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Tarzan on Mars
Above the distance-purpled horizon rose mighty mountain
peaks. Then came the broad green mat of the jungle,
followed by the semi-forested plain in the foreground, broken
here and there by the meandering silvery band of an unnamed
river. At first she could discern nothing that might be regarded
as unusual, but suddenly she stiffled a gasp of astonishment.
And then she gripped her husband's mighty arm in
fear—a fear which memory brought to her out of the distant
past.
"Oh no, John!" she exclaimed.
"Nkima says that I am the objective. You'd better get our
guests back to the bungalow for dinner. Tell them I have gone
to track down some hartebeests for them and that if my hunch
is right I'll take them out to get some of them tomorrow."
"But John—" Jane started to protest.
"There is no danger", said the apeman, patting her arm
where it rested on his. "But I am going to have to strip down
and revert to the primordial, dear. Our guests are not
accustomed to hearing an English lord converse in the
language of the first men." As she hesitated to leave him, he
added, "you can tell Muviro about it, if it will ease your mind.
Half of his Waziri can remain here to watch how I get along."
"All right, John," she answered. "But promise you will
take no chances."
"I promise. But go now. I must hurry."
As she left him, Tarzan looked down at little Nkima and
smiled. "in his last hour," he said to the monkey in English,
"you bring Tarzan yet another call to adventure."
Yes, it was adventure that called Tarzan of the Apes
down there beyond the ridge, but at a price which he would
never have been prepared to pay. Nor could he know then
that little Nkima had, by finding him, affected the destiny of
an entire world...
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