READ THE NOVEL- Chapters 1-31 - ERBzine

Tarzan on Mars
fighting man and victorious veteran of glorious battles that he
was. His black hair, his steel grey eyes, brave, loyal,
smiling—brought home to Tario the awareness of a dangerous
strength, both of body and of spirit.
Of his mind he could not yet be sure, for preliminary
light probing had proved it closed to ordinary telepathic
penetration. He would save a supreme thrust into that alien
mental screen for later, when he was ready to leave.
"Ah, yes!" said John Carter. "There is trouble brewing
once more along the sea bottoms. Well, at least you shall be
satisfied with food and drink before we go into that. Come!"
For one who had remained secluded from humanity for
entire millennia of time, this emergence of Tario from his
cloistered halls of philosophy and etherialism. Its people were
far more numerous that he had imagined. They were brave,
intelligent, scientifically far advanced, and amazingly selfsufficient.
But, if all that he saw impressed him, it did not
dismay. On the contrary, it intrigued him and only served to
crystallize his original desire of conquest into a clear, cold
flame of purpose.
In the hypnotic disguise of Tars Tarkas, he met them
all—Tardos Mors, Jeddak of Greater Helium, Mors Kajak, Jed
of Lesser Helium, Gahan of Gathol and his beautiful wife,
Tara of Helium, sister to Carthoris.
That same Carthoris, son of the Warlord, who had first
awakened Tario to the existence of the living world outside
of Lothar, Stood there beside his illustrious sire, almost
equally as formidable a warrior. Beside him was Thuvia, his
wife, formerly that same fair Princess of Ptarth who had
awakened in him the life blood of the man who had wasted
centuries of virility in ethereal dreaming.
However great her attraction still remained for Tario at
this moment, it was eclipsed by the celestial beauty of the
even more queenly woman who stood beside her, smiling at
him in sincere greeting to the friend of her husband. He
68