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"And you!" said O-Tar in cold accusing tones "Already have I been told enough of you to warrant h your heart the jeddak's steel-of how you stole the brains froht he saw your headless body still endoith life; of how you caused another to believe that you had escaped, ht but an empty bench and a blank here you had been"

"Ah, O-Tar, but that is as nothing!" cried a young padho had co which he did to I-Zav, here, would prove his guilt alone"

"What did he to the warrior I-Zav?" dereat fellow of bulging muscles and thick neck, advanced to the foot of the throne He was pale and still tre visibly as from a nervous shock

"Let my first ancestor be an "I was left to guard this creature, who sat upon a bench, shackled to the wall I stood by the open doorway at the opposite side of the chaulfHe dragged reatest of jeddaks, with his eyes! With his eyes he seized upon ed er upon the table and back off into a corner, and still keeping his eyes uponupon six short legs it descended to the floor and backed part way into the hole of an ulsio, but not so far that the eyes were not still upon me and then it returned with the key to its fetter and after resu its place upon its own shoulders it unlocked the fetter and again dragged me across the room and made me to sit upon the bench where it had been and there it fastened the fetter about ht for the power of its eyes and the fact that it wore er And then the head disappeared down the hole of the ulsio with the key, and when it returned, it resuuard over me at the doorway until the padwar cah!" said O-Tar, sternly "Both shall receive the jeddak's steel," and rising fro sword and descended the marble steps toward them, while two braarriors seized Tara by either ar the naked blade of the jeddak