Chapter 26

They gave him water and he opened his eyes again. “Lord,” he said, and now he spoke with difficulty, “I have discovered in my thinking the greatest truth in the world.” A strange light came into his eyes; they danced eagerly with the greatness of his discovery. “All your wise men do not know this,” he whispered; “death is——” Sanders waited, but K’maka the Thinker carried his secret with him to the land of sleep. VIII NINE TERRIBLE MEN THERE were nine terrible men in the Forest of O’tomb’,…