Her hand went over her eyes and she shook herself slightly. "It's hard at first--getting Azeela's thoughts. I have them now." She spoke swiftly, anxiously. "Toroh was here a moment ago. He seized Azeela and took her out of the grove--right near here." Azeela's thoughts! George understood. He started forward, but she held him. "Too late! Toroh had two dogs waiting for him--they're mounting them now. He has tied Azeela. They're starting--the dogs are running." George stared at her blankly. "Where to? Where is he taking her? Can you ask her that? Can she tell you?" The girl was hastening forward now, with George after her. "Yes. She says to Orleen. I have told her we are coming." Abruptly, she stopped and faced him. "George, we have two dogs at home. Shall you and I get them and go after Azeela?" "Yes," he exclaimed impulsively. "And I know where father keeps his weapons." "Good. We can't find Loto and your father in this crowd. Had we better try, Dee?" They were hurrying forward again. "No, we'd lose too much time. Father forbade me touching his weapons," she added as an afterthought, "but this is different, isn't it?" "Of course," he agreed excitedly. "You know how to work them, Dee?" "Yes, I experimented. He doesn't know it." They left the grove. "Dee, where's Azeela now?" "Crossing the city. West toward Orleen. We won't be far behind them." George was trembling with the excitement of it. "Is Toroh armed? Ask Azeela that." "I did. She doesn't know. She thinks he is." "Oh!" "We'll do something. He won't know we're after him--that's our advantage. Hurry, George!" There were a few figures in the almost deserted streets, but George and Dee did not notice them. She was telling him of this branch of science for which she and her sister were distinguished--this telepathy they had developed. Bound in a union of thought by an unusual devotion, they had perfected it until they could know, always vaguely, and, with effort, quite distinctly, what was in the other's mind. "We mustn't waste any time getting started, Dee." They had entered the silent garden of Fahn's home. The city behind them was humming with confusion now, but they did not hear it, did not know that a murder had just been committed at the festival. Inside the house, Dee went at once to her father's room. George waited. When she returned she held two weapons out for his inspection. One was a crescent of transparent metal, with a tiny wire connecting its horns and a black bone handle by which to grasp it. There was a firing mechanism on the handle. It was the projector of the ray which caused muscular paralysis--the weapon Bool had used against Loto. Dee described its operation briefly.