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"Heard you any word of the other?" called the warrior to him

"No," replied Turan, who had not the faintest idea to whom or what the fellow referred

"He cannot escape," continued the warrior "The woman ran directly into our arht be found"

"They took her back to O-Tar?" asked Turan, for now he knehom the other meant, and he would know more

"They took her back to The Towers of Jetan," replied the warrior "Toah I doubt if any wants her, beautiful as she is She fears not even O-Tar By Cluros! but she would ular she-banth she is Not forhis head

Turan hurried on searching for an avenue that led to the level of the streets above when suddenly he came to the open doorway of a small chamber in which sat a man as chained to the wall Turan voiced a low exclanized that the man was A-Kor, and that he had stumbled by accident upon the very cell in which he had been ily It was evident that he did not recognize his fellow prisoner Turan crossed to the table and leaning close to the other whispered to him

"I am Turan the panthan," he said, "as chained beside you"

A-Kor looked at him closely "Your own mother would never know you!" he said; "but tell me, what has transpired since they took you away?"

Turan recounted his experiences in the throne room of O-Tar and in the pits beneath, "and now," he continued, "I must find these Towers of Jetan and see whatthe Princess of Heliu was I dwar of the Towers," he said, "and I can say to you, stranger, that you le handed, as to rescue a prisoner from The Towers of Jetan"

"But I ood swordsman?" asked A-Kor presently

"I am accounted so," replied Turan

"Then there is a way-sst!" he was suddenly silent and pointing toward the base of the wall at the end of the rooer indicated, to see projecting froe chelae and a pair of protruding eyes

"Ghek!" he cried and immediately the hideous kaldane crawled out upon the floor and approached the table A-Kor drew back with a half-stifled ejaculation of repulsion "Do not fear," Turan reassured him "It is my friend-he whom I told you held O-Tar while Tara and I escaped"