? ? ? ? "Do you see now how we will escape?" I asked him in a whisper.
? ? ? ? "I see how you may," he replied, "but I am no wiser than before as to how I am to pass these walls. Certain it is that I cannot bounce over them as you do."
? ? ? ? We heard the guard moving about from cell to cell, and finally, his rounds completed, he again entered ours. When his eyes fell upon me they fairly bulged from his head.
? ? ? ? "By the shell of my first ancestor!" he roared. "Where have you been?"
? ? ? ? "I have been in prison since you put me here yesterday," I answered. "I was in this room when you entered. You had better look to your eyesight."
? ? ? ? He glared at me in mingled rage and relief.
? ? ? ? "Come," he said. "Issus commands your presence."
? ? ? ? He conducted me outside the prison, leaving Xodar behind. There we found several other guards, and with them the red Martian youth who occupied another cell upon Shador.
? ? ? ? The journey I had taken to the Temple of Issus on the preceding day was repeated.
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