Part 6 (2/2)

The great tree with its entangling branches rose gradually froht diminish, quickly crawled from beneath Tarzan let the tree fall back to earth, and the two beasts turned to look upon one another

A grim smile lay upon the ape-man's lips, for he knew that he had taken his life in his hands to free this savage jungle fellow; nor would it have surprised hi upon him the instant that it had been released

But it did not do so Instead, it stood a few paces fro the ape-man clamber out of the maze of fallen branches

Once outside, Tarzan was not three paces froher branches of the trees upon the opposite side, for Sheeta cannot cli, a spirit of bravado perhaps, proh to discover if any feeling of gratitude would prohty cat the creature stepped warily to one side, and the ape- jaws, and as he continued on through the forest the panther followed on behind hi ti out of friendly feelings or ry; but finally he was forced to believe that the former incentive it was that prompted the animal's action

Later in the day the scent of a deer sent Tarzan into the trees, and when he had dropped his noose about the ani a purr similar to that which he had utilized to pacify the brute's suspicions earlier in the day, but a trifle louder and more shrill

It was similar to that which he had heard panthers use after a kill when they had been hunting in pairs

Al of the underbrush close at hand, and the long, lithe body of his strange coht of the body of Bara and the save forth a shrill screa side by side upon the tender ely assorted pair roaether

When one made a kill he called the other, and thus they fed well and often

On one occasion as they were dining upon the carcass of a boar that Sheeta had dispatched, Nurasses close beside the forward to chase them from their kill Sheeta bounded into a near-by thicket, while Tarzan took to the low branches of an overhanging tree

Here the ape-rass rope from about his neck, and as Nu head erect, he dropped the sinuous noose about thethe stout strands taut with a sudden jerk At the sa lion upward until only his hind feet touched the ground

Quickly he made the rope fast to a stout branch, and as the panther, in answer to his suht, Tarzan dropped to the earth beside the struggling and infuriated Nu upon him at one side even as Sheeta did upon the other

The panther tore and rent Nuht, while the ape-man struck hohty clawing of the king of beasts had succeeded in parting the rope he hung quite dead and harle air there rose in unison froe throats the victory cry of the bull-ape and the panther, blended into one frightful and uncanny screa-drawn, fearso war-canoe upon the beach, halted to stare in the direction of the jungle and to listen

Chapter 5

Mugambi

By the time that Tarzan had travelled entirely about the coast of the island, and made several trips inland fro upon it

Nowhere had he found any sign that h, of course, he knew that so quickly does the rank vegetation of the tropics erase all but the ht be in error in his deductions

The day following the killing of Nuht of the panther the great apes took to flight, but after a ti them

It had occurred to hi experiment to attempt to reconcile these hereditary ene that would occupy his tiloohts to which he fell prey the moment that he became idle

To communicate his plan to the apes was not a particularly difficult h their narrow and limited vocabulary was strained in the effort; but to impress upon the little, wicked brain of Sheeta that he was to hunt with and not for his legitimate prey proved a task almost beyond the powers of the ape-man