? ? ? ? As I entered the brilliantly lighted apartment, filled with the nobles of Kaol and the officers of the visiting jeddak, all eyes were turned upon me. Upon the great dais at the end of the chamber stood three thrones, upon which sat Kulan Tith and his two guests, Matai Shang, and the visiting jeddak.
? ? ? ? Up the broad center aisle we marched beneath deadly silence, and at the foot of the thrones we halted.
? ? ? ? "Prefer thy charge," said Kulan Tith, turning to one who stood among the nobles at his right; and then Thurid, the black dator of the First Born, stepped forward and faced me.
? ? ? ? "Most noble Jeddak," he said, addressing Kulan Tith, "from the first I suspected this stranger within thy palace. Your description of his fiendish prowess tallied with that of the arch-enemy of truth upon Barsoom.
? ? ? ? "But that there might be no mistake I despatched a priest of your own holy cult to make the test that should pierce his disguise and reveal the truth.
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