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"Tell us! What heard and saw you?"

"I saw the dead O-Mai," said I-Gos The others shuddered

"And you went not mad?" they asked

"Aain?"

"Yes"

"Then indeed you are mad," cried one

"You saw the dead O-Mai; but what heard you that orse?" whispered another

"I saw the dead O-Mai lying upon the floor of his sleeping cha silks and furs upon his couch I heard horrid o there again?" demanded several

"The dead cannot harm me," said I-Gos "He has lain thus for five thousand years Nor can a sound harain It cas and watched the slave Turan before I snatched the woman away from him"

"I-Gos, you are a very bravefool' and I would face worse dangers than lie in the forbidden chambers of O-Mai to know it if he does not visit the chaht caed and the time approached when O-Tar, Jeddak of Manator, was to visit the chamber of O-Mai in search of the slave Turan To us, who nant spirits, his fearreat repute; but the fact remained that O-Tar of Manator was nervous with apprehension as he strode the corridors of his palace toward the deserted halls of O-Mai and when he stood at last with his hand upon the door that opened from the dusty corridor to the very apartments themselves he was almost paralyzed with terror He had come alone for two very excellent reasons, the first of which was that thus none ht note his terror-stricken state nor his defection should he fail at the lastalone or be able to reater than were he to be accoh he had started alone he had beco followed, and he knew that it was because his people had no faith in either his courage or his veracity He did not believe that he would find the slave Turan He did not very h O-Tar was an excellent swordsman and a brave warrior in physical combat, he had seen how Turan had played with U-Dor and he had no stoe at arms with one whom he knew outclassed him