READ THE NOVEL- Chapters 1-31 - ERBzine

Tarzan on Mars
minedly, toward the exit.
"Out of my way!" she commanded, in the ancient language
of Opar.
That they understood, at least, her thought was evidenced
by the fact that they stepped silently aside to let her
pass. As she emerged into the corridor, they fell in behind
her. She couldn't know if she had won a victory over them, or
if it were their duty merely to protect her rather than to
imprison her.
Well, she thought, and where to now? Vaguely in her
mind a plan was becoming organized. If she could find a hiding
place and eventually elude her captors, she might have an
opportunity later to contact that other civilization of people
who were formed as herself—perhaps the very nation or tribe
to which the warrior chieftain belonged who had tried to
rescue her from the green men.
But how could she hide herself with these myriad-legged
brutes at her heels?
She stopped as she came out upon a long, open arcade.
To her left was a series of doors leading into other apartments.
To her right was a beautiful parapet of polished stone,
which supported delicately carved pillars. These, in turn,
supported gently curving arches which opened upon a narrow
enclosed court below where once a great fountain had gushed
with water.
Across this narrow court was the roof of a neighboring
building. The roof adj joined another edifice which was four
stories in height and was crowned by soaring towers. If she
could gain the roof of one of the towers, she thought, it would
be possible to survey the city and surrounding territory to a
much better advantage.
La carefully measured the distance from the railing of the
arcade to the opposite roof. It appeared to be in the neighborhood
of eighteen feet. In her own world, such a distance
would have been prohibitive, but in this strange world of the
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