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greatness and the glory of ancient
Barsoom.
THUVIA, MAID OF MARS
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And again, during her flight from the temples of the Holy Therns with
Tars Tarkas, Jeddak of Thark [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], she had seen them, with their weird and
ghostly inmates, the great white apes of Barsoom.
She knew, too, that many of them were used now by the nomadic
tribes of green men [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but that among them all was no city that the red men
did not shun, for without exception they stood amidst vast, waterless tracts [link widoczny dla zalogowanych],
unsuited for the continued sustenance of the dominant race of Martians.
Why, then, should they be bringing her to such a place? There was but
a single answer. Such was the nature of their work that they must needs
seek the seclusion that a dead city afforded. The girl trembled at thought
of her plight.
For two days her captors kept her within a huge palace that even in
decay reflected the splendour of the age which its youth had known.
Just before dawn on the third day she had been aroused by the voices
of two of her abductors.
He should be here by dawn one was saying. Have her in
reayilai:
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
What's the matterlittle Rainbow
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