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At this U-Thor rose to his feet and faced O-Tar "What means this?" he asked "Speaks the man the truth? Is the son of Haja a prisoner in thy pits, O-Tar?"

"And what is it to the jed of Manatos who be the prisoners in the pits of his jeddak?" derily

"It is this to the jed of Manatos," replied U-Thor in a voice so low as to be scarce th and breadth of the great throne rooave me a slave woman, Haja, who had been a princess in Gathol, because you feared her influence a the slaves from Gathol I have made of her a free woman, and I have married her and made her thus a princess of Manatos Her son is h thou be my jeddak, I say to you that for any harm that befalls A-Kor you shall answer to U-Thor of Manatos"

O-Tar looked long at U-Thor, but he ain to Turan "If one be a Corphal," he said, "then all of you be Corphals, and we knoell fros that this creature has done," he pointed at Ghek, "that he is a Corphal, for no mortal has such powers as he And as you are all Corphals you must all die" He took another step doard, when Ghek spoke

"These two have no such powers as I," he said "They are but ordinary, brainless things such as yourself I have done all the things that your poor, ignorant warriors have told you; but this only deher order than yourselves, as is indeed the fact I a supernatural or s which they cannot understand are ht I have eluded your warriors and escaped your pits; but I reht help these two foolish creatures who have not the brains to escape without help They befriended me and saved my life I owe them this debt Do not slay them-they are harmless Slay norant wrath I cannot return to Bantooht as well die, for there is no pleasure in intercourse with the feeble intellects that cumber the face of the world outside the valley of Bantoootist," said O-Tar, "prepare to die and assume not to dictate to O-Tar the jeddak He has passed sentence and all three of you shall feel the jeddak's naked steel I have spoken!"