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

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  Speaker 1: Chapter ten of Thuvia Made of Mars by Edgar Riceborough's
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Thuvia, Maid
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  Speaker 1: of Mars, Chapter ten car Komak the Bowman. As Carthoris
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  Speaker 1: moved through the forest toward the distant cliffs, with Thuvia's
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  Speaker 1: hands still tight pressed in his, he wondered a little
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  Speaker 1: at the girl's continued silence. Yet the contact of her
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  Speaker 1: cool palm against his was so pleasant that he feared
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  Speaker 1: to break the spell of her new found reliance in
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  Speaker 1: him by speaking onward. Through the dim wood they passed
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  Speaker 1: until the shadows of the quick coming Martian night commenced
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  Speaker 1: to close down upon them. Then it was that Carthoris
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  Speaker 1: turned to speak to the girl at his side. They
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  Speaker 1: must plan together for the future. It was his idea
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  Speaker 1: to pass through the cliffs at once if they could
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  Speaker 1: locate the passage, and he was quite positive that they
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  Speaker 1: were now close to it, But he wanted her assent
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  Speaker 1: to the opposition. As his eyes rested upon her, he
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  Speaker 1: was struck by her strangely ethereal appearance. She seemed suddenly
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  Speaker 1: to have dissolved into the tenuous substance of a dream,
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  Speaker 1: and as he continued to gaze upon her, she faded
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  Speaker 1: slowly from his sight. For an instant he was dumbfounded,
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  Speaker 1: and then the whole truth flashed suddenly upon him. Jave
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  Speaker 1: had caused him to believe that Thuvia was accompanying him
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  Speaker 1: through the wood, while as a matter of fact, he
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  Speaker 1: had detained the girl for himself. Carthoris was horrified. He
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  Speaker 1: cursed himself for his stupidity. And yet he knew that
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  Speaker 1: the fiendish power which the Lotharian had voked to confuse
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  Speaker 1: him might have deceived any scarce had he realized the truth,
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  Speaker 1: than he had started to retrace his steps toward Lothar.
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  Speaker 1: But now he moved at a trot, the earthly fuse
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  Speaker 1: that he had inherited from his father carrying him swiftly
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  Speaker 1: over the soft carpet of fallen leaves and rank grass.
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  Speaker 1: Thuria's brilliant light flooded the plain before the walled city
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  Speaker 1: of Lothar. As Carthoris broke from the wood opposite the
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  Speaker 1: great gate that had given the fugitives egress from the
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  Speaker 1: city earlier in the day. At first, he saw no
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  Speaker 1: indication that there was another than himself anywhere about. The
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  Speaker 1: plain was deserted. No myriad bowmen camped now beneath the
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  Speaker 1: overhanging verdure of the giant trees, No gory heaps of
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  Speaker 1: tortured dead defaced the beauty of the scarlet sward. All
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  Speaker 1: was silence, All was peace. The Heliumite Scarce, pausing at
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  Speaker 1: the forest's verge, pushed on across the plain toward the city,
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  Speaker 1: when presently he descried a huddled form in the grass
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  Speaker 1: at his feet. It was the body of a man,
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  Speaker 1: lying prone. Carthoris turned the figure over upon its back.
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  Speaker 1: It was jav, but torn and mangled, almost beyond recognition.
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  Speaker 1: The prince bent low to note if any spark of
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  Speaker 1: life remained, and as he did so, the lids raised
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  Speaker 1: and dull, suffering eyes looked up into his. The Princess
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  Speaker 1: of Ptarth, cried, Carthoris, where is she? Answer me? Man?
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  Speaker 1: Or I complete the work that another has so well begun?
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  Speaker 1: Kuma muttered, Jav. He sprang upon me and would have
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  Speaker 1: devoured me but for the girl. Then they went away
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  Speaker 1: together into the wood, the girl and the great benth
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  Speaker 1: Her fingers twined in his tawny mane. Which way went,
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  Speaker 1: they asked? Carthoris, there replied jav faintly toward the passage
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  Speaker 1: through the cliffs. The Prince of Helium waited to hear
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  Speaker 1: no more, but, springing to his feet, raced back again
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  Speaker 1: into the forest. It was dawn when he reached the
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  Speaker 1: mouth of the dark tunnel that would lead him to
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  Speaker 1: the other world, beyond the valley of ghostly memories and
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  Speaker 1: strange hypnotic influences and menaces. Within the long, dark passages,
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  Speaker 1: he met with no accident or obstacle, coming at last
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  Speaker 1: into the light of day beyond the mountains, and no
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  Speaker 1: great distance from the southern verge of the domains of
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  Speaker 1: the Torquasians, not more than one hundred and fifty hod
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  Speaker 1: at the most. From the boundary of Torquois to the
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  Speaker 1: city of Onhor is a distance of some two hundred hods,
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  Speaker 1: so that the Heliumite had before him a journey of
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  Speaker 1: more than one hundred and fifty earth miles between him
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  Speaker 1: and Onhor. He could at best but hazard a chance,
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  Speaker 1: guess that toward Hor Thuvia would take her flight. There
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  Speaker 1: lay the nearest water, and there might be expected some
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  Speaker 1: day a rescuing party from her father's empire. For Carthoris
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  Speaker 1: knew Thuvan Din well enough to know that he would
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  Speaker 1: leave no stone unturned until he had tracked down the
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  Speaker 1: truth as to his daughter's abduction and learned all that
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  Speaker 1: there might be to learn of her whereabouts. He realized,
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  Speaker 1: of course, that the trick which had laid suspicion upon
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  Speaker 1: him would greatly delay the discovery of the truth. But
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  Speaker 1: little did he guess to what vast proportions had the
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  Speaker 1: results of the villainy of Astok of Dusar already grown.
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  Speaker 1: Even as he emerged from the mouth of the passage
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  Speaker 1: to look across the foothills in the direction of Anthor,
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  Speaker 1: a tarth battle fleet was winging its majestic way slowly
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  Speaker 1: toward the twin cities of Helium, while from far distant
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  Speaker 1: Kaole raised another mighty armada to join forces with its ally.
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  Speaker 1: He did not know that, in the face of the
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  Speaker 1: circumstantial evidence against him, even his own people had commenced
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  Speaker 1: to entertain suspicions that he might have stolen the Tarthian princess.
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  Speaker 1: He did not know of the lengths to which the
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  Speaker 1: Dusarians had gone to disrupt the friendship and alliance which
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  Speaker 1: existed between the three great powers of the Eastern Hemisphere, Helium, Tarth,
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  Speaker 1: and Kaol, how Dusarian emissaries had found employment in important
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  Speaker 1: posts in the foreign offices of the three great nations,
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  Speaker 1: and how through these men messages from one Jadak to
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  Speaker 1: another were altered and garbled, until the patience and pride
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  Speaker 1: of the three rulers and former friends could no longer
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  Speaker 1: endure the humiliations and insults contained in these falsified papers.
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  Speaker 1: Not any of this he knew, nor did he know
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  Speaker 1: how even to the last John Carter, Warlord of Mars,
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  Speaker 1: had refused to permit the Jeddak of Helium to declare
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  Speaker 1: war against either Ptarth or Chaole, because of his implicit
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  Speaker 1: belief in his son, and that eventually all would be
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  Speaker 1: satisfactorily explained. And now two great fleets were moving upon Helium,
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  Speaker 1: while the Dusarian spies at the court of Tardos Mors
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  Speaker 1: saw to it that the twin cities remained in ignorance
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  Speaker 1: of their danger. War had been declared by thuvan Din,
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  Speaker 1: but the messenger who had been dispatched with the proclamation
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  Speaker 1: had been a Dusarian, who had seen to it that
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  Speaker 1: no word of warning reached the twin cities of the
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  Speaker 1: approach of a hostile fleet. For several days, diplomatic relations
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  Speaker 1: had been severed between Helium and her two most powerful neighbors,
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  Speaker 1: and with the departure of the ministers had come a
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  Speaker 1: total cessation of wireless communication between the disputants, as is
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  Speaker 1: usual upon Barsoom. But of all this Carthoris was ignorant.
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  Speaker 1: All that interested him at present was the finding of
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  Speaker 1: Thuvia of Ptarth. Her trail beside that of the huge bath,
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  Speaker 1: had been well marked to the tunnel and was once
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  Speaker 1: more visible leading southward into the foothills. As he followed
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  Speaker 1: rapidly downward toward the dead sea bottom, where he knew
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  Speaker 1: he must lose the spore in the resilient ochre vegetation,
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  Speaker 1: he was suddenly surprised to see a naked man approaching
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  Speaker 1: him from the northeast. As the fellow drew closer, Carthoris
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  Speaker 1: halted to await his coming. He knew that the man
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  Speaker 1: was unarmed, and that he was apparently a Lotharian, for
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  Speaker 1: his skin was white and his hair auburn. He approached
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  Speaker 1: the helimite without a sign of fear, and when quite close,
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  Speaker 1: called out the cheery barsoomian kaor of greeting, who are you,
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  Speaker 1: asked Carthoris, I am kar Komak, odwar of the Bowman,
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  Speaker 1: replied the other. A strange thing has happened to me.
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  Speaker 1: For ages, Tario has been bringing me into existence as
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  Speaker 1: he needed the services of the army of his mind.
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  Speaker 1: Of all the bowmen, it has been kar Komak who
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  Speaker 1: has been oftenest materialized. For a long time, Tario has
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  Speaker 1: been concentrating his mind upon my permanent materialization. It has
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  Speaker 1: been an obsession with him that some day this thing
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  Speaker 1: could be accomplished and the future of Lothar assured. He
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  Speaker 1: asserted that matter was nonexistent except in the imagination of man,
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  Speaker 1: that all was mental, and so he believed that by
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  Speaker 1: persisting in his suggestion, he could eventually make of me
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  Speaker 1: a permanent suggestion in the minds of all creatures. Yesterday
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  Speaker 1: he succeeded. But at such a time it must have
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  Speaker 1: come all unknown to him, as it came to me
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  Speaker 1: without my knowledge, as with my horde of yelling bowmen.
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  Speaker 1: I pursued the fleeing Torquasians back to their Ochre plains
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  Speaker 1: as darkness settled and the time came for us to
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  Speaker 1: fade once more into thin air. I suddenly found myself
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  Speaker 1: alone upon the edge of the great plain which lies
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  Speaker 1: yonder at the foot of the low hills. My men
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  Speaker 1: were gone back to the nothingness from which they had sprung,
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  Speaker 1: but I remained naked and unarmed. At first I could
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  Speaker 1: not understand, but at last came a realization of what
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  Speaker 1: had occurred. Tario's long since congestions had at last prevailed,
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  Speaker 1: and kar Komak had become a reality in the world
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  Speaker 1: of men. But my harness and my weapons had faded
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  Speaker 1: away with my fellows, leaving me naked and unarmed in
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  Speaker 1: a hostile country far from Lothar. You wish to return
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  Speaker 1: to Lothar, asked Carthoris, No, replied kar Komak quickly. I
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  Speaker 1: have no love for Tario, being a creature of his mind.
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  Speaker 1: I know him too well. He is cruel and tyrannical,
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  Speaker 1: a master I have no desire to serve. Now that
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  Speaker 1: he has succeeded in accomplishing my permanent materialization, he will
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  Speaker 1: be unbearable, and he will go on until he has
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  Speaker 1: filled Lothar with his creatures. I wonder if he has
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  Speaker 1: succeeded as well with the Maid of Lothar. I thought
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  Speaker 1: there were no women there, said Carthoris. In a hidden
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  Speaker 1: apartment in the palace of Tario, replied Karkomak. The Jeddak
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  Speaker 1: has maintained the suggestion of a beautiful girl, hoping that
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  Speaker 1: some day she would become permanent. I have seen her there.
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  Speaker 1: She is wonderful. But for her sake, I hope that
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  Speaker 1: Tario succeeds not so well with her as he has
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  Speaker 1: with me. Now, red man, I have told you of myself,
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  Speaker 1: what of you? Carthoris liked the face and manner of
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  Speaker 1: the bowmen. There have been no sign of doubt or
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  Speaker 1: fear in his expression as he had approached the heavily
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  Speaker 1: armed Heliumite, and he had spoken directly and to the point.
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  Speaker 1: So the Prince of Helium told the bowman of Lothar
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  Speaker 1: who he was and what adventure had brought him to
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  Speaker 1: this far country. Good, exclaimed the other. When he had done,
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  Speaker 1: kar Komak will accompany you. Together we shall find the
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  Speaker 1: Princess of Ptarth, and with you kar Komak will return
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  Speaker 1: to the world of men, such a world as he
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  Speaker 1: knew in the long gone past, when the ships of
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  Speaker 1: Mighty Lothar plowed angry Thrasies and the roaring surf beat
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  Speaker 1: against the barrier of these parched and dreary hills. What mean, you, asked, Carthoris,
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  Speaker 1: Had you really a former actual existence? Most assuredly replied
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  Speaker 1: kar Komak. In my day I commanded the fleets of Lothar,
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  Speaker 1: mightiest of all the fleets that sailed the five Salt seas.
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  Speaker 1: Wherever men lived upon Barsoom, there was the name of
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  Speaker 1: car Komak, known and respected. Peaceful were the land races
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  Speaker 1: in those distant days. Only the seafarers were warriors. But
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  Speaker 1: now has the glory of the past faded? Nor did
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  Speaker 1: I think until I met you that there remained upon
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  Speaker 1: Barsoom a single person of our own mold, who lived
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  Speaker 1: and loved and fought as did the ancient seafarers of
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  Speaker 1: my time. Ah, but it will seem good to see
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  Speaker 1: men once again, real men. Never had I much respect
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  Speaker 1: for the landsmen of my day. They remained in their
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  Speaker 1: walled cities, wasting their time in play, depending for their
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  Speaker 1: protection entirely upon the sea race. And the poor creatures
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  Speaker 1: who remain the Tarios and Javs of Lothar are even
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  Speaker 1: worse than their ancient forebears. Carthoris was a trifle skeptical
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  Speaker 1: as to the wisdom of permitting the stranger to attach
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  Speaker 1: himself to him. There was always the chance that he
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  Speaker 1: was but the essence of some hypnotic treachery which Tario
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  Speaker 1: or jav was attempting to exert upon the Heliumite. And
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  Speaker 1: yet so sincere had been the manner and the words
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  Speaker 1: of the bowmen so much the fighting man did he
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  Speaker 1: seem that Carthoris could not find it in his heart
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  Speaker 1: to doubt him. The outcome of the matter was that
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  Speaker 1: he gave the naked odwar leave to accompany him, and
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  Speaker 1: together they set out upon the spoor of Thuvia and
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  Speaker 1: Como down to the Ochre Sea bottom. The trail led
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  Speaker 1: there it disappeared, as Carthoris had known that it would,
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  Speaker 1: But where it entered the plain, its direction had been
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  Speaker 1: toward on Thor, and so toward on Thor the two
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  Speaker 1: turned their faces. It was a long and tedious journey,
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  Speaker 1: fraught with many dangers. The bowmen could not travel at
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  Speaker 1: the pace set by Carthoris, whose muscles carried him with
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  Speaker 1: great rapidity over the face of the small planet, the
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  Speaker 1: force of gravity of which exerts so much less retarding
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  Speaker 1: power than that of earth. Fifty miles a day is
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  Speaker 1: a fair average for a Barsomian, but the son of
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  Speaker 1: John Carter might easily have covered a hundred or more
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  Speaker 1: miles had he cared to desert his new found comrade.
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  Speaker 1: All the way they were in constant danger of discovery
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  Speaker 1: by roving bands of Torquassians, and especially was this true
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  Speaker 1: before they reached the boundary of Torquois. Good fortune was
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  Speaker 1: with them, however, and although they sighted two detachments of
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  Speaker 1: the Savage Green Men, they were not themselves seen. And
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  Speaker 1: so they came upon the morning of the third day,
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  Speaker 1: within sight of the glistening domes of distant on Thor.
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  Speaker 1: Throughout the journey, Carthoris had ever strained his eyes ahead
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  Speaker 1: in search of Thuvia and the Great Bath, but not
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  Speaker 1: till now had he seen aught to give him hope.
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  Speaker 1: This morning, far ahead, half way between themselves and on Thor,
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  Speaker 1: the men saw two tiny figures moving toward the city.
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  Speaker 1: For a moment they watched them intently. Then Carthoris convinced
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  Speaker 1: leapt forward at a rapid run, kar Komak following as
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  Speaker 1: swiftly as he could. The heliumite shouted to attract the
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  Speaker 1: girl's attention, and presently he was rewarded by seeing her
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  Speaker 1: turn and stand looking toward him. At her side, the
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  Speaker 1: great banth stood with up pricked ears, watching the approaching man.
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  Speaker 1: Not yet could Thuvia of Ptarth have recognized Carthoris, though
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  Speaker 1: that it was he, She must have been convinced, for
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  Speaker 1: she waited there for him without sign of fear. Presently
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  Speaker 1: he saw her point toward the northwest beyond him. Without
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  Speaker 1: slackening his pace, he turned his eyes in the direction
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  Speaker 1: she indicated, racing silently over the thick vegetation. Not half
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  Speaker 1: a mile behind came a score of fierce green warriors,
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  Speaker 1: charging him upon their mighty thoats. To the right was
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  Speaker 1: Carl Komak, naked and unarmed, yet running valiantly toward Carthoris
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  Speaker 1: and shouting warning, as though he too had but just
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  Speaker 1: discovered the silent menacing company that moved so swiftly forward
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  Speaker 1: with couch spears and ready long swords. Carthoris shouted to
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  Speaker 1: the Lotharian, warning him back, for he knew that he
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  Speaker 1: could but uselessly sacrifice his life by placing himself, all unarmed,
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  Speaker 1: in the path of the cruel and relentless savages. But
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  Speaker 1: Kar Komak never hesitated. With shouts of encouragement to his
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  Speaker 1: new friend, he hurried onward toward the Prince of Helium.
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  Speaker 1: The Red Man's heart leaped in response to this exhibition
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  Speaker 1: of courage and self sacrifice. He regretted now that he
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  Speaker 1: had not thought to give kar Komak one of his swords,
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  Speaker 1: but it was too late to attempt it, for should
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  Speaker 1: he wait for the Lotharian to overtake him or return
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  Speaker 1: to meet him, that Horquasians would reach Thuvia of Ptarth
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  Speaker 1: before he could do so. Even as it was, it
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  Speaker 1: would be nip and tuck as to who came first
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  Speaker 1: to her side. Again, he turned his face in her direction,
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  Speaker 1: and now from on Thorway he saw a new force
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  Speaker 1: hastening toward them, two medium sized warcraft, and even at
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  Speaker 1: the distance they still were from him, he discerned the
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  Speaker 1: device of Dusar upon their bows. Now indeed, seeing little
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  Speaker 1: hold for Thuvia of Ptarth, with savage warriors of the
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  Speaker 1: Hordes of Torquas charging toward her from one direction, and
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  Speaker 1: no less implacable enemies in the form of the creatures
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  Speaker 1: of Astok, Prince of Dusar bearing down upon her from
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  Speaker 1: another with only a banth a red warrior, and an
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  Speaker 1: unarmed bowman were near to defender. Her plight was quite
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  Speaker 1: hopeless and her cause already lost. Ere Ever it was contested.
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  Speaker 1: As Thuvia saw Carthoris approaching, she felt again that unaccountable
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  Speaker 1: sensation of entire relief from responsibility and fear that she
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  Speaker 1: had experienced upon a former occasion. Nor could she account
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  Speaker 1: for it. While her mind still tried to convince her
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  Speaker 1: heart that the Prince of Helium had been instrumental in
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  Speaker 1: her abduction from her father's court, she only knew that
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  Speaker 1: she was glad when he was by her side, and
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  Speaker 1: that with him there all things seemed possible, even such
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  Speaker 1: impossible things as escape from her present pri dicament. Now
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  Speaker 1: he had stopped panting before her, a brave smile of
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  Speaker 1: encouragement lit his face. Courage, my princess, he whispered to
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  Speaker 1: the Girl's memory flashed the occasion upon which he had
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  Speaker 1: used those same words in the throne room of Tario
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  Speaker 1: of Lothar, as they had commenced to slip down the
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  Speaker 1: sinking marble floor toward an unknown fate. Then she had
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  Speaker 1: not hidden him for the use of that familiar salutation,
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  Speaker 1: nor did she chide him. Now, though she was promised
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  Speaker 1: to another. She wondered at herself, flushing at her own turpitude,
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  Speaker 1: For upon barsoom, it is a shameful thing for a
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  Speaker 1: woman to listen to those two words from another than
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  Speaker 1: her husband or her betrothed. Carthoris saw her flush of mortification,
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  Speaker 1: and in an instant regretted his words. There was but
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  Speaker 1: a moment before the Green warriors would be upon them.
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  Speaker 1: Forgive me, said the man in a low voice. Let
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  Speaker 1: my great love be my excuse that and the belief
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  Speaker 1: that I have but a moment more of life. And
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  Speaker 1: with the words he turned to meet the foremost of
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  Speaker 1: the Green warriors. The fellow was charging with couched spear,
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  Speaker 1: but Carthoris leaped to one side, and as the great
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  Speaker 1: thoat and its rider hurtled harmlessly past him, he swung
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  Speaker 1: his long sword in a mighty cut that cloved the
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  Speaker 1: green carcass in twain. At the same moment, kar Komac
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  Speaker 1: leapt with bare hands, clawing at the leg of another
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  Speaker 1: of the huge riders. The balance of the horde raced
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  Speaker 1: into close quarters, dismounting the better to wield their favorite
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  Speaker 1: long swords. The Dusarian fliers touched the soft carpet of
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  Speaker 1: the ochre clad sea bottom, disgorging fifty fighting men from
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  Speaker 1: their bowels and into the swirling sea of cutting, slashing swords.
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  Speaker 1: Sprang comaal the Great Bath end of Chapter ten.