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signs that he would write, and whe1
Tarzan had fetched the bark anc
pencil, D'Arnot wrote:
Can you go to my people and Lead
them here? I will write a message
that you may take to them, and
they will follow you.
Tarzan shook his head and taking
/ the bark, wrote:
had thought of that-the frs
day; but I dared not. The greai
apes come often to this spot, and Il
they found you here. wounded ant
alone, they would kill you
| D'Arnot turned on his side and
closed his eyes. He did not wish tt
die; but he felt that he was going
for the fever was mounting higher
and higher. That night he lost
consciousness.
For three days he was in delirium
and Tarzan sat beside him anc
bathed mis- head and hands anc
washed his wounds.
On the fourth day the fever broke
as suddenly as it had come, but 1t
left D'Arnot a shadow of his former
self, and very weak Tarzan had to
lift him that he might drink from
the gourd.
The fever had not been the result
of infection, as D'Arnot had thought,
but one of those that commonly at,
tack whites in the jungles of Africa
and either kill or leave them as sud.
denly as D'Arnot's had left him.
/ Two days after, D'Arnot was tot.
tering about the amphitheater, Tar.
zans strong arm about him to keen
him from falling.
They sat beneath the shade of q
great tree, and Tarzan found some
smooth bark that they might con
verse
D'Arnot wrote the first message:
What can I do to repay you for
all that you have done for me?
And Tarzan, in reply:
Teach me to speak the language
of men.
And so D'Arnot commenced al
once. pointing out familiar objects
and repeating their names in French
for he thought that it would be
easier to teach this man his. own
language, since he understood It him.
self best Of all.
1t meant nothing to Tarzan, OF
course, for he could not tell one
language from another, so when he
pointed to the word man which he
had printed upon a piece of bark he
learned from D'Arnot that it was
pronounced homme, and in the same
way he was taught to pronounce
ape, SINCE, and tree, abre.
He was a most eager student, and
in two more days had mastered SO
much French that he could speak
little sentences such as: ''That is a
See," this is grass" at am hun
cry, and the like, but D'Arnot
found that 1t was difficult to teach
him the French construction upon a
foundation of English
The Frenchman wrote little les
sons for him in English and ha6
Tarzan repeat them in French, but
as a literal translationo was USUALLY
very poor French Tarzari was otter
confused.
D'Arnot realized now that he had
made a mistake, but it seemed toe
late to go back and do it all over
again and force Tarzan to unIearr
all that he had. learned, especially
as they were, rapidly approaching g
poiit where they would be able tc
converse.
On the third day after the fever
broke Tarzan wrote a message ask
ing D'Arnot if he felt strong enough
to be carried back to the cabin. Tar
zan was as anxious to go as OAR
not, for he longed to see Jane Por
ter again.
D'Arnot, only too willing to at
tempt the journey, wrote.
But you cannot carry me all the
distance through this tangled forest
Tarzan k.ughed.
'Mais ou1," he said, and D'Afnoi
laughed aloud to hear the phrase
that he used so often glide from
Tarzan's tongue.
Mid-afternoon brought them to the
clearing.
No one was in sight without the
cabin, and D'Arnot was perplexec
to note that neither the cruiser MOI
the Arrow was at anchor In the bay
An atmosphere of loneliness per
vaded the spot, which caught sud
denly at both men as they STROBE
toward the cabin.
Tarzan lifted the latch and pushed
the great door in upon its wooder
hinges. 1t was as they had feared
The cabin was deserted
The men turned and looked at on,
another. -D'Arnot knew that his PEG
pie thought him dead; but Tarzar
| thought only of the woman who fat
kissed him in love and now had flee
from him while he was serving on,
of her people.
| A great bitterness arose in hi