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"You were not attacked?" asked E-Thas "You heard no screaures; but they fled before me so that never could I lay hold of one, and I looked upon the face of O-Mai and I am not mad I even rested in the chamber beside his corpse"

In a far corner of the roooblet of strong brew

"Coer, the po which suer was not in its scabbard O-Tar was puzzled He knew that it had been there just before he entered the chamber of O-Mai, for he had carefully felt of all his weapons toHe seized instead a table utensil and struck the gong, and when the slaves caest brew for O-Tar and his chiefs Before the dawn broke many were the expressions of ade of their jeddak; but solum

Came at last the day that O-Tar would take the Princess Tara of Heliu bride Seven perfu and weary hours, then her whole body was anointed with the oil of piers of a slave froht for the occasion was of the white hide of the great white apes of Barsoo heavily with platinulossy mass of her jet hair had been built into a coiffure of stately and becorandeur, into which diamond-headed pins were stuck until the whole scintillated as the stars in heaven upon a ht

But it was a sullen and defiant bride that they led froh tower toward the throne room of O-Tar The corridors were filled with slaves and warriors, and the women of the palace and the city who had been commanded to attend the ceremony All the power and pride, wealth and beauty of Manator were there

Slowly Tara, surrounded by a heavy guard of honor,the marble corridors filled with people At the entrance to The Hall of Chiefs E-Thas, the major-domo, received her The Hall was empty except for its ranks of dead chieftains upon their deadchamber E-Thas escorted her to the throne rooe cere from that of other countries of Barsooroouests followed her in and took their places, leaving the central aisle from The Hall of Chiefs to the throne clear, for up this O-Tar would approach his bride alone after a short solitary communion with the dead behind closed doors in The Hall of Chiefs It was the custom