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Tarzan on Mars
"We will wait but a short while for reinforcements," he
said. "If they do not come, Tharos Pthan and I will want your
mounts, so stand by."
The two commandos surveyed the wall and the giant
door. Then one of them turned to the Warlord.
"It would be better to wait long, if necessary, for the
others, sire," he said. "You cannot go with only one companion,
however formidable he may be. You are not equipped to
face an entire armed garrison, unless Tharos Pthan is possessed
of truly miraculous powers, and if that is the case, why
stands he here waiting?"
At that moment, fully two hundred Tarnathian guardsmen
mounted the battlements of the giant wall and aimed
their rifles at them. The four men crowded in under the
protecting rock just in time to escape a deadly hail of explosive
bullets.
At the same time, however, an answering fusillade
struck the enemy guards and withered their ranks with a
deadly accuracy of aim. Half a hundred Tarnathians fell
forward from the wall.
"Where did that come from?" asked the Warlord.
For answer, Tarzan touched his arm. "Look!" he said,
pointing toward the whirlpool. "This is a day of miracles."
When John Carter and his two commandos looked in the
direction the apeman had indicated, they discerned the
vanguard of a powerful army of green and red men alike
emerging from the cavernous depths into which the whirlpool
descended. They were firing at the guards on the wall while
those of them who were mounted on thoats rode swiftly in
their direction.
"Merciful gods!" ejaculated the Warlord. "Look who leads
them! It is none other than Tars Tarkas, Jeddak of Thark!"
"I know not of him," said Tarzan, "but others I seem to
recognize."
Many of the advancing warriors also recognized Tarzan,
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