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Tarzan on Mars
your legend more seriously. On my own planet there were
times of miracles. It is not outside the boundaries of reason
to consider that this may be your own age of revelation.
There is a very strange fact concerning La which I feel I
should share with you now, but I must bind you to strictest
confidence. It is her most intimate secret."
Tarzan then revealed to Kar Komak the secret curse of
La's existence, which she had confided to him in the Palace of
Lothar. As he told it, Kar Komak tensed, and his eyes
widened in alarm.
"By the gods!" he whispered, frightened. "This is the
final proof! She is Issus! It is proof incontrovertible! Does she
know it not?" Cannot you, yourself, understand its significance?"
"She has not quite put two and two together yet, as we
say on Jasoom," replied the apeman, solemnly, "but ever since
she revealed this incredible thing to me I have been gravely
troubled by its significance. It answers, to me, the whole
mystery of Atlantis."
"Atlantis?"
"That is another story, which explains why a continent
called Africa, on Jasoom, was the apparent origin of a great
race of black-skinned men."
Kar Komak's head jerked up. "The First Born!" he
exclaimed. "The original guardians of Issus!"
"And in a place called Egypt," said Tarzan, "her legend
must have been born anew, for they once worshipped a
goddess called Isis."
Kar Komak frowned deeply. "There is another portion of
the Legend of Issus which is not well known to men, and I
have forgotten it. Would that I might remember it now!"
Further discussion of the matter was interrupted by the
muffled sound of trumpets and the shouts of men above them
in the great Escarpment. They also heard similar sounds
rising out of the valley below and from the multitudinous
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