Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-02

rated into bony ridges from their neckt
to the end of their long tails
Their feet are equipped with three
webbed toes, while from the fore-fee
memhranous wings, which are attached tc
their bodies Just in front of their hind
legs, protrude at an angle toward the
rear, ending with sharp points several
feet above their bodies.
I glanced at Perry as the thing passed
me to inspect him. The old man was gaz.
ing at the horrid creature with wide
astonished eyes. When II passed on he
| turned to me.
"A rhamphorhynchus Of the middle olit.
ic, David" he said; but, CAD, how
| enormous. The largest remains we have
ever discovered have never indicated a
1 size greater than that attained by an or
| dinary crow"
| AS we continued on through the main
avenue OF Phutra we saw many thousands
| of these creatures coming and going upon
| their daily duties. They paid hut little
attention to us
/ Phutra Is laid out underground with a
regularity that indicates remarkable en-
! glneerIng skill, 1t is hewn from solid
| limestone strata, The streets are broad
! and Of q uniform heigh. of 20 feet. At in
/ tervals tubes pierce the root of this under
ground city, and by means of lenses and
reHectors transmit the sunlight, softened
anu ulluStui 10 ulSpGl Wnut WOul0 Other-
wise be Cimmerian darkness. In like
manner air ls introduced
Perry and | were taken, with Ghak, to
a large public building, where one of the
Sagoths who had foItticd our guard ex-
plained to Maharan official the circum-
stances surrounding our capture.
The method OF communication between
these two was remarkable in that no
spoken words were exchanged. They en-
ployed a species of sign language.
as l was to learn later the Mahars
have no ears nor any spoken language
Among themselves they communicate by
means of what Perry says must be a
sixth sense which Is cognizant of a fourth
dimension.
I never did quite grasp him, though
he endeavored to explain It to me upon
numerous occasions. l suggested telep-
athy, but he said no, that II was not
telepathy, since they could only COM
municate when in each others presence,
nor could they talk with the Sagoths or
the other inhabitants of Pellucidar by the
same method they used to converse with
one another.
What they do" said Perry, "is to
project their thoughts into the fourth
dimension. when they become appreciable
to the sixth sense of their listener, Do
l may myself clear?"
You do not Perry" replied.
lie SHOOK his head In despair and re-
turned to his work. They had set us to
carrying great accumulation of Ma
haran literature from one apartment to
another, and there arranging it upon
shelves. l suggested to Perry that we
were in the public library of Phutra, but
later, as he commenced to discover the
key to their written language. he assured
me that we were handling the ancient
archives of the race.
Ghak, Perry and 1 often talked together
of possible escape; but the Sarlan was
so stepped in his lifelong belief that no
one could escape from the Mahars ex-
cept by miracle that he was not much
aid to us. His attitude was of one who
waits for the miracle to come to him.
AT my suggestion. Perry and I fash
ioned some swords of scraps OF iron
which we discovered among some rub
bish In the cells where we slept, for we
were permitted almost unrestrained free
dom of action within the limits OF the
building to which we had been assigned
So great were the number of slaves who
waited upon the inhabitants of Phutra
that none of us was apt to be overbur-