Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

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extradition, anything in order to speed up my return to Cupia, where Lilla awaits in some dire extremity.” end. The morrow would decide the ascendancy of Myles Cabot or the Prince Yuri over the new continent. IV THE COUP D’ETAT The next morning Myles Cabot was led under guard to the “It’s too bad that Myles Cabot can’t see this!” First the accusation was read, Myles being furnished Cupia from the domination of its Formian oppressors. They spoke with bitterness of the downfall of their beloved Formia. Their testimony was brief. he had led the Cupians to victory over their oppressors, in his own behalf. Myles rose, then shrugged his shoulders, a human-brained race of gigantic black ants. He had driven the last ant from the face of continental Poros, and had won and wed the Princess Lilla, who had borne him a son set and a matter-transmitting apparatus, with which he had (presumably) shot himself back to Poros on the night of the return?” That had never occurred to me! How stupid! “What had I better do about it, if anything?” I asked. of the return of Myles Cabot to the planet Minos. with my hands full of dimes, nickels, and quarters, I finally got my party. desertion. Yet who can blame him for returning to his father-land and to the throne which is his by rights?” To which the messenger added: “And he offers to give us back our own old country, if we too will return across the boiling seas again.” adventures Myles had told me in person during his stay shouted Emu. “Yuri, our rightful leader,” shouted Barth. “Give us a queen of our own race,” shouted Fum. And that is all that Myles learned of the conversation, Kellogg’s reply gave my sluggish mind the second jolt With one bound he gained the throne, where fighting death grapple, while the ant-queen had backed to the rear of the stage, closely guarded by Emu and Fum. Seizing one of the pikes which supported the scarlet the purpose of trying to repair the wrecked radio set which Myles Cabot had left on my farm. these identifying numbers painted on the backs of their abdomens followed by the numbers of those whom they had defeated in the duels so common among them, then the same message, and again I repeated it. “You’re spoofing us!” one of them shouted. “Give Myles’s own account of the amazing adventures on the planet Venus (or Poros, as its own inhabitants call it,) which befell him upon his return there after his brief visit to the earth. I have edited those notes into the following Myles Cabot had returned to the earth to study the absence. The last of the ant-men and their ally, the renegade Cupian Prince Yuri, had presumably perished in an attempt had been brewing all that evening, and just as Myles How long his unconsciousness lasted he knew not. He was some time in regaining his senses. But when he had He fell to wondering, vaguely and pleasantly, where he Myles sprang to his feet. To his intense surprise, he found the idea flashed through his mind: “I must be on train of thought, his attention was diverted by the fact that, movements. He wondered at the cause of this. Gone was all his languor, as he seized a piece of driftwood As he stood thus expectant, Myles realized that his present Could it be that all his adventures in Cupia had been a recurring dream, in fact? Were his his imagination? Horrible thought! man could see that it was talking to him. But Myles no shorthand on the silver sands the message: “Myles Cabot, “What, again?” scratched Myles, then made a sign of submission. 11 He dreaded the paralyzing bite which Formians usually administer to their victims, and which he had twice experienced in the past but, fortunately, it was not now His heart glowed with the warmth of homecoming. What mattered it that he was now a prisoner, in the hands (or, rather, claws) of his old enemies, the Formians? He had been their prisoner before, and had escaped. Once more He wondered what could have happened in Cupia since boiling seas? What had led them to return? Or perhaps thus had escaped the general extermination of their race. In either event, how had they been able to reconquer He gazed again at the scene below, and now noted one there were no writing materials aboard the ship. Myles As the earth-man was turning these thoughts over in his advanced menacingly toward Myles, but Doggo held them get busy. So once again he made motions of writing on the me this Myles, who read as follows: of Cupia, splendid even in defeat. “It was his brain that conceived our daring plan of escape. If there were other lands beyond the boiling seas, the lands which tradition taught were the origin of the Cupian race, then there we might prosper and raise up a new empire. At the worst we should merely meet death in another form, rather than at your hands. So we essayed. 14 blotting our enemies and our native land from view.” For page after page Doggo, the ant-man, related the old Formia When Myles reached the end of reading this narrative, he the latest discoveries and inventions there, and how his calculations for his return to Poros had been upset by some himself back. Oh, if only he had landed by chance upon the same beach as on his first journey through the skies! Wisely he refrained from mentioning the “S O S” message spurred him to be anxious about her rescue. so the concluding words which he wrote upon the pad were: “And, now that you have me in your power, what shall you do with me?” “Old friend,” Doggo wrote in reply, “that depends entirely succeeding to the toga of King Yuri might prove to be an omen. 15 “Then what of your empire?” Myles inquired. “No queen. When Myles had somewhat recovered from his astonishment, to,” the ant-man replied, “but as a matter of fact, it merely intensifies Yuri’s mistrust and hatred of me. Now that I am mother of the queen, he fears that I may turn against him and establish Formis in his place as the head of an empire of the Formians, by the Formians, and for the Formians exclusively.” “Why don’t you?” Myles wrote. It seemed to him to be a bully good idea, and incidentally a solution of his own difficulties. thought of independence in the mind of one reared in an Myles tactfully changed the subject. failed to return, we sent out scout planes to search for him, and we have been hunting ever since. When we During the meal conversation lagged, owing to the difficulty of writing and eating at the same time. But now Myles Cabot seized his pad and stylus and wrote: a cause, or a friend?” “No,” Doggo replied. “Then,” Myles wrote, “let us make your daughter queen in fact as well as in name.” “It is treason,” Doggo wrote in reply, but this time he “Treason?” Myles asked. If he had spoken the word, he This time, as he tore up the correspondence, Doggo signified an affirmative. And thus there resulted further “If she has inherited any of your character,” Myles continued, whom Myles had ever known among the once dominant coup d’ etat . They tore into shreds every scrap of used paper, leaving It hardly seemed possible! Night before last he had slept With these thoughts the returned wanderer lapsed into a deep and dreamless sleep. “That is just what we finally decided to do,” the ant-man wrote in reply. “We shall try you on general principles, and let the proper accusation develop from the evidence. “At some stage of the proceedings it will inevitably occur charged with treason to Yuri, whereupon two members of the council, whom I have won over to the cause of my If you will waive counsel the trial can take place to-morrow.” “I will waive anything,” Myles replied, “counsel, immunity,

<question>:
What was most often on Myles's mind during his time away?

<options>:
A Doggo
B His friends on Earth
C Lilla
D Revenge

<answer>:

C