Show TEO G d ol 01 EDGAR ri I 1 1 waft P copyright by frank A murm munsey co celzo tl guty 13 barina na tian ti cn 4 h for riel ne id they aliey d of 0 these ug bugs is is on an a mj id most fa fas J I 1 he god of aas nis vt readers reader to planet I 1 la net with en an earth k lv ro ho is M mysteriously ro As A mr burroughs Durrough a reveals the condition of that planet mars is ii vac d lamed for or there aero is u continuous wal faros going cing on there of a raol kind kiad wonderful air battle and wonderful war machine ate aro described and wonderful adventure are r related elated every PIS pago IS 11 I 1 full I 1 of color and inci incident derit an every pago mo has its it dua with a touch of genius alun to that of jules verne an air air of realty 4 i given biven to the marvelous mai maiv elou for here here indeed is 6 a marv marvious cou clocy and yet it might nil au have happened in mart mars foreword WELVE years yoiiro und rind passed since I 1 had bad laid the ho body of Cap tafil john carter of virginia away uvey from the sight or of niva mm in it that fit cringe mausoleum in tile old cyme tery at hoftell and ha d I 1 ponde reil on the odd instructions he ha had left we luo governing the of Us his mighty tomb thaid parts wherein lio fio directed that he bo bo be laid la in an 0 aoi casket and that the ponderous moult anik m which controlled the bolts bolta of vaults hugo huge door be accessible only from the inside twelve years luid lind passed since I 1 tind had read tho the remarkable manuscript of this remark remarkably ablo ronn mail this man who no childhood and who could not even offer n guess a ni 4 to ills his ago who wai always young and yet tet who bad so lie claimed dandle my grand grandfathers rathers farent t gra tid fat tier upon his knee this man iuan who had spent ten borim upon the claget mars who hl haid fought for tho green mon of oar bar boom find and fought against them who lad had fought for and against tho the red wen en ond and who antl won non tho the ever der beau ufus dejah thoras princess of helium for hta his wife lac ana for nearly ten tell years had bad been a prince of tho house or of bardos mora jedrak of Il helium ellum twelve years lears had passed since his body had been found upon the bo bluff blute before his cottage oi overlooking orlo oldrig tho the hudson during the long loing lenn I 1 had bad wondered it john carter were really dead or if lie he again roamed the daml hea aea bottoms of that dying planet nad mid he bo returned to barsoom nat dooni to find i ebat sit end opened tho the frown frowning trig of f the tha mighty atmosphere la fit chril to savo save the countless who were dying of asphyxiation on oil that nr fur gone day that had bud seen him blui butt lied ruthlessly through inflow or of beaco barb back to earth once 1 I 1 had bill wondered it if ho he had found hb WC mia hatred princen and tho the slender oft ho he had dreamed wan with her in th royal gardena of um mem hj his return 0 OT hild ho be found that ho he hall hal bem been too t lita late anal al thus gono gone bacle to living oath upon it dealt dead world or was he bo tily dead after nal never to return to his hl mother earth carth or h ha s bo hars ar ahn ild wa Is I 1 lost loit in uselin mon one on august brening when tk bert iny body servant handed banded me ma n P rm tearing it open oien I 1 read U UN nr ter hotel JOHN canti sn barty 1 1 V the tai next morning 1 I took rook tho the amt reta a fw richmond rind and within two wair wa helne being ushered into the win room occupied liy by john carter As I 1 entered ho 14 roge io to greet erect me his bis old tildo brielle of f welcome lighting ltd vait face fac apparently be ba had bad vot dot aina it a minute but was wa still the aurty clean limbed fighting man of I 1 me hui leaa irray irmy wr undimmed kad and the tb only upon libi itis faco face were wera the flie line i of character and de I 1 illon that always bad been there vince grut first I 1 him nearly thirty ave years bearg before well vell nephew hi bo greeted ruo mo do do 70 yoo U feel 1091 ns as though 70 you wore ledng a 9 harfe ghost or stif foring front from tho the perfects nt n ton anny of uncle bens bena juleps ju lepi juleps I 1 reckon I 1 replied for I 1 certainly feel fed mighty rood good but nitty ho its just file sight of you again that me you have been back to mills mars tell me anil and alah thoria ls you found tier her well aled you yes I 1 have halo been bocci to Ilar barsoom soom again and alad lint but its a long story too long to tell tit in tho the limited time I 1 have before I 1 must murt return I 1 have hae learned the secret nephew bow slid and I 1 may travene the trackless vold void nt at my will conling and going between tile the countless plain ts no na I 1 L h hut nir my heart 1 li in gilld bixl ixl I 1 doubt that I 1 shall over ever benin again lc ic lie dying world that holds holdi imy my debrea ne morles 1 I have como come now because my affection tor for you prompted mo me to ti see bee you once moro more before you pass over forever into that other ito that I 1 dball never know and which though I 1 have ilba thrice aria shall lie again tonight its 10 you know death I 1 nin am na its to thim ns ni tire lire you egeit the wise tind mysterious cherim of barsoom that ancient cult chieh for countless ages lion liaa been with will holding tho secret of life and death tit in their impregnable fast nesses upon tile the hither sloppy of the mountains of are na as ignorant na as we 1 I havo have proved it though I 1 nearly lost my life in fit tile tho doing of it hilt but you shall read it all in III the notes I 1 have been making during tho last three thice months that I 1 havo have been back upon earth ito iio patted i swelling portfolio that lay on oil tho the table tit nt ills elbow 1 I know that you are anro interested and that you believe and I 1 know alint tho the world too la is interested though they will not believe for many oara yea Cs for many ages agea since altice tiny they cannot un dora dors taniL earth men have not yet progressed progress oil to a gwint where when they can call comprehend tile things that I 1 have written tit in these notes live them what you wish of it what you think will not barm barin I 1 them lien but do not feel aggrieved if they laugh at you I 1 that night I 1 walked down to the cemetery with him at the door of IN aw A I 1 14 IT V tl I 1 V C t goodby nephew ho h said 1 I may never see ice you again his vault ho he turned and pressed ray my hand and goodby Good bv nephew lic ho said 1 I may never wo see yoi ug i t n iio ho entered montere 1 the vault tho the grout groat door swung slowly to 10 tho the ponderous liotti grated into place the lock clicked I 1 I 1 havo bare never scon been captain joint cartor carter of virginia since but heidi Is 13 tho the story stor Y of hn hh return to mara atari on that other occasion wt in I 1 have it from tho th great ann of which ho he left tor for mo me upon tho the table of 0 his room sri in the hotel tit nt richmond thoro there li much which I 1 have hare left out much which I 1 haro hare not dared to tell but you will find tho the story of his search for dejah thoras princess of fi ellum ono of the abo most moat remark remarkably ablo stories of adron turo in strange lands rind anions strange st ranio poopoo ever writ teri tills thin sto 17 ng ft told by Calt aln john carter or of if virginia rg i li as follows fol lofts CHAPTER CH AlTER 1 I the tha plant mon men T 3 I 1 saml upon the muff bluff before IN li my cottage on that clear old Y night lu fit tho the early part of mardi IW 1850 the noble hudson bowing like tho the silent specter of it a dead river beina me lue I 1 felt again the strange influence of the mighty KWI of war my iny beloved mors which for ten lunt lout sonio some years eara I 1 had implored with outstretched arms anns to carry mo me back to my lost love not since that other march night in 1800 1860 when I 1 had stood without that arizona cavo cato in which my still null nud ll felosa SS body in lay y wrapper wrapped I 1 in the elmila tudo of car earthly athly death had I 1 felt tho the I 1 irresistible attraction of tho the cod of my with arms outstretched toward the red eye e 0 of tho the great star I 1 stood praying for a return of that strange power which twice hod bad drawn mo me through the immensity of brace praying prating its 03 I 1 had bail prayed on a thousand nights bo be fore during the years eara that I 1 had waited and hoped suddenly a qualm of nausea swept oer r me my senses swam ray my knees gmo gave beneath mv me anil and I 1 pit pitched chiea headlong to tile ground upon tho he very ery verge of the ho dizzy bluff instantly my baill buill cleared and thero there SM swept ept back across tho the threshold of my memory the llad vivid picture of ohp hor bor bors of that ghostly arizona enve cave elgain ns an on oil that lint far gone night my muscha refused to respond to my will and agala again in as though even hero here upon tile the banks of the placid hudson I 1 could hear tho the awful moons moans rind rus aling of tile tho fearsome tiling thing which lial lurked and threatened tile me from the fork of the cave cae I 1 made the same mighty rind and super human effort to hrcak brink the bonds of ho he strange annes anaesthesia thesta which held me III anil I 1 again camo alio click no as ot of tile tho sudden parting of a taut wire rind I 1 stood rind free beside the staring staling lifeless thing that had so re cinal cenal pulsed with the warm lifeblood wt john carter with etli tw arcely a parting glance I 1 tinned my mi caf acs again toward mara lifted my hands toward ills hla lurid rays and a rd wili malted milted ted nor did I 1 have long to wait for S scarce had I 1 turned ere I 1 shot with tho the rapidity of thought sato into tho the al awful voul vold old before me them vii tho same bame instant of unthinkable cold and utter titter darkness that I 1 had bail experienced twenty years cars bo be fort and then I 1 opened my eyes in another world beneath tile the burning ray ras of a liot hot sun which w alch beat through a tiny day opening in the dome of the enli aty aorl fuirst t in which I 1 lay the iho scene that not my eyes cici was wag st BD unni artlan that my heart sprang to my tin throat oat as the sudden fear swept through me that I 1 had been aimlessly tossed upon some strange planet by a cruel rate fate I 1 lay upon a close cropped sward of red grass glass alko vegetation and about me stretched a grovo grove of strange and beau trees covered with huge huga and gor ageous blosso inq and filled with brilliant voiceless birds I 1 call them birds since they the were winged but mortal eye nev or cr rested on oil such unearthly shapes tin the vegetation was waa similar to that which covers the lawns of tho the red mar afar fians of great waterways but the trees and blida were unlike anything ani thing that I 1 had over seen icen upon mars and then through the farther trees I 1 could see that most un maitlan of all sights nights mi all open sea its ita blue waters shimmering beneath tho the brazen sun As I 1 roso rose to investigate further I 1 ex ea perien ced the iho same ridiculous catas batas that had met my first attempt to walk under tinder martian conditions tho the lesser attraction of this smaller planet and the reduced air pressure of its greatly rarefied rare fled atmosphere afforded so little resistance to roy my earthly mus inus cles that tile the ordinary exertion of the more mero net of rising sent me several feet into the air and precipitated we mo upon in my face in ill tho the soft and brill brilliant lint grass of this strange world this experience however gave me bome slightly increased assurance that after a all 11 1 I might indeed be in some to me unknown n corner comer of and this was ft us very eo possible blo ance during my toil ten jearm reside residency resl denro upon the planet I 1 had bad explored lut but it a comparatively tiny area of its 13 vast last expanse I 1 rose ngali again laughing at my i forget falness ful ness rind and soon had mastered onto once more the tie art ait of m my cart lily to these changed conditions As I 1 walked slowly down the imperceptible cep tible slope toward the sen sea I 1 could not help but note the appear or of tilt lip sivard and treed the grass was ns as close cropped ond and carpet like ilke ns as some old 1 english lawn nud and tile trees thein selves showed evidence ot of careful printing to a uniform height of about fifteen feet so that as one turned his glance in any direction the forest had tile appearance at a little littie distance of a vast high celled chamber all these evidences of careful anil and systematic cultivation convinced me that I 1 had bad been fortunate enough to mako make my iny entry into mars mara on this second secona occasion through the domal domain n of it a civilized people und and that when I 1 should find them I 1 would bo be accorded the courle courtesy sr and protection that my rank as a prince of the house of bardos mors entitled me to tile tho trees of the forest attracted my deep admiration as aa I 1 proceeded toward the sea their great trunks sonic some of them fully a n hundred feet in diameter attested their prodigious height which I 1 could only guess tit at since at no point could I 1 penetrate pene their dense foliage above me to more than sixty or eighty feet As aa I 1 neared the confines of the forest I 1 behold beheld before me ino and between the grovo grove and aind tho the open sea a broad expanse of meadow land and as I 1 was about to emerge from tile the shadow of the trees it a sight met rny my eyes that banished ull till romantic unit poetic reflection it was the ho sight of a score of figures movin moving 1 slowly about tho the meadow near the bank of a mighty river odd grotesque grota ique shapes they were unlike anything that I 1 had ever seen upon tipon mars and yot yet nt at it distance roost most ma manlike in appearance tohei specimen meno appeared to bo be abo about lutten ten or twelve feet in fit height when they stood erect and to be proportioned ni as to torso and lower extremities precisely as aa Is en carlily ear athly lily diun lull TO UK BE M |