Part 4 (2/2)
The others, powerless to aid, stood breathlessly about as the great lion lunged hither and thither, clawing and biting fearfully and futilely at the savage creature that had fastened itself upon him Over and over they rolled and now the onlookers saw a brown hand raised above the lion's side-a brown hand grasping a keen blade They saw it fall and rise and fall again-each time with terrific force and in its wake they saw a crieous coat
Now froe and pain as he redoubled his efforts to dislodge and punish his tormentor; but always the tousled black head rehty arain into the dying beast
The Pal-ul-donians stood in hty hunters they were and as such the first to accord honor to a htier
”And you would have hadat In-sad and O-dan
”Jad-ben-Otho reward you that you did not,” breathed In-sad
And now the lion lunged suddenly to earth and with a few spass lay still The ape-ht JA, the leopard-coated lion of Pal-ul-don, had he been the one to survive
O-dan advanced quickly toward Tarzan Placing a palm upon his own breast and the other on Tarzan's, ”Tarzan the Terrible,” he said, ”I ask no greater honor than your friendshi+p”
”And I no more than the friendshi+p of O the other's salute
”Do you think,” asked O a hand upon the other's shoulder, ”that he got her?”
”No, ed us”
”You seem to know much of lions,” said In-sad
”Had I a brother I could not know him better,” replied Tarzan
”Then where can she be?” continued Om-at
”We can but follohile the spoor is fresh,” answered the ape- he led the of the trail to the left brought thee of the cliff that dropped into the Kor-ul-lul For a ht and to the left, then he stood erect and looking at Oazed down into the green rift at the botto its rocky bed, then he closed his eyes as to a sudden spasm of pain and turned away
”You-mean-she jumped?” he asked
”To escape the lion,” replied Tarzan ”He was right behind her-look, you can see where his four paws left their ie of the abyss”
”Is there any chance-” coesture from Tarzan
”Dohispered the ape-e” He flattened hi his example
For some minutes they waited thus and then the others, too, heard the sound of running feet and now a hoarse shout followed by many more
”It is the war cry of the Kor-ul-lul,” whispered O cry of men who hunt men Presently shall we see thereatly outnumber us”
”They are many,” said Tarzan, ”forty or fifty, I should say; but how many are the pursued and how uess, except that the latter reatly outnumber the former, else these would not run so fast”
”Here they come,” said Ta-den