it was daylight above. When they did not pass she knew it was night, and that the banths were about devouring the rykors that had been abandoned in the fields the previous day. She commenced to grow pale and thin.

She did not like the food they gave her-it was not suited to her kind-nor would she have eaten overmuch palatable food, for the fear of becoming fat. The idea of plumpness had a new significance here-a horrible significance.

Ghek noted that she was growing thin and white. He spoke to her about it and she told him that she could not thrive thus beneath the ground-that she must have fresh air and sunshine, or she would wither and die. Evidently he carried her words to Luud, since it was not long after that he told her that the king had ordered that she be confined in the tower and to the tower she was taken. She had hoped against hope that this very thing might result from her conversation with Ghek. Even to see the sun again was something, but now there sprang to her breast a hope that she had not dared to nurse before, while she lay in the terrible labyrinth from which she knew she could never have found her way to the outer world; but now there was some slight reason to hope.

At least she could see the hills and if she could see them might there not come also the opportunity to reach them? If she could have but ten minutes-just ten little minutes! The flier was still there-she knew that it must be. Just ten minutes and she would be free-free forever from this frightful place; but the days wore on and she was never alone, not even for half of ten minutes. Many

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