? ? ? ? But in the meantime what horrible things would go on within that chamber!
? ? ? ? "Xodar!" I cried. "Can no power stop this awful revolving thing? Is there none who holds the secret of these terrible bars?"
? ? ? ? "None, I fear, whom we could fetch in time, though I shall go and make the attempt. Wait for me here."
? ? ? ? After he had left I stood and talked with Dejah Thoris, and she stretched her dear hand through those cruel bars that I might hold it until the last moment.
? ? ? ? Thuvia and Phaidor came close also, but when Thuvia saw that we would be alone she withdrew to the further side of the chamber. Not so the daughter of Matai Shang.
? ? ? ? "John Carter," she said, "this be the last time that you shall see any of us.
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