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That spot he holds and his warriors lie just beyond The Gate; but he has not sufficient force to enter the city and take the palace. An hour since and you might have made your way to him; but now every avenue is strongly guarded since O-Tar learned that A-Kor had escaped to U-Thor." "A-Kor has escaped and joined U-Thor!" exclaimed Gahan. "But little more than an hour since.
U-Dor, dispatch those who will search the palace, the pits, and the city, and return the fugitives to their cells. "And now for you, U-Thor of Manatos! Think you with impunity to threaten your jeddak to question his right to punish traitors and instigators of treason?
I have made of her a free woman, and I have married her and made her thus a princess of Manatos. Her son is my son, O-Tar, and though thou be my jeddak, I say to you that for any harm that befalls A-Kor you shall answer to U-Thor of Manatos." O-Tar looked long at U-Thor, but he made no reply. Then he turned again to Turan.
Val Dor and Floran live, I believe, for I am sure that I heard U-Thor address two warriors by these names." "Good!" exclaimed Gahan. "Go then, through the burrows of the ulsios, to The Gate of Enemies and carry to Floran the message that I shall write in his own language. Come, while I write the message."
But even should he refuse them, still were they bound together to go on toward freedom, if necessary cutting their way through the forces of U-Thor at The Gate of Enemies twenty men against a small army; but of such stuff are the warriors of Barsoom.
At the clash of steel, palace guards rushed to the scene from other parts of the great building until those who would have defended U-Thor were outnumbered two to one, and then the jed of Manatos slowly withdrew with his forces, and fighting his way through the corridors and chambers of the palace came at last to the avenue.
He then led a large party including A-Kor and U-Thor from the roof, where our ships landed them, down a spiral runway into the palace and guided them to the throne room. We took him back to Helium with us, where he still lives, with his single rykor which we found all but starved to death in the pits of Manator. But come! No more questions now."
U-Thor they love, but he is not the jeddak," and Tara understood, as only a Martian may, how much that simple statement encompassed. The loyalty of a Martian to his jeddak is almost an instinct, and second not even to the instinct of self-preservation at that.
"And he possessed the knowledge I have gained during my captivity he would say to you, 'Go, Tasor, to the pit where A-kor, son of Haja of Gathol, is confined and set him free and with him arouse the slaves from Gathol and march to The Gate of Enemies and offer your services to U-Thor of Manataj, who is wed to Haja of Gathol, and ask of him in return that he attack the palace of O-Tar and rescue Tara of Helium and when that thing is accomplished that he free the slaves of Gathol and furnish them with the arms and the means to return to their own country. That, Tasor of Gathol, is what Gahan your Jed would demand of you."
I may come and go at will, through the ancient burrows of the ulsios; but you are too large for that and your lungs need more air than may be found in some of the deeper runways." "But U-Thor!" exclaimed Gahan. "Have you heard aught of him or his intentions?" "I have heard much," replied Ghek. "He camps at The Gate of Enemies.
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