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Updated: May 5, 2025
She's been dead over a thousand years now, but she was never kissed again like that while she lived, I'll swear, not since she's been dead, either. And then there was that other " but Turan, seeing a thousand or more years of osculatory memoirs portending, interrupted. "Tell me, ancient one," he said, "not of thy loves but of thyself. Who are you? What do you here in the pits of O-Tar?"
But though he had started alone he had become aware that he was being followed, and he knew that it was because his people had no faith in either his courage or his veracity. He did not believe that he would find the slave Turan.
Into this he bore the girl and down a long, narrow corridor and winding runways that led to lower levels until they came to the pits of the palace of O-Tar. Here was a labyrinth of passages and chambers presenting a thousand hiding-places. As Turan bore Tara up the steps toward the throne a score of warriors rose as though to rush forward to intercept them.
But from the East we came, and from that central plain of Asia, now commonly called Iran. Iran, the habitation of the tillers and earers of the earth, as opposed to Turan, the abode of restless horse-riding nomads; of Turks, in short, for in their name the root survives, and still distinguishes the great Turanian or Mongolian family, from the Aryan, Iranian, or Indo-European race.
"You are a prisoner in The Towers of Jetan in the city of Manator," she explained. "You were brought to this chamber, weak and fainting, by A-Kor, Dwar of The Towers of Jetan, who sent me to you with food and drink, for kind is the heart of A-Kor." "I remember, now," said Tara, slowly. "I remember; but where is Turan, my warrior? Did they speak of him?"
The piece has the same moves and power that the Flier has in the game as played outside Manator. Remember this then and remember, too, that if you have a secret it be safe in the keeping of Val Dor of Helium." Turan made no reply but turned to the task of selecting the remainder of his pieces.
They sat leaning upon the rail of the balcony looking, apparently, directly at him; but if they saw him they gave no sign. Turan hesitated a moment in the face of almost certain discovery and then, assured that they must take him for one of their own people, he moved boldly into the avenue.
He would accept it from friends or he would take it from enemies. Just so long as it was there he would have it and there was shown the egotism of the fighting man, though Turan did not see it, nor Tara who came from a long line of fighting men; but Ghek might have smiled had he known how.
"For he is proud, and thou has yet to learn The temper of thy daughter Ferangís, Now bound to him in duty and affection; Their purpose is the same, to overthrow The kingdom of Túrán, and thy dominion; To merge the glory of this happy realm Into the Persian empire!"
Now while the hero was sleeping there passed by seven knights of Turan, and they beheld Rakush and coveted him. So they threw their cords at him to ensnare him. But Rakush, when he beheld their design, pawed the ground in anger, and fell upon them as he had fallen upon the lion.
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