READ THE NOVEL- Chapters 1-31 - ERBzine

Tarzan on Mars
accomplish with the Warlord.
After a long, strained silence, his voice rose in the great
amphitheater. Speak, most holy goddess!" he cried, dramatically.
"Bless us with your sacred name!"
He strained his mind to the breaking point, while all the
groveling faithful waited. Then, slowly, the queenly woman
spoke, as though in a trance, her lips struggling with strange
words which she could not understand—which Tario was
forcing upon her.
"Behold!" she said. "I am Issus arisen!"
* * *
Far, far away, in the ranch house of the Greystoke estate
in East Central Africa, the Great Star of Issus lay smoldering
in its own cold flame—on the floor of an empty room....
169