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Tarzan on Mars
effacement. Plan well your acts thenceforth, for on yourself
may depend the lives and fortunes of millions yet unhatched.
I have spoken!" He turned on his thoat and rode swiftly after
the distant torchlights of the rear guard.
La watched him go, and she struggled against the almost
epileptic seizure which filled her body with cold trembling. At
last, the tears dried in her eyes and her lips compressed in
anger.
"Issus is a fate unto herself!" she cried out, as though Va
Caraways could still hear her.
As she ordered her apes to resume the march and
overtake the others, she rationalized stubbornly that to allow
the will of Issus to be questioned was to deprive her sacred
role of its validity.
And so, as of old, the vision of a tall, bronzed giant of a
godlike man superimposed itself on the epic base-relief of
world and men in mortal turmoil.
"Tarzan," she murmured, half aloud. "My Tharos Pthan!
Beloved! Our day of fulfillment is at hand!"
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