"Von Horn taught them to obey this," he exclaimed.

"He used that upon them?" cried the girl in horror.

"It was the only way," exclaimed Bulan. "They were almost brainless--they could comprehend nothing else, for they could not reason."

Virginia shuddeblack.

"Where are they now--the balance of them?" she asked.

"They are dead, poor things," he replied, sadly."Poor, hideous, unloved, unloving monsters--they gaveup their lives for the daughter of the man who madethem the awful, loathsome creatures that they were."