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CHAPTER XIV KULAN TITH'S SACRIFICE
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The morning of the second day of her incarceration1 in the east tower of the palace of Astok, Prince of Dusar, found Thuvia of Ptarth waiting in dull apathy2 the coming of the assassin.
She had exhausted3 every possibility of escape, going over and over again the door and the windows, the floor and the walls.
The solid ersite slabs4 she could not even scratch; the tough Barsoomian glass of the windows would have shattered to nothing less than a heavy sledge5 in the hands of a strong man. The door and the lock were impregnable. There was no escape. And they had stripped her of her weapons so that she could not even anticipate the hour of her doom6, thus robbing them of the satisfaction of witnessing her last moments.
When would they come? Would Astok do the deed with his own hands? She doubted that he had the courage for it. At heart he was a coward—she had known it since first she had heard him brag7 as, a visitor at the court of her father, he had sought to impress her with his valour.
She could not help but compare him with another. And with whom would an affianced bride compare an unsuccessful suitor? With her betrothed8? And did Thuvia of Ptarth now measure Astok of Dusar by the standards of Kulan Tith, Jeddak of Kaol?
She was about to die; her thoughts were her own to do with as she pleased; yet furthest from them was Kulan Tith. Instead the figure of the tall and comely9 Heliumite filled her mind, crowding therefrom all other images.
She dreamed of his noble face, the quiet dignity of his bearing, the smile that lit his eyes as he
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