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Rh the battle that he had seen waged; and they called him Zuanthrol, The Giant, yet they were as large as he, and as he had passed from the Royal Dome to the quarry he had seen their gigantic dome dwellings rising fully four hundred feet above his head. It was all preposterous and impossible, yet he had the testimony of all his facul­ties that it was true. Contemplation of it but tended to confuse him more and so he gave overall attempts to solve the mystery and set himself to the gathering of information concerning his captors and his prison against that time which he well knew must some day come when the means of escape should offer itself to the alert and cun­ning instincts of the wild beast that, at heart, he always considered himself.

Wherever he had been in Veltopismakus, who­ever he had heard refer to the subject, he had had it borne in upon him that the people were generally dissatisfied with their king and his gov­ernment, and he knew that among a discontented people efficiency would be at low ebb and disci­pline demoralized to such an extent that, should he watch carefully, he must eventually discover the opportunity he sought, through the laxity of those responsible for his safe-keeping. He did not expect it today or tomorrow, but today and tomorrow were the days upon which to lay the foundation of observation that would eventually reveal an avenue of escape.