Tara of Helium

Each meal geitholian shall give an hour a day in labor to the government. That is practically the only tax that is levied upon them. As our own people will not hire out for labor in the mines, it has been necessary to obtain slaves. We sell these slaves in the public market. The proceeds going half and half to the government and the warriors who bring them in. At the end of a year a good slave will have performed the labor tax of his master for six years. A bugle sounded, clear and sweet, above the laughter and the talk. The dance of Barsoom exclaimed the young warrior, I claim you for it, Tara of Helium.

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