The high
priest was visibly affected. To be high priest at A-lur! That was
almost as good as being king of all Pal-ul-don, for great were the
powers of him who conducted the sacrifices upon the altars of A-lur.
"How?" whispered the high priest. "How may I become high priest at
A-lur?"
Again Pan-sat leaned close: "By killing the one and bringing the
other to A-lur," replied he. Then he rose and departed knowing chat
the other had swallowed the bait and could be depended upon to do
whatever was required to win him the great prize.
Nor was Pan-sat mistaken other than in one trivial consideration.
This high priest would indeed commit murder and treason to attain
the high office at A-lur; but he had misunderstood which of
his victims was to be killed and which to be delivered to Lu-don.
Pan-sat, knowing himself all the details of the plannings of
Lu-don, had made the quite natural error of assuming that the ocher
was perfectly aware that only by publicly sacrificing the false
Dor-ul-Otho could the high priest at A-lur bolster his waning power
and that the assassination of Mo-sar, the pretender, would remove
from Lu-don's camp the only obstacle to his combining the offices
of high priest and king. The high priest at Tu-lur thought that he
had been commissioned to kill Tarzan and bring Mo-sar to A-lur.
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