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Updated: June 6, 2025
The model was in the City of Ice; it must be captured. As a matter of fact, to us of the government, the Brende model was not indispensable. The greatest factor was that the threat of Tarrano's universal conquest must be forever removed. Like a rocket-bomb, this man of genius had risen from obscurity had all but conquered the three greatest worlds of the universe.
Irksome, worried days of semi-imprisonment; and through them, Tarrano's attitude toward her was unchanged. She saw little of him; he seemed very busy, though to what end, and what his activities, she could not learn. Within the palace, half as guard, half as maid-servant, Tara was generally Elza's only companion.
The mirrors were being tampered with, that none of these events should be shown. There were, scattered throughout the festival, fully a hundred men of Tarrano's guard. Some of them I knew by their uniforms; others were concealed by red masks and robes like myself. When first we entered the pavilion, some twenty or thirty of them had been there with us.
When Tarrano's forces threatened revolution from the Cold Country she had been seized by spies, brought to Earth, to Tarrano in Venia, and imprisoned in the tower from which Georg had so lately rescued her. Wolfgar for years had been her friend and loyal retainer, though he had pretended service to Tarrano. In the Central State, Maida, too young to rule, had been represented by a Council.
Tarrano's rule with all the excesses of the Hairless Men who proved themselves mere rapacious plunderers in the name of warfare was at an end on Mars. The effect on Earth of this Martian reversal was beneficial to us. A good omen. We on Venus, redoubled our efforts to attack successfully the City of Ice. Mars could send us no aid, though now in full sympathy with us.
A dozen, perhaps, of such incidents, which now, that I was alert to understand, were apparent. The mirrors might have shown some of them but the mirrors always went dark just in time. Tarrano's guards were disappearing. And now I saw a slaan skulking in the shadows of the shrubbery nearby.
"What have you to gain by playing for time?" I demanded. He stared. "You would question me, Jac Hallen? How absurd!" He looked at Elza, as though to share with her his amazement at my temerity. Wolfgar said suddenly to Tarrano: "You will gain nothing." Tarrano's face went impassive. I understood him better now; that cold, inscrutable look often concealed his strongest emotions.
The public loved her but a majority of it had gone astray when she disappeared lured by Tarrano's glowing promises. Maida told Georg all this with a sweet, gentle sadness that was pathetic. And with an earnest, patriotic fervor the love of her country and her people for whom she would give her life. She added: "If only I could get back there, Georg I could make them realize the right course.
The lake here narrowed to a river a length of winding river opening to the pond which was the burial place of Eternal Peace. On Tarrano's barge, with Elza and Georg, we led the way. Maida was not with us. I asked Tarrano where she was, but solemnly he denied me. At the burial waters on the sloping banks of which a silent throng had gathered we landed.
It was a light strong enough to penetrate the barrage the boat was disclosed to observers in the house. But Tarrano raised a small metal projector. A dull-red beam sprang from it and mingled with the other. A surge of sparks; then Tarrano's red beam conquered. It absorbed the white light. And Tarrano's beam was curved. It lay over the lake in a huge bow, bending far out to one side.
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