Chapter 31

“It is useless, as you observe,” he said coldly, in the stranger’s own tongue, and sneered. “You are perfectly helpless. Unlike you of the Fenachrone, however, men of my race do not always kill strangers at sight, merely because they are strangers. I will spare your life if you can give me anything of enough value to me to make the extra time and trouble worth while.” “You read my mind while I could not resist your childish efforts. I will have no traffic whatever with you who have destroyed my vessel. If you have …