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Tarzan on Mars
Tarzan's lips curved just perceptibly into a quiet smile of
triumph. He began pacing the floor again, slowly, silently.
Then he said, "My own estate, if completely liquidated, might
start the project on its way—perhaps in the amount of ten or
twelve million pounds. However, I have not forgotten that in
my search for Jane Clayton I am also searching for La, High
Priestess of the Flaming God. The priests of Opar offered me
the entire contents of their treasure vaults. Inasmuch as I
have at least some direction to follow now in the solution of
the mystery which they first engaged me to solve, I would
feel justified in asking them to make good their offer. I have
many connections in that part of Africa, as you well know. My
Waziri would not object to transporting such a burden of
treasure into the hands of my business agents. And I am
certain that my connections in the British government would
prove helpful in converting everything quite rapidly into
suitable banking credit."
"But—do you mean to say," asked Gridley, incredulously,
"that the wealth of Opar would be sufficient to support the
gigantic project you have in mind?"
Tarzan looked at him and replied with perfect equanimity,
"You have not visited those ancient vaults. There is
enough there to have affected the entire economy of Atlantis."
* * *
Where there is life there is hope.
The four-stage rocket, leaning high up against the sky,
seemed to be a shining monument to the man who held this
as the credo of his existence—Tarzan of the Apes.
There had been unforeseen problems, obstacles, moments
of deep despair, and the cold negation of a giant
computer, which said that even with Harbenite, the initial
acceleration required would kill.
But an electronic brain can only be as valid as the data
which gives it orientation. Tarzan was not a standard in the
equations. He made them prove it, with him in the centrifuge.
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