"Look," said Roof, and he led the way to the foot of the cliff. "See!" "Yes," replied Thandar, "I had noticed that body, but what of it?" "It was Thurg," explained Roof. "He sought to reach your mate, who had taken refuge in that cave far above us. Then came some strange men who made a great noise with sticks and Thurg fell dead--the loud noise had killed him from a great distance. Then came the strange men and she whom you call Nadara went away with them." "In which direction?" cried Thandar. "Where did they take her?" "They took her to the strange cliff in which they dwelt--the one in which they came. Never saw man such a thing as this cliff. It floated upon the face of the water. About its face were many tiny caves, but the people did not come out of these they came from the top of the cliff, and clambering down the sides floated ashore in hollow things of wood. On top of the cliff were two trees without leaves, and only very short, straight branches. When the cliff went away black smoke came out of it from a short black stump of a tree between the two trees. It was a very wonderful thing to see; but the most wonderful of all were the noise-sticks that killed Thurg and Nagoola a long way off." Not half of Roof's narrative did Thandar hear. Through his brain roared and thundered a single mighty thought: Nadara lives! Nadara lives! Life took on a new meaning to him now. He trembled at the thought of the chances he had been taking. Now, indeed, must he live. He leaped up and down, laughing and shouting. He threw his arms about the astonished Roof, whirling the troglodyte about in a mad waltz. Nadara lives! Nadara lives! Once again the sun shone, the birds sang, nature was her old, happy, carefree self. Nadara was alive and among civilized men. But then came a doubt. "Did Nadara go willingly with these strangers," he asked Roof, "or did they take her by force?" "They did not take her by force," replied Roof. "They talked with her for a time, and then she took the hand of one of the men in hers, stroking it, and he placed his arm about her. Afterward they walked slowly to the edge of the great water where they got into the strange things that had brought them to the land, and returned to their floating cliff. Presently the smoke came out, as I have told you, and the cliff went away toward the edge of the world. But they are all dead now." "What?" yelled Thandar. "Yes, I saw the cliff sink, very slowly when it was a long way off, until only the smoke was coming out of the water." Thandar breathed a sigh of relief. "Point," he said, "to the place where the cliff sank beneath the water." Roof pointed almost due north. "There," he said.