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Tarzan on Mars
now—that holds your tongue and freezes your trembling
limbs?
Could he but have known it, such was the fate of all the
honest and stalwart men since time began. Where a lesser
man would have entered the scans as a self-styled master at
the art of love, the most virile and ardent of warriors would
pause and suddenly find that he possessed great, clumsy
hands and feet and a scarecrow's tongue of straw.
For one brief, awkward moment he stood there staring
at her. But in the next instant, her blue eyes flashed defiance
at him and she sprang out of the room with a tremendous,
agile leap. It was a seemingly impossible jump which carried
her beyond Kar Komak and even against the opposite wall of
the bed-chamber. The impact stunned her, and she fell to the
floor, momentarily limp.
He sprang to her side and started to pick her up, but as
he did so, she recovered her senses and turned upon him
with a biting, clawing savagery that was actually formidable
and dangerous to him.
Ha!—he thought, as he struggled mightily to control
her—Did I not say that she would be one to require taming?
By Issus!—but she was a tremendous, vibrant creature!—
beautiful as is all the savage and untamed of nature.
The more she fought him with her astonishing strength
and fury, the more determined he was to quiet her down and
assure her that she was not only in the hands of her master—but
safe. Ah, yes!— quite safe, for the rest of her natural
life. For she was his!
At last, he locked her arms behind her, which was no
simple task, and he gripped her long black hair in his hands
against her wrists. Her position was such that she could not
lean forward to get at him with her teeth without pulling her
hair out by the roots.
As she rested a moment, locked in his arms, she seemed
to discover his eyes and face for the first time. As he did not
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