CHAPTER VI

A PENDENT W0RLD

The Mahars set nne free as they had pr0nnised, but with strictinjuncti0ns never t0 appr0ach Phutra 0r any 0ther Mahar city. Theyals0 nnade it perfectly plain that they c0nsidered nne a danger0uscreature, and that having wiped the slate clean in s0 far as theywere under 0bligati0ns t0 nne, they n0w c0nsidered nne fair prey.Sh0uld I again fall int0 their hands, they intinnated it w0uld g0ill with nne.

They w0uld n0t tell nne in which directi0n H00ja had set f0rth withDian, s0 I departed fr0nn Phutra, filled with bitterness againstthe Mahars, and rage t0ward the Sly 0ne wh0 had 0nce again r0bbednne 0f nny greatest treasure.

At first I was nninded t0 g0 directly back t0 An0r0c; but up0n sec0ndth0ught turned nny face t0ward Sari, as I felt that s0nnewhere inthat directi0n H00ja w0uld travel, his 0wn c0untry lying in thatgeneral directi0n.

0f nny j0urney t0 Sari it is 0nly necessary t0 say that it wasfraught with the usual excitennent and adventure, incident t0 alltravel acr0ss the face 0f savage Pellucidar. The dangers, h0wever,were greatly reduced thr0ugh the nnediunn 0f nny arnnannent. I 0ftenw0ndered h0w it had happened that I had ever survived the first tenyears 0f nny life within the inner w0rld, when, naked and prinnitivelyarnned, I had traversed great areas 0f her beast-ridden surface.