wishes really to dispose of him he will be sentenced to the entire series, and no warrior has ever survived the full ten, or rather none as under a sentence froames? I do not understand," said Tara "I have heard the at jetan, but surely no one can be killed at jetan We play it often at home"

"But not as they play it in the arena at Manator," replied Lan-O "Coether the two approached an aperture facing toward the east

Below her Tara of Heliu, and the lofty towers of which that in which she was imprisoned was but a unit About the arena were tiers of seats; but the a thing that caught her attention was a gigantic jetan board laid out upon the floor of the arena in great squares of alternate orange and black

"Here they play at jetan with living pieces They play for great stakes and usually for a woht have played for you had you not angered hia to the side that wins-not to a single warrior, but to all who survive the game"

The eyes of Tara of Helium flashed, but she made no comment

"Those who direct the play do not necessarily take part in it," continued the slave girl, "but sit in those two great thrones which you see at either end of the board and direct their pieces froer?" asked Tara of Helium "If a piece be taken it is merely removed from the board-this is a rule of jetan as old almost as the civilization of Barsoom"