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And so O-Tar stood with his hand upon the door-afraid to enter; afraid not to But at last his fear of his oarriors, watching behind hireater than the fear of the unknown behind the ancient door and he pushed the heavy skeel aside and entered

Silence and gloom and the dust of centuries lay heavy upon the chamber From his warriors he knew the route that he must take to the horrid cha feet across the room before him, across the rooame, and came to the short corridor that led into the roorasp He paused after each forward step to listen and when he was alhost-haunted chamber, his heart stood still within his breast and the cold sweat broke from the clammy skin of his forehead, for frohted ears the sound ofThen it was that O-Tar of Manator ca from the nameless horror that he could not see, but that he knew lay waiting for hiain came the fear of the wrath and conterade hiain There was no doubt of what his fate would be should he flee the apartments of O-Mai in terror His only hope, therefore, lay in daring the unknown in preference to the known

He moved forward A few steps took him to the doorway The chamber before him was darker than the corridor, so that he could just indistinctlydais near the center, with a darker blotch of so on the marble floor beside it He moved a step farther into the doorway and the scabbard of his sword scraped against the stone fra silks and furs upon the central daisposture froathered all his htly in his treers prepared to leap across the chamber upon the horrid apparition He hesitated just a h the darkness into his withering heart-eyes that he could not see He gathered hi upon the couch an awful shriek, and O-Tar sank senseless to the floor