Argosy All-Story Weekly, January 13, 1923 — page 125: what you’re looking at

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By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Author of the Tarzan Tales, the Martian Stories, ‘‘ The Girl from Hollywood,”’ etc. CHAPTER XVI (continued). THE DIAMOND HOARD, EVERAL of those about him could ill conceal the shocked surprise they felt at his sacrilegious attitude toward their High Priestess. However little they thought’ of Oah, the fact remained that she had been elevated to the highest place among them, and those that believed that La was dead, as Cadj had. taken great pains to lead them all to believe, gave in the full to. Oah the reverence to which her high office entitled her. “‘ Have a care, Cadj,”’ warned one of the older priests. ‘ There is a limit beyond which not.even you may pass.” ‘*¢ You dare threaten me?” cried Cadj, the maniacal fury of fanaticism gleaming in his eye. “ You dare threaten me, Cadj, the High Priest of the Flaming God?” And as he spoke he leaped toward the offending man, the sacrificial knife raised menacingly above this head, and just at that moment a little gray monkey came chattering and screaming through an embrasure in the wall overlooking the court of the temple. “The bolgani! The bolgani!” he shrieked. “ They come! They come!” Cadj stopped and wheeled toward Manu, the hand that held the knife dropping at his side. ‘‘ You saw them, Manu?” he asked. “You are speaking the truth? If this is another of your tricks you will not live to play another joke upon Cadj.”’ “T speak the truth,” chattered the little monkey. ‘I saw them with my own eyes.” “ How many of them are there?” asked This story began in the Argosy-Alletory Weekly for December 9. * Copyright, 7922, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. 587 connicloolks