- 2023-12-06December 1st. — We steered for the island of Lemuy. I
- 2023-12-06of the game forced it upon him. The move elicited a ripple
- 2023-12-06this work will show with what ardour and energy he devoted
- 2023-12-06the night that he would wed you. And now, how may we dispose
- 2023-12-06Three or four inches of water now flooded the cave of the
- 2023-12-06was to make these two man and wife, and directly behind
- 2023-12-06climbing, sunbathed street of Gibraltar looking out across
- 2023-12-06I bring you, O-Tar, Jeddak of Manator, U-Kal of Manataj,
- 2023-12-06and he pulled up short, for, instinctively, he knew that
- 2023-12-06and so his act was inexplicable to Gahan and to Tara. Presently
- 2023-12-06for letters from his father, Sir Theophilus Shepstone;
- 2023-12-06any jeddak call me a coward or a craven unless I refuse
- 2023-12-06December 1st. — We steered for the island of Lemuy. I
- 2023-12-06whom O-Tar thought too well beloved for men so near the
- 2023-12-06at a touch, thus removing any chance of making a comfortable
- 2023-12-06have offered you, and—its sole alternative. As though
- 2023-12-06of an ancient tertiary epoch) of which these islands are
- 2023-12-06a human document would be supreme. Also it would be beautiful
- 2023-12-06“No matter! Point him out to me,” answered the Spaniard
- 2023-12-06But he was one of those to whom knowledge comes as a bitter
- 2023-12-06which swirled fully three feet of water, which, slowly
- 2023-12-06Ten of these won through to U-Thor at The Gate of Enemies
- 2023-12-06Basil; Mr. E. F. Benson for an extract from a letter of
- 2023-12-06“We are both sure, Senorita. His name is Major Spalding.”
- 2023-12-06freedom from doubt and questioning. Baynes had urged her
- 2023-12-06Good! And you would serve the Princess Tara, Ghek, you
- 2023-12-06of no particular import, for what were two slaves and a
- 2023-12-06A-Kor and there are many now who say aloud that A-Kor would
- 2023-12-06reason to believe her dead, and that it was because of
- 2023-12-06they were all gone he turned back toward Tara, the smile
- 2023-12-06Your integrity has perceived and your lips voiced an unalterable
- 2023-12-06warriors. Where my jeddak leads I will follow, nor may
- 2023-12-06nearly pure Indian inhabitants. They were much surprised
- 2023-12-06to every fibre of his consciousness. She was still garbed
- 2023-12-06ringing to the parries of cut and thrust. The barbaric
- 2023-12-06another man who devotes his time to work of this character,
- 2023-12-06that she might honestly give him the answer that he demanded.
- 2023-12-06As the two conversed in the ill-lit chamber, the dim bulbs
- 2023-12-06Jeddak of Manator, the Princesses of each side shall be
- 2023-12-06a heart of steel, but lacked endurance. Of the opponents,
- 2023-12-06reason we have seen so many parrots lately; the cheucau
- 2023-12-06of O-Tar rush to repulse them the slaves from Gathol will
- 2023-12-06along the marble corridors filled with people. At the entrance
- 2023-12-06but in my mind I could not see so resplendent a creature
- 2023-12-06his face. A bank of yellow fog instantly enveloped him,
- 2023-12-06But do not ask for volunteers, interrupted I-Gos, or
- 2023-12-06upon the morale of Gahan's pieces. A Chief may, and often
- 2023-12-06guarded his heart against this beautiful Spanish girl who
- 2023-12-06moving westward. Then, one day, he announced that half
- 2023-12-06upon which they reposed. He blessed them and reached for
- 2023-12-06of O-Tar, rather than that she again fall into your hands.
- 2023-12-06with the pungency of myrrh. It was very silent, so that
- 2023-12-06she had come to believe, since otherwise he would have
- 2023-12-06sound that had attracted his attention in the spiral runway.
- 2023-12-06there, and then hearing the approach of their pursuers
- 2023-12-06it is to enter it. I may come and go at will, through the
- 2023-12-06his face. A bank of yellow fog instantly enveloped him,
- 2023-12-06Mr. Eddie, now recognizable by his accent, came toward
- 2023-12-06his privacy; it concealed secret exits from the chamber;
- 2023-12-06at twenty-four she was young for a French girl, although
- 2023-12-06fowls, sheep, goats, pigs, horses, and cattle; the order
- 2023-12-06notwithstanding a thousand explanations, what is more mysterious
- 2023-12-06our swords and fought with one another to escape. With
- 2023-12-06meaningly. And he possessed the knowledge I have gained
- 2023-12-06At certain seasons they catch also, in “corrales,”
- 2023-12-06eyes behind the chair that was offered her. Sit! commanded
- 2023-12-06there you will remain with your pieces until the second
- 2023-12-06lighting it, inhaled the smoke contentedly, looking about
- 2023-12-06golden dragon. Max pulled the keys from his pocket, and
- 2023-12-06on May 14, 1925. The present work covers the first fifty-six
- 2023-12-06fear was restraining his hand, but that there was something
- 2023-12-06custom he came alone to The Hall of Chiefs to receive the
- 2023-12-06one of our party was unable anywhere to purchase either
- 2023-12-06as Zahara admitted scornfully, but brown—brown. It was
- 2023-12-06With a little scornful laugh Zahara tossed the rose on
- 2023-12-06at the various levels as well as the ingenious and hidden
- 2023-12-06skin, how he had passed the night. He seemed perfectly
- 2023-12-06that interests you. U-Thor has recently taken to wife the
- 2023-12-06room, and opening a finely carved door walked along a corridor
- 2023-12-06brown of her Egyptian mother, but yet not white. At night
- 2023-12-06first time that he had been surprised there he apologized
- 2023-12-06gay pennons of the fighting chiefs of Manator. Thus was
- 2023-12-06easily and found U-Thor more than willing to respect your
- 2023-12-06not dead! He had looked upon the face of his predecessor
- 2023-12-06reason we have seen so many parrots lately; the cheucau
- 2023-12-06breasts, her eyes flashing from behind narrowed lids, nor
- 2023-12-06The silence of the tomb lay heavy about him as O-Tar, Jeddak
- 2023-12-06that mark these haunted chambers and the hangings moved
- 2023-12-06up the steps, depositing her there with her back to the
- 2023-12-06Stop! she commanded. You have no right to assume aught
- 2023-12-06I have all unwittingly done you? I can but throw myself
- 2023-12-06ere long returned again chattering volubly to himself.
- 2023-12-06in which they are here mentioned, expressing their respective
- 2023-12-06his first encounter with her. She was a she-banth, but
- 2023-12-06corridors of the deserted portions of the palace seeking
- 2023-12-06Instantly all was pandemonium. Warriors drew their swords
- 2023-12-06damp freshness in the air of the passage, and a sort of
- 2023-12-06And now he held out the possibility of a still further
- 2023-12-06followers, in low whispers, to close in behind them, and
- 2023-12-06of him when he had been locked in the room beneath the
- 2023-12-06the catacombs. Max glanced at the white face of Helen Cumberly,
- 2023-12-06Gahan's glance carried to Tasor an intimation of his Jed's
- 2023-12-06many years, for in such matters time is the only true judge.
- 2023-12-06only gratitude for his loyalty and then, in an instant,
- 2023-12-06she had come to believe, since otherwise he would have
- 2023-12-06Gahan seize a mount, nor would he have thought that pursuit
- 2023-12-06debating the additional fees to be paid if Zahara, the
- 2023-12-06below them were narrow slits through which the wearer could
- 2023-12-06then directed the ray of the little lamp toward the further
- 2023-12-06her! She knew it, suddenly, intuitively. Well, she would
- 2023-12-06spectacles, which he placed upon his nose. For a moment
- 2023-12-06out from Manataj for Manatos accompanied by a great caravan
- 2023-12-06The people here live chiefly on shell-fish and potatoes.
- 2023-12-06thus menaced, called aloud to Gahan to halt, at the same
- 2023-12-06the dark gray eyes looking up at her she read recognition
- 2023-12-06of ancestors! we are in the forbidden chamber. Simultaneously
- 2023-12-06lamp was incapable of penetrating the fog. He groped with
- 2023-12-06side entrance. The city has fallen! he cried aloud. The
- 2023-12-06“There is no one here,” said Zahara calmly, “except
- 2023-12-06the room. He saw a sleeping dais near the center, with
- 2023-12-06or that other infinitely more beautiful flower who wandered
- 2023-12-06of Onslow; Sir Bartle Frere for a letter from his father;
- 2023-12-06adjusting the line of her eyebrow with an artistically
- 2023-12-06who was only sixteen, knew more of this mystery than she
- 2023-12-06tables, and lifting Helen Cumberly, carried her half-way
- 2023-12-06chiefs and chiefs of warriors, and grant them palaces and
- 2023-12-06“I matter to no one. What I do, where I go, if I live
- 2023-12-06“It was rumoured that he had bolted with her,” added
- 2023-12-06she had come to believe, since otherwise he would have
- 2023-12-06The name was well known to Gahan, who had heard the man
- 2023-12-06listening. The sound of the party in the corridor came
- 2023-12-06of Chiefs. All eyes turned in the direction of the interruption
- 2023-12-06was the especial pride and joy of My Dear and Meriem. The
- 2023-12-06never be written. For were the writer mean enough to draw
- 2023-12-06his point upon the ground, while his opponent, his sword
- 2023-12-06“Pooh! It is Spanish, the rose. I dance the dances of
- 2023-12-06the moving ray. Inhaling sibilantly, Max leaped after her.
- 2023-12-06have decided upon a Busman's Holiday. Very well. Why grumble?”
- 2023-12-06compassionate smile would have meant hatred, and Zahara
- 2023-12-06Let A-Kor rule until the chiefs of all Manator may be
- 2023-12-06but he had not been as idle as he appeared to have been.
- 2023-12-06two men slain. There were great, historic games on record
- 2023-12-06discredited ruler. There can be but one jeddak in Manator,
- 2023-12-06thirty-four years, up to the time of his death, for reading
- 2023-12-06and ran like a hare, her yellow silk dress gleaming in
- 2023-12-06squares shall be contested to the death. Just are the laws
- 2023-12-06must lead them at once to the chamber of O-Mai the Cruel,
- 2023-12-06he had gained control of himself. He walked with chin high
- 2023-12-06she had come to believe, since otherwise he would have
- 2023-12-06Gathol leaped for his own man, dragged him from his mount
- 2023-12-06two took their places upon their respective squares. At
- 2023-12-06belief in the superiority of his own swordsmanship, since
- 2023-12-06golden dragon. Max pulled the keys from his pocket, and
- 2023-12-06there broke upon our horrified ears the moans and the shrieking
- 2023-12-06two who had entered the banquet hall. There was I-Gos,
- 2023-12-06with the fighting men of U-Thor, and those from Gathol
- 2023-12-06resting the electric lamp upon one of the little ebony
- 2023-12-06the stupid knaves I call The Jeddak's Guard. O-Tar had
- 2023-12-06slavery. A woman bought me—a princess of Manataj whose
- 2023-12-06he replied; and in yours I have read that which is neither
- 2023-12-06his boys had deserted, for a hunting party from the bungalow
- 2023-12-06Barsoom, occurs almost without the warning twilight of
- 2023-12-06held in great veneration among the peoples of Barsoom,
- 2023-12-06thinking that their fellows were pursued by many enemies;
- 2023-12-06composed. When we reached Lemuy we had much difficulty
- 2023-12-06Zahara, a beautiful, tragic figure, in her flaming cloak,
- 2023-12-06It is the second in order of the day's games; and now
- 2023-12-06to his affrighted ears the sound of muffled breathing.
- 2023-12-06mist seemed to float above the water. This mist had a familiar
- 2023-12-06for now no one could deny the tale that he should tell.
- 2023-12-06be a great feast in honor of the new Jeddara of Manator,
- 2023-12-06written by a hand adequate to the task, its interest as
- 2023-12-06big farm, evidently finding in the society of this rougher
- 2023-12-06after each forward step to listen and when he was almost
- 2023-12-06I heard hideous noises and saw phantom figures; but they
- 2023-12-06Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill for a letter from himself, and
- 2023-12-06mud-banks as the tide falls. They occasionally possess
- 2023-12-06have made your way to him; but now every avenue is strongly
- 2023-12-06At the very moment that she uttered the words she recognized
- 2023-12-06She dreaded the ordeal that lay before her and the dishonor