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"'Honor'!" she mimicked in tones of scorn "I please thee, do I? Then knoine, that thou pleaseth hter of John Carter is not for such as thou!"

A sudden, tense silence fell upon the assembled chiefs Slowly the blood receded fro him a sickly purple in his wrath His eyes narrowed to two thin slits, his lips were co moment there was no sound in the throne room of the palace at Manator Then the jeddak turned toward U-Dor

"Take her away," he said in a level voice that belied his appearance of rage "Take her away, and at the next games let the prisoners and the common warriors play at Jetan for her"

"And this?" asked U-Dor, pointing at Ghek

"To the pits until the next games," replied O-Tar

"So this is your vaunted justice!" cried Tara of Heliued you shall be sentenced without trial? And one of them is a woman The swine of Manator are as just as they are brave"

"Aith her!" shouted O-Tar, and at a sign frouards formed about the two prisoners and conducted them from the chamber

Outside the palace, Ghek and Tara of Heliu avenues toward the center of the city and finally into a low building, topped by lofty towers of massive construction Here she was turned over to a warrior ore the insignia of a dwar, or captain

"It is O-Tar's wish," explained U-Dor to this one, "that she be kept until the next games, when the prisoners and the coue of a thoat she had been a worthy stake for our noblest steel," and U-Dor sighed "Perhaps even yet I may win a pardon for her It were too bad to see such beauty fall to the lot of some common felloould have honored her irl "I do not recall that I was sentenced to listen to the insults of every low-born boor who chanced to adue that she has Even so and worse spoke she to O-Tar the jeddak"

"I see," replied A-Kor, who a smile "Come, then, with me, woman," he said, "and we shall find a safe place within The Towers of Jetan-but stay! what ails thee?"