United States or Svalbard and Jan Mayen ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
He explained that our lives bad been spared because at the last moment Tu-al-sa had returned to Phutra, and seeing me in the arena had prevailed upon the queen to spare my life. "Who is Tu-al-sa?" I asked. "A Mahar whose last male ancestor was ages ago the last of the male rulers among the Mahars," he replied. "Why should she wish to have my life spared?"
He shrugged his shoulders and then repeated my question to the Mahar spokesman. When the latter had explained in the strange sign-language that passes for speech between the Mahars and their fighting men the Sagoth turned again to me: "For a long time you had Tu-al-sa in your power," he explained. "You might easily have killed her or abandoned her in a strange world but you did neither.
You did not harm her, and you brought her back with you to Pellucidar and set her free to return to Phutra. This is your reward." Now I understood. The Mahar who had been my involuntary companion upon my return to the outer world was Tu-al-sa. This was the first time that I had learned the lady's name.
Word Of The Day