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Tarzan on Mars
something beyond all this, but perhaps it devolved upon
herself to provide a means of achieving her ultimate destination.
Therefore, she must escape, but how?
Her mind recalled the strange red-skinned warrior who
had fought to rescue her from her previous prison. She could
not forget the unmistakable expression of adoration and
devotion in his eyes. No man had ever looked into the eyes of
La in such a manner before. Had Tarzan of the Apes looked
upon her with such an expression for but one moment in all
eternity, she thought, that single moment had been the sum
of life itself.
But Tarzan was not of this world. Perhaps someday he
would penetrate the veil and find her here, but that glorious
day lay far, far down the future. Nor did she have her strange
red warrior chieftain and his numerous army of phantom
bowmen to help her now.
She was utterly alone in her strange new world. What
was to become of her was a matter which appeared to be
divided between the will of Xotar Kova—and her own.
There were tears in her lovely eyes and yet she frowned
angrily at her own futile emotions. But who could blame her
for tears? Had she not suffered through long ages of mortal
life in the hope that some change would come to her, heralding
at last the long awaited reward for earthly happiness.
What life had been more profitless? Who had ever
invested so many endless years of waiting in a proposition
which had yielded so little? What irony was there so abysmally
cruel as this? Was this the reward of a Priestess of the
Flaming God? Was this, then, the vaulted Paradise which had
been promised to the faithful?
Yet, how could she judge, how could she evaluate, that
which was totally unfamiliar? Her first step, therefore, was to
become an independent agent in this world, free to move
about and observe. She did not ask yet know how this might
be accomplished, but she was determined that if it lay within
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