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Clear and sweet a truh Tower its cool voice floated across the city of Manator and above the babel of hu from the crowded mass that filled the seats of the stadiuame, and simultaneously there fluttered to the peaks of a thousand staffs on tower and battleay pennons of the fighting chiefs of Manator Thus wasof The Jeddak's Games, the most important of the year and second only to the Grand Decennial Gale eye Thebut to settle some petty dispute between two chiefs, and was played with professional jetan players for points only No one was killed and there was but little blood spilled It lasted about an hour and was ter side deliberately perht be called a draw

Again the truame of the afternoon While this was not considered an i reserved for the fourth and fifth days of the games, it proaa men and that in which inanimate pieces are used, lies in the fact that while in the latter theof a piece upon a square occupied by an opponent piece terht together engage in a duel for possession of the square Therefore there enters into the fory of jetan but the personal prowess and bravery of each individual piece, so that a knowledge not only of one's ownside is of vast value to a chief

In this respect was Gahan handicapped, though the loyalty of his players did norance of the the board to the best advantage and told hiht best in a losing game; another was too slow; another too impetuous; this one had fire and a heart of steel, but lacked endurance Of the opponents, though, they knew little or nothing, and now as the two sides took their places upon the black and orange squares of the great jetan board Gahan obtained, for the first tie Chief had not yet entered the field, but his men were all in place Val Dor turned to Gahan "They are all criminals fro thele fellow-countryman and every life we take will be the life of an enemy"