ught. Druga leaned back and
smiled.

Eos brought the disk to rest again at the meadow at the foot of the
glass bridge before Feronia's cliff palace, and came in to them. She
stood gazing at the two-headed creature trussed to the pillars of the
chamber. Feronia gazed at them with her stone eyes, and all the men
gazed at Feronia as if transfixed by her stony beauty, and the sight
made Dionaea shiver with apprehension. For she thought that these were
people who had angered Eos and that Eos had changed them into stone. She
wondered why Eos had added Feronia to the collection.

CHAPTER III

Eos sat beside Feronia and watched the great, writhing two-headed
Dionaea, and waited. After a time the flowing golden bands of
Life-energy entered, focusing subtly all about her, so that she seemed
to Dionaea truly to be the Mother of All, and the greatest of All
Goddesses anywhere.

At the entrance of the golden energy Eos smiled with relief, for now she
had a power that she had not thought to use against Diana before. For to
Eos this aversion to all men of the Goddess Diana spelled out the
message of her weakness, and this energy of the life pole was going to
pierce that weakness.

Day dragged after day, and the weird scene there in the banquet hall of
the stone men of the past became to Druga a tense place of waiting for
his own demise and change into a similar relic to decorate this hall of
death. For Eos would not tell him what she planned for fear he would
give her away in the tense moments that were to come when Diana at last
rejoined her Dionaea in their strange dual existence.

The inducted energies of the female pole had a most disturbing effect
upon the mingled male and female of the Amphis-Baena.

Baena, driven half mad by the increased female qualities of the head of
Dionaea, made inadvertent love to her, caressing her face with his long
forked tongue, and combing at her tangled hair with his fangs, always
Baena was distraught with her attraction. This attention drove the woman
near frantic, strained as she was in her unnatural condition, and she
could not afford to anger the beast whose body she had been grafted
upon. For even a serpent has been known to swallow its tail, and Dionaea
had no desire to know if Baena could do that trick.

Eos, sitting quietly and watching the bound serpent, smiled at this
continual by-play, and offered to release Dionaea for revealing her
knowledge of Diana, so that some chin