READ THE NOVEL- Chapters 1-31 - ERBzine

Tarzan on Mars
mysticism..
Kar Komak waited for him in the window of Tario's
chamber. As Tarzan entered, he motioned toward him,
signalling him to follow. Then he sprang to the sill and
disappeared to the left along an unseen ledge.
Tarzan looked out and perceived the other's objective,
which was a low roof top some thirty feet distant. He waited,
watching Kar Komak's painstaking progress, until the latter
had reached the distant rooftop. The Lotharian turned then
and motioned to him, as though he were trying to reassure
him that the feat was not difficult.
At last, the apeman stepped lightly to the sill and, poising
himself there for one brief moment, he gave a mighty leap
which landed him beyond the Martian, well in upon the roof.
When he turned toward his new found ally, he saw the latter
gaping at him in astonishment.
Tarzan smiled and made a sign that asked, unmistakably,
"Where to now?"
Kar Komak studied the apeman carefully, noting that his
only weapon was the hunting knife. He drew his short sword
and haded it to Tarzan, but he refused to take it.
After another moment of silent, wondering surveillance,
Kar Komak turned about and led the way toward his distant
flier, at the same time dematerializing his phantom bowmen
as they stepped behind the arras in the throne room of the
palace.
Thus two men of two different worlds, each remarkably
endowed with special powers of his own, moved through the
night shadows of Lothar together, unable to communicate yet
bound by a mutual purpose—to enter the mighty fortress of
Tarnath, to rescue Jane Clayton, and to aid the Warlord, if
possible, against the forces of the Holy Alliance..
* * *
On the plains beyond the mighty twin cities of Helium,
great battle cruisers and dreadnoughts and thousands of sleek
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