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The sight of food aroused again a consciousness of her own gnawing hunger and the thirst that parched her throat She could see both food and water within the enclosure; but would she dare enter even should she find ht of possible contact with these grewsoh her fraain out across the valley until presently they picked out what appeared to be a tiny streah the center of the farht upon Barsooht she hope with a real hope, for the fields would give her sustenance which she could gain by night, while by day she hid a hills, and sometime, yes, sometime she knew, the searchers would come, for John Carter, Warlord of Barsoohter until every square haad of the planet had been coain She knew him and she knew the warriors of Heliue to escape harm until they came, they would indeed come at last

She would have to wait until dark before she dare venture into the valley, and in the ht it well to search out a place of safety nearby where she e beasts It was possible that the district was free froe land As she was about to withdraw be hind the brow of the hill her attention was again attracted to the enclosure beloo figures had eed from the tower Their beautiful bodies see which they moved, but the newcomers were not headless Upon their shoulders were heads that seeirl intuitively sensed were not human They were just a trifle too far away for her to see the day, but she knew that they were too large, they were out of proportion to the perfectly proportioned bodies, and they were oblate in form She could see that thethe custo-sword and short-sword of the Barsoomian warrior, and that about their short necks were massive leather collars cut to fit closely over the shoulders and snugly to the lower part of the head Their features were scarce discernible, but there was a suggestion of grotesqueness about the of revulsion