MmiiirniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiimiiiiiiiiiig eyes^en) in Implacable hatred upon ending of the first stage of our Journey. neck Turned To~Sola, JayTng with "quiet IVIWI Tal Hajus. It was Tars Tarkas, and, "~We rode all night and all the fallowing dignity: "Fly, Sola! Dejah Thoris remains Fivfe Minute Chats I could read his thoughts as If they day with only a few short rests. to die -with the man she loves." 1A Princess ofi were an open book, for the undisguised On the second night both we and our on Our Presidents Those words are engraved upon my loathing upon his face. He was animals were completely fagged, and heart. Ah, gladly would I give up my thinking of that other woman who. so we lay down upon the moss and life a thousand times could I only hear forty years ago, had stood before this slept for some five or six hours, taking them once more but I could not then By JAMES MORGAN beast, and could I have spoken a word up the journey once more before daylight. give even a second to the rapture of into his ear at that moment the reign All the following day ye rode, her sweet embrace, and pressing my of Tal Hajus would have been over and when, late In the afternoon, we Copyright. 1920, by James Morgan.) Hps to hers for the first time, I picked By Edftr Rice Bnrrougks but finally he also strode from the had sighted no distant trees, the mark her up bodily and/ tossed her to her GEORGE WASHINGTON room, not knowing that he left his own of the great waterways throughout all seat behind Sola again, commanding Author of S daughter at the mercy of the creature Barsoom. the terrible truth flashed the latter In peremptory tones to hold !732—(Feb. 22) Born near he most loathed. upon us—we were lost. her there by force, and tljen, slapping Fredericksburg, Va. I Tarzan of the Apes Tal Hajus arose, and I, half fearing, Evidently we had circled, but which the thoat upon the flank, I saw them 1753—First expedition to the half anticipating his intentions, hurried jjj way It was difficult to say, nor did It borne away Dejah Thoris struggling West. to the winding runway which led seem possible with the sun to guide to the last to free herself from Sola's 1754—Second expedition. to the floors below. No one was near us by day and the moons and stars by Illustrations by Irwin Myers grasp. 1755—On staff cf Gen. Braddock. to intercept me, and I reached the night. At any rate no waterway was Turnibg. I beheld, the green warriors Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinimic main floor of the chamber unobserved, In sight, and the entire party was almost mounting the ridge and looking (Copyright, 1820. •. O. McClnrg Go.) 1759—Married Martha Custia. taking my station In the shadow of ready to drop from hunger, thirst for their chieftain. In a' moment they the same column that Tars Tarkas had and fatigue. Far ahead of us and a saw him, and then me but scarcely a: but just deserted. As I reached the trifle to the right we could distinguish SYNOPSIS. had they discovered me than 1 commenced floor Tal Hajus was speaking! «WASHINGTON was made of the the outlines of low mountains. These firing, lying flat upon my belly "Princess of Helium, I might wring we decided to attempt to reach in the W same clay as most Americans FOREWORD.—The author tells of his in the moss. I kept up a continuous acquaintance with the hero of one of the who have won high leadership and, a mighty rpnsom from your people hope that from some ridge we might stream of fire until I saw ail of the most remarkable adventures ever recorded. would I but return you to them unharmed, discern the missing waterway. Night 'ike them, he cut his teeth on the .warriors who had been first to return From a manuscript left by his friend he has vividly set out the strange happennings crust of poverty. Only four or five but a thousand times rather fell upon us before we reached our from behind the ridge either dead or which brought together a brave would I watch that beautiful face goal and. almost fainting from weariless oi' our presidents came from poorer scurrying to cover. Virginia gentleman and a Princess of Mars. writhe in the agoQy of torture it shall and weakness, we lay down and homes than our first president and he My respite was shortlived however, be long drawn out, that I promise you slept. had less schooling than four-fifths of for soon the entire party, numbering CHAPTER 1.—In the Arizona hills, John ten days of pleasure were all too short iis successors. He was, in fact, the Carter, mining prospector and ex-Confederate I was awakened early In the morning some thousand men, came charging soldier, fleeing from a war party to show the love I harbor for your nly president in the first forty ye: by some huge body pressing close into view, racing madly toward me. I of Apaches, takes refuge in a cave the race. The terrors of your death shall who was without a college education to mine, and opening my eyes with a atmosphere of which has a remarkable fired until my rifle was empty and cffect on him. Yielding to its influence, haunt the slumbers of the red men start I beheld my blessed old Woola Not starting to school until eight, he they were almost upon me, and then he sinks into unconsciousness, his last through all the ages to come they will had to leave at fourteen to go to work. snuggling close to me the faithful thoughts centered on the glow from the a glance showing me that Dejah Thoris planet Mars. shudder in the shadows of the night brute had followed us across that 1 henceforth until the Revolution the and Sola had disappeared among the as their fathers tell them of the awful trackless waste to share our fate, I Never Before Had Seen Two Green woods and fields were his only schoolroom hills, I sprang up. throwing down my CHAPTER II.—Awaking, Carter realizes vengeance of the green men of the that he has, in some incomprehensible whatever It might be. Putting my arms Martian Warriors Battle. and life his only schoolmaster. useless gun, and started away In the manner, been transported to Mars. power and might and hate and cruelty about his neck, I pressed my cheek We never can truly understand this direction opposite to that taken by He Is surprised by a party of armed Martian weapons and the exhibition of animal of Tal Hajus. But before that torture warriors, who seek his life. He convinces close to his. nor am I ashamed that I man if we start with the mistaken idea Sola and her charge. ferocity which ensued was as tearful their leader, Tars Tarkas, of his you shall be mine for one short hour, did it, nor of the tears that came to hat he was the product of wealth and If ever Martians bad an exhibition harmlessness and is conveyed, a prisoner, a thing as the most disordered imagination and word of that too shall go forth to my eyes as I thought of his love for aristocracy. His people really were to the Martian city. of jumping, it was granted those astonished could picture. They tore at Tardos Mors, Jeddak of Helium, your me. Shortly after this Delah Thoris only a plain, though always highly respectable warriors on that day long CHAPTER III.—A creature holding each others' eyes and ears with their grandfather, that be may grovel upon and Sola awakened, and It was decided family, living on the outskirts much the position of a dog on earth Is years ago, but while it led them away bands and with their gleaming tusks eet to guard him. the ground in the agony of his sor,row. that we push on at once In an effort of the cavalier castle which set from Dejab Thoris it did not distract repeatedly slashed and gored until Tomorrow the torture will commence to gain the hills. up its manors in the James river their attention from endeavoring to CHAPTER IV.—Three days later a fleet both were cut fairly to ribbons from of tonight thou art Tal Hajus' come I" warships from the neighboring state of We had gone scarcely a mile when I region. George's own father, who at capture me. head to foot. Helium, passing over the city, is attacked He sprang down from the platform noticed that my thoat was commencing ty Carter's captors, the green Martians. They raced wildly after me until, Bar Comas had much the better of and grasped her roughly by the arm. The fleet is scattered and one of the airchips to stnmble and stagger In a finally, my foot struck a projecting captured. Among the prisoners is but scarcely had he touched her than the battle as he was stronger, quicker most pitiful manner, although we bad piece of quartz, and down I went & young woman of a race different from and more Intelligent. It soon seemed I leaped between them. My shortsword, the green Martians and more closely resembling not attempted to force them out of a sprawling upon the moss. As I looked the women of the earth. that the encounter was done saving sharp and gleaming, was in my walk since about noon of the preceding up they were upon me, and although I only the final death thrust, when Bar right hand I could have plunged It day. Suddenly hie lurched wildly CHAPTER V.—Carter ascertains that drew my longsword in an attempt to Comas slipped in breaking away from into bis putrid heart before he realized the fair prisoner's name is Dejah Thoris, to one side and pitched violently to sell my life as dearly as possible, it granddaughter of the Jeddak, or ruler, a clinch. It was the one little opening that I was upon him but as I raised the ground. Dejah Thoris and I were of Helium. He also ascertains that according was soon over. I reeled beneath their that Dak Kova needed, and hurling my arm to strike I thought of Tars to custom she is doomed to die thrown clear of him and fell upon the blows which fell upon me in perfect by torture. In the council chamber he himself at the body of his adversary he Tarkas, and, with all my rage, with all soft moss with scarcely a jar but the talks with her and assures her of his torrents iny head swam all was buried his single mighty tusk in Bar my hatred, I could not rob him of that •ympathy. poor beast was in a pitiable condition, fblack, and I went down beneath them Comas' groin and with a Inst powerful sweet moment for which he had lived not even being able to rise, although CHAPTER VI.—The prisoner is confined to oblivion. effort ripped the young jeddak wide end hoped all these long, weary years, to the guardianship of Carter's relieved of our weight. Sola told friend, Sola, and the two prisoners plan open the full length of his body, the and so, instead, I swung my good right that the coolness of the night. wlirx CHAPTER XI. to escape before Dejah Thoris is taken great tusk finally wedging in the fist full upon the point of his jaw. before the supreme ruler of the green fell, together with the rest. wfM bones of Bar Comas' jaw. Victor and Martians, Tal Hajus. Without a sound he slipped to the floor doubtless revive him, and so I Chained in Warhoon. vanquished rolled limp and lifeless as one dead. not to kill him, as was my first CHAPTER VII.—With a large force of It must have been several hours before upon the moss, a huge mass of torn In the same deathly silence I grasped green Martians, Carter and Dejah* Thoris tion, as I had thought It cruel u» .*: I regained consciousness. I was eet out for the capital. and bloody flesh. Dejah Thoris by the hand and, moiioning lyiti" Minong a pi!e of sleeping silks Rar Comas was stone dead, and only him alone there to die of hunger and CHAPTER VIII.—Sola confides to Carter to Sola to follow, we sped that she is in a way different from the most herculean efforts on the part thirst. We left the poor fellow to his noiselessly from the chamber and to the rest of the green Martian women, of Dak Kova's females saved him fate and pushed on with the one thoat having, unlike them, a knowledge of her the floor above. Unseen we reached a father and mother. The reason of Sarkoja's from tin fate he deserved. Three as best we could. Sola and I walked, and furs In the corner of a small room rear window and with the straps and enmity is also revealed. making Dejah Thoris ride, much In which were several green warriors, leather of my trappings 1 lowered first days later he walked without assistance CHAPTER IX.—Carter tells Dejah against her will. In this way we had and bending over me was an ancient Sola and then Dejah Thoris to the Thoris of his love for her, which she to the body of Bar Comas which, progressed to within about a mile of and ugly female. reciprocates, and with Sola they plan ground below. Dropping lightly after by custom, had not been moved from to escape. On the eve of their attempt the hills we were endeavoring to reach them I drew them rapidly around the As I opened my eyes she turned to the scheme is revealed to Tatl Hajus by where it fell, and placing his foot when' Dejah Thoris, from her point of one of the warriors, saying: the vindictive Sarkoja. court in the shadows of the buildings, upon the neck of his erstwhile ruler vantage upon the thoat, cried out that and thus we returned over the same "He will live, O Jed." be assumed the title of Jeddak of she saw a great party of mounted men course I had so recently followed from 'Tis well," replied the one so addressed, Washington's Earliest Portrait. Warhoon. CHAPTER X. filing down from a pass in the hills the distant boundary of the city. rising and approaching my The injuries to Dak Kova had delayed several miles away. Sola and I both one time had been a sailing captain couch, "he should render rare sport We finally came upon my thoats in the march so greatly that It was A Costly Recapture. looked in the direction she indicated, in the trade with the mother country, for the great games." the courtyard where I had left them, decided to give up tlie expedition, As the speaker ceased he turned to and there, plainly discernible, were left his wife and children at his And now as my eyes fell upon him, and placing the trappings upon them which was a raid upon a small Thark leave the apartment by the door where death five thousand acres of land, several hundred mounted warriors. we hastened through the building to I saw that he was no Thark, for his community in retaliation for the destruction 1 was standing, but I needed to wait They seemed to be headed in a southwesterly more or less unproductive twentytwo the avenue beyond. Mounting. Sola ornaments and metal were not of that of the incubator, until after no longer 1 had heard enough to fill direction, which would take slaves, a slender purse and a leaa horde. He was a huge fellow, terribly the great games, and the entire body my soul with dread, and stealing quietly them away from us. larder. scarred about the face and chest, and of warr.iors. ten thousand In number, away I returned to the courtyard by ipvw'M They doubtless were Thark warriors While at Mt. Vernon, which his oldest with one broken tusk and a missing turned back toward Warhoon. the way I had come. My plan of action who had been sent out to capture brother, Lawrence, had inherited, ear. Strapped on either breast were was-formed upon the Instant and, We reached the city of Warhoon us, and we breathed a great sigh he learned the simple rudiments of human skulls and depending from crossing the square and the bordering after some three days' march and I of relief that they were traveling in urveying, and Lord Fairfax, who lived these a number of dried human hands. was Immediately cast into a dungeon •venue upon the opposite side, I soon Ihe opposite direction. Quickly lifting nearby, employed him to survey a His reference to the great games of and heavily chained to the floor and stood within the courtyard of Tal Hajus. Dejah Thoris from the thoat, I commanded vast estate in the Valley of Virginia. which I had heard so much while walls. Food was brought me at intervals the animal to lie down and we In his young manhood Washington among the Tharks convinced me that I glanced up at the stories above, but owing to the utter darkness three did the same, presenting as small found his "inclinations strongly bent I had but jumped from purgatory into discovering that the third was apparently of the place I do not know whether I an object as possible for fear of attracting to arms." To softer arms than those gchenna. lay there days, or weeks, or months. unlighted, and so decided to the attention of the warriors of Mars the young militarist also was I was strapped securely to as wild No sound reached me from the world make my entrance to the building from toward us. inclined. and unmanageable a thoat as I had that point. It was the work of but a above and no word would my jailer As what proved to be the last warrior Prying posterity finds him at sixteen ever seen, and, with a mounted warrior moment for me to reach the windows vouchsafe..when my food was brought came into view from the pass, he pining for a mysterious "lowland on either side to prevent the beast above, and soon I had drawn myself to me, although I at first bombarded halted and, to our consternation, threw beauty," who would not have the penniless from bolting, we rode forth at a furious him with questions. within the sheltering shadows of the his small but powerful fieldglass to his surveyor. He received also by pace in pursuit of the column. unlighted floor. Finally all the hatred and maniacal eye and scanned the sea bottom in all his own confession a "cruel sentence" Just before dark we reached the main Fortunately the room I had selected loathing for these awful creatures who directions. As his glass swung toward from a "Miss Betsy," and afterward body of troops shortly after they had was untenanted, and creeping noiseless' had placed me In this horrible place us our hearts stopped in our breasts was rejected by Miss Phillipse of Ne\V made camp for the night, I was immediately- ly to the corridor beyond I discovered was centered by my tottering reason and I could feel the cold sweat start York. At last the oft-disappointed taken before the leader, who a light in the apartments ahead of me. upon this single emissary who represented from every pore in my body. wooer came to the White House on proved to be the jeddak of the hordes Reaching what appeared to be a doorway to me the entire horde of Warhoons. Presently it swung full upon us and of Warhoon. the Pamunkey, and once more he lost I discovered that it was but an —stopped. Then he lowered it and his heart. The mistress of the manor, Like the jed who had brought me, opening upon an Immense inner chamber I had noticed that he always advanced we could see him shout a command to Mrs. Martha Dandridge Custis, was he was frightfully scarred,. and also which towered from the first floor, with his dim torch to where he the warriors who had passed from our wise enough to keep it, being a widow decorated with the breastplate of human two stories below me, to the dome-like could place the food within my reach sight behind the ridge. He did not oi seven years, the mother of two skulls and dried dead hands roof of the building, high above my and as he stooped to place it upon the wait for them to join him, however fatherless children, the owner of large which seemed to mark all the greater head. The floor of this great circular floor his head was about on a level Instead he wheeled his thoat and came estates. warriors among the Warhoons, as well hall was thronged with chieftains, warriors with my breast. So, with the cunning tearing madly in our directloin. When flying embers from the war as to indicate their awful ferocity, and women, and at one end was a of a madman, I backed Into the far There was but one slight chance fields of Europe ignited the savage which greatly transcends even that of great raised platform upon which corner of my cell when next I heard and that we must take quickly. Raising forests of the New World, Washington the Tharks. squatted the most hideous beast I hail him approaching and gathering a little was a militia major, and he was my strange Martian rifle to my The jeddak, Bar Comas, who was. ever put my eyes upon. He had all slack of the great chain which held shoulder I sighted and touched the dispatched on a mission to the Ohio, comparatively young, was the object the cold, hard, cruel, terrible features me in my hand I waited his coming, button which controlled the trigger a perilous journey of ten weeks of the fierce and jealous hatred of his of the green warriors, but accentuated crouching like some beast of prey. As there was a sharp explosion as the through a wintry desolation. The lieutenant. Dak Kova, the jed who had and debased by the animal passions to he stooped to place my food upon the missile reached its goal, and the charging next year he went again with a band captured me, and I could not but note which he had given himself over for ground I swung the chain above my of soldiers, for now the Seven Years' & chieftain pitched backward from the almost studied efforts vliich the many years. There was not a mark of head and crashed the links with all In the Same Deathly Silence I Grasped war had spread to America. His cajrV^^ his flying mount. latter made to affront his superior. dignity or pride upon his bestial coun-. -my strength upon his skull. Without Dejah Thoris by the Hand. paign was hardly a glorious failure, Springing to my feet Iv urged the He entirely omitted the usual formal tenance, while his enormous bulk a sound he slipped to the floor, stone but he reported that he liked to hear thoat to rise, and directed Sola to take salutation as we entered the presence spread itself out upon the platform, upon one beast, and Dejah Thoris behind dead. rhe bullets whistle. Dejah Thoris with her upon him and of the jeddak, and as he pushed where he squatted like some huge Laughing and chattering like the me upon the other, we rode from make a mighty effort to reach the hills Now General Braddock came to me roughly before the ruler be exclaimed devil fish, his six limbs accentuating idiot I was fast becoming I fell upon the city of Thark through the hills to before the green warriors were upon scorn the colonial breed while he in a loud and menacing voice: the similarity in a horrible and startling the south. his prostrate form, my fingers feeling us. I knew that in the ravines and showed them how British regulars "1 have brought a strange creature manner. for his dead throat. Presently they No word was spoken until we had •inllfes they might find a temporary fought in proper, soldierly formation. wearing the metal of a Thark whom it came in contact with a small chain at But the sight that froze me with apprehension left the city far behind, but I could hiding place, and even though they The undrilled red children of the forest is my pleasure to have battle with a the end of which dangled a number of was that of Dejah Thoris hear the_qu!et sobbing of Dejah Thoris died of hunger and thirst it would be stubbornly refusing to fight on the wild thoat at the great games." keys. The touch of my fingers on these and Sola standing there before him, as shfTcluTTg to~~me with her"dear head heller so than that they fell Into the European plan, Braddock fell amid his "He will die as Bar Comas,_your keys brought back my reason with the and the fiendish leer of him as he let resting against my shoulder. hands of the Tharks. (forcing my two panic-stricken troops on the Mononga jeddak, sees fit, if at all," replied the suddenness of thought. No longer was ills great protruding eyes gloat upon "If we make it, my chieftain, the revolvers upon them as a slight means hela. At the head of his grave in the young ruler, with emphasis and I a jlbbering idiot, but a sane, reasoning the lines of her beautiful figure. She debt of Helium will be a mighty one of protection, and, as a last resort, as wilderness the prayers for the dead dignity. man with the tqeans of escape stood there erect before him, her head greater than she can ever pay you ai)"escape for themselves from the horrid "If at all?" roared Dak Kovai "By were read by Colonel Washington. within my very bands. high held, and even at the distance I and should we not make it," she continued, death which recapture would surely the dead hands at my throat but he Although Washington had won no As I was groping to remove the was from them I could read the scorn "the debt is no less, though mean, I lifted Dejah. Thoris In my shall die, Bar Comas. No maudlin battles, he had made a most important chain from about my victim's neck I and disgust upon her face as she let Helium will never know, for you have arms and placed her upon the thoat behind weakness on your part shall save him, conquest. When the Seven Tears' wai glanced up Into the darkness to see her haughty glance rest without sign saved the last of our line from worse Sola, who had already mounted O, would that Warhoon were ruled came he was still an Englishman, and six pairs of gleaming eyes fixed, unwinking, of fear upon him. than death.** at my command. by a real jeddak rather than by a water-hearted ro him an island three thousand mil oil, upon me. Slowly they approached Presently Tal Hajus made a sign I did not answer, but Instead "Good-by, my princess," I whispered,"we weakling from whom even away still was home. In his contact?^ and slowly I shrank back that the chamber be cleared, and that reached to my side and pressed the may meet In Helium yet I have old Dak Kova could tear the metal with British officers he was shocked from the awful horror of them. Back the prisoners be left alone with him. little fingers of her I loved, where they escaped from worse nights than this," with his bare hands!" to find them aliens to him and his New Into my corner I crouched holding my —Slowly the chieftains, the warriors clung to. me for support, and then. In tfhd I tried to smile as I lied. World Bar Comas eyed the defiant and insubordinate hands, palms out, before me, and and himself only a colonial in and the women melted away Into the unbroken silence, we sped over the yellow, "What," she cried, "are you not coming chieftain for 'an instant, stealthily on came the awful eyes until !heir eyes. With native condescension shadows of the surrounding chambers, moonlit moss each of-us occupied with us?" his expression one of haughty, fear- they reached the dead body at my they undertook to teach him his place, and Dejah Thoris and Sola stood with his own thoughts. rlf "How may I, Dejah. Thoris? Spme less contempt and hate, and then with- "feet. Then slowly they retreated but but with native independence he obcted. alone before the jeddak of the Tharks. cW earlier plans had been so sa&y one must hold these fellows off for a out drawing a weapon and without this time with a strange grating sound One chieftain alone bad hesitated upset that we now found ourselves while, and I can better escape them uttering a word he hurled himself at and finally they ^disappeared In some By the time the Seven Years' wai before departing I saw him standing without food or drink, and I alone Was alone than could the, three of ps together." the throat of his defaraer. black and distant recess of my dungeon. as over the colonial colonel no longei In the shadows of a mighty column, armed. Wetherefore urged our beasts I never before had seen two green :is an Englishman. That illusion was his fingers nervously toying with the to a speed that must tell on them sorely She sprang quickly from the thoat Martian warriors battle with nature's (To be continued} ne and had left Washington an hilt of his great sword and his cruel before wc could hope, to sight the and, throwing her dear arms about my •erican.