INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE TWC 0VQ not notice my presence. "Hoi- Thd ttien sue "waited tlie storm of (de­ of her "terrible "pastr Sfitf" I ~Tn~plty~for TOT of the other women o? "the same iion» MMnt|iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig twenty nays TiaO Thought never to •he hear me speaking with Sola, who nunciation to break from his cold, hard jthe poor creatures whom the heartless, hold may have come in to speak to say to you I am saying, Dejah Thoris, was standing a short distance from Hps but instead he took her In his senseless customs of their race had IA Princess off Sola, and so delayed their departure. that I am yours, body and soul, to serve the vehicle. doomed to loveless lives of cruelty and arms and kissed her. I did not feel any undue apprehension you, to fight for you, and to die for of hate. Presently she spoke. "Is she Injured?" 1 asked of Sola. "They kept their love a secret for until nearly an hour had passed you. Only one thing I ask of you In Indicating Dejah Thoris by an inclination six long years. She, my mother, was "John Carter, If ever a real man without a sign of them, and by the return, and that Is that you make no Mars of my head. of the retinue of the great Tal Hajus, .walked the cold, dead bosom of Barsoom time another half hour had crawled sign, either of condemnation or of approbation while her lover was a simple warrior, you are one. I know that I can away I was becoming filled with grave "No," she answered, "she thinks of my words until you are wearing only his own metal. Had trust you. and because the knowledge that you are dead. I do not understand anxiety. Then there broke upon the safe among your own people, and that oiay some day help you or him or De* either her ways or yours, but I their defection from the traditions of stillness of the night the sown* of whatever sentiments -you harbor toward Bj Edgar Rice Burroughs lah Thoris or myself, I am going to the Tharks been discovered both approaching part}', which, from the am sure the granddaughter of ten me they be not influenced or colored 5 tell you the name of my father, nor would have paid the penalty in the noise. I knew could be no fugitives thousand jeddaks would never grieve by gratitude." place any restrictions or conditions a Autkor great arena before Tal Hajus and the i-rw pins stealthily toward liberty. like this over the death of one she "1 will respect your wishes. John upon your tongue. When the time assembled hordes. Soci) the party "was near me. and considered beneath her, or indeed over Carter, because I understand the motives 1 comes, speak the truth if it seems best Tarzan of the Apes any one who held but the highest claim from the black shadows of my entrance "The egg from which I came was which prompt them, and I accept to you. I trust you because I know way I perceived a score of upon her affections. hidden beneath a great glass vessel your service no more willingly than I that you are not cursed with the terrihle mounted warriors, who. In passing, "Tears are a strange sight upon upon the highest and most inaccessible how to your authority your word trait of absolute and unswerving iropped a dozen words that fetched Barsoom," she continued, "and so it of the partially ruined towers of ancient shall be my law. I have twice wronged IDustrations by Irwin Myers truthfulness, that you could lie like my heart clean inro the top of my you in tny thoughts and again I ask is difficult for me to interpret them. Thark. Once each year my mother Suiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuin? one of your own Virginia gentlemen if head. your forgiven ess." I have seen but two people weep in visited it for the five long years it _a^ lie would save others from sorrow (Copyright, 1920. A. O. MoOlarg Co.) "He would likely have arranged to all my life, other than Dejah Thoris lay there in the process of incubation. Further conversation of a personal or suffering. My father's name is Tars meet rhem just without the city, and one wept from sorrow, the other from She dared not come oftener, for In nature was prevented by the entrance Tarkas." baffled rage. The first was my mother, the mighty guilt of her conscience she of Sola, who was much agitated and I leard no more, they had SYNOPSIS. feared that her every move was wholly unlike her usual calm and possessed passed on but it was enough. Our years ago, before they killed her: CHAPTER IX. self. plan had been discovered, and the the other was Sarkoja. when they watched. During this period my father FOREWORD.—The author tells of his acquaintance with the hero of one of the ••.•bailees for escape from now on to the dragged her from me today." gained great distinction a? a "That horrible Sarkoja has been before most remarkable adventures ever record- We Plan Escape. fearful end would be small indeed. warrior and had taken the met*l from Tal Hajus," she cried, "and from "Your mother," I exclaimed, "but. From a manuscript left by his friend The remainder of our journey to A:y «,i!P hope now was to.return undee. •he has vividly set out the strange happennlngs several chieftains. His advance av what I hear upon the plaza there is Sola, you could not have known your which brought together a brave Thark was uneventfuL-Not teff to the quarters of Dejah Thoris rapid, and he soon stood nig!' in Hi little hope for either of you." mother, child." Virginia gentleman and a Princess of once did I have speech with Dejah and learn what fate had overtaken her. Mars. councils of Thark. But one da.\ "What do they say?" Inquired Dejah "But I did. And my father also," Thoris, as she sent no word^to me r»ut how to do it with these great ordered awav a ions: c:* Thoris. UDOU she added. "If .vou would like to bear CHAPTER 1.—In the Arizona hills, John monstrous thoats upon my hands, no\ tlie Ice-clad south, ro make war upthe "That you will be thrown to the wild Carter, mining prospector and ex-Confederate the strange and un-Barsoomian story that I would be welcome at her chariot, soldier, fleeing from a war party calots (dogs) in the great arena as 'hat the city probably was aroused by natives there and despoil them come ro the chariot tonight. John Car'er. and my foolish pride kept me from of Apaches, takes refuge in a cave the the knowledge of my escape, was ar their furs. soon as the hordes have assembled for atmosphere of which has a remarkable making any advances. and I will tell you that of which I effect on him. Yielding to its influence, the yearly games." problem of no mean proportions. "He was gone for four years, and haye never spoken in all uiy life before." Just thirty days after my advent he sinks into unconsciousness, his last Suddenly an idea occurred to me and, A'hen he returned all had been over "Sola," I said, "you are a Thark, thoughts centered on the glow from the upon Barsoom we entered the ancient planet Mars. •acting on my knowledge of the construction !or three for about a year after his but you hate and loathe the customs of city of Thark, from whose long-forgotten "I will come tonight, Sola," I prom of the buildings of these ancient your people as much as we do. Will Jeparture, and shortly before the time people this horde of green men CHAPTER II.—Awaking, Carter realises Ised. "Be sure to tell Dejah Thoris I Martian cities with a hollow you not accompany us In one supreme ,'or the return of an expedition which that he has, in some incomprehensible have stolen even their name. The am alive and well. If she would speak manner, been transported to Mars. effort to escape?" court within the center of each aad gone forth to fetch the fruits of He Is surprised by a party of armed Martian hordes ef Thark number some thirty with me I but await her command." qua re. I groped my* way blindly I community incubator, the egg had "Yes," cried Dejah Thoris, "come warriors, who seek his life. He convinces thousand souls, and are divided into Sola mounted the chariot, which was their leader, Tars Tarkas, of his Ii-ough the dark chambers, calling the latched. Thereafter my mother conlinued with us, Sola, you will be better off twenty-five communities. Each community harmlessness and is conveyed, a prisoner, swinging into its place in line, and I -creat thoats after me. They had difficulty to keep me in the old tower, among the red men of Helium than to the Martian city. has its own jed and lesser hastened to my waiting thoat and galloped in negotiating some of the doorways, you are here, and I can promise you risiting me uightly and lavishing upon chieftains, but all are under the rule CHAPTER III.—A to my station beside Tars Tarkas creature holding hut as the buildings fronting thecity's not only a home with us, but the love ne the love the community life would much the position of a dog on earth is of Tal Hajus, Jeddak of Thark. Five at the rear of the column. principal exposures were all designed and affection your nature craves and •et to guard him. aave robbed us both of. communities make their headquarters We made a most imposing and aweinspiring upon a magnificent scale, they which must always be denied you by "She taught me rapidly the language CHAPTER IV.—Three days later a fleet at the city of Thark, and the balance spectacle as we strung out •ere able to wriggle through without the customs of your own race. Come of warships from the neighboring state of ind customs of ray kind, and one night are scattered among other deserted across the yellow landscape the two Helium, passing over the city, Is attacked sticking fast and thus we finally with us, Sola we might go without die told me the story I have told to you by Carter's captors, the green Martians. cities of ancient Mars throughout the hundred and fifty ornate and brightly nade the inner court where I found, you, but your fate would be terrible if tip to this point, impressing upon me The fleet is scattered and one of the airchips district claimed by Tal Hajus. captured. Among the prisoners -is colored chariots, preceded by an advance is I had expected, the usual carpet of they thought you had connived to aid :he necessity for absolute secrecy and We made .our entry Into the great a. young woman of a race different from guard of some two hundred •ooss-like vegetation which would us. I know that even that fear would ihe great caution I must exercise after the green Martians and more closely resembling central plaza early in the afternoon. mounted warriors and chieftains riding the wtfmen of the earth. prove their food and drink until 1 not tempt you to interfere in our escape, she had placed me with the other There were no enthusiastic friendly five abreast and one hundred yards '•ould return them to their own enclosure. but we want you with us, we roung Tharks to permit no one to guess CHAPTER V.—Carter ascertains that greetings for the returned expedition. apart, and followed by a like number want you to come to a land^of sunshine the fair prisoner's name is Dejah Thoris, that. I was further advanced in edufation Those who chanced to be in sight granddaughter of the Jeddak, or ruler, in the same formation, with a score or and happiness, amongst a people who Removing the saddle trappings, I hidthem than they and then drawing me cf Helium. He also ascertains that according spoke the names of warriors or women more of flankers on either side the know the meaning of love, of sympathy just within the rear doorway of close to her she whispered In my ear to custom she is doomed to die with whom 'they came in direct contact, by torture. In the council chamber he fifty extra mastodons, or heavy and of gratitude. Say that you the building through which we had the name of my father. In the formal greeting of their talks with her and assures her of his draught animals, known as zitidars. will. Sola tell me that you will." entered the court and. turning thebeasts sympathy. "And then a light flashed out upon kind, but when it was discovered that and the five or six hundred extra loose, quickly made my way "The great waterway which leads to the darkness of the tower chamber, they brought two captives a greater CHAPTER VI.—The prisoner is confined thoats of the warriors running loose Helium is but fifty miles to the across the court to the rear of the and there stood Sarkoja, her gleaming, to the guardianship of Carter's interest was aroused, and Dejah within the hollow square formed by south." murmured Sola, half to herself buildings upon the further side, and .friend. Sola, and the two prisoners plan baleful eyes fixed in a frenzy of loathing Thoris and I were the centers of inquiring to escape before Dejah Thoris is taken the surrounding warriors. The gleaming (hence to the avenue beyond. Wi "a swift thoat might make it in and contempt upon my mother. before the supreme ruler of the green groups. metal and jewels of the gorgeous only the slight chance of detection Martians. Tal Hajus. three hours and then to Helium it is That she had heard the entire story We were soon assigned to new quarters, ornaments of the men and women, duplicated which the necessary crossing of the five hundred miles, most of the way was apparent, and that she had suspected and the balance of the day was CHAPTER VII.—With a large force of In the trappings of the zitidars avenues entailed, I made my way in through thinly settled districts. They something wrong from my green Martians, Carter and Dejah Thoris devoted to settling ourselves to the set out for the capital. and thoats. and interspersed with would know and tlie.v would follow us. safety ro the courtyard in the rear of mother's long nightly absences from changed conditions. When I had put the flashing colors of magnificent silks Dejah Thoris' quarters. We might hide among the great trees lier quarters accounted for her presence my house in order, or rather seen that and furs and feathers, lent a barbaric for a time, but the chances are small Here, of course, I found the beasts CHAPTER VIII. there on that fateful night. It had been done, It was nearing sunset, splendor to the caravan which would indeed for escape." of the warriors who quartered in the "Sarkoja hastened to Tal Hajus to and I hastened out with the intention have turned an East Indian potentate "Is there no other way we might adjacent buildings, and the warriors report her discovery, and while she Sola Tells Me Her Story. of locating Sola and her charges, green with envy. themselves I might expect to meet reach Helium?" I asked. "Can you not was gone my mother, wrapping me in When consciousness returned, and, as I had determined upon having The enormous broad tires of the within if I entered but, fortunately draw me a rough map of ihe country the silks and furs of her night coverings, a? I soon learned, I was down but a speech with Dejah Thoris and trying for me, I had another and safer method chariots and the padded feet of the we must traverse, Dejah Thoris?" so that I was scarcely noticeable. moment, I sprang quickly to my feetsearching to impressf on her the necessity of our animals brought forth no sound from "Yes," she replied, and taking a of reaching the upper story where descended to the streets and ran wildly for my sword, and there I at least patching up a truce until I the moss-covered sea bottom and so Dejah Thoris should be found, and, great diamond from her hair she drew toward the outskirts of the city. In found it, buried to the hilt In the green could find some way of aiding her to we moved in utter silence, like some after first determining as nearly as the direction which led to the far breast of Zad, who lay stone dead escape. I searched in vain until the upon the marble floor the first map of huge phantasmagoria, except when the possible which of the buildings she occupied, south, out toward the man whose protection upon the ochre moss of the ancient upper rim of the great red sun was P.arsoomian territory I had ever seen. for I had never observed them stillness was broken by the guttural she might not claim, but on sea bottom. As 1 regained my full just disappearing behind the horizon It was crisscrossed in every direction growling of a goaded zitidar, or the before from the court side, I took advantage whose face she wished to look once «enses I found his weapon piercing and .then I spied the ugly head of Woola with long straight lines, sometimes squealing of fighting thoats. The green of my relatively great more before she died. 'my left breast* but only through the peering from a second-story window running parallel and sometimes converging Martians converse but little, and then strength and agility and sprang upward "As we neared the city's southern flesh and muscles which cover my on the opposite side of the very street toward some great circle. The usually in monosyllables, low and like until I grasped the sill of a second-story ^extremity a sound came to us from ribs, entering near the center of my where I was quarlered. iines. she said, were waterways the window which 1 thought tobe the faint rumbling of distant thunder. across the mossy flat, from the direction chest and coming out below the shoulder. Without waiting for a further Invitation circles, cities and one far to the in the rear of her apartment. Drawing We traversed a trackless waste of of the only pass through-the^hills As 1 lunged I had turned so that I bolted up the winding runway northwest of us she pointed out as myself inside the room I moved moss which, bending to the pressure of which led to the gates, the pass by Yiis sword merely passed beneath the which led to the second floor, and entering Helium. stealthily toward the front of thehuilding, broad tire or padded foot, rose up which caravans from either north or muscles, inflicting a painful but not a great chamber at the front of After studying the map carefully 1 and not until I had quite again behind us, leaving no sign that south or east or west would enter the dangerous wound. the building was greeted by the frenzied pointed out a waterway far to the reached the doorway of her room was we had passed. We might indeed have city. My mother from her hiding Removing the blade from my bod.v Woola. who threw his great carcass north of us which also seemed to lead I made aware by voices that It was occupied. been the wraiths of the departed dead place saw that the expedition was the 1 also regained my own, and turning upon m^. nearly hurling me to the to Helium. upon the dead sea of that dying planet returning caravan bearing the young floor the poor old fellow was so glad ray back upon his ugly carcass, I "Does not this pierce your grandfather's 1 did not rush headlong In, but listened for all the sound or sign we made in Tharks. Instantly her plan was moved, sick, sore, -and disgusted, toward to see me that I thought he would devour territory?" I asked. without to assure myself that It passing. It was the first march of a formed, and as a great chariot swung the chariots which bore my retinue me. his head split from ear to "Yes." she answered, "but it Is two was Dejah Thoris and that it was safe large bod.v of men and animals I had close to our hiding place she slipped and my belongings. A murmur ear, showing his three rows of tusks hundred niiles north of us." to venture within. It was well. Indeed, ever witnessed which raised no dust stealthily in upon the trailing tail of Martian applause greeted me, but in his hobgoblin smile. "They would never suspect that we and left no spoor for there is no dust that I took this precaution, for the board, crouching low in the shadow of Quieting him with a word of command I cared not for it. would try for that" distant waterway," upon Mars except in the cultivated districts conversation I heard was in the low the high side, straining me to her and a caress, I looked hurriedly 'Bleeding and weak I reached my I answered, "and that is why I think during the winter months, and gutturals of men. and the words which bosom in a frenzy of love. through the approaching gloom for a women, who, accustomed to such happenings, it is the best route for our escape." finally came to me proved a most timely even then the absence of high winds "She knew, what 1 did not, that sign of Dejah Thoris, and then, not dressed my wouuds, applying Soia agreed with me, and it was decided renders it almost unnotfcceable. warning. The speaker was a chiefrain never again after that night would she the wonderful healing and remedial seeing her,-I called her name. There that we should leave Thark this and he was giving orders to four We camped that night at the foot hold me to her breast, nor was It likely was an answering murmur from the agents which make only the most same night just as quickly, In fact, as of his warriors. of the hills we had been approaching we would ever look upon each other's far corner of the apartment, and with instantaneous of death blows fatal. I could find and saddle my thoats. Sola for two days and which marked the "And when he returns to this chamber," faces again. In the confusion of a couple of quick strides 1 was standing "As soon as they were through with was to ride one and Dejah Thoris and southern boundary of this particular he was saying, "as he surely will the plaza she mixed me with the other beside her where she crouched me I hastened to the chariot of Dejah I the other each of us carrying sufficient sea. Our an'mals had been two days when he finds she does not meet him children, whose guardians during the among the furs and silks upon an ancient Thoris, where I found my poor Sola food and drink to Inst us for without drink, nor had they had water at the city's edge, you four are to journey were now free to relinquish carved wooden seat. As I waited with her chest_swathed in bandages, two days, since the animals could not spring upon him and disarm him. for nearly two months, not since their responsibility. she rose to. her full height and but apparently little the worse for be urged too rapidly for so long a distance. shortly after leaving Thark but, as When you have him fast bound bear "1 never saw my mother after that looking me straight In the eye said: her encounter with Sarkoja, whose Tars Tarkas exp'ained to me, the.v require him to the vaults beneath the jeddak'» night. She was imprisoned by Tal dagger it seemed had struck the edge "What would Dotar Sojat, Thark, of I directed Sola to proceed with Dejah but little and can live almost Indefinitely quarters and chain him securely where Hajus, and every effort, Including the oif one of Sola's metal breast ornaments Dejah Thoris his captive?" upon the moss which covers Tiiorls along one of the less frequented h.? may he found when Tal Ha Ins most horrible and shameful torture, and, thus deflected, had inflicted "Dejah Thoris. I do not know how 1 Barsoom. and which, he told me. holds avenues to the southern boundary wishes him. There will be no dauber was brought to bear upon her to wring but a slight flesli wound. have angered you. It was furtherest In its tiny stem's sufficient moisture of the city, where I would overtake of rlie girl returning, for by this rime from her lips the name of my father As I approached I found Dejah Thoris from my desire to hurt or offend you, to meet the limited demands of the them with the thoats as quickly but she remained steadfast and loyal, she is safe in tiie arms of Tal Ha jus. lying prone upon her silks and furs. whom I had hoped to protect and comfort. animals. as possible then, leaving them to and may all her ancestors have pity dying at last amidst the laughter of Have none of me if it is your After partaking of my evening meal gather what food, silks and furs we upon her, for Tal Hajus will have Tal Hajus and his chieftains during will, hut that you must aid me in effecting of cheese-like food and vegetable milk were to need, I slipped quietly to the some awful torture she was undergoing. none the great Sarkoja lias done a your escape, if such a tiling be I sought out Sola, whom I found working rear of the first floor, arid entered the noble night's wniK. I go. and if you possible, is not my request, but my by the light of a torch upon some "1 learned afterward that she told courtyard, where our animals were. fail to capture him when he comes. I command. When you are safe once of Tars Tarkas' trappings. She looked I called softly to my two beasts. commend your carcasses to the cold them that she had killed me to save more at your father's court you may up at ray approach, her face lighting How I thanked, the kind providence me from alike fate at their hands, and bosom of Iss." do with me as you please, but from with pleasure and with welcome. which had given me the foresight ro that she had thrown my body to the now on until that day I am your mas (To be continued "T am glad you came," she said white apes. Sarkoja alone disbelieved win the love and confidence of these ter, and you must obey and aid me." "Dejah Thoris sleeps and I am lonely. wild dumb brutes, for presently from her. and I feel to this day that she suspects She looked at me long and earnestly Bird Protection Effective. I promised to tell you ray story, or my true origin, but does not dare the far side of the court I saw two and I thought that she was softening That the passage and enforcement rather the story of my parents. From huge bulks forcing their way toward expose me, at the present, at all toward me. of the law preventing spring shooting me through the surging mountains of what I have learned of you and the events, because she also guesses, I am "I understand your words, Dotar So and marketing of migratory game ways of your people I am sure that sure, the identity of my father. flesh. Opening the gates I ordered the jat," she replied, "hut you I do not UP birds is now producing excellent results the tale will not seem strange to you, two great beasts to pass out, and then "When he returned from his expedition Is pointed out l*y._officials of the but among green Martians "it has no slipping quietly after them I closed the and learned the story of ray mothers "You Are a Queer Mixture of Child biological survey. Without such restrictions parallel within the memory of the oldest portals behind me. fate 1 was present as Tal Hajus and Man, of Brute and Noble. I they say the game birds not living Thark, nor do our legends I did not saddle or_ .mount the animals fold him but never by the quiver of a Only Wish That I Might Read Your •only would be greatly reduced in numbers, hold many similar tales. there, but instead walked quietly muscle did he l.-etray the slightest emotion Heart." but in many instances would be in, the shadows of the buildings toward "My mother was rather small, In only he did not laugh as Tal Hajus brought near extinction. The biological derstand. You are a queer mixture of an unfrequented avenue which led toward fact too sinall to be allowed^ the responsibilities gleefully described her death survey, which is charged with the child and man. of' brute and noble. I of maternity, as our stniggles. From that moment on'he the point where I had arranged to only wish that 1 might read your enforcement of the federal law and chieftains breed principally for size. was the cruelest of the cruel, and I meet Dejah Thoris and Sola. With the regulations protecting migratory birds, heart." She. was also less cold aftd cruel than am awaiting the day when he shall noiselessness of disembodied spirits is receiving reports from all sections "Look down at your feet, Dejah most green Martian women, and caring win the goal of his ambition, and feel we moved stealthily along the deserted of the country showing that with the Thoris it lies there now where it has little for their society, she* often the carcass of Tal Hajus beneath bis streets, but not until we were within protection now enjojgd by the birds, Iain since that other night at Korad, roamed the deserted avenues of Thark foot, for I am sure that he but waits sight of the plain beyond- the city their numbers are increasing each and where It will ever lie beaiting alone, or went and sat among the wild the opportunity to wreak a terrible did I commence to" breathe freely. I year, and that they are returning iu alone for you until death stills It forever." flowers that deck the nearby hills, vengeance." was sure that Sola and Deja Thoris spring to numerous breeding grounds thinking thoughts and wishing wishes "And your father. Sola, la he with us would find no difficulty In reaching our -which they have deserted for several She took a little step toward me, her which I believe I alone among Tharktan rendezvous undetected, but with my -.now?" I asked. years. beautiful hands outstretched tn a women today may understand, for great thoats I was not so sure for myself, "Yes," she replied, "but he does not strange, groping gesture. am 1 not the child of my mother? as It was quite unusual for warr know me for what I am, nor does-be "What do you mean, John Carter?" riors to leave the city after dark in "And there among the hills she met know who betrayed mymotherto Tal Would Oust All Aged Actors. she whispered. "What are you skying a young warrior, whose duty It was to fact there-was no place for them to go Hajus, 1 alon^ know my father's tome?" guard the feeding zitidars and thoats within any but a long ride. Paris.—The younger members of the native, and only 1 and Tal- HaJ'ufc and wyeo-* company of the f'mnedie Francaise and see that they roamed not beyond 1 reached the, appointed meeting Sarkoja know that it was she w)id carried "I am saying what I had promised the hills. She trusted him and told of have demanded rompulsorvL ••eiirenimit. ilie tale that brotigliVdeatKatod place safely, but as Dejah Thoris add myself that I would not say to you. at Her Lithe Form Racked With 8oba. the awful repugnance she felt for the of actors at the i,re Tb»».v Sola were not there I led my animals torture upon her he loved!" least until you were no1 longer a capI cruelties of their kind, for the hideous, into the entrance hall of one of the complain »\en a We sat silent for a few moments. tive among the green p^n what from her lithe form racked with sobs. She loveless lives the.v imist ever lead, and large buildings. Presuming that one chance by th" 1 a he wrapped In the gloomy thoughts your attitude toward me for the past -X.