Part 5 (2/2)
It sees in the dark corners Then Dandtan stopped so short that the flyer ran into hiuard room--and it is ee roo pallets of the guards were stacked evenly, but the men were nowhere to be seen
They crossed the room and passed beneath an archway
”Even the bars are not down,” observed Dandtan He pointed overhead
There hung a portcullis of stone Garin studied it apprehensively But Dandtan drew him on into a narrow corridor where were barred doors
”The cells,” he explained, and withdrew a bar across one door The portal swung back and they pushed within
_CHAPTER SEVEN_
_Kepta's Trap_
Thrala arose to face theuise he wore, Garin drew back, chilled by her icy deht her in his arled madly until she saw the face beneath her captor's hood, and then she gave a cry of delight and her arms were about his neck
”Dandtan!”
He s”
She ca his face ”Outlander? So cold a name is not for you, when you have served us so” She offered him her hands and he raised them to his lips
”And how are you nahed ”Thus the eternal curiosity of women!”
”Garin”
”Garin,” she repeated ”How like--” A faint rose glowed beneath her pearl flesh
Dandtan's hand fell lightly upon his rescuer's shoulder ”Indeed he is like him Froht”
”Why not?” she returned calht have been Garan's ain in the Caverns--”
Dandtan was interrupted by a frightened squeak fro voice
”So the prey has entered the trap of its oill How ainst the door, the light of viciousin his eyes Garin dropped his cloak to the floor, but Dandtan ht him by the arm
”On your life, touch him not!”
”So you have learned thatus, Dandtan? Would that Thrala had done the same But fair women find me weak” He eyed her proud body in a way that would have sent Garin at his throat had Dandtan not held him ”So shall Thrala have a second chance