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Tarzan on Mars
vast authority in his red companion also gave him food for
thought.
Tars Tarkas swept his tremendous lance in La's direction.
"There is cause enough for us both," he answered. "She
is the living Issus! And it is she whom we come to place on
the Golden Throne!"
John Carter looked once more in La's direction. his brow
furrowed in dark trepidation. "Tars Tarkas," he said, "I will
tell you what I have already told my special attack group
today. Barsoom is divided between two greatly opposed
ideologies, and there is a third great cause—a compromise
between the two. We must fight for the right to directly
examine and control the actions of the Holy Alliance. We
must fight for a truce between men's minds—so that the
leaders of Barsoom may decide this issue once and for
all—here, at Tarnath."
As the Warlord spoke, Var Koros drew in close on his
smaller mount. It was he who answered for Tars Tarkas.
"Well spoken!" he commented, gravely. "Though Issus
may have returned to us, it is well that in this hour of fulfillment
all mankind shall be satisfied concerning the confirmed
status of the reformed religion."
By this time, the white apes bearing La had drawn in
close and set her litter upon the ground. Instantly, she sprang
out and ran toward Tarzan, throwing herself into his arms.
"Beloved!" she cried. "At last we have found our true
destiny! Do you not see that it was written thus?" She forgot,
in her ardor, to use the language of the first men, speaking to
him instead in the tongue of Barsoom.
Var Koros and Tars Tarkas surveyed Tarzan carefully.
"She has called him Tharos Pthan," said Var Koros.
"A seeming mate for Issus," added Tars Tarkas, "if he be
that stranger who slew white apes and green men with his
bare hands and killed the mad zitidar at Lothar."
Tarzan thrust La from him and suddenly frowned at all of
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