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ESCAPE FROM THE PRISONS OF THARQ
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With a
wildly beating heart, Valiant continued to
run down the long dark tunnel. It was some time before he
realised that the footsteps of his pursuers were falling further
and further behind. After a while he was alone, somewhere deep under the
mountain city. This must have been the way the robbers came, he
thought bitterly, dragging their priceless treasure with them. |
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Suddenly / Then
ahead of him, he made out a circle of pale light. His heart
leaped: in the confusion of the attack he had managed to
escape from the prisons of Tharq, the evil War Lord of Borod!! In a
few seconds he was standing at the mouth of the tunnel looking
out / up at the Martian night. |
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Below him
lay / was a deep valley, surrounded by huge cliffs. The
surface of the valley was covered with enormous trees. Their
leaves were dark red and were thick with night flowers. In the black sky
above him, the two moons of Mars shone with a strange brightness.
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But somewhere out there were the thieves of
Kedam, the same men who had just kidnapped Princess Pulkem of Vaja,
unwilling guest of the evil War Lord – the beautiful princess who in
happier times had given him his silver ring, which now
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