Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-17

| Ghak and Dacor reached very ami
cable arrangement and II was at a coun-
| ell of the head men Of the various tribes
of the Sari that the eventual form of
government was tentatively agreed upon
Roughly, the various Kingdoms were to
remain virtually Independent. but there
was to be one great overload or emperor.
IL was decided that l should be the first
! of the dynasty of the emperors of Pei
lucidar.
We set about teaching the women how
to make bows and arrows and poison
| pouches. The young men hunted the
| Tpers which provided the virus. and II
was they who mined the iron ore and
I fashioned the swords under Perry's direc-
ton
Rapidly the fever spread from one tribe
to another until representatives from ma.
tions so far distant that the Sarians had
never even heard of them came in to
take the required oath of allegiance and
to learn the art of making the new weap.
ons and using them.
We sent our young men out as in.
structors to every nation OF the federation,
and the movement had reached colossal
proportions before the Mahars dis
covered 1t.
The first intimation they had was when
three of their great slave caravans we're
annihllated in rapid succession. They
could not comprehend that the lower or
ders mad suddenly developed n power
which rendered them really formidable.
In one OF the skrmishes with slave
caravans some of our Sarians took a
number of Sagoths prisoners, and among
them were two who had been members of
the guards within the building where we
had been confined at Phutra.
They told us that the Mahars were
frantic with rage when they discovered
what had taken place in the cellars of
the building The Sagoths knew that
something very terrible had bcfnllen their
masters, but the Mahars had been most
nature of their vital aflltction reached
beyond their own race. How long IL
would take for the race to become extinct
it was impossible even to guess but that
this must eventually happen seemed in
evitable.
The Mahars had offered fabulous re.
wards for the capture of any one of us
alive. and at the same time had threat
encd to innict the direst punishment upon
whoever should harm us. The Sagoths
could not understand these seemingly
paradoxical instructions, though their
purpose was quite evident to me. The
Mahars wanted the Great Secret and
they knew that we alone could deliver
1t to them.
of gunpowder and the fashioning of rifles
had not progressed as rapidly as we had
hoped. There was "A whole lot about these
two arts which Perry didn't know. We
were both assured that the solution of
these problems would advance the cause
of civilization within Pellucldar thousands
of years at a single stroke.
Then there were various other arts and
sciences which we wished to introduce, but
our combined knowledge of them did not
embrace the mechanical details which
alone could render them of commercial
or practical value.
David" said Perry, Immediately after
his latest failure to produce gunpowder
that would even burn. "one of us must
return to the outer world and bring back
the information we lack Here we have
all the labor and materials for reproduce
ing anything that ever has been produced
above. What we lack is knowledge. Let
US go back and get that knowledge in the
shape of books. Then this world will
indeed be at our feet"
CONTINUED TOMORROW.