Quotation from: The Gods of Mars

Written by: Edgar Rice Burroughs

"What means this?" I cried in tones of fierce anger. "Is Sator
Throg to be murdered by his own vassals?"

"Have mercy, O Master of the Tenth Cycle!" cried one of the fellows,
while the others edged toward the doorway as though to attempt a
surreptitious escape from the presence of the mighty one.

"Ask them their mission here," whispered Thuvia at my elbow.