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CHAPTER ll.--continued.

The Belgian did not have long TO
wait, for the following day his ennis
.sary returned with word that Tarzan
and party of fifty Waziri warriors
had set out toward the southeast early
In the morning.
Werper called his head man to him,
after writing a long letter to Achmet
Eek. This letter he handed to the head
man.
"Send runner at once to Achmet
Eek with this" he instructed the head
man. "Remain here in camp awaiting
further instructions from him or from
me. If any come from the bungalow Of
the Englishman, tell them that / am
very i'll within my tent and can see no
one. Now, give me six porters and six
cskaris-the strongest and bravest of
the safari-and will march after the
Englishman and discover where his
gold is hidden"
And so it was that as Tarzan,
stripped to the loin cloth and armed
after the primitive fashion he best
loved, led his loyal Waziri toward the
dead city of Opar, Werper, the rene
gade, haunted his trail through the
long, hot days, and camped close be-
hind him by night.
And as they marched. Achmet Eek
rode with his entire following south
ward toward the Greystoke farm.
To Tarzan of the Apes the expedi-
tiou was in the nature of holiday
outing. His civilization was at best
but an outward veneer; which he glad
" peeled off with his uncomfortable
European clothes whenever any rea-
sonable pretext presented itself. 1t
was a woman's love which kept Tar
zan even to the semblance of civilian
tion--a condition for which familiarity
had bred contempt. He hated the
shams and the hypocrisies Of it and
with the clear Vision Of an unspoiled
mind he had penetrated to the rotten
core Of the heart OF the thing-the
cowardly greed for peace and ease and
the safeguarding Of property rights.
And so Tarzan always came back to
nature in the spirit of a lover keeping
a long-deferred tryst after a period be-
hind prison walls. His Waziri, at
marrow, were more civilized than he.
They cooked their meat before they
ate it and they Stunned many articles
of food as uncIean that Tarzan had
eaten with gusto all his life, and so in
sidious is the virus Of hypocrisy that
even the stalwart ape-man hesitated
to give rein to his natural longings be-
fore them. He ate burnt flesh when
he would have preferred it raw and
unspoiled, and he brought down game
with arrow or spear when he would
far rather have leaped upon it from
ambush and sunk his strong teeth in
its jugular; but at last the call of the
milk Of the savage mother that had
sucked him in infancy rose to an in
sistent demand-he craved the hot
blood of a fresh kill and his muscles
yearned to pit themselves against the
savage jungle in the battle for exist
ence that had been his sole birthright
for the first twenty years of his life.
Z Moved by these vague yet all-power-
full urgings the ape-man lay awake one
night in the little thorn bona that pro-
tected, in way, his party from the
depredations Of the great carnivora of
the jungle. A single warrior stood
sleepy guard beside the fire that vel
low eyes out Of the darkness beyond
the camp made imperative. The means
and the coughing Of the big cats
mingled with the myriad noises Of the
lesser denizens of the jungle to fan the
savage fame in the breast of this saw
age English lord. He tossed upon his
bed of grasses, sleepless, for an hour
and then he rose, noiseless as wrath,
and while the Wazirl's back was
turned, vaulted the bona wall in the
face of the flaming eyes, swung silent
" into great tree and was gone.
For a time in sheer exuberance of
animal spirit he raced swiftly through
the middle terrace, swinging perilously
across wide spans from one jungle
giant to the next, and then he clam
bered upward to the swaying, lesser
boughs of the upper terrace where the
moon shone full upon him and the air
was stirred by little breezes and death
lurked ready in each frail branch.
Here he paused and raised his face to
Goro, the moon. With uplifted arm
ne stood. the cry. of the bull ape quiv-
ering upon his lips. yet he remained
Vent lest he arouse his faithful Wa
who were all too familiar with the
eous challenge Of their master.
md then he went on more slowly
with greater stealth and caution,
now Tarzan of the Apes was seek
kill. Down to the ground he
in the utter blackness of the
ct boles and the overhanging
Of the jungle. He stopped
10 to time and put bis nose
Akth. He sought and found a
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