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Burroughs, Edgar Rice

"The Warlord Of Mars"

Psychologists tell me that, as the subconscious does not reason, too close a scrutiny of my mental activities might prove anything but flattering; but be that as it may, I have often won success while the thinker would have been still at the endless task of comparing various judgments.


? ? ? ? And now celerity of action was the prime essential to the success of the thing that I had decided upon.


? ? ? ? Grasping my sword more firmly in my hand, I called to the red man at the opening to the runway to stand aside.


? ? ? ? "Way for the Prince of Helium!" I shouted; and before the astonished yellow man whose misfortune it was to be at the fighting end of the line at that particular moment could gather his wits together my sword had decapitated him, and I was rushing like a mad bull down upon those behind him.


? ? ? ? "Way for the Prince of Helium!" I shouted as I cut a path through the astonished guardsmen of Salensus Oll.


? ? ? ? Hewing to right and left, I beat my way down that warrior-choked spiral until, near the bottom, those below, thinking that an army was descending upon them, turned and fled.


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