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"And youlost Olvia Marthis?" de displeasure

"Oh, Tara of Heliu man "Was it not natural that I should assume that you would expect me, who alone has claimed you for the Dance of Barsoom for at least twelve times past?"

"And sit and play with my thumbs until you saw fit to come for me?" she questioned "Ah, no, Djor Kantos; Tara of Heliuard," and she threw hi dancers with Gahan, Jed of far Gathol

The Dance of Barsoo functions of Mars that The Grand March does to ours, though it is infinitely more intricate and more beautiful Before a Martian youth of either sex , he must have become proficient in at least three dances-The Dance of Barsoom, his national dance, and the dance of his city In these three dances the dancers furnish their own ures vary, having been handed down from time immemorial All Barsoomian dances are stately and beautiful, but The Dance of Barsoorotesque posturing, no vulgar or suggestive movehest ideals of a world that aspired to grace and beauty and chastity in wonity and loyalty in man

Today, John Carter, Warlord of Mars, with Dejah Thoris, his , and if there was another couple that vied with theuests it was the resplendent Jed of Gathol and his beautiful partner In the ever-changing figures of the dance the ain with an arm about the lithe body that the jeweled harness but inadequately covered, and the girl, though she had danced a thousand dances in the past, realized for the first tiainst her naked flesh It troubled her that she should notice it, and she looked up questioningly and alh it was his fault Their eyes met and she saw in his that which she had never seen in the eyes of Djor Kantos It was at the very end of the dance and they both stopped suddenly with the ht into each other's eyes It was Gahan of Gathol who spoke first