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Phaethon at once slipped the left rein over her head, thus enabling himself to drive with his arm round her waist.
Then looking rather thoughtfully at the two cousins, he retired to his own rooms, to write up his philosophic diary.
"In recognition, John Carter," he said, "of your remarkable courage and skill in defending the person of the cousin of the jeddak Than Kosis and, singlehanded, vanquishing three green warriors, it is the pleasure of our jeddak to confer on you the mark of his esteem."
"No," she exclaimed, "it is enough that you have said it and that I have listened.
