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Gahan rose fro quickly about with draord as the shadow of a noise ied upon his keen ears fros he saw a bent and wrinkled figure It was I-Gos

"Sheathe your sword, Turan," said the old ht to fear from I-Gos"

"What do you here?" dereat coward did not cheat us Ey, and he calledfool;' but look at hiive him that who had heard your uncanny screae And it was you, then, who moaned and screamed when the chiefs came the day that I stole Tara from you?"

"It was you, then, old scoundrel?" dely toward I-Gos

"Come, come!" expostulated the old man; "it was I, but then I was your eneed"

"How have they changed? What has changed them?" asked Gahan

"Then I did not fully realize the cowardice of irl I ae At first I resented the girl's attack upon me, but later I came to see the bravery of it and it won my admiration, as have all her acts She feared not O-tar, she feared not me, she feared not all the warriors of Manator And you! Blood of a ht! I am sorry that I exposed you at The Fields of Jetan I airl Tara back to O-Tar I would make amends I would be your friend Here ishis weapon I-Gos cast it to the floor in front of Gahan

The Gatholian knew that scarce the e, and so he stooped, and picking up the old man's sword returned it to him, hilt first, in acceptance of his friendship

"Where is the Princess Tara of Helium?" asked Gahan "Is she safe?"

"She is confined in the tower of the wo the ceremony that is todared think that Tara of Heliurowled Gahan "I will ht," and he stepped toward the fallen O-Tar to run his sword through the jeddak's heart