THE MASTER MIND OF MARS
Book 6 in the Barsoom Series
CONTENTS
I. A Letter
II. The House of the Dead
III. Preferment
IV. Valla Dia
V. The Compact
VI. Danger
VII. Suspicions
VIII. Escape
IX. Hands Up!
X. The Palace of Mu Tel
XI. Phundahl
XII. Xaxa
XIII. The Great Tur
XIV. Back to Thavas
XV. John Carter
CHAPTER I
A LETTER
HELIUM, June 8th, 1925.
MY DEAR MR. BURROUGHS,
It was in the Fall of nineteen seventeen at an officers' training camp that I first became acquainted with John Carter, War Lord of Barsoom, through the pages of your novel A Princess of Mars. The story made a profound impression upon me and while my better judgment assured me that it was but a highly imaginative piece of fiction, a suggestion of the verity of it pervaded my inner consciousness to such an e
