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"But it lay here," cried the officer, pointing to the other end of the table. "Did you see it?" asked Ghek. The officer hesitated. "No but it must have been there," he parried. "Did you see the key lying there?" asked Ghek, pointing to another warrior. The fellow shook his head negatively. "And you? and you?" continued the kaldane addressing the others.
Ghek had evidently hoped to placate her after marriage by things of that sort and had spent lavishly for them. Now, throughout the castle there were many and diverse noises. Sometimes not often there was still the crackling hum of a stun-pistol. There were many more exuberant shoutings. They apparently had to do with loot. There were some squealings in female voices, but many more gigglings.
Then he replaced the key in the burrow and squatting on the table beside his headless body, directed its hands toward the food. While the rykor ate Ghek sat listening for the scraping sandals and clattering arms that he knew soon would come. Nor had he long to wait. Ghek scrambled to the shoulders of his rykor as he heard them coming.
"Whom do you mean," she cried; "Turan the panthan? He lives, then? Tell me, is he here in Manator unharmed?" "I speak of that thing which calls itself Ghek the kaldane," replied the officer. "But Turan! Tell me, padwar, have you heard aught of him?" Tara's tone was insistent and she leaned a little forward toward the officer, her lips slightly parted in expectancy.
Come!" he said, and turned toward a door opposite that through which Tara of Helium had entered the chamber. "What is your name?" His question was directed to the girl's captor. "I am Ghek, third foreman of the fields of Luud," he answered. "And hers?" "I do not know." "It makes no difference. Come!" The patrician brows of Tara of Helium went high. It made no difference, indeed!
"I understand, Luud," replied the other. "Take it away!" commanded the creature. Ghek turned and led Tara of Helium from the apartment. The girl was horrified by contemplation of the fate that awaited her a fate from which it seemed, there was no escape.
All Nature exists to serve them. You shall do your share, but not yet you are too skinny. We shall have to put some fat upon it, Sept. I tire of rykor. Perhaps this will have a different flavor. The banths are too rank and it is seldom that any other creature enters the valley. And you, Ghek; you shall be rewarded. I shall promote you from the fields to the burrows.
"Both shall receive the jeddak's steel," and rising from his throne he drew his long sword and descended the marble steps toward them, while two brawny warriors seized Tara by either arm and two seized Ghek, holding them facing the naked blade of the jeddak. "Hold, just O-Tar!" cried U-Dor. "There be yet another to be judged.
"Then if you bring fresh horses for my men, and one extra for each to carry his plunder on, I'll take them away. I'll even throw in the Lord Ghek, who is now unharmed but with his life in the balance. Otherwise " He moved the pistol suggestively. The normal inhabitants of Ghek's castle moved away, discussing the situation in subdued voices. The Lady Fani sat down proudly on the bench beside him.
I will take you to his chambers." "Hasten!" urged Gahan. "Sheathe your sword," warned Ghek, "so that should we pass others of my kind I may say to them that you are a new prisoner with some likelihood of winning their belief." Gahan did as he was bid, but warning the kaldane that his hand was ever ready at his dagger's hilt.
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