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Shea had just beaten leaned what questionable satisfaction Ihis attention to the nth time to that theory, propounded by certain scientists, which is based upon the assertion that phenomenal chess players are always found to be from the ranks of children under twelve, adults over seventy-two or the nored upon those rare occasions that I win Shea had gone to bed and I should have followed suit, for we are always in the saddle here before sunrise; but instead I sat there before the chess table in the library, idly blowing s

While thus profitably e-roo to speak with me on some matter of tomorroork; but when I raised my eyes to the doorway that connects the two rooiant, his otherwise naked body trapped with a jewel-encrusted harness fro at one side an ornate short-sword and at the other a pistol of strange pattern The black hair, the steel-gray eyes, brave and snized the to my feet I advanced with outstretched hand

"John Carter!" I cried "You?"

"None other,the other uponhere?" I asked "It has been long years since you revisited Earth, and never before in the trappings of Mars Lord! but it is good to see you-and not a day older in appearance than when you trotted me on your knee in my babyhood How do you explain it, John Carter, Warlord of Mars, or do you try to explain it?"

"Why attempt to explain the inexplicable?" he replied "As I have told you before, I am a very old man I do not kno old I a been always as you see me now and as you saw ed, though not asnumber of years, which may be accounted for by the fact that the saed at all I have discussed the question with a noted Martian scientist, a friend of mine; but his theories are still only theories However, I ae, and I love life and the vigor of youth