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Tarzan on Mars
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DESTINY FOR TWO
LA, High Priestess of the Flaming God, looked disconsolately
at her own reflection in a full-length mirror of
polished silver which had been set in the ancient wall of her
living quarters by remotely remembered ancestry. She saw
a tall, white-skinned woman, nearly naked but for a jeweled
girdle wrought mostly of masterfully strung pearls of another
age, and breastplates of golden wires spun into finer filigree
than had ever been seen even in the old world jewel markets
of the Middle East. In her copious, raven black hair rested a
jewel-set circlet of gold and platinum. In all she wore a
fortune in precious elements and gems which seemed only
appropriate to grace the exquisite perfection of her natural
feminine endowments.
But La, who had not in her long recollection ever
contacted the civilization of men, only sensed but dimly the
tremendous value of her accouterments. Save for the few
lesser priestesses of Opar who yet assisted her in the rituals
of the crumbling Temple of the Flaming God, she had no
basis for comparing her great beauty of face and form with the
standards of that outer world which lay somewhere far
beyond the age-old granite ramparts of this hidden valley in
East Central Africa. Only instinctively did she guess that she
was well formed, as it seemed to her primitive logic that as it
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