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Tarzan on Mars
to be out of harm's way. There followed a loud, rending sound
and a shout of alarm on the part of the jeddak and his companions.
Then the great balcony collapsed ponderously into the
arena as the wooden piers splintered and toppled over before
the zitidar's charge.
In spite of his seething anger and his lust to destroy
them, Tarzan was forced to give the green men credit for
being fearless. Suddenly cast into the center of mortal peril,
the jeddak and those of his followers who had not been
crushed already by the murderous zitidar quickly drew their
swords and tried to hack the beast down. But as well they
might have tried to chop down the coliseum, itself. The huge
monster simply whirled about him and trampled them all to
death, including the jeddak himself.
And now, it turned its attention once more upon the
apeman.
But, again he was ready. Taking hold of a twelve foot
piece of hardwood he swung it about his head like the arm of
a giant windmill, and when it collided with the great beast it
staggered him.
While the brute shuddered momentarily from the impact,
Tarzan shouted at the apes in their own language, "Protect
yourselves! Do what you see me do! Kill! Kill!"
"Churg!" he heard La cry out to the largest of the white
apes. "This man is my mate! Defend him!"
Not bothering to answer the dim and distant ethics of
such a claim on La's part, the apeman fell to with his ponderous
weapon which, had he been on Earth, he might not have
been able to wield at all. He struck the monster again, this
time on top of the head, and it trumpeted in pain, almost
falling to its knees.
As it turned to charge him, he saw Churg, the greatest
of the white apes, take up another huge piece of piling and
shove its splintered end full into the giant beast's open mouth
and even into its throat, whereupon he rammed his end of it
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