Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-27
TIE COPS OF MARS
Sequel to "lnder the Moons Of Mars"
sequel to Under the Moons Of Mars

temples of the therns, they would mete Out
a frlshtful death TO YOU. Not even my
my"--again she flushed, and started oVei
agaip-"not even I could save you"
1 said no more. Evidently 1t was use
less. She was even more stepped In super
stltion than the Martlans Of the outer
word.
They only worshiped a beautiful hope
for A life OF love and peace and happiness IN
the hereafter. The therns worshiped the
hideous plant men and the apes, or at least
they reverenced them as the abodes OF the
departed spirits Of their own dead,
At this point the door Of our prison opened
to admit xodar.
He smiled pleasantly at me, and when
he smiled his expression was kindly-any-
thing but cruel or vlndictlve.
"SInce YOU cannot escape Under any cir
oiitnstances," he said, II cannot see the
necessity for keeping you confined below
I win cut your bonds and you may come
on deck. You will witness something very
interesting, and as you never shall return
10 the outer world II will do no harm to
hermit YOU to see II. YOU will see what no
other than the First Born and their slaves
know the existence of--the subterranean
entrance to the Holy Land, to the real
heaven of Barsoom.
ut will be an excellent lesson for this
daughter OF the thern," he added, for she
perchance, shall embrace her"
Phaidor's head went high.
''What blasphemy Is this, dog of pirateY
she cried ''Issus would wipe out your
entire breed. and you II you ever came
within sight of her temple"
''You have much to learn, thern," replied
Xodar, with an ugly smile NOR do envy
you the manner In which you will learn It,
AS we came on deck l saw to my SUR
prise that the vessel was passing over a
great field of snow and Ice As far as the
eye could reach in any direction naught else
was visible,
There could be but one solution to the
mystery We were above the south polar
ce-cap Only at the poles of Mars is there
Ice or snow upon the planet.
No sign Of life appeared below us. Evi'
IDENTIFY we were too far south even for the
great fur-bearing animals which the Mar
tians SO delight in hunting
xodar was at my side as 1 stood look
ing out over the ships rail-
what course?" asked him.
"a little west of SOUTH" he replied. "Yor
will see the Ot1 Valley directly. We shall
skirt It for few hundred miles.
'"The otz valleyl" / exclaimed But
man. is not there where lie the domains o.
the therns from which but just escaped?'
Yes" answered xodar. You crossed
this ice-field last night in the long chase
| that you led us. The Otz Valley lies in 9
mighty depression at the south pole 1t IL
| sunk thousands of feet below the level OF
the surrounding country. like a great rount
| bowl,
"a hundred miles from Its northern boun
| Diary rise the otE Mountains, which circle
| the inner valley of Dor, in the exact centre
| of which lies the Sea of Korus. On the
shore of this sea stands the golden temple
of Issus in the Land of the First Born. 1t it
| there that we are bound"
AS l looked l commenced to realize
why 1t was that In all the ages only one
| had escaped from the Valley Dor My
| only wonder was that even the one hac
| been successful. To cross this frozen
| wind.swept waste of bleak Ice alone and OF
i foot would be impossible.
I "Only by airboat could the journey b'
| made" l finished aloud.
ut was thus that one did escape tht
| therns in bygone times; but none has ever
| escaped the First Born" said xodar, will
| touch of pride in his voice
Once we passed far above what seemed