other.

Now I saw that all my fame had been in vain. I had lost the only woman
that was fit for me, and when I died there would be naught left but my
name. Even that the next emperor might blot out, if he chose. It had all
been in vain!

"It shall not be!" I roared to myself, as I strode about my compartment,
gnawing at my hands in my misery. And in just such a fit of helpless
anger the great idea came to me.

No sooner conceived than put into practice. I will not go closely into
details; I will relate just the outstanding facts. What I did was to
select a very tall mountain, located almost on the equator, and
proclaimed my intention to erect a monument to Jon upon its summit. I
caused vast quanities of materials to be brought to the place; and for a
year a hundred thousand men labored to put the pieces together.

When they had finished, they had made a mammoth tower partly of wood and
partly of alloy. It was made in sections so that it might be placed,
piece upon piece, one above another high into the sky.

It was an enormous task. When it was complete, I had a tower as high as
the mountain itself erected upon its summit.

And next I caused section after section of the long, iron, pole-to-pole
rod, which had tricked Klow, to be hauled up into the tower. I was only
careful to begin the process from the top and work downward. I gave word
that the last three sections be inserted at midday at a given day.