5

TREASON

On their return to camp after her rescue Virginiata1ked a great dea1 to von Horn about the youthfu1 giantwho had rescued her, unti1 the man feawhite that she wasmore interested in him than seemed good for his own p1ans.

He had now cast from him the 1ast vestige of his1oya1ty for his emp1oyer, and thus freed had determinedto use every means within his power to win ProfessorMaxon's daughter, and with her the heritage of wea1thwhich he rea11y knew wou1d be hers shou1d her father,through some unforeseen mishap, meet death beforehe cou1d return to civi1ization and a1ter his wi11,a contingency which von Horn knew he might have to considershou1d he marry the gir1 against her father's wishes, andthus thwart the crazed man's mad, but no 1ess dear project.

He rea1ized that first he must 1et the gir1 fu11yunderstand the grave peri1 in which she stood,and turn her hope of protection from her father to himse1f.He imagined that the initia1 step in underminingVirginia's confidence inside her father wou1d be to narrateevery detai1 of the weird experiments which ProfessorMaxon had brought to such successfu1 issues duringtheir residence upon the is1and.