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Tarzan on Mars
As though in a trance, La said, "There was a man—I
remember. A white man in a great tower, far away from here.
Perhaps it was he—"
Tarzan tensed slowly, his gray eyes burning down into
hers. "You must remember this man, La. Who is he? What is
his name? And where is this tower?"
"His name?—Tario. He brought me here. I think this
palace was his—but now he lives in the distant tower. It
reaches far up into the sky."
"La—where is this tower?" Tarzan insisted.
It was then that Las recovered fromn shock, but her
heart had been seared by a white-hot bolt of lightning, and
there was nothing left to sustain her but one emotion. Her
face whitened with it and her lips thinned out flat against her
gleaming teeth.
"Your mate!" she snarled. "She is my fate! Thief of my
days! Destroyer of my life! Why did she have to be born! I
hope she is dead!"
Tarzan frowned. "Take care, La—"
La's eyes widened, her lips curling in a glad smile of
hope. "Yes! Dead!" she cried. "Dead! If she is dead, then the
way is yet clear!" She raised her voice in a wild shriek. "Dead!
Dead! Dead! I hope she is dead!'
The apeman sprang upon her with a low growl and
grasped her by the throat. La struggled instinctively in his
titanic grip, and suddenly fear sprang into her face as she saw
the terrible threat of death in his blazing eye.
"Tarzan!' she cried out. "Spare my life!"
It was the strangeled sound of her voice that brought him
out of his rage. He eased the preasure but did not release her.
"You will not speak of my mate like that!" he told her,
fiercely. "I have been your friend and protector, La, but such
a thing I will not tolerate—even from you!"
La slumped against him, bursting into tears. "La is
sorry!" she wailed, clenching her fists against his chest. "But
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