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The silence of the tomb lay heavy about him as O-Tar, Jeddak of Manator, opened his eyes in the chahtful apparition that had confronted hiht Within the range of his vision there was nothing apparent that ht cause alarm Slowly he lifted his head and looked about Upon the floor beside the couch lay the thing that had at first attracted his attention and his eyes closed in terror as he recognized it for what it was; but it ain and rose to his feet He was tre on the dais fro arise

O-Tar backed slowly froained the outer corridor It was empty He did not know that it had eled had broken upon the startled ears of the warriors who had been sent to spy upon him He looked at the timepiece set in a massive bracelet upon his left forearone O-Tar had lain for an hour unconscious He had spent an hour in the chamber of O-Mai and he was not dead! He had looked upon the face of his predecessor and was still sane! He shook hi nerves, so that by the tiained control of hier To the banquet hall he went, knowing that his chiefs awaited him there and as he entered they arose and upon the faces of ht to see O-Tar the jeddak again after what the spies had told the froone alone to that chaht, for now no one could deny the tale that he should tell

E-Thas rushed forward to greet him, for E-Thas had seen black looks directed toward him as the tals slipped by and his benefactor failed to return

"O brave and glorious jeddak!" cried theof you the story of your adventure"

"It was naught," exclaimed O-Tar "I searched the cha for the return of the slave, Turan, if he were temporarily away; but he caoes there Fewin such a dismal place"