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His intellectual power his concentration certainly the equal of this little leader of the Rhaals. Tarrano the Conqueror! Tarrano man of destiny risen from nothing and by the sheer genius of his will throwing three worlds into chaos, at one stage combining two worlds into his self-created Empire; and menacing the third. Surely Tarrano was a greater man than this Rhaalton.
Industriana, greatest commercial and manufacturing center of Venus, had been given over momentarily to the preparations for war. The Rhaals had at last turned from industry to the conquest of Tarrano. Preparations were almost completed; our armies were to start within a very few times of sleep. I had had no experience in warfare; but the history of our Earth had told me much of it.
I should have enlisted the Rhaals the men of science, Elza. But I had no time, and they are very aloof. I could have won them to me had I tried." He shrugged. "I must confess I was over-confident of my strength the strength of my position. The Rhaals stayed out of the affair stayed in their own city, which has always been their policy.
Well, let me tell you this it would come to nothing. The Rhaals are with them all the resources of the Central State are to be thrown against me. Yet it will come to nothing." Her heart leaped. Tarrano was making his last stand. Beyond the logical sense of his words, she could see it in his eyes. He knew he was making his last stand.
For the first time in generations the Rhaals the men of science from whom all the progress of civilization on Venus came departed from their attitude of aloofness. Their work always before industrial now turned to the sterner demands of war. The Rhaal City lay a brief flight from us. A grave sort of people, these Rhaals.
We had, in general, one thousand unmarried men, in five divisions of two hundred each. They were largely Rhaals, with the few Earth men previously sent us; fifty perhaps of the most loyal slaans; and a scattering of the other races of the Venus Central State. A few thirty perhaps of the Little People of Mars.
It was against Maida herself. Trickery of the downtrodden slaans against the ruling class. Against the old order of government. Even against the Rhaals, who in their distant city were all-powerful, but who obeyed the laws and took no part in anything. Revolution! From down the waterways of streets which converged into the broad lagoon before the palace, boats began arriving.
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