? ? ? ? I wondered why the black man took such pains to discourse thus at length to enemies upon the genesis of life Barsoomian. It seemed a strangely inopportune moment for a proud member of a proud race to unbend in casual conversation with a captor. Especially in view of the fact that the black still lay securely bound upon the deck.
? ? ? ? It was the faintest straying of his eye beyond me for the barest fraction of a second that explained his motive for thus dragging out my interest in his truly absorbing story.
? ? ? ? He lay a little forward of where I stood at the levers, and thus he faced the stern of the vessel as he addressed me. It was at the end of his description of the plant men that I caught his eye fixed momentarily upon something behind me.
? ? ? ? Nor could I be mistaken in the swift gleam of triumph that brightened those dark orbs for an instant.
? ? ? ? Some time before I had reduced our speed, for we had left the Valley Dor many miles astern, and I felt comparatively safe.
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