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Tarzan on Mars
where you found me is the one you refer to by the name of
Lothar, though I have not heard of it before. I was hoping to
find water there."
The Thern considered this statement for a long moment
as his sharp eyes studied the stalwart figure of the panthan.
"It is small wonder that you have not heard of that city," he
said, at last. "For ages it has remained hidden from the eyes
of any but the green hordes of the sea bottoms." After another
pause, he added, "I'll vouch for you, panthan, if you would
seek here a very worthy engagement as a warrior—for a
cause which transcends any that you could ever hope to
defend in this world."
"If the alternative is to become the hacking block of this
freak of a warden—then I'll serve any cause," he answered.
Thum almost whimpered aloud in his lust for Kar
Komak's blood, but the Thern officer warned him off again.
"I would be careful if I were you, Dotar Sojat," he
advised, with a wry smile. "You would not fare well if you
ever fell into the hands of Thum again!"
"The next time," growled Thum, "he will die!"
As Kar Komak walked away with the Thern official, he
asked, "Who is the old man with whom I was imprisoned?"
"He is Var Koros," replied the other. "A man who has a
few too many ideas of his own. A brilliant fellow, but one who
will have to isolated until he learns to keep his ideas to
himself."
Kar Komak was relieved to know that his new found
friend was at least temporarily safe. There was something
about Var Koros to which the unsolved mysteries and the
incomplete portions of Kar Komak's mind and soul cried out,
as a son to his father, pleading for an answer. Instinctively, he
felt that Var Koros was going to be important to him. Perhaps,
he thought, he might yet find a way to free him.
And thus it was that Kar Komak, the Lotharian spy for
Helium, became Dotar Sojat, a padwar in the seventy-seventh
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