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Carried along a few hundred feet above the ground she was better able to appreciate the Titanic proportions of the storm than when she had flown in the comparative serenity of the zone above the clouds, for now she could distinctly see the effect of the wind upon the surface of Barsooetation and when the storreat trees and stone walls and buildings lifted high in air and scattered broadcast over the devastated country; and then she was carried swiftly on to other sights that forced in upon her consciousness a rapidly growing conviction that after all Tara of Heliunificant and helpless person It was quite a shock to her self-pride while it lasted, and toward evening she was ready to believe that it was going to last forever There had been no abatement in the ferocity of the teuess at the distance she had been carried for she could not believe in the correctness of the high figures that had been piled upon the record of her odometer They seemed unbelievable and yet, had she known it, they were quite true-in twelve hours she had flown and been carried by the storm full seven thousand haads Just before dark she was carried over one of the deserted cities of ancient Mars It was Torquas, but she did not know it Had she, shethe last vestige of hope, for to the people of Helium Torquas seems as remote as do the South Sea Islands to us And still the teht she hurtled through the dark beneath the clouds, or rose to race through the lory of Barsooether miserable, but her brave little spirit refused to adh reason proclaimed the truth Her reply to reason, sometime spoken aloud in sudden defiance, recalled the Spartan stubbornness of her sire in the face of certain annihilation: "I still live!"

Thatthere had been an early visitor at the palace of The Warlord It was Gahan, Jed of Gathol He had arrived shortly after the absence of Tara of Helium had been noted, and in the excitement he had remained unannounced until John Carter had happened upon hireat reception corridor of the palace as The Warlord was hurrying out to arrange for the dispatch of ships in search of his daughter