Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-30

the clutches of her unbeliever who DETAINED
her fair beauty No, Xodar; your lssus
| is mortal old woman. Once out of her
clutches, and she cannot harm you.
with your knowledge OF this strange
land. two such fighting men you and
should be able to win our way to free
dom Even though we died in the attempt,
would not our memories be fairer than as
though we remained in servie fear to be
butchered by cruel and unjust tyrant-
call her goddest or mortal, as YOU wll?'
As finished | raised xodnr to his feet
and released him. He did not renew the
attack upon me, nor did he speak In
stead, he walked toward the bench and
sinking down upon 1t. remained lost in
deep thought for hours
a long time afterward I heard n soft
sound at the doorway leading to one OF
the other apartments, and, looking up. be-
held the red Marian youth gazing intently
at us
"I<aor" I cried. after the red Martian
manner of greeting.
"Kaor," he replied. what do you here?"
Il await my death, presume" l replied
with wry smile.
He. too, smiled-a brave and winning
smile.
~, also" he said. milne will come soon.
l looked upon the radiant beauty OF Issus
nearly year since 1t has always been
n source of keen wonder to me that | did
not drop dead at the first sight of that
hdeous countenance.
by my first ancestor! but never was
there so grotesque a figure in all the uni.
verse. That they shorld call such a one
Goddess of Life Eternal Goddess of Death.
Mother of the Nearer Moon and so other
equally impossible titles is quite beyond
me-"
How came you here?" asked
1T Is very simple. | was flying a one.
man ar.scout far to the south when the
brilliant idea occurred to me that ! should
like to search for the lost Sea of Korus.
which tradition places near to the South
Pole ] must have inherited from my father
n wild lust for adventure, as well as a hol-
low where my bump of reverence should be.
81 had reached the area of eternal ice
when my port propeller Jammed, and |
dropped to the ground to make repairs.
Before knew 1t the air was black with
fiers. and hundred of these frst-born
devils were leaping to the ground all
about me.
with drawn swords they made for me.
out oerore l Went down beneath them they
had tasted OF the steel OF my FATHERS
SWORD: ana l nau given such an account OF
myseLl as l know know would nave Pleased my
s''e ,ex, nau ne nNeu " watn.ss na,, ~,
i', i1t"et 10 ue"u asNeu'
he u'eu before tne snel, proke 10 let me me
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tIa u,os obout 10 reniy yben tho GUITAR
a., ~ 80, ,risoT opaDod and bur,,,
s,Word artorsd and orSnrad hin, r. b,s ou,n
onarters for the night Looking tho door
aStar him as he nassed through into ths
Sartbar cbambar
"It is Issus' wish that Won two he con.
yben he had returned TO our cell
",rbis cowardIv slave OF n slave Ia IN
serye Won we'll" he said 10 me Indicating
Xodar with n wave Of his hand. IF he
does NOT Won are TO heat him into sub
n,ission II is Tssus' wish that Won hean