Part 3 (1/2)

Paulvitch pointed to the arlish

A boat was lowered, and, still heavily guarded, the ape-man was rowed ashore Half an hour later the sailors had returned to the Kincaid, and the stea under way

As Tarzan stood upon the narrow strip of beach watching the departure of the vessel he saw a figure appear at the rail and call aloud to attract his attention

The ape-man had been about to read a note that one of the sailors had handed him as the small boat that bore hi to the steamer, but at the hail from the vessel's deck he looked up

He saw a black-bearded h above his head the figure of a little child Tarzan half started as though to rush through the surf and strike out for the alreadythe futility of so rash an act he halted at the water's edge

Thus he stood, his gaze riveted upon the Kincaid until it disappeared beyond a projecting prole at his back fierce bloodshot eyes glared fro brows upon him

Little monkeys in the tree-tops chattered and scolded, and from the distance of the inland forest came the scream of a leopard

But still John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, stood deaf and unseeing, suffering the pangs of keen regret for the opportunity that he had wasted because he had been so gullible as to place credence in a single statement of the first lieutenant of his arch-eneht, ”one consolation-the knowledge that Jane is safe in London Thank Heaven she, too, did not fall into the clutches of those villains”

Behind hi hi stealthily toward hie ape-?

Where the uncanny sense of scent?

Chapter 3

Beasts at Bay

Slowly Tarzan unfolded the note the sailor had thrust into his hand, and read it At first it made little impression on his sorrow-numbed senses, but finally the full purport of the hideous plot of revenge unfolded itself before his iination

”This will explain to you” [the note read] ”the exact nature ofand to you

”You were born an ape You lived naked in the jungles-to your oe have returned you; but your son shall rise a step above his sire It is the immutable law of evolution

”The father was a beast, but the son shall be a ress He shall be no naked beast of the jungle, but shall wear a loin-cloth and copper anklets, and, perchance, a ring in his nose, for he is to be reared by ht have killed you, but that would have curtailed the full measure of the punishment you have earned at my hands

”Dead, you could not have suffered in the knowledge of your son's plight; but living and in a place from which you may not escape to seek or succour your child, you shall suffer worse than death for all the years of your life in contemplation of the horrors of your son's existence

”This, then, is to be a part of your punishainst

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