READ THE NOVEL- Chapters 1-31 - ERBzine

Tarzan on Mars
meeting, for the Lost People were entirely consumed by a
tremendous emotion of ecstatic joy at sight of the newcomer
and proceeded to surround him almost to the total exclusion
of the motley horde from the outer world.
La stood there at the rail of her chariot, tall, proud, and
gorgeously trapped in richly jeweled leather and silks, as
much the picture of a delectable goddess as any there might
have been. But, recent years had brought a hardness to her
beautiful face and a cold intolerance into her deep blue eyes.
She surveyed the commotion with a frown of impatience, and
finally she uttered a guttural, barking sound to a great white
ape which stood near her.
Immediately, the huge anthropoid reached out one of its
four great hands and grasped a red citizen of the hidden
community by the arm. Holding him unceremoniously in the
air, he brought him close beside the chariot. Rather than fear,
however, the man's face registered indignation. He struggled
furiously.
"Put me down!" he shouted.
"Silence!" exclaimed La, angrily. And, as the ape's victim
subsided momentarily, she continued. "La is not accustomed
to being interrupted in this manner, but I am curious concerning
this old man whom you greet with such reverence. Who
is he?"
"Make this monster set me down," scowled the man, "and
I will tell you!"
By this time, Var Koros had asked a similar question
concerning La, and so it was that he was included in there
meeting of leaders in which the identity of everybody was
established.
The man whom the ape had taken hold of was Mordos
Val, once a famous warrior jeddak of Gathol, and who was
now second only in command to that scarred giant, Sorquas
Ptorel, who was the jeddak of the Lost People and the most
tremendous green warrior imaginable, towering a full head
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