The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-27
A Princess of Mar" IUINIIlh by EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS IIIIIIIlIII
Copyright, A. C. McClurg & Company.

tian warriors swarmed upon her from the windows, and with their great spears eaSed the shock of the cOlli- sion. and in a few moments they had thrown out grappling hooks and the big boat was being hauled to ground by their fellows below.
 After making her fast, they swarmed the sides and searched the vessel from stem to stern. I could see them examining the dead sailors, evi- dently for signs of life, and presently a party of them appeared from below dragging a little figure among them. The creature was considerably less than half as tall as the green Martian warriors, and from my balcony could see that it walked erect upon two legs and surmised that it was some new and strange Martian monstrosity with which I had not as yet become ac- quainted.
 They removed their prisoner to the ground and then commenced sys- tematic rif1ing of the vessel. This 0p- eration required several hours, during which time number of the charlOts were requisitiOned to transport the loot, which consisted of arms, ammu- milton, silks, furs, jewels, strangely carved stone vessels, and quantity of solid foods and liquids, including many casks of water, the first I had seen since my advent upon Mars
 After the last load had been re- moved the warriors made lines fast to the craft and lowed her far out into the valley in a sOuthWesterly dlrec- tion. A few of them then boarded her and were busily engaged in what ap- peared, from my distant position, as the emptyfng of the contents of varl- ous carboys upon the dead bodies of the sailors and over the decks and works of the vessel.
 This operation concluded, they hastily clambered over her sides, slid ing down the guy ropes to the ground. The last warrior to leave the deck turned and threw something back upon the vessel, waiting an instant to note the outcome of his act. As a faint spurt of flame rose from the point where the missile struck he swung over the side and was quickly upon the ground. Scarcely had he alighted than the guy ropes were simultaneous ly released, and the great warship, frightened by the removal of the loot. scared majestically into the air, her decks and upper works a mass of roaring flames.
 The sight was awe-inspiring in the extreme as one contemplated this mighty floating funeral pyre, drifting tbrOnUh lonely wastes of the Martian heavens; a derelict of death and destruction, typifying the life story of these strange and ferocious creatures into whose unfriendly hands fate had car ried It.
 Much depressed, and, to me, unac- countably so, I slowly descended to the street. The scene I had witnessed seemed to mark the defeat and anni- hilation of the forces of a kindred peO- pie. rather than the routing by our green warriors of a horde of similar. though unfriendly, creatures. I could not fathom the seeming hallucinatiOn, nor could I free myself from it; but somewhere in the innermost recesses of my soul I felt a strange yearning 
 mighty hope surged through me that the fleet would return and demand a reckoning from the green warriors who had so ruthlessly and wantonly attacked it.
 LorQuas Ptomel was too astute an old warrior to be caught upon the open plains with a caravan of chariots and children, and so we remained at the deserted city until danger of a reprisal attack seemed passed.
 AS Sola and I entered the plaza a sight met my eye which filled my whole being with a great surge of mingled hope fear, exultation and de- presssion, and yet most dominant was subtle sense of relief and happiness for just as we neared the throng of Nartians I caught a glimpse of the