Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-22
THE COPS Of MARS
Sequel to Under the Moons of Mars"

some horrible form within this awful abode
OF horror and cruelty.
we have the right to escape it we can"
answered. Our own moral senses will
not De offended lf we succeed for we know
tnat the tabled life Of love and peace in the
blessed Valley of Dor is a rank and Wicked
deception.
We know that the valley is not sacred.
We know that tho holy therns are not
holy; that they are a race of cruel and
heartless mortals, no more cognlzant of the
real life to come than we.
Not only ia 1t our right to bend every
EFFORT to escape--it is a solemn duty from
which we should not shrink, even though
we knew that we should be reviled and
tortured by our own peoples when we re-
turned to them
only thus may we carry the truth to
those without, and though the likelihood
of our narrative being believed is remote,
we would be craven towards were we to
shrlt the plain duty which confronts us.
Again. there is n chance that with
the weight of the testimony of several of
us the truth of our statements may be
accepted, and at least compromise eff
fected which will result in the dlspatchng
Of an expedition of investigation to this
hldeous mockery of heaven"
Both the girl and the green warrior stood
silent in thought some moments The
former 1t was who eventually broke the
silence.
Never had I considered the matter in
that light before" she said. Indeed would
| give my life n thousand times if I could
but save a single soul from the awful life
that have led in this cruel place. Yea
you are right, and 1 will go with you as
far as we can go; but doubt that we ever
shall escape"
I turned an inquirlng glance toward the
Tharls.
or horus,' spoke the green warrior TO the
SHOWS to the north or to tho SHOWS to the
south, Tars Tarkas follows where John
Carter leads. l have spoken"
Let us CO." cried. I'VE must make tho
start, for we could not be further from
escape than we now are, in the heart of
this mountain and within the four walls
of this chamber of death"
Come, then" said the GIRL but do not
natter yourself that you can find no worse
place than this within the territory of the
therns"
So saying. she swung the secret panel
that separated us from the apartment in
which l had found her, and we stepped
through once more into the presence of the
other prisoners.
There were in all ten red Martians, men
and women, and when we had briefly ex-
planned our plan they decided to join forces
with us, though II was evident that II was
with some considerable misgivings that they
thus tempted fate by opposing an ancient
superstition even though each knew through
cruel experience the falacy of it's entire
fabric
Thuvia, the girl whom I had first freed,
Tarkas and / stripped the bodies of the
two thcrns of their weapons which in
cludcd swords, daggers and two revovers
OF the curious and deadly type manufac-
tured by the red Martians.
We distributed the weapons as far as
they would go among our followers, giving
the firearms to two of the women, Thuvia
being one so armed
With the latter as our guide we set off
rapidly but cautiously through a maze OF
passages crossing great chambers hewn
from the solid metal of the cliff, following
winding corridors, ascending steep inclines,
and now and again concealing ourselves in
dark recesses at the sound of approaching
footsteps.
our destination Thuvia said. was n
distant storeroom where arms and ammu-
milton in plenty might be found She was