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Tarzan
the Untamed
"The entire
affair is shrouded in mystery," said D'Arnot. "I
have it on the best of authority that neither
the police nor the special agents of the general
staff have the faintest conception of how it was
accomplished. All they know, all that anyone
knows, is that Nikolas Rokoff has escaped."
John Clayton, Lord Greystoke—he who had been "Tarzan
of the Apes"—sat in silence in the apartments of
his friend, Lieutenant Paul D'Arnot, in Paris,
gazing meditatively at the toe of his immaculate
boot.
His mind revolved many memories, recalled by the
escape of his arch-enemy from the French
military prison to which he had been sentenced
for life upon the testimony of the ape-man.
He thought of the lengths to which Rokoff had
once gone to compass his death, and he realized
that what the man had already done would
doubtless be as nothing by comparison with what
he would wish and plot to do now that he was
again free.
Tarzan had recently brought his wife and infant
son to London to escape the discomforts and
dangers of the rainy season upon their vast
estate in Uziri—the land of the savage Waziri
warriors whose broad African domains the ape-man
had once ruled...
Tarzan
the Terrible
The long-boat of the Marjorie W. was
floating down the broad Ugambi with ebb tide and
current. Her crew were lazily enjoying this
respite from the arduous labor of rowing up
stream. Three miles below them lay the Marjorie
W. herself, quite ready to sail so soon as they
should have clambered aboard and swung the long
boat to its davits. Presently the attention of
every man was drawn from his dreaming or his
gossiping to the northern bank of the river.
There, screaming at them in a cracked falsetto
and with skinny arms outstretched, stood a
strange apparition of a man.
"Wot the 'ell?" ejaculated one of the crew.
"A white man!" muttered the mate, and then: "Man
the oars, boys, and we'll just pull over an' see
what he wants."
When they came close to the shore they saw an
emaciated creature with scant white locks
tangled and matted. The thin, bent body was
naked but for a loin cloth. Tears were rolling
down the sunken pock-marked cheeks. The man
jabbered at them in a strange tongue.
"Rooshun," hazarded the mate. "Savvy English?"
he called to the man...
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