Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Chessmen of Mars

6. CHAPTER VI : IN THE TOILS OF HORROR (continued)

"You see now," she heard Luud's dull voice, "the futility of revolt--and its punishment."

Tara of Helium fought to defend herself, but pitifully weak were her muscles against this brainless incarnation of brute power. Yet she fought, fought on in the face of hopeless odds for the honor of the proud name she bore--fought alone, she whom the fighting men of a mighty empire, the flower of Martian chivalry, would gladly have lain down their lives to save.