It was evidently blind, too, for it took no notice of the brilliant glare of the searchlight, but it moved rapidly towards the two scrambling forms, its long white feelers trembling out in all directions.

Then one of them touched the smaller of the two shapes.

Instantly the rest shot out and closed round it, and with scarcely a struggle it was dragged beneath the water and vanished.
[Illustration: _A hideous shape rose out of the water behind them._] Zaidie uttered a little low scream and covered her face again, and Redgrave said: "The same old brutal law you see, life preying upon life even on a dying world, a world that is more than half dead itself.

Well, I think we've seen enough of this place.

I suppose those are about the only types of life we should meet anywhere, and I don't want to know much more about them.