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210 and presently, from the interior of the chamber, a man appeared to whom the sentinel repeated the warrior’s message.

"Let them enter," said the newcomer, who was a white-tunicked slave; "my glorious master, Zoanthrohago Zertol, expects his slave Zuanthrol. Follow me!"

They followed him through several chambers until at last he led them into the presence of a gorgeously garbed warrior who was seated behind a large table, or desk, upon which were numerous strange instruments, large, cumbersome looking volumes, pads of heavy Minunian writing paper and the necessary implements for writing. The man looked up as they entered the room.

"It is your slave, Zuanthrol, Zertol," announced the fellow who had led them hither.

"But the other?" Prince Zoanthrohago point­ed at Komodoflorensal.

"He speaks the strange language that Zuan­throl speaks, and he was brought along that you might communicate with Zuanthrol if you so wished." Zoanthrohago nodded.

He turned to Komodoflorensal. "Ask him," he ordered, "if he feels any differently since I re­duced his size."

When the question was put to Tarzan by Ko­modoflorensal in the imaginary language with which they were supposed to communicate the ape-man shook his head, at the same time speaking a