innocent purpose: each parish has a public musket, and
great cat intended to defend him against all comers it
must suffer before the last savage spear-thrust releases
but to all his questions the great ape but pointed back
the steps again, finding himself now nearly up to his armpits
that great coward to face the unknown menace of the hut.
came a stealthy scratching upon the panels of her door.
times during the afternoon; but he had been able to wring
she had come to believe, since otherwise he would have
Tarzan shuddered. A moment ago he had been upon the point
damp freshness in the air of the passage, and a sort of
pointing to the sleeping man, motioned for them to seize
the Russian planned to reveal to his enemy the true whereabouts
presence, might have fallen upon the man and devoured him;
and was clear of the oily water, now, and upon a sort of
carrying torches and guns. Tarzan was not surprised to
So saying, he turned and led the way toward the hut, in
Tarzan thought that he was dead, until he suddenly raised
Behind a great flowering shrub Hanson lay gazing at the
to the gates, but he believed that a sudden and unaccountable
Three or four inches of water now flooded the cave of the
the village. Now, with Akut, there were five great apes,
for he was quite familiar with the savage mind's strange
The thought that these human fiends would devour him when
gangway above which lowered a green and rotting wooden
centre of the circle of little fires and boiling cooking-pots.
it at the first attempt, he believed that at the second
Who was there now to rescue him? In all the world there
worst, or I will tear you to pieces with my hands and teeth.
jungle night a great lithe body made its way sinuously
At dawn he stopped to feed, and then he slept for several
whites might readily pick them all off with their rifles
for tobacco was something quite extraordinary. After tobacco,
up the Ugambi. Before, in common with the other members
Then he heard her piteous cry as her knees gave beneath
he could not make his poor, savage friends understand precisely
was the especial pride and joy of My Dear and Meriem. The
reason we have seen so many parrots lately; the cheucau
in quieting both their fears and bellicose intentions toward
I would not have been surprised, M. Rokoff, she said,
There was something in the man's tone and expression that
or that other infinitely more beautiful flower who wandered
upon the right trail, and that it led toward the interior.
banks, meeting in a great arch above the centre of the
then directed the ray of the little lamp toward the further
communicate with the natives, as the moment their eyes
wall. He staggered down again; his remarkable physical
That the blacks were preparing for a charge became apparent
The beast snuffed round the prostrate man, whining a little.
one side, his close-set eyes were half closed, his ears,
and the girl's mind was in such a turmoil that she had
the giver touched her deeply, and her face lightened for
As he lay, thinking furiously on every possibility of self-salvation,
She had come to the conclusion that he spoke no other English,
numbers. I never saw anything more obliging and humble
Quick hands snatched the bundle from the cook, and hungry
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