"How should I, a prisoner, know better than my jailer the
whereabouts of the key to my fetters?" he retorted.
"But it lay here," cried the officer, pointing to the other end
of the table.
"Did you see it?" asked Ghek.
The officer hesitated. "No but it must have been there," he
parried.
"Did you see the key lying there?" asked Ghek, pointing to
another warrior.
The fellow shook his head negatively. "And you? and you?"
continued the kaldane addressing the others.
They both admitted that they never had seen the key. "And if it
had been there how could I have reached it?" he continued.
"No, he could not have reached it," admitted the officer; "but
there shall be no more of this! I-Zav, you will remain here on
guard with this prisoner until you are relieved."
I-Zav looked anything but happy as this intelligence was
transmitted to him, and he eyed Ghek suspiciously as the dwar and
the other warriors turned and left him to his unhappy lot.
CHAPTER XIII
A DESPERATE DEED
E-Med crossed the tower chamber toward Tara of Helium and the
slave girl, Lan-O.
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