Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-06-10
CHAPTER vIII-continued.

us she injuredY l asked of Sofa,
Indicating Dejah Thoris by an inclina-
tion of my head.
"No," she answered, "she thinks
that you are dead. l do not under
stand either her ways or yours, but
am sure the granddaughter of ten
thousand jeddaks would never grieve
like this over the death of one she
considered beneath her. or indeed over
any one who held but the highest claim
upon her affections.
Tears are a strange sight upon
BarSOom," she continued, 'and so it
4 Is difficult for me to interpret them.
| have seen but two people weep in
all my life, other than Dejah Thoris;
one wept from sorrow, the other from
oatiied rage. The first was my moth
er, years ago, before they killed her;
the other was Sarkoja, when they
dragged her from me today"
Your mother" l exclaimed, "but,
Sofa, you could not have known your
mother, child"
But I did. And my father Also"
she added. IF you would like to near
the strange and un-Bavsoomian story
come to the chariot tonight, John Car
yer and will tell you that of which 7
nave never spoken in all my life be-
fore"
I will come tonight, Sola," I prom
ASpU. yn 70 4o1I NJ - l. 7
am alive and well. If she would speak
win ne ! bus await her command"
Sofa mounted the chariot, which was
swinging into its place in line, and l
hastened to my waiting thoat and gal
ioped TO my station beside Tars Tar
Aas at the rear of the column.
we made a most imposing and awe
inspiring spectacle as we strung out
across the yellow landscape: the two
hundred and fifty ornate and brightly
Solored chariots. preceded by an adj
vance guard of some two hundred
mounted warriors and chieftains rid
ing I'VE abreast and one hundred wards
apart and followed by a like number
IN the same formation. with a score or
more OF fankers on either side: the
ili1y extra mastodons, or heavy
0Faught animals, known as zitidars,
anu the five or six hundred extra
meats of the warriors running loose
within the hollow square formed by
.ne surrounding warriors. The gleam-
ing metal and jewels Of the gorgeous
ornaments of the men and women. du-
iaIeated in the trappings OF the ziti-
N'rs and thoats, and interspersed with
me flashing colors Of magnificent silks
ana furs and feathers, lent a barbaric
Splendor to the caravan which would
nave turned an East Indian potentate
green with envy.
The enormous broad tires Of the
VNariots and the padded feet of the
"n'hlals brought forth no sound from
vie inoss-eovered sea bottom; and so
moved in utter silence, like some
"use phantasmagoria, except when the
S-iihess was broken by the cultural
sowing Of goaded zitidar or the
,sueating Of fighting thoats. The green
'-D' ,ians converse but little, and then
Usually in monosyllables. low and like
we i'lnt rumbling os distant thunder.
we traversed a trackIess waste Of
,'-VsS which, bending TO the pressure OF
.Vaa tire or padded foot, rose up
-a.n behind us. leaving no sign that
aad passed. We might indeed have
-oeA The wraiths Of the departed dead
i.on Jne dead sea Of that dying planet
a'i the sound or sign We made in
Kissing. 1t was the first march OF
a'se body of men and animals I had
.gF witnessed which raised no dust
Iu 'ett no spoor; for there is no dust
I'm Mars except in the cultivated dis
-1s curing the winter months, and