of Ptarth and his glittering court. On either side
marched a file of guardsmen. Thus Thuvia of Ptarth found a way out of a
dilemmaescaping the necessity of placing her father's royal guest under
forcible restraintand at the same time separating the two princeswho
otherwise would have been at each other's throat the moment she and the
guard had departed.
Beside the pimalia stood Astokhis dark eyes narrowed to mere slits of
hate beneath his lowering brows as he watched the retreating forms of the
woman who had aroused the fiercest passions of his nature and the man
whom he now believed to be the one who stood between his love and its
consummation.
As they disappeared within the structure Astok shrugged his shoulders
and with a murmured oath crossed the gardens toward another wing of the
building where he and his retinue were housed.
THUVIAMAID OF MARS
6
That night he took formal leave of Thuvan Dihnand though no
mention was made of the happening within the gardenit was plain to see
through the cold mask of the jeddak's courtesy that only the customs of
royal hospitality restrained him from voicing the contempt he felt for the
Prince of Dusar.
Carthoris was not present at the leave-taki
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