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07 - Thuvia, Maid of Mars (version 3) by Edgar Rice Burroughs · Thuvia, Maid of Mars (version 3)

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  Speaker 1: Chapter seven of Thuvia Made of Mars by Edgar Riceboroughs.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Thuvia Made
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  Speaker 1: of Mars, Chapter seven the Phantom Bowmen. As Jav leaped
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  Speaker 1: toward him, Carthoris laid his hand upon the hilt of
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  Speaker 1: his long sword. The Lotharian halted. The great apartment was
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  Speaker 1: empty save for the four at the dais. Yet as
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  Speaker 1: Jav stepped back from the menace of the Heliumite threatening attitude,
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  Speaker 1: the latter found himself surrounded by a score of bowmen.
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  Speaker 1: From whence had they sprung. Both Carthoris and Thuvia looked
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  Speaker 1: their astonishment. Now the former sword leaped from its scabbard,
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  Speaker 1: and at the same instant the bowmen drew back their
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  Speaker 1: slim shafts. Tario had half raised himself upon one elbow.
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  Speaker 1: For the first time he saw the full figure of Thuvia,
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  Speaker 1: who had been concealed behind the person of Carthoris. Enough
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  Speaker 1: cried the Jeddak, raising a protesting hand, But at that
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  Speaker 1: very instant, the sword of the Heliumite cut viciously at
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  Speaker 1: its nearest antagonist. As the keen edge reached its goal,
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  Speaker 1: Carthoris let the point fall to the floor as with
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  Speaker 1: wide eyes. He stepped backward in consternation, throwing the back
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  Speaker 1: of his left hand across his brow. His steel had
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  Speaker 1: cut but empty air. His antagonist had vanished. There were
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  Speaker 1: no bowmen in the room. It is evident that these
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  Speaker 1: are strangers, said Tario to jav let Us. First determine
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  Speaker 1: that they knowingly affronted us, before we take measures for punishment.
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  Speaker 1: Then he turned to Carthoris, But ever his gaze wandered
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  Speaker 1: to the perfect lines of Thuvia's glorious figure, which the
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  Speaker 1: harness of a Barsoomian princess accentuated rather than concealed. Who
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  Speaker 1: are you, he asked, who knows not the of the
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  Speaker 1: court of the last of Jeddaks. I am Carthoris, Prince
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  Speaker 1: of Helium, replied the Heliumite, And this is Thuvia, Princess
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  Speaker 1: of Ptarth. In the courts of our fathers, men do
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  Speaker 1: not prostrate themselves before royalty. Not since the first born
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  Speaker 1: tore their immortal goddess limb from limb have men crawled
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  Speaker 1: upon their bellies to any throne upon Barsoom. Now think
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  Speaker 1: you that the daughter of one mighty Jeddak and the
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  Speaker 1: son of another would so humiliate themselves. Tario looked at
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  Speaker 1: Carthoris for a long time. At last he spoke, There
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  Speaker 1: is no other Jeddak upon Barsoom than Tario. He said,
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  Speaker 1: there is no other race than that of Lothar, unless
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  Speaker 1: the hordes of Torquas may be dignified by such an appellation.
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  Speaker 1: Lotharians are white, your skins are red. There are no
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  Speaker 1: women left upon Barsoom. Your companion is a woman. He
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  Speaker 1: half rose from the couch, leaning far forward and pointing
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  Speaker 1: an accusing finger at Carthoris. You are a lie, he shrieked.
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  Speaker 1: You are both lies, and you dare to come before Tario,
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  Speaker 1: last and mightiest of the Jeddaks of Barsoom, and assert
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  Speaker 1: your reality. Some one shall pay well for this, Jav.
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  Speaker 1: And unless I mistake, it is yourself who has dared
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  Speaker 1: thus flippantly to trifle with the good nature of your Jeddak.
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  Speaker 1: Remove the man, leave the woman. We shall see if
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  Speaker 1: both be lies, and later, Jav, you shall suffer for
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  Speaker 1: your temerity. There be few of us left, but comal
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  Speaker 1: must be fed. Go. Carthoris could see that Jav trembled
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  Speaker 1: as he prostrated himself once more before his ruler, and
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  Speaker 1: then rising, turned toward the Prince of Helium. Come, he said,
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  Speaker 1: and leave the Prince of Ptarth here alone, cried Carthoris.
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  Speaker 1: Jav brushed closely past him, whispering, follow me. He cannot
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  Speaker 1: harm her except to kill, and that he can do
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  Speaker 1: whether you remain or not. We had best go now,
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  Speaker 1: trust me. Carthoris did not understand, but something in the
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  Speaker 1: urgency of the other's tone assured him, and so he
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  Speaker 1: turned away, but not without a glance toward Thuvia, in
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  Speaker 1: which he attempted to make her understand that it was
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  Speaker 1: in her own interest that he left her. For answer,
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  Speaker 1: she turned her back full upon him, but not without
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  Speaker 1: first throwing him such a look of contempt that brought
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  Speaker 1: the scarlet to his cheek. Then he hesitated, but Jav
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  Speaker 1: seized him by the wrist. Come, he whispered, or he
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  Speaker 1: will have the bowmen upon you, and this time there
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  Speaker 1: will be no escape. Do you not see how futile
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  Speaker 1: is your steel against thin air? Carthoris turned unwillingly to follow.
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  Speaker 1: As the two left the room, he turned to his companion.
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  Speaker 1: If I may not kill thin air, he asked, how
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  Speaker 1: then shall I fear that thin air may kill me?
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  Speaker 1: You saw the Torquassians fall before the bowman, asked Jav.
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  Speaker 1: Carthoris nodded, so would you fall before them? And without
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  Speaker 1: one single chance for self defense or revenge. As they talked,
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  Speaker 1: Jav led Carthoris to a small room in one of
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  Speaker 1: the numerous towers of the palace. Here were couches, and
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  Speaker 1: Jav bid the heen he might be seated for several minutes.
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  Speaker 1: The Lotharian eyed his prisoner for such. Carthoris now realized
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  Speaker 1: himself to be I am half convinced that you are real,
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  Speaker 1: he said. At last, Carthoris laughed, Of course I am real,
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  Speaker 1: he said, what cause you to doubt it? Can you
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  Speaker 1: not see me? Feel me? So may I see and
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  Speaker 1: feel the bowmen, replied Jav. And yet we all know
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  Speaker 1: that they at least are not real. Carthoris showed by
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  Speaker 1: the expression of his face his puzzlement at each new
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  Speaker 1: reference to the mysterious bowmen, the vanishing soldiery of Lothar.
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  Speaker 1: What then, may they be? He asked, You really do
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  Speaker 1: not know, asked Jav. Carthoris shook his head negatively. I
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  Speaker 1: can almost believe that you have told us the truth,
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  Speaker 1: and that you are really from another part of barsoom
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  Speaker 1: or from another world. But tell me in your own country,
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  Speaker 1: have you no bowmen to strike terror to the hearts
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  Speaker 1: of the green hordesmen as they slay in company with
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  Speaker 1: the fierce bance of war. We have soldiers, replied Carthoris.
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  Speaker 1: We of the Red race are all soldiers, but we
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  Speaker 1: have no bowmen to defend us, such as yours. We
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  Speaker 1: defend ourselves. You go out and get killed by your enemies,
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  Speaker 1: cried jav incredulously, certainly, replied Carthoris, how do the Lothorians
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  Speaker 1: you have seen, replied the other. We send out our
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  Speaker 1: deathless archers, deathless because they are lifeless, existing only in
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  Speaker 1: the imaginations of our enemies. It is really our giant
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  Speaker 1: minds that defend us, sending out legions of imaginary warriors
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  Speaker 1: to materialize before the mind's eye of the foe. They
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  Speaker 1: see them, they see their bows drawn back, They see
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  Speaker 1: their slender arrows speed with unerring precision toward their hearts,
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  Speaker 1: and they die, killed by the power of suggestion. But
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  Speaker 1: the archers that are slain, exclaimed Carthoris, You call them deathless,
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  Speaker 1: and yet I saw their dead bodies piled high upon
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  Speaker 1: the battlefield. How may that be? It? Is but to
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  Speaker 1: lend reality to the scene, replied Jav. We picture many
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  Speaker 1: of our own defenders killed, that the Torquasians may not
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  Speaker 1: guess that there are really no flesh and blood creatures
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  Speaker 1: opposing them. Once that truth became implanted in their minds,
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  Speaker 1: it is the theory of many of us, no longer
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  Speaker 1: would they fall prey to the suggestion of the deadly arrows,
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  Speaker 1: For greater would be the suggestion of the truth, and
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  Speaker 1: the more powerful suggestion would prevail. It is law and
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  Speaker 1: the banths, questioned Carthoris, They too were but creatures of suggestion.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them were real, replied Jav. Those that accompany
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  Speaker 1: the archers in pursuit of the Torquasians were unreal. Like
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  Speaker 1: the archers, they never returned, but, having served their purpose,
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  Speaker 1: vanished with the bowmen. When the rout of the enemy
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  Speaker 1: was assured. Those that remained about the field were real.
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  Speaker 1: Those we loosed as scavengers to devour the bodies of
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  Speaker 1: the dead Torquois. This thing is demanded by the realists
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  Speaker 1: among us. I am a realist, Tario is an etherealist.
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  Speaker 1: The etherealists maintain that there is no such thing as matter,
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  Speaker 1: that all is mind, they say that none of us
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  Speaker 1: exists except in the imagination of his fellows, other than
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  Speaker 1: as an intangible, invisible mentality. According to Tario, it is
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  Speaker 1: but necessary that we all unite in imagining that there
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  Speaker 1: are no dead Torquasians beneath our walls, and there will
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  Speaker 1: be none nor any need of scavenging baths. You then,
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  Speaker 1: do not hold Tario's beliefs, asked Carthoris, in part only,
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  Speaker 1: replied the Lotharian. I believe. In fact, I know that
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  Speaker 1: there are some truly ethereal creatures. Tario is one. I
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  Speaker 1: am convinced he has no existence except in the imaginations
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  Speaker 1: of his people. Of course, it is the contention of
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  Speaker 1: all us realists that all etherialists are but figments of
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  Speaker 1: the imagination. They contend that no food is necessary, nor
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  Speaker 1: do they eat. But any one of the most rudimentary
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  Speaker 1: intelligence must rea that food is a necessity to creatures
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  Speaker 1: having actual existence. Yes, agreed Carthoris. Not having eaten today,
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  Speaker 1: I can readily agree with you. Ah, pardon me, exclaimed
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  Speaker 1: jav pray be seated and satisfy your hunger. And with
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  Speaker 1: a wave of his hand he indicated a bountifully laden
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  Speaker 1: table that had not been there an instant before he
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  Speaker 1: spoke of that. Carthoris was positive, for he had searched
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  Speaker 1: the room diligently with his eyes several times. It is well,
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  Speaker 1: continued Jav, that you did not fall into the hands
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  Speaker 1: of an etherealist. Then indeed, would you have gone hungry?
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  Speaker 1: But exclaimed Carthoris, this is not real food. It was
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  Speaker 1: not here an instant since, and real food does not
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  Speaker 1: materialize out of thin air. Jav looked hurt. There is
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  Speaker 1: no real food or water in Lothar, he said, nor
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  Speaker 1: has there been for countless ages upon such as you
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  Speaker 1: now see before you. Have we existed since the dawn
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  Speaker 1: of history? Upon such then may you exist? But I
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  Speaker 1: thought you were a realist, exclaimed Carthoris. Indeed, cried Jav,
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  Speaker 1: what more realistic than this bounteous feast. It is just
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  Speaker 1: here that we differ most from the etherealist. They claim
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  Speaker 1: that it is unnecessary to imagine food. But we have
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  Speaker 1: found that for the maintenance of life we must thrice
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  Speaker 1: daily sit down to hearty meals. The food that one
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  Speaker 1: eats is supposed to undergo certain chemical changes during the
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  Speaker 1: process of digestion and assimilation, the result of course being
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  Speaker 1: the rebuilding of wasted tissue. Now we all know that
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  Speaker 1: mind is all, though we may differ in the interpretation
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  Speaker 1: of its various manifestations. Tario maintains that there is no
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  Speaker 1: such thing as substance, all being created from the substanceless
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  Speaker 1: mans matter of the brain. We realists, however, know better.
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  Speaker 1: We know that mind has the power to maintain substance,
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  Speaker 1: even though it may not be able to create substance.
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  Speaker 1: The latter is still an open question, And so we
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  Speaker 1: know that in order to maintain our physical bodies, we
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  Speaker 1: must cause all our organs property to function. This we
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  Speaker 1: accomplish by materializing food thoughts, or by partaking of the
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  Speaker 1: food thus created. We chew, we swallow, we digest. All
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  Speaker 1: our organs function precisely as if we had partaken of
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  Speaker 1: material food. And what is the result. What must be
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  Speaker 1: the result that chemical changes take place through both direct
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  Speaker 1: and indirect suggestion, and we live and thrive. Carthoris eyed
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  Speaker 1: the food before him. It seemed real enough. He lifted
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  Speaker 1: a morsel to his lips. There was substance, indeed, and
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  Speaker 1: flavor as well. Yes, even his palate was deceived. Jav
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  Speaker 1: watched him, smiling as he ate is it not entirely satisfying,
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  Speaker 1: he asked, I must admit that it is, replied Carthoris.
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  Speaker 1: But tell me how does Tario live and the other
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  Speaker 1: etherealists who maintain that food is unnecessary? Jav scratched his head.
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  Speaker 1: That is a question we often discuss, he replied. It
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  Speaker 1: is the strongest evidence we have of the non existence
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  Speaker 1: of the etherealists. But who may know other than Komal?
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  Speaker 1: Who is Komal? Asked Carthoris. I heard your Jeddak speak
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  Speaker 1: of him. Jaff bent low toward the ear of the heliumite,
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  Speaker 1: looking fearfully about before he spoke. Komal is the essence,
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  Speaker 1: he whispered. Even the etherealists admit that mind itself must
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  Speaker 1: have substance in order to transmit to imaginings the appearance
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  Speaker 1: of substance. For if there really was no such thing
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  Speaker 1: as substance, it could not be suggested. What never has
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  Speaker 1: been cannot be imagined. Do you follow me, I am groping,
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  Speaker 1: replied Carthoris dryly. So the essence must be substance, continued Jav.
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  Speaker 1: Komal is the essence of the all, as it were,
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  Speaker 1: He is maintained by substance. He eats, He eats the
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  Speaker 1: real to be explicit, he eats the realists. That is
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  Speaker 1: Tario's work. He says that inasmuch as we maintain that
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  Speaker 1: we alone are real, we should to be consistent admit
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  Speaker 1: that we alone are proper food for Komal. Sometimes, as
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  Speaker 1: to day, we find other food for him. He is
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  Speaker 1: very fond of Torquasians and komol Is. A man asked Carthoris,
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  Speaker 1: he is all I told you, replied Jav. I know
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  Speaker 1: not how to explain him in words that you will understand.
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  Speaker 1: He is the beginning and the end. All life emanates
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  Speaker 1: from Comal, since the substance which feeds the brain with
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  Speaker 1: imaginings radiates from the body of Comal. Should Como cease
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  Speaker 1: to eat, all life upon barsoom would cease to be.
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  Speaker 1: He cannot die, but he might cease to eat, and
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  Speaker 1: thus to radiate, and he feeds upon the men and
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  Speaker 1: women of your belief, cried Carthoris. Women exclaimed Jav. There
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  Speaker 1: are no women in Lothar. The last of the Lotharian
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  Speaker 1: females perished ages since upon that cruel and terrible journey
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  Speaker 1: across the muddy plains that fringed the half dried seas,
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  Speaker 1: When the Green Hordes scorged us across the world to
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  Speaker 1: this our last hiding place, our impregnable fortress of Lothar.
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  Speaker 1: Scarce twenty thousand men of all the countless millions of
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  Speaker 1: our race lived to reach Lothar. Among us were no
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  Speaker 1: women and no children. All these had perished by the way.
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  Speaker 1: As time went on, we too were dying, and the
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  Speaker 1: race fast approaching extinction. When the great truth was revealed
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  Speaker 1: to us, that mind is all. Many more died before
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  Speaker 1: we perfected our powers. But at last we were able
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  Speaker 1: to defy death when we fully understood that death was
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  Speaker 1: merely a state of mind. Then came the creation of
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  Speaker 1: mind people, or rather the materialization of imaginings. We first
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  Speaker 1: put these to practical use when the Torquasians discovered our retreat,
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  Speaker 1: and fortunate for us it was that it required ages
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  Speaker 1: of search upon their part before they found the single,
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  Speaker 1: tiny entrance to the valley of Lothar. That day we
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  Speaker 1: threw our first bowmen against them. The intention was purely
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  Speaker 1: to frighten them away by the vast numbers of bowmen
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  Speaker 1: which we could muster upon our walls. All loth Are
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  Speaker 1: bristled with the bows and arrows of our ethereal host.
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  Speaker 1: But the Torquasians did not frighten. They are lower than
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  Speaker 1: the beasts. They know no fear. They rushed upon our walls, and,
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  Speaker 1: standing upon the shoulders of others, they built human approaches
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  Speaker 1: to the wall tops, and were on the very point
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  Speaker 1: of surging in upon us and overwhelming us. Not an
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  Speaker 1: arrow had been discharged by our bowmen. We did but
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  Speaker 1: cause them to run to and fro along the wall top,
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  Speaker 1: screaming taunts and threats at the enemy. Presently I thought
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  Speaker 1: to attempt the thing, the great thing. I centered all
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  Speaker 1: my mighty intellect upon the bowmen of my own creation.
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  Speaker 1: Each of us produces and directs as many bowmen as
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  Speaker 1: his mentality and imagination is capable of. I caused them
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  Speaker 1: to fit arrows to their bows. For the first time,
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  Speaker 1: I made them take aim at the hearts of the
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  Speaker 1: green men. I made the green men see all this,
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  Speaker 1: and then I made them see the arrows fly, and
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  Speaker 1: I made them think that the points pierce their hearts.
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  Speaker 1: It was all that was necessary. By hundreds they toppled
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  Speaker 1: from our walls. And when my fellows saw what I
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  Speaker 1: had done, they were quick to follow my example, so
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  Speaker 1: that presently the hordes of Torquois had retreated beyond the
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  Speaker 1: range of our arrows, we might have killed them at
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  Speaker 1: any distance. But one rule of war we have maintained
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  Speaker 1: from the first, the rule of realism. We do nothing,
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  Speaker 1: or rather, we cause our bowmen to do nothing within
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  Speaker 1: the sight of the enemy, that is, beyond the understanding
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  Speaker 1: of the foe. Otherwise they might guess the truth, and
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  Speaker 1: that would be the end of us. But after the
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  Speaker 1: Torquasians had retreated beyond bowshot, they turned upon us with
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  Speaker 1: their terrible rifles, and by constant popping at us, made
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  Speaker 1: life miserable within our walls. So then I bethought the
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  Speaker 1: scheme to hurl our bowmen through the gates upon them.
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  Speaker 1: You have seen this day how well it works. For ages.
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  Speaker 1: They have come down upon us at intervals, but always
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  Speaker 1: with the same results. And all this is due to
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  Speaker 1: your intellect, Jev asked Carthoris. I should think that you
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  Speaker 1: would be high in the counsels of your people. I am,
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  Speaker 1: replied Jav proudly. I am next to Tario. But why then,
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  Speaker 1: your cringing manner of approaching the throne? Tario demands it.
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  Speaker 1: He is jealous of me. He only awaits the slightest
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  Speaker 1: excuse to feed me to Como. He fears that I
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  Speaker 1: may some day usurp his power. Carthoris suddenly sprang from
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  Speaker 1: the table Jav. He exclaimed, I am a beast. Here
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  Speaker 1: I have been eating my fill, while the Princess of
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  Speaker 1: Tarth may perchance be still without food. Let us return
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  Speaker 1: and find some means of furnishing her with nourishment. The
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  Speaker 1: Lotharian shook his head. Tario would not permit it, he said,
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  Speaker 1: he will doubtless make an etherealist of her. But I
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  Speaker 1: must go to her, insisted Carthoris. You say that there
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  Speaker 1: are no women in Lothar, then she must be among men.
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  Speaker 1: And if this be so, I intend to be near
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  Speaker 1: where I may defend her. If the need arises, Tario
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  Speaker 1: will have his way, insisted Jav. He sent you away,
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  Speaker 1: and you may not return until he sends for you.
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  Speaker 1: Then I shall go without waiting to be sent for.
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  Speaker 1: Do not forget the bowman, cautioned Jav. I do not
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  Speaker 1: forget them, replied Carthoris. But he did not tell Jav
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  Speaker 1: that he remembered something else that the Lotharian had let drop,
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  Speaker 1: Something that was but a conjecture, possibly and yet one
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  Speaker 1: well worth pinning a forlorn hope to should necessity arise.
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  Speaker 1: Carthoris started to leave the room, Jav stepped before him,
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  Speaker 1: barring his way. I have learned to like you, red man,
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  Speaker 1: he said, but do not forget that Tario is still
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  Speaker 1: my Jeddak, and that Tario has commanded that you remain here.
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  Speaker 1: Carthoris was about to report when there came faintly to
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  Speaker 1: the ears of both a woman's cry for help. With
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  Speaker 1: a sweep of his arm, the Prince of Helium brushed
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  Speaker 1: the Lotharian aside, and withdrawn sword, sprang into the corridor
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  Speaker 1: without end of chapter seven