Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-22
CHAPTER Xxx

i I1Oh Two days | waited there for kantOs
l. Kan, but as he did not come I started
Off on foot in a northwesterly direction
toward a point where he had told me lay
the nearest waterway.
! My only food consisted of vegetable milk
| from the plants which give so bounteously
of this priceless fluid
Through two long weeks I wandered,
stumbling through the nights guided only
| by the stars, and hiding during the days
behind some protrudng rock or among
the occasional hills | traversed. Several
times 1 was attacked by wild beasts /:
strange. uncouth monstrosties that leaped
upon me in the dark, so that l had ever
to grasp my long sword in my hand that
l might be ready for them.
Usually my strange, newly. acquired
| telepathic power warned me in ample
time; but once l was down with vicious
fangs at my jugular and a hairy face
pressed close to mine, before 1 knew that
was even threatened.
What manner of thing was upon me
did not know, but that it was large and
heavy and many-legged could feel.
My hands were at its throat before the
fangs had a chance to bury themselves in
my neck, and slowly | forced the hairy
face from me and closed my fingers, vise-
like. upon its windpipe
Without sound we lay there. the beast
exerting every effort to reach me with
those awful fangs, and 1 stTaining to
maintain my grip and choke the life from
Ii as kept it from my throat
Slowly my arms gave to the unequal
struggle, and inch by inch the burning
eyes and cleaning tusks of my antagonist
erept toward me, until, as the hairy face
touched mine again, / realized that all
was over. And then living mass of
destruction sprang from the surrounding
darkness full upon the creature that held
me pinioned to the ground.
The two rolled growing upon the moss,
tearing and rending one another in
frightful manner; but it was soon over
and my preserver stood with lowered
head above the throat of the dead thing
which would have killed me.
The nearer moon. lighting up the Bar
soomian scene, showed me that my pre-
server was Woola but when he had come
or how he found me l was at loss to
know.
That was glad of his companionshIp.
1t is needless to say but my pleasure at
seeing him was tempered by anxiety as
TO the reason of his leaving Dejah Thoris
Only her death, felt sure. could account
for his absence from her, so faithful
knew him to be to my commands.
BY the light of the now brilliant moons
/ saw that he was but a shadow of his
former self, and as he turned from my
caress and commenced greedily to de-
YOUR the dead carcass at my feet /
realized that the poor fellow was more
than half starved.
1. myself, was in but little better plight,
but L could not bring myself to eat the
uncooked flesh, and 1 had no means of
making a fire. When Woola had finished
his meal 1 again took up my weary and
seemingly endless wandering In quest of
the elusive. waterway.
At daybreak of the 18th day of my
search l was oYerJoyed 10 see the high
trees that denoted the object of my search.
About noon l dragged myself wearily TO
the portals of a huge building, which
covered perhaps four square miles and
lowered 200 hundred feet in the air. II
showed no aperture in the mighty walls
other than the tiny door, at which | sank
exhausted, nor was there any sign OF life
about it.
l could find no bell or other method OF
making my presence known to the in
mates of the place, unless a small round
hole in the wall near the door was for
that purpose
1t was of about the bigness OF a Lead
pencil. ana thinking that It might be In
the nature OF a speaking tube / put my
mouth to It, and was about to call into il
when a voice issued from It asking me
~ hom / might be. where from and The
nature of my errand-
/ explained that l had escaped from
the WaFhoons and was dying OF starya-
ton and EXHAUSTION.
You wear the metal Of a green warrior
and are followed by calof. yet you are
Of The ngore of red man IN color YOU
are neither green nor red n the name Of
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