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woman from Barsoom," she said; "but now she is gone, and I shall have you all to
myself."
"She is my mate, Ozara."
"You love her?" she demanded.
"Of course," I replied.
"That is all right," she said, "but she is gone, and you are mine now."
I had no time to waste on such matters then. It was apparent that the girl was
self-willed; that she had always had her own way, had everything that she
wished, and could not brook being crossed, no matter how foolish her whim
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be. At another time, if we lived, I might bring her to her senses; but now I
must bend every effort to escape.
"How can we reach this secret doorway?" I asked. "Do you know the way from
here?"
"Yes," she replied; "come with me."
We crossed the room and entered the corridor. It was very dark, but we groped
our way to the stairs that I had ascended from the pit earlier in the day. When
she started down these, I questioned her.
"Are you sure this is the right way?" I asked. "This leads to the cell in which
I was imprisoned."
"Perhaps it does," she said; "but it also leads to a distant part of the castle,
close to the river, where we shall find the doorway we are seeking."
I hoped that she knew what she was talking about as I followed her down the
stairway and through the Stygian darkness of the corridor below.
When I had come through it before, I had guided myself by pressing my right
hand
against the wall at my side. Now Ozara followed the opposite wall; and when we
had gone a short distance, turned into a corridor at our right that I had passed
without knowing of its existence, because I had been following the opposite
wall; and of course in the absolute darkness of the corridor, I had not been
able to see anything.
We followed this new corridor for a long distance, but finally ascended a
circular stairway to the next level above.
Here we came into a lighted corridor.
"If we can reach the other end of this without being discovered," whispered
Ozara, "we shall be safe. At the far end is a false door that leads into the
secret passageway ending at the door above the river."
We both listened intently. "I hear no one," she said.
"Nor I."
As we started down the long corridor, I saw that there were rooms opening from
it on either side; but as we approached each door I was relieved to find that it
was closed.
We had covered perhaps half the length of the corridor when a slight noise
behind us attracted my attention; and, turning, I saw two men step from one of
the rooms we had recently passed. They were turning away from us, toward the
opposite end of the corridor; and I was breathing a sigh of relief, when a third
man followed them from the room. This one, through some perversity of fate,
glanced in our direction; and immediately he voiced an exclamation of surprise
and warning.
"The Jeddara!" he cried, "and the black-haired one!"
Instantly the three turned and ran toward us. We were about halfway between
them
and the door leading to the secret passage that was our goal.
Flight, in the face of an enemy, is something that does not set well upon my
stomach; but now there was no alternative, since to stand and fight would have
been but to insure disaster; and so Ozara and I fled.
The three men pursuing us were shouting at the tops of their voices for the
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evident purpose of attracting others to their assistance.
Something prompted me to draw my long-sword as I ran; and it is fortunate that
I
did so; for just as we were approaching a doorway on our left, a warrior,
attracted by the noise in the corridor, stepped out. Ozara dodged past him just
as he drew his sword. I did not even slacken my speed but took him in my stride,
cleaving his skull as I raced past him.
Now we were at the door, and Ozara was searching for the secret mechanism that
would open it to us. The three men were approaching rapidly.
"Take your time, Ozara," I cautioned her, for I knew that in the haste of
nervousness her fingers might bungle the job and delay us.
"I am trembling so," she said; "they will reach us before I can open it."
"Don't worry about them," I told her. "I can hold them off until you open it."
Then the three were upon me. I recognized them as officers of the Jeddak's
guard, because their trappings were the same as those worn by Zamak; and I
surmised, and rightly, that they were good swordsmen.
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