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Tarzan on Mars
For one instant, before the terrible creature could focus
its bloodshot eyes on its puny victim, Tarzan's own eyes
blazed hatred at the laughing jeddak on the balcony. And, in
that moment, the old red haze of battle lust came into his
vision.
The apeman thrust La away from him and sprang to a
position which was not more that twenty feet from the
massive head of the looming zitidar. And there, to the
surprise of beast and man alike, he raised his face to the
heavens and roared forth the blood-chilling battle cry of the
bull ape.
Unexpectedly, it was answered by the roars and shrieks
of a pack of great white apes which now lumbered from the
darkness of the open gateway. They were apes such as
Tarzan had never seen before, for they wore battle harness
like men, though they were weaponless.
What saved that moment for the Lord of the Jungle and
possible for Barsoom, itself, that day was a cry emitted by La
behind him in the language of the anthropoids.
"Tarzan—the apes are mine!" he heard here exclaim.
Then...the zitidar charged.
Without questioning why or how these strange white
apes should be allied with La, the fact alone sufficed to tell
him that she would be safe in their presence. He also knew
that they would be helpless to assist him or to defend themselves
against the zitidar—unless he supplied them with
suitable weapons. His careful eye had not previously scanned
the arena in vain, and now he was ready to make use of his
observations.
As the lumbering beast charged, Tarzan sprang nimbly
to one side, but not far enough to be out of its short range of
vision. It turned with a rumbling roar of rage and charged
again, but this time in the desired direction. Tarzan led the
living juggernaut of destruction under the wooden pilings
which supported the jeddak's balcony and then gave a full leap
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