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Presently Ghek took his eyes from the eyes of O-Tar and the jeddak shook himself as one who would be rid of a bad dream and straightened up, half dazed still.

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The fact that I was the son of a slave relegated me to a position of minor importance in the consideration of O-Tar, yet I am still the son of a jeddak and might sit upon the throne of Manator with as perfect congruity as O-Tar himself.

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The Keeper of the Towers may have noticed them, but so occupied was he with the formality of presenting the victorious Chief to the jeddak that he paid no attention to them.

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"There can be but one jeddak in Manator," said the chief who held the dagger; his eyes still fixed upon the hapless O-Tar he crossed to where the latter stood and holding the dagger upon an outstretched palm proffered it to the discredited ruler.

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"You, too, read the voiceless message in the air?" demanded the jeddak.

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"I am safe," retorted I-Gos, "for I am not a brave and popular son of the jeddak of Manator."

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Here was an ancient bath -- doubtless that of the jeddak himself, and again he passed through a room in which a meal had been laid upon a table five thousand years before -- the untasted breakfast of O-Mai, perhaps.

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It was later in the evening that warriors came and unlocked the fetter from Turan's ankle and led him away to appear before O-Tar, the jeddak.

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His curling lip betokened his scorn of the jeddak who had chosen humiliation rather than death.

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A-Kor already has been tried and sentenced by the supreme tribunal of Manator -- O-Tar, the jeddak; and you too shall receive justice from the same unfailing source.

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