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Updated: May 7, 2025
"I shall be there myself and if I see him I will know that he has been there. If I don't see him I will know that he has not," explained the old taxidermist. "Is there anything there to fill an honest man with fear?" asked a chieftain. "What have you seen?" "It was not so much what I saw, though that was bad enough, as what I heard," said I-Gos. "Tell us! What heard and saw you?"
Wheeling instantly he saw that he was alone in the room and that the single door was closed. Running rapidly to it he strove to open it, only to find that he was a prisoner. I-Gos, stepping out and locking the door behind him, turned toward Tara. "Your leather betrayed you," he said, laughing his cackling laugh.
"To the chambers of O-Mai the Cruel I traced them," squeaked I-Gos. "There you will find them where the moaning Corphals pursue the shrieking ghost of O-Mai; ey!" and he turned his eyes from O-Tar toward the warriors who had arisen, only to discover that, to a man, they were hurriedly resuming their seats. The cackling laughter of I-Gos broke derisively the hush that had fallen on the room.
"I am safe," retorted I-Gos, "for I am not a brave and popular son of the jeddak of Manator." This was indeed open treason, but E-Thas feigned not to hear it. He ignored I-Gos and turned to the others. "O-Tar goes to the chamber of O-Mai this night in search of Turan the slave," he said.
As he was leaving the little group of men I-Gos called after him. "At what hour does O-Tar intend visiting the chambers of O-Mai?" he asked. "Toward the end of the eighth zode*," replied the major-domo, and went his way. * About 1:00 A. M. Earth Time. "We shall see," stated I-Gos. "What shall we see?" asked a warrior. "We shall see whether O-Tar visits the chamber of O-Mai." "How?"
"Your time shall come then, I-Gos," Gahan assured the other, "and if you have any party that thinks as you do, prepare them for the eventuality that will succeed O-Tar's presumptuous attempt to wed the daughter of The Warlord. Where shall I see you again, and when? I go now to speak with Tara, Princess of Helium." "I like your boldness," said I-Gos; "but it will avail you naught.
I-Gos' cackling laughter rose above the silence of the room. "Ey, ey!" he shrilled. "What the young warriors of O-Tar cannot do, old I-Gos does alone." "Only a Corphal may capture a Corphal," growled one of the chiefs who had fled from the chambers of O-Mai. I-Gos laughed. "Terror turned your heart to water," he replied; "and shame your tongue to libel.
"I saw the dead O-Mai," said I-Gos. The others shuddered. "And you went not mad?" they asked. "Am I mad?" retorted I-Gos. "And you will go again?" "Yes." "Then indeed you are mad," cried one. "You saw the dead O-Mai; but what heard you that was worse?" whispered another.
"Kaor, friends!" he exclaimed as he stopped among them, but his friendly greeting elicited naught but a few surly nods. "Have you heard the news?" he continued, unabashed by treatment to which he was becoming accustomed. "What has O-Tar seen an ulsio and fainted?" demanded I-Gos with broad sarcasm. "Men have died for less than that, ancient one," E-Thas reminded him.
Here I-Gos led Gahan to a higher level and out upon the roof of that portion of the palace from where he pointed to a high tower quite close by. "There," he said, "lies the Princess of Helium, and quite safe she will be until the time of the ceremony." "Safe, possibly, from other hands, but not from her own," said Gahan. "She will never become Jeddara of Manator first will she destroy herself."
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