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She must turn back! She must reach Helium before her eous life! She deterreater safety and likelihood of success lay above the clouds, and once again she rose through the chilling, wind-tossed vapor Her speed again was terrific, for the wind seeht gradually to check the swift flight of her craft, but though she finally succeeded in reversing her motor the wind but carried her on as it would Then it was that Tara of Helium lost her temper Had her world not always bowed in acquiescence to her every wish? What were these elements that they dared to thwart her? She would dehter of The Warlord was not to be denied! They would learn that Tara of Heliuht not be ruled even by the forces of nature!

And so she drove her ain and then with her firri lever far down to port with the intention of forcing the nose of her craft straight into the teeth of the wind, and the wind seized the frail thing and toppled it over upon its back, and twisted and turned it and hurled it over and over; the propellor raced for an instant in an air pocket and then the te the girl helpless upon an uneable atom that rose and fell, and rolled and tumbled-the sport of the elements she had defied Tara of Helium's first sensation was one of surprise-that she had failed to have her oay Then she commenced to feel concern-not for her own safety but for the anxiety of her parents and the dangers that the inevitable searchers htless selfishness that had jeopardized the peace and safety of others She realized her own grave danger, too; but she was still unterrified, as befitted the daughter of Dejah Thoris and John Carter She knew that her buoyancy tanks ht keep her afloat indefinitely, but she had neither food nor water, and she was being borne toward the least-known area of Barsoom Perhaps it would be better to land i of the searchers, rather than to allow herself to be carried still further fro the chances of early discovery; but when she dropped toward the ground she discovered that the violence of the wind rendered an atteain, rapidly