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Updated: May 2, 2025
For how could the proud daughter of The Warlord guess that a simple panthan aspired to her hand and heart? The dawn found them moving rapidly over an unfamiliar landscape. The wind had increased during the night and had borne them far from Bantoom. The country below them was rough and inhospitable.
"Come!" cried the assassin, "we have no time to lose," and started for the aperture through which they had entered the chamber; but in his stride he paused as his glance was arrested by the form of the mighty rykor lying prone upon the floor a king's rykor; the most beautiful, the most powerful, that the breeders of Bantoom could produce.
Ghek had never seen an ulsio, since these great Martian rats had long ago disappeared from Bantoom, their flesh and blood having been greatly relished by the kaldanes; but Ghek had inherited, almost unimpaired, every memory of every ancestor, and so he knew that ulsio inhabited these lairs and that ulsio was good to eat, and he knew what ulsio looked like and what his habits were, though he had never seen him nor any picture of him.
I am a princess of Helium; my great-grandfather is a jeddak; my grandfather a jed; and my father is Warlord of all Barsoom. You have no right to keep me and I demand that you liberate me at once." "None who enters Bantoom ever leaves," repeated the creature without expression. "I know nothing of the lesser creatures of Barsoom, of whom you speak. There is but one high race the race of Bantoomians.
I would that I had been born of thy race." Caught by a gentle current of air the flier was drifting slowly toward the northeast across the valley of Bantoom. Below them lay the cultivated fields, and one after another they passed over the strange towers of Moak and Nolach and the other kings of the swarms that inhabited this weird and terrible land.
"A woman, and a man with a strange head," replied Turan. "It is possible," said the officer; "but what were their names?" "The woman was Tara, Princess of Helium, and the man was Ghek, a kaldane, of Bantoom." "These were your friends?" asked the officer. "Yes," replied Turan. "It is what I would know," said the officer, and with a curt command to his men to follow him he turned and left the cell.
"Tell me what you know of this," and he nodded toward Tara of Helium. Ghek did as he was bid and then Luud addressed the girl. "What were you doing within the borders of Bantoom?" he asked. "I was blown hither in a great storm that injured my flier and carried me I knew not where. I came down into the valley at night for food and drink.
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