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"You will learn this later," announced the old man; "but it will not harm you to watch me now, for there are notbefore you will have the opportunity to see another prepared for The Gate of Enemies First, you see, I reed as little as possible The skull is the most difficult, but it can be rele opening This I no up, and that done, the body is hung so," and he fastened a piece of rope to the hair of the corpse and swung the horrid thing to a ring in the ceiling Directly beloas a circulara well partially filled with a reddish liquid "Noer it into this, the formula for which you shall learn in due time We fasten it thus to the bottom of the cover, whichreplace In a year it will be ready; but it must be examined often in the meantime and the liquid kept above the level of its crown It will be a very beautiful piece, this one, when it is ready

"And you are fortunate again, for there is one to come out today" He crossed to the opposite side of the roorotesque looking figure from the hole It was a human body, shrunk by the action of the cheure scarce a foot high

"Ey! is it not fine?" cried the little old man "Tomorroill take its place in The Gate of Enemies" He dried it off with cloths and packed it away carefully in a basket "Perhaps you would like to see so for their assent led thee cha or standing quietly about the walls, with the exception of one huge warrior who bestrode a great thoat in the very center of the roo to the minds of Tara and Turan the rows of silent people upon the balconies that lined the avenues of the city, and the noble array of mounted warriors in The Hall of Chiefs, and the same explanation came to both but neither dared voice the question that was in his norance the fact that they were strangers in Manator and therefore iuise of pupils