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Tarzan on Mars
XXIX
SURPRISE WEAPON
A constant fire from the apparently inexhaustible ranks
of this great army of green and red men now kept the
Tarnathian garrison off the battlements of the great wall,
which was an absolute necessity in view of the fact that very
little shelter was afforded the invaders. They surged forward
onto the shore area where it broadened out from the lake,
filling it with thousands and tens of thousands, and still they
came filing up out of the depths of the ground, many of them
hailing the sight of the great Escarpment with cries of
joy—others with grimmer shouts of triumph—or for vengeance.
Tars Tarkas, the great Thark jeddak, galloped his mount
in close to where Tarzan and his companion stood together
with the two commandos and the malagors.
"Kaor, panthan!" exclaimed the mighty green man,
addressing the Warlord. "Methinks I penetrate that red
disguise, for I have seen it before."
"Then will you know, my old friend," answered John
Carter, "why I stand here before the gates of Tarnath and
Zumor. But what is your allegiance, now that both of us are
rejoined? Is it my side, or a middle path?"
Tarzan wondered much at the double meanings which
passed between these two. The sudden attitude and tone of
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