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"What foolishness is this?" cried the girl "I am a princess of Helium, as I have told you all a score of times Even if the fabled Corphals existed, as none but the norant now believes, the lore of the ancients tells us that they entered only into the bodies of wicked criminals of the lowest class Man of Manator, thou art a fool, and thy jeddak and all his people," and she turned her royal back upon the padwar, and gazed through theacross the Field of Jetan and the roofs of Manator through the low hills and the rolling country and freedom

"And you know so much of Corphals, then," he cried, "you know that while no common man dare harm them they irl did not reply, nor would she speak again, for all his threats and rage, for she kne that none in all Manator dared harm her save O-Tar, the jeddak, and after a while the padwar left, taking hislooking out upon the city of Manator, and wondering what s Fate held in store for her She was standing thus in silent meditation when there rose to her the strains of martialwar tru notes of foot-soldiers' , and Lan-O, standing at an opposite , looking toward the west, motioned Tara to join her Now they could see across roofs and avenues to The Gate of Ene into the city

"The Great Jed is co trumpets, the city of Manator It is U-Thor, Jed of Manatos, second city of Manator They call hith and breadth of Manator, and because the people love him, O-Tar hates hiht provocation to inflauess; for the people of Manator worship the great O-Tar, though they do not love him U-Thor they love, but he is not the jeddak," and Tara understood, as only a Martian may, how much that simple statement encompassed

The loyalty of a Martian to his jeddak is almost an instinct, and second not even to the instinct of self-preservation at that Nor is this strange in a race whose religion includes ancestor worship, and where faes and a jeddak sits upon the saenitors have occupied for, perhaps, hundreds of thousands of years, and rules the descendants of the same people that his forebears ruled Wicked jeddaks have been dethroned, but seldom are they replaced by other than ives to the jeds the right to select whom they please