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 dawn of humanity. countless ages in the past
 As the excitement waxed the ape man sprang to his feet and joined in the circle of glittering black bodies he Ieaped and roared and shook his heavy spear in the same mad abandon that Eenthralled his fellow .savages. The last remnant of his civilization was for gotten. He was a primitive man to the fullest now, reveling in the free dom of the fierce, wild life he loved gloatfnx in his kingship among these wild blacks.
 An, if Olga de Coude had but seen him then could she have recognized the well dressed, quiet young man whose well bred face and irreproach- able manners had so captivated her but few short months ago2 And Jane Porteri Would she have stzl loved this savage warrior chieftain. dancing naked among. his naked, say age subjeets2 And D'Arnot! Could D'Arnot have believed that this was the same man he had introduced into half dozen of the most select clubs of Paris What would his fellow peers in the house Of lords have said had one pointednto this dancing giant, with his barbaric headdress and his metal or naments and said, There. my lords. Is John Clayton, Lord Grey stoke <
 And so Tarzan of the Apes came inte but surely was he following the evolu- ton of his ancestors, for had he not started at the very bottom7
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 The very night that Tarzan of the woman he loved, Jane Porter, lay dy- ing in a tiny boat POO miles west of him upon the Atlantic. Of the six per sons in the boat in which she had es- capped from the Lady Alice, only three survived They were Jane herself. Ciayton and Thuran.
 The oars had been lost when the saf}or in change of them fell asleep and Iet7 hen drift away and for weeks the boat had been tossed helplessIy about on the waves. The supplies soon gave out. The three sailors who had been with them succufnbed to thirst and hunger and had been heaved over board. Now Jane and her two com panions drifted about, in the ocean. They were reduced to the last exmenA ity and death would have come as welcome relief from the tortures they endured. Of the three other boats there had been no sign.
 The week following the induction of Tarzan into the kngship of the WazirI was occupied in escorting the Manyu- ssna of the Arab raiders to the north ern boundary of WazIri in accordance with the promise which Tarzan had made them Before he left them he exacted a pledge from them that they would not lead any expeditions against the Waziri in the future nor was it a difficult promise to obtain They had had sufficient experience with the fighting tactics of the new Waziri chief not to have the slightest desire to ac- company another predatory force with in the boundaries of his domain.
 Almost Immediately upon his return to the village Tarzan coRmenced mak- ing preparations for leading an expedi- ton in search of the ruined city of gold which old Waziri had described to him. He selected fifty of the sturdiest war riors of his tribe, choosing only men who seemed anxious to acc0mpany him on the arduous march and share the dangers of new and hostile country.
 The fabulous wealth of the fabIed city had been almost constantly in his mind since Waziri had accounted the strange adventures of the former expe- dftion which had stumbled upon the vast ruins by chance. The lure of ad- venture may have been quite as pow erfu1 q factor in urging Tarzan of the Apes to undertake the journey as the lure of gold, but the lure of gold was --- civilized men something Of the miracles that may be wrought by the possessor of the magic yellow metal. What he would do with golden fortune In the heart of savage Africa 1t had not oc- cured to him to consider-it would be enough to possess the power to work wonders, even though he never had an opportunity to employ it
 So one glorious tropical morning Wazirf, chief of the Waziri, set out at the head of fifty clean 1imbed ebon warriors in quest of adventure and of riches. They followed the course which old Wazirf had described to Tarzan- For days they marched-up one river. across a low divide, down another river, up a third, until at the end of the twenty-fifth day they camped upon a mountainside, from the summit of which they hoped to catch their first view of the marvellous city of treasure.
 Early the next morning they were climbing the almost perpendicular crags which formed the last, but greatest, natural barrier between them and their destination. It was nearly noon before Tarxan who headed the thin line of c1inebfng warriors, scrambled over the ton of thesIast cliff and stood upon the little flat tableland of the mountain top.
 On either hand lowered mighty peaks thousands of feet higher than the pass through which they were entering the forbidden valley Behind him stretched the wooded valley across which they had marched for many days, and at the opposite side the low range which ma rhead fIae ha1IrdarY of their own