? ? ? ? But turn he did; and when his eyes met mine his wicked face lighted with a malignant smile as he leaped toward me, where I was hastening to scramble to the secure footing of the roof.
? ? ? ? Dejah Thoris must have seen me at the same instant, for she screamed a useless warning just as Thurid's foot, swinging in a mighty kick, landed full in my face.
? ? ? ? Like a felled ox, I reeled and tumbled backward over the tower's side.
? ? ? ? If there be a fate that is sometimes cruel to me, there surely is a kind and merciful Providence which watches over me.
? ? ? ? As I toppled from the tower into the horrid abyss below I counted myself already dead; and Thurid must have done likewise, for he evidently did not even trouble himself to look after me, but must have turned and mounted the waiting flier at once.
? ? ? ? Ten feet only I fell, and then a loop of my tough, leathern harness caught upon one of the cylindrical stone projections in the tower's surface--and held.
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