READ THE NOVEL- Chapters 1-31 - ERBzine

Tarzan on Mars
and mountain fastnesses who raised their villainous swords
on high to La, grinning at the prospect of indulging mightily
and lustily in their chosen sport and profession.
At last, La noticed Va Caraways' persistent surveillance
of her and she revolted. "Why do you stare at me so?" she
cried. "What is it your eyes would tell me, Va Caraways?"
"True power," he answered, "has a beneficial effect upon
a true leader—in that it humbles that leader into a realization
of his responsibilities to others.
She shrugged her gleaming white shoulders and tossed
her head disdainfully, throwing raven black tresses across her
shapely back. "Shall you speak in parables to me?" she said. "I
do not understand you."
"Don't you?" He glared at her. "Then I will make my
thoughts quite clear to you, La. Look at me!"
Strangely fascinated by him, she looked into his penetrating
eyes as he spoke to her intensely, rapidly, with a positive
tone of wisdom and authority the source of which she could
not define.
"I will analyze yourself and your situation for you so that
you may have a basis for the judgement of your acts. You sit
now on the prow of a juggernaut which can destroy or work
salvation in the destinies of men. Here are three hundred
thousand savage green men, tens of thousands of the Lost
People, and hundred of thousands of red and yellow men,
armed and ready to do your bidding or to achieve their own
ambitions. You have attracted both the sincere and the
fanatics and others who do not support the religious cause or
who are too dim-witted to grasp such a concept. Your personal
ambition has led you to influence men by telling them
you will lead them to the last battleground—the greatest
battle ever fought—that there will be justice, loot, rewards
and food, according to their desires. In the midst of it all, La,
you are actually fearful of the magnitude of the thing which
you have set in motion. You find yourself a lone woman
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