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17 - Burials · Tarzan of the Apes

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  Speaker 1: Chapter seventeen Burials. As it was now quite light, the party,
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  Speaker 1: none of whom had eaten or slept since the previous morning,
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  Speaker 1: began to bestir themselves to prepare food. The mutineers of
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  Speaker 1: the arrow had landed a small supply of dried meats,
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  Speaker 1: canned soups and vegetables, crackers, flour, tea and coffee for
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  Speaker 1: the five they had marooned, and these were hurriedly drawn
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  Speaker 1: upon to satisfy the craving of long famished appetites. The
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  Speaker 1: next task was to make the cabin habitable, and to
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  Speaker 1: this end it was decided to at once remove the
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  Speaker 1: gruesome relics of the tragedy which had taken place there
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  Speaker 1: on some by gone day. Professor Porter and mister Falander
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  Speaker 1: were deeply interested in examining the skeletons. The two larger,
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  Speaker 1: they stated, had belonged to a male and female of
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  Speaker 1: one of the higher white races. The smallest skeleton was
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  Speaker 1: given but passing attention, as its location in the crib
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  Speaker 1: left no doubt as to its having been the infant
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  Speaker 1: offspring of this unhappy couple. As they were preparing the
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  Speaker 1: skeleton of the man for burial, Clayton discovered a massive
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  Speaker 1: ring which had evidently encircled the man's finger at the
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  Speaker 1: time of his death. For one of the slender bones
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  Speaker 1: of the hands still lay within the golden bauble. Picking
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  Speaker 1: it up to examine it, Clayton gave a cry of astonishment,
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  Speaker 1: for the ring bore the crest of the House of Greystoke.
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  Speaker 1: At the same time, Jane discovered the books in the cupboard,
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  Speaker 1: and on opening the fly leaf of one of them,
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  Speaker 1: saw the name John Clayton London. In a second book,
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  Speaker 1: which she hurriedly examined, was the single name Greystoke. Why,
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  Speaker 1: mister Clayton, she cried, what does this mean? Here are
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  Speaker 1: the names of some of your own people in these books.
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  Speaker 1: And here, he replied gravely, is the great ring of
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  Speaker 1: the House of Greystoke, which has been lost since my
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  Speaker 1: uncle John Clayton, the former Board Greystoke disappeared, presumably lost
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  Speaker 1: at sea. But how do you account for these things
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  Speaker 1: being here in this savage African jungle, exclaimed the girl.
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  Speaker 1: There is but one way to account for it, Miss Porter,
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  Speaker 1: said Clayton. Though late Lord Greystoke was not drowned, he
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  Speaker 1: died here in this cabin, and this poor thing upon
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  Speaker 1: the floor is all that is mortal of him. Then
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  Speaker 1: this must have been Lady Greystoke, said Jane, reverently, indicating
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  Speaker 1: the poor mass of bones upon the bed. The beautiful
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  Speaker 1: lady Alice, replied Clayton, of whose many virtues and remarkable
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  Speaker 1: personal charms, I often have heard my mother and father speak,
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  Speaker 1: poor woman, he murmured sadly, with deep reverence and solemnity.
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  Speaker 1: The bodies of the late Lord and Lady Greystoke were
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  Speaker 1: buried beside their little African cabin, and between them was
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  Speaker 1: placed the tiny skeleton of the baby of Caela, the Ape.
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  Speaker 1: As mister Falander was placing the frail bones of the
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  Speaker 1: infant in a bit of sailcloth, he examined the skull minutely.
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  Speaker 1: Then he called Professor Porter to his side, and the
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  Speaker 1: two argued in low tones for several minutes. Most remarkable,
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  Speaker 1: most remarkable, said Professor Porter. Bless me, said mister Falander.
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  Speaker 1: We must quiet mister Clayton with our discovery. At once.
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  Speaker 1: Tut tut, mister Flander. Tut tut, remonstrated Professor Archimedes's cue. Porter,
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  Speaker 1: let the dead past bury its dead. And so the
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  Speaker 1: white haired old man repeated the burial service over this
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  Speaker 1: strange grave, while his four companions stood with bowed and
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  Speaker 1: uncovered heads about him. From the trees, Tarzan of the
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  Speaker 1: Apes watched the solemn ceremony, but most of all, he
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  Speaker 1: watched the sweet face and graceful figure of Jane Porter
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  Speaker 1: in his savaged, untutored breast. New emotions were during he
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  Speaker 1: could not fathom them. He wondered why he felt so
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  Speaker 1: great an interest in these people, why he had gone
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  Speaker 1: to such pains to save the three men. But he
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  Speaker 1: did not wonder why he had torn sabor from the
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  Speaker 1: tender flesh of the strange girl. Surely the men were
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  Speaker 1: stupid and ridiculous and cowardly. Even Manu the monkey was
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  Speaker 1: more intelligent than they. If these were creatures of his
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  Speaker 1: own kind, he was doubtful of his past. Pride in
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  Speaker 1: blood was warranted. But the girl, ah, that was a
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  Speaker 1: different matter. He did not reason here. He knew that
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  Speaker 1: she was created to be protected, and that he was
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  Speaker 1: created to protect her. He wondered why they had dug
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  Speaker 1: a great hole in the ground merely to bury dry bones.
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  Speaker 1: Surely there was no sense in that. No one wanted
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  Speaker 1: to steal dry bones. Had there been meat upon them,
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  Speaker 1: he could have understood, for thus alone might one keep
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  Speaker 1: his meat from Dango, the Hyaena, and the other robbers
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  Speaker 1: of the jungle. When the grave had been filled with earth,
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  Speaker 1: the little party turned back toward the cabin, and Esmerelda,
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  Speaker 1: still weeping copiously for the two she had never heard
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  Speaker 1: of before today and who had been dead twenty years,
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  Speaker 1: chanced to glance toward the harbor. Instantly, her tears ceased.
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  Speaker 1: Look at them low down? Why trash out there, she trilled,
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  Speaker 1: pointing toward the arrow. They alls are desecrating us right
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  Speaker 1: here on this here perverted island. And sure enough the
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  Speaker 1: arrow was being worked toward the open sea, slowly through
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  Speaker 1: the harbor's entrance. They promised to leave us firearms and ammunition,
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  Speaker 1: said Clayton, The merciless beasts. It is the work of
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  Speaker 1: that fellow they call Snipes. I'm sure, said Jane King,
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  Speaker 1: was a scoundrel, but he had a little sense of humanity.
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  Speaker 1: If they had not killed him, I know that he
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  Speaker 1: would have seen it that we were properly provided for
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  Speaker 1: before they left us to our fate. I regret that
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  Speaker 1: they did not visit us before sailing, said Professor Porter.
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  Speaker 1: I had proposed requesting them to leave the treasure with us,
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  Speaker 1: as I shall be a ruined man if that is lost.
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  Speaker 1: Jane looked at her father sadly. Never mind, dear, she said,
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  Speaker 1: it wouldn't have done any good, because it is solely
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  Speaker 1: for the treasure that they killed their officers and landed
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  Speaker 1: us upon this awful shore. Tut Tut, child, Tut tut,
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  Speaker 1: replied Professor Porter. You are a good child, but inexperienced
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  Speaker 1: in practical matters. And Professor Porter turned and walked slowly
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  Speaker 1: away towards the jungle, his hands clasped beneath his long
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  Speaker 1: coat tails and his eyes bent upon the ground. His
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  Speaker 1: daughter watched him with a pathetic smile upon her lips,
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  Speaker 1: and then, turning to mister Falander, she whispered, please don't
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  Speaker 1: let him wander off again as he did yesterday. We
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  Speaker 1: depend upon you, you know, to keep a close watch
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  Speaker 1: upon him. He becomes more difficult to handle each day,
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  Speaker 1: replied mister Falander, with a sigh and a shake of
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  Speaker 1: his head. I presume he is now off to report
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  Speaker 1: to the directors of the zoo that one of their
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  Speaker 1: lines was at large last night. Oh miss Jane, you
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  Speaker 1: don't know what I have to contend with, Yes, I do,
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  Speaker 1: mister Falander. But while we all love him, you alone
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  Speaker 1: are best fitted to manage him, for regardless of what
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  Speaker 1: he may say to you, he respects your great learning,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore has immense confidence in your judgment. The poor
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  Speaker 1: dear cannot differentiate between erudition and wisdom. Mister Falander, with
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  Speaker 1: a mildly puzzled expression on his face, turned to pursue
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  Speaker 1: Professor Porter, and in his mind he was revolving the
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  Speaker 1: question of whether he should feel complimented or aggrieved at
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  Speaker 1: Miss Porter's rather backhanded compliment. Tarzan had seen the consternation
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  Speaker 1: depicted upon the faces of the little group as they
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  Speaker 1: witnessed the departure of the arrow, so as the ship
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  Speaker 1: was a wonderful novelty to him. In addition, he determined
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  Speaker 1: to hasten out to the point of land at the
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  Speaker 1: north of the harbour's mouth and obtain a nearer view
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  Speaker 1: of the boat, as well as to learn, if possible,
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  Speaker 1: the direction of its flight. Swinging through the trees with
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  Speaker 1: great speed, he reached the point only a moment after
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  Speaker 1: the ship had passed out of the harbor, so that
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  Speaker 1: he obtained an excellent view of the wonders of this
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  Speaker 1: strange floating house. There were some twenty men running hither
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  Speaker 1: and thither about the deck, pulling and hauling on ropes.
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  Speaker 1: A light land breeze was blowing, and the ship had
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  Speaker 1: been worked through the harbour's mouth under scant sail. But
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  Speaker 1: now that they had cleared the point, every available shred
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  Speaker 1: of canvas was being spread that she might stand out
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  Speaker 1: to see as handily as posts. Tarzan watched the graceful
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  Speaker 1: movements of the ship in rapt admiration, and longed to
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  Speaker 1: be aboard her. Presently, his keen eyes caught the faintest
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  Speaker 1: suspicion of smoke on the far northern horizon, and he
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  Speaker 1: wandered over the cause of such a thing out on
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  Speaker 1: the great water. About the same time the lookout on
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  Speaker 1: the arrow must have discerned it, for in a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes Tarzan saw the sails being shifted and shortened. The
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  Speaker 1: ship came about, and presently he knew that she was
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  Speaker 1: beating back toward land. A man at the bows was
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  Speaker 1: constantly heaving into the sea a rope, to the end
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  Speaker 1: of which a small object was fastened. Tarzan wondered what
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  Speaker 1: the purpose of this action might be. At last the
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  Speaker 1: ship came up directly into the wind. The anchor was lowered,
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  Speaker 1: down came the sails. There was great scurrying about on deck.
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  Speaker 1: A boat was lowered, and in it a great chest
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  Speaker 1: was placed. Then a dozen sailors bent to the oars
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  Speaker 1: and pulled rapidly toward the point where Tarzan crouched in
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  Speaker 1: the branches of a tree in the stern of the boat.
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  Speaker 1: As it drew nearer, Tarzan saw the rat faced man.
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  Speaker 1: It was but a few minutes later that the boat
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  Speaker 1: touched the beach. The men jumped out and lifted the
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  Speaker 1: great chest to the sand. They were on the north
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  Speaker 1: side of the point, so that their presence was concealed
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  Speaker 1: from those of the cabin. The men argued angrily for
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  Speaker 1: a moment. Then the rat faced one with several companions
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  Speaker 1: ascended the low bluff, on which stood the tree that
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  Speaker 1: concealed Tarzan. They looked about for several minutes. Here is
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  Speaker 1: a good place, said the rat faced sailor, indicating a
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  Speaker 1: spot beneath Tarzan's tree. It is as good as any,
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  Speaker 1: replied one of his companions. If they catch us with
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  Speaker 1: the treasury aboard, it will all be confiscated. Anyway, we
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  Speaker 1: might as well bury it here, and that chance that
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  Speaker 1: some of us will escape the gallows to come back
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  Speaker 1: and enjoy it later. The rat faced one now called
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  Speaker 1: to the men who had remained at the boat, and
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  Speaker 1: they came slowly up the bank, carrying picks and shovels. Hurry, you,
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  Speaker 1: cried Snipes. Stow it, retorted one of the men, in
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  Speaker 1: a surly tone. You're no admiral, you damn shrimp. I'm
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  Speaker 1: captain here, though, I'll have you understand you swab shrieked
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  Speaker 1: Snipes with a volley of frightful oaths. Steady boys, cautioned
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  Speaker 1: one of the men, who had not spoken before. It
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  Speaker 1: ain't going to get us nothing but fightin amongst ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: right enough, replied the sailor, who had resented Snipe's autocratic tones.
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  Speaker 1: But it ain't a goin to get nobody. Nothing to
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  Speaker 1: put on airs in this blooming company, neither you fellus.
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  Speaker 1: Dig here, said Snipes, indicating a spot beneath the tree.
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  Speaker 1: And while you're diggin', Peterkin be a makin' a map
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  Speaker 1: of the location, says we can find it again. You
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  Speaker 1: and Bill take a couple more down and fetch up
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  Speaker 1: the chest. What are you going to do, asked he
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  Speaker 1: of the previous altercation. Just boss, get busy there, ground, Snipes.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't think your cap'n wasn't going to dig with
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  Speaker 1: a shovel, did you. The men all looked up angrily.
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  Speaker 1: None of them liked Snipes, and this disagreeable show of authority,
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  Speaker 1: since he had murdered King, the real head and ringleader
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  Speaker 1: of the mutineers, had only added fuel to the flames
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  Speaker 1: of their hatred. Do you mean to say that you
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  Speaker 1: don't intend to take a shovel and lend a hand
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  Speaker 1: with this work? Your shoulder's not hurt, so all fired
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  Speaker 1: bad as that, said Terrant, the sailor, who had before spoken,
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  Speaker 1: not by a damn sight, replied Snipes, fingering the butt
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  Speaker 1: of his revolver nervously. Then, by God, replied Terrant, if
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  Speaker 1: you won't take a show, you'll take a pick axe.
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  Speaker 1: With the words, he raised his pick above his head,
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  Speaker 1: and with a mighty blow he buried the point in
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  Speaker 1: Snipe's brain. For a moment, the men stood silently, looking
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  Speaker 1: at the result of their fellow's grim humor. Then one
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  Speaker 1: of them spoke, serv Skunk, jolly well right, he said,
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  Speaker 1: one of the others commenced to ply his pick to
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  Speaker 1: the ground. The soil was soft, and he threw aside
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  Speaker 1: the pick and grasped a shovel. Then the others joined him.
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  Speaker 1: There was no further comment on the killing, but the
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  Speaker 1: men worked in a better frame of mind than they
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  Speaker 1: had since Snipes had assumed command. When they had a
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  Speaker 1: trench of ample size to bury the chest, Terence suggested
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  Speaker 1: that they enlarge it and ter Snipe's body on top
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  Speaker 1: of the chest. It might help fool any has happened
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  Speaker 1: to be digging hereabouts, he explained. The others saw the
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  Speaker 1: cunning of the suggestion, and so the trench was lengthened
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  Speaker 1: to accommodate the corpse in the center. A deeper hole
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  Speaker 1: was excavated for the box, which was first wrapped in
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  Speaker 1: sailcloth and then lowered to its place, which brought its
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  Speaker 1: top about a foot below the bottom of the grave.
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  Speaker 1: Earth was shoveled in and tramped down about the chest
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  Speaker 1: until the bottom of the grave showed level and uniform.
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  Speaker 1: Two of the men rolled the rat faced corpse unceremoniously
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  Speaker 1: into the grave, after first stripping it of its weapons
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  Speaker 1: and various other articles which the several members of the
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  Speaker 1: party coveted for their own. They then filled the grave
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  Speaker 1: with earth and tramped upon it until it would hold
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  Speaker 1: no more. The balance of the loose earth was thrown
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  Speaker 1: far and wide, and a mass of dead undergrowth spread
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  Speaker 1: in as natural a manner as possible over the new
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  Speaker 1: made grave, to obliterate all signs of the ground. Having
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  Speaker 1: been disturbed. Their work done, the sailors returned to the
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  Speaker 1: small boat and pulled off rapidly toward the arrow. The
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  Speaker 1: breeze had increased considerably, and as the smoke upon their
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  Speaker 1: rise was now plainly discernible and considerable volume, the mutineers
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  Speaker 1: lost no time in getting under full sail and bearing
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  Speaker 1: away toward the southwest. Tarzan, an interested spectator of all
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  Speaker 1: that had taken place, sat speculating on the strange actions
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  Speaker 1: of these peculiar creatures. Men were indeed more foolish and
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  Speaker 1: more cruel than the beasts of the jungle. How fortunate
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  Speaker 1: was he who lived in the peace and security of
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  Speaker 1: the great forest. Tarzan wondered what the chest they had
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  Speaker 1: buried contained. If they did not want it, why did
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  Speaker 1: they not merely throw it into the water. That would
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  Speaker 1: have been much easier ah, he thought, but they do
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  Speaker 1: want it. They had hidden it here because they intend
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  Speaker 1: returning for it later. Tarzan dropped to the ground and
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  Speaker 1: commenced to examine the earth about the excavation. He was
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  Speaker 1: looking to see if these creatures had dropped anything which
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  Speaker 1: he might like to own. Soon he discovered a spade
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  Speaker 1: hidden by the underbrush, which they had laid upon the grave.
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  Speaker 1: He seized it and attempted to use it as he
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  Speaker 1: had seen the sailors do. It was awkward work and
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  Speaker 1: hurt his bare feet, but he persevered until he had
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  Speaker 1: partially uncovered the body. This he dragged from the grave
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  Speaker 1: and laid to one side. Then he continued digging until
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  Speaker 1: he had unearthed the chest. This also he dragged to
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  Speaker 1: the side of the corpse. Then he filled in the
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  Speaker 1: smaller hole below the grave, replaced the body and the
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  Speaker 1: earth around and above it, covered it over with underbrush,
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  Speaker 1: and returned to the chest. Four sailors had sweated beneath
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  Speaker 1: the burden of its weight. Tarzan of the apes picked
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  Speaker 1: it up as though it had been an empty packing case,
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  Speaker 1: and with the spade slung to his back by a
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  Speaker 1: piece of rope, carried it off into the densest part
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  Speaker 1: of the jungle. He could not well negotiate the trees
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  Speaker 1: with his awkward burden, but he kept to the trails
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  Speaker 1: and so made fairly good time. For several hours, he
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  Speaker 1: traveled little north of east until he came to an
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  Speaker 1: impenetrable wall of matted and tangled vegetation. Then he took
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  Speaker 1: to the lower branches, and in another fifteen minutes he
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  Speaker 1: emerged into the amphitheater of the Apes, where they met
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  Speaker 1: in council or to celebrate the rites of the dumb Dum.
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  Speaker 1: Near the center of the clearing, and not far from
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  Speaker 1: the drum or altar, he commenced to dig. This was
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  Speaker 1: harder work than turning up the freshly excavated earth at
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  Speaker 1: the grave, but Tarzan of the Apes was persevering, and
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  Speaker 1: so he kept at his labor until he was rewarded
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  Speaker 1: by seeing a hole sufficiently deep to receive the chest
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  Speaker 1: and effectually hide it from view. Why had he gone
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  Speaker 1: to all this labor without knowing the value of the
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  Speaker 1: contents of the chest? Tarzan of the Apes had a
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  Speaker 1: man's figure and a man's brain, but he was an
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  Speaker 1: ape by training an environment. His brain told him that
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  Speaker 1: the chest contained something valuable, or the men would not
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  Speaker 1: have hidden it. Training had taught him to imitate whatever
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  Speaker 1: was new and unusual, and now the natural curiosity, which
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  Speaker 1: is as common to men as to apes, prompted him
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  Speaker 1: to open the chest and examine its contents. But the
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  Speaker 1: heavy lock and massive iron bands baffled both his cunning
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  Speaker 1: and his immense strength, so that he was compelled to
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  Speaker 1: bury the chest without having his curiosity satisfied. By the
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  Speaker 1: time Tarzan had hunted his way back to the vicinity
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  Speaker 1: of the cabin, feeding as he went, it was quite dark.
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  Speaker 1: Within the little building. A light was burning, for Clayton
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  Speaker 1: had found an unopened tin of oil which had stood
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  Speaker 1: intact for twenty years, a part of the supplies left
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  Speaker 1: with the Claytons by Black Michael. The lamps also were
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  Speaker 1: still usable, and thus the interior of the cabin appeared
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  Speaker 1: as bright as day to the astonished Tarzan. He had
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  Speaker 1: often wondered at the exact purpose of the lamps. His
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  Speaker 1: reading and the pictures had told him what they were,
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  Speaker 1: but he had no idea of how they could be
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  Speaker 1: made to produce the wondrous sunlight that some of his
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  Speaker 1: pictures had portrayed them as diffusing upon all surrounding objects.
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  Speaker 1: As he approached the window nearest the door, he saw
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  Speaker 1: that the cabin had been divided into two rooms by
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  Speaker 1: a rough partition of bows and sailcloth. In the front
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  Speaker 1: room were the three men, the two older deep in argument,
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  Speaker 1: while the younger, tilted back against the wall on an
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  Speaker 1: improvised stool, was deeply engrossed in reading one of Tarzan's books.
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan was not particularly interested in the men, however, so
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  Speaker 1: he sought the other window. There was the girl. How
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  Speaker 1: beautiful her features, how delicate her snowy skin. She was
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  Speaker 1: riding at Tarzan's own table beneath the window, upon a
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  Speaker 1: pile of grasses. At the far side of the room
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  Speaker 1: lay the negress asleep. For an hour. Tarzan feasted his
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  Speaker 1: eyes upon her while she wrote how he longed to
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  Speaker 1: speak to her, but he dared not attempt it, for
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  Speaker 1: he was convinced that, like the young man, she would
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  Speaker 1: not understand him, and he feared too that he might
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  Speaker 1: frighten her away. At length, she arose, leaving her manuscript
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  Speaker 1: upon the table. She went to the bed, upon which
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  Speaker 1: had been spread several layers of soft grasses. These she rearranged.
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  Speaker 1: Then she loosened. The soft mass of golden hair, which
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  Speaker 1: crowned her head like a shimmering waterfall, turned to burnished
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  Speaker 1: metal by a dying sun. It fell about her oval
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: face in waving lines. Below her waist, it tumbled. Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: was spellbound. Then she extinguished the lamp, and all within
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: the cabin was wrapped in Sumerian darkness. Still, Tarzan watched,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: creeping close beneath the window. He waited, listening for half
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: an hour. At last he was rewarded by the sounds
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: of the regular breathing within, which denotes sleep. Cautiously, he
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  Speaker 1: intruded his hand between the meshes of the lattice until
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  Speaker 1: his whole arm was within the cabin. Carefully, he felt
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  Speaker 1: upon the desk. At last he grasped the manuscript upon
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: which Jane Porter had been writing, and as cautiously withdrew
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: his arm in hand. Holding the precious treasure, Tarzan folded
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: the sheets into a small parcel, which he tucked into
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: the quiver with his arrows. Then he melted away into
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the jungle as softly and as noiselessly as a shadow.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter