"I wonder if you are telling me the truth," she said. She studied this problem for a while, and then she looked up at me. Even if we succeeded in reaching it I could not operate it." I know nothing at all about the mechanism of their ship. My ship is the one that floats above the castle. "The ship that remains in the courtyard belongs to my enemies, the two men who abducted the princess from my country. For that reason, I could not, in honor, leave without them but there is another even more potent reason." "It is a point of honor in the country from which I come," I told her, "that a man never deserts his comrades. If I were to effect the escape of the others, and especially of Dejah Thoris, I must not let her know the truth so I thought quickly, and two good reasons occurred to me why she and I could not depart alone. "You are in love with one of those women you will not go without her." Her tone was tinged with resentment it was the speech of a jealous woman. "I cannot go unless all my people go with me." "I think that I can give a good account of myself," I replied, "but how are we to get the rest of my party into the courtyard?" It is worth trying, but you may have to fight your way past the guard. Then if we can pass the guard at the outer doorway and reach the courtyard, we should succeed. "I can hide you here in my apartment until nightfall, and the castle sleeps.
"Then you think that there is a chance of our reaching the ship?" I asked. He was waiting to see what the ship would do and he was also waiting to screw up his courage to a point where he might order your destruction, for Ul Vas is a great coward." "That is one reason why you have not been destroyed before. It just floats there, as though it were waiting-waiting for something, we know not what. "It lies in the sky, far above the castle. "Do you know what became of the other ship?" I asked. Now they think that these ships are under a magic spell, and they will not go near the one that lies in the courtyard." It did not fly away before the first one who had entered it had called back to his companion that it was deserted. When you were captured, two of Ul Vas's warriors entered one of the ships, whereupon it immediately flew away with them. "They would have destroyed it, but they are afraid of it they are afraid to go near it. "One of the ships is still in the courtyard?" I demanded. "We might escape in the ship, the one that is still in the courtyard."
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