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CHAPTER XII DOOMED TO DIE
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For an instant I stood there before they fell upon me, but the first rush of them forced me back a step or two. My foot felt for the floor but found only empty space. I had backed into the pit which had received Issus. For a second I toppled there upon the brink1. Then I too with the boy still tightly clutched in my arms pitched backward into the black abyss.
We struck a polished chute, the opening above us closed as magically as it had opened, and we shot down, unharmed, into a dimly lighted apartment far below the arena2.
As I rose to my feet the first thing I saw was the malignant3 countenance4 of Issus glaring at me through the heavy bars of a grated door at one side of the chamber5.
"Rash mortal!" she shrilled6. "You shall pay the awful penalty for your blasphemy7 in this secret cell. Here you shall lie alone and in darkness with the carcass of your accomplice8 festering in its rottenness by your side, until crazed by loneliness and hunger you feed upon the crawling maggots that were once a man."
That was all. In another instant she was gone, and the dim light which had filled the cell faded into Cimmerian blackness.
"Pleasant old lady," said a voice at my side.
"Who speaks?" I asked.
"'Tis I, your companion, who has had the honour this day of fighting shoulder to shoulder with the greatest warrior9 that ever wore metal upon Barsoom."
"I thank God that you are not dead," I said. "I feared for that nasty cut upon your head."
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