The Connecticut labor news., 1921-08-19

I crept stealthlly to the top and as the great excavation lay far from the plaza and in an untenanted portion of the great dead city I had little trouble in reaching the hills beyond.
 For two days I waited there for KantOs Kan, but as he did not come started off on foot in a northWeSterly direction toward point where he had told me lay the nearest waterway. My only food consisted of vegetable m-'> from the plants which gave so bOun- teouSly of this priceless fluid.
 Through two long weeks I wan dered stumbling through the nights guided only by the stars and hiding during the days behind some protrud- ing rock or among the occasional hills I traverSed. Several times I was attacked by wild beasts; strange, un- couth monstrOsities that leaped upon me In the dark, so that I had ever to grasp my longswOrd in my hand that I might be ready for them. Usually my strange, newly acquired telepathic power warned me in ample time. but once I was down with vicious fangs at my jugular and hairy face pressed close 10 mine before I knew that l was even threatened.
 What manner of thing was upon me I did not know. but that 1t was large and heavy and many-legged I could feel. My hands were at its throat before the fangs had a chance to bury themselves in my neck, and slowly forced the hairy face from me and oln fin x-jSo1ilyo itS windpipe.
 Without sound we lay there, the beast eXerting every effort to reach me with those awful fangs, and l straining to maintain my grip and choke the life from 1t as I kept 1t from my throat. Then a living mass of destruction sprang from the sur rounding darkness full upon the crea- ture that held me piniOned to the ground. The two rolled growing upon the moss, tearing and rending one an other in a frightful manner. but it was soon over and my preserver stood with lowered head above the throat of the dead thing which would have killed me.
 The nearer moon. hurtling suddenly above the horizon and lighting up the BarsOOmfan scene. showed me that my preserver was WOola, but from whence he had come, or how found me, I was at loss to know. That I was glad of his companiOnship it is needless to say, but my pleasure at seeing him was tempered by anxiety as to the reason of his leaving Deiah Thoris
 By the light of the now brilliant moons I saw that he was but shadow of his former self, and as he turned from my caress and com menced greedily to devour the dead carcass at my feet I realized that the poor fellow was more than half starved. When Woola had finished his meal I again took up my weary and seemingly endless wandering in quest of the elusive waterway.
 At daybreak of the fifteenth day was Overjoyed to see the high trees that denoted the object of my search. About noon I dragged myself wearly to the portals of huge building which covered perhaps four square miles and lowered two hundred feet in the air.
  walls other than the tiny door at which I sank exhausted, nor was there any sign of life about 1t.
 I could find no bell or other method of making my presence known to the inmates of the place, unless a small round hole in the wall near the door was for that purpose. It was of about the bigness of a lead pencil and think: ing that 1t might be in the nature of speaking tube I put my mouth to it and was about to call into It when a voice issued from 1t asking me whom might be, where from. and the na- ture of my errand.
 q am a friend of the red men of Barsoom and I am starving. In the name of humanity open to us," l re piled.
 Presently the door commenced to recede before me until it had sunk into inc wall fifty feet. then it stopped and slid easily to the left exposing a short, narrow corridor of concrete. at the further end of which was another door, similar in every respect to the one I had just passed. No one was
  the first door 1t slid gently into place behind us and receded rapidly to its original position in the front wall of the building.
 A second and third door receded before me and slipped to one side as the first, before reached large in ner chamber where I found food and drink set out upon a great stone table. A voice directed me to satisfy my hunger and to feed my calOt, and while I was thus engaged my invisible host put me through a severe and searching cross examination.
 Your statements are most remark able" said the voice, on concluding Its questioning, but you are evidently speaking the truth. and 1t Is equally evident that you are not of Barsoom. can tell that by the conformation of your brain and the strange location of your internal organs and the shape and size of your heart"
 "Can you see through me?" l ex- claimed.
 "Yes, can see all but your thoughts, and were you BarsoOmfan could read those"
 Then a door opened at the far side of the chamber and a strange, dried uD little mummy of a man came toward me- He wore but single ar ticie of clothing or adornment, a small collar of gold from which depended