“We got that from Lazette,” grinned Norton. “We had to have _some_
noise! As I told you the other day,” he went on, speaking loudly, so
that Taylor could hear him above the tumult, “it is all fixed up. Judge
Littlefield stayed on the job here, because he promised to be good. He
hadn’t really done anything, you know. And after we made Danforth and
the five councilmen resign that night, and saw them aboard the
east-bound the next morning, we made Littlefield wire the governor about
what had happened. Littlefield went to the capital shortly afterward and
told the governor some things that astonished him. And the governor
appointed you to fill Danforth’s unexpired term. But, of course, that
was only an easy way for the governor to surrender. So everything is
lovely.”
Norton paused, out of breath.
And Taylor smiled at his wife. “Yes,” he said, as he took her arm, “this
is a mighty good little old world—if you treat it right.”
“And if you stay faithful,” added the moist-eyed woman.
“And if you fall in love,” supplemented Taylor.
“And when the people of a town want to honor you,” added Norton
significantly.
And then, arm in arm, followed by Norton, Taylor and his wife rode
forward, their horses close together, toward the great crowd of people
that jammed the street around the band-stand, their voices now raised
above the music that blared forth from the brazen instruments.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGH’S NOVELS
May be had wherever books are sold. Ask for Grosset & Dunlap’s list.
TARZAN THE UNTAMED
Tells of Tarzan’s return to the life of the ape-man in his search
for vengeance on those who took from him his wife and home.
JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN
Records the many wonderful exploits by which Tarzan proves his right
to ape kingship.
A PRINCESS OF MARS
Forty-three million miles from the earth—a succession of the
weirdest and most astounding adventures in fiction. John Carter,
American, finds himself on the planet Mars, battling for a beautiful
woman, with the Green Men of Mars, terrible creatures fifteen feet
high, mounted on horses like dragons.
THE GODS OF MARS
Continuing John Carter’s adventures on the Planet Mars, in which he
does battle against the ferocious “plant men,” creatures whose
mighty tails swished their victims to instant death, and defies
Issus, the terrible Goddess of Death, whom all Mars worships and
reveres.
THE WARLORD OF MARS
Old acquaintances, made in the two other stories, reappear, Tars
Tarkas, Tardos Mors and others. There is a happy ending to the story
in the union of the Warlord, the title conferred upon John Carter,
with Dejah Thoris.
THUVIA, MAID OF MARS
The fourth volume of the series. The story centers around the
adventures of Carthoris, the son of John Carter and Thuvia, daughter
of a Martian Emperor.
GROSSET & DUNLAP, Publishers, NEW YORK.
ZANE GREY’S NOVELS
May be had wherever books are sold. Ask for Grosset & Dunlap’s list.
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