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27 - The Giant Again · Tarzan of the Apes

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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty seven, the Giant Again. A taxicab drew up
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  Speaker 1: before an old fashioned residence upon the outskirts of Baltimore.
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  Speaker 1: A man of about forty, well built in with strong
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  Speaker 1: regular features, stepped out and paying. The chauffeur dismissed him.
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  Speaker 1: A moment later, the passenger was entering the library of
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  Speaker 1: the old home. Ah, mister Candler, exclaimed an old man,
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  Speaker 1: rising to greet him. Good evening, My dear professor, cried
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  Speaker 1: the man, extending a cordial hand, who admitted you, asked
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  Speaker 1: the professor has miralda. Then she will acquaint Jane with
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you are here, said the old man. No,
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  Speaker 1: Professor replied Candler, for I came primarily to see you. Ah.
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  Speaker 1: I am honored, said Professor Porter. Professor continued Robert Candler
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  Speaker 1: with great delivery, as though carefully weighing his words. I
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  Speaker 1: have come this evening to speak with you about Jane.
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  Speaker 1: You know my aspirations, and you have been generous enough
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  Speaker 1: to approve my suit. Professor Archimedes Q. Porter fidgeted in
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  Speaker 1: his armchair. The subject always made him uncomfortable. He could
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  Speaker 1: not understand why Candler was a splendid match. But Jane
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  Speaker 1: continued Candler. I cannot understand her. She puts me off,
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  Speaker 1: first on one ground and then another. I have always
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  Speaker 1: the feeling that she breathes a sigh of relief every
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  Speaker 1: time I bid her goodbye. Tut tut, said Professor Porter.
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  Speaker 1: Tut tut, mister Candler. Jane is a most obedient daughter.
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  Speaker 1: She will do precisely as I tell her. Then I
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  Speaker 1: can still count on your support, asked Candler, a tone
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  Speaker 1: of relief marking his voice. Certainly, sir, certainly, sir, exclaimed
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  Speaker 1: Professor Porter. How could you doubt it? There is young Clayton,
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  Speaker 1: you know, suggested Candler. He has been hanging about for months.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that Jane cares for him. But beside
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  Speaker 1: his title, they say he has inherited a very considerable
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  Speaker 1: estate from his father, and it might not be strange
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  Speaker 1: if he finally won her. Unless, and Candler paused, Tut tut,
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  Speaker 1: mister Candler, Unless what, Unless you see fit to request
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  Speaker 1: that Jane and I be married at once? Said Candler,
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  Speaker 1: slowly and distinctly. I have already suggested to Jane that
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  Speaker 1: it would be desirable, said Professor Porter, sadly, for we
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  Speaker 1: can no longer afford to keep up this house and
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  Speaker 1: live as her association's demand. What was her reply, asked Candler.
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  Speaker 1: She said she was not ready to marry any one yet,
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  Speaker 1: replied Professor Port, and that we could go and live
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  Speaker 1: upon the farm in northern Wisconsin which your mother left her.
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  Speaker 1: It is a little more than self supporting. The tenants
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  Speaker 1: have always made a living from it and been able
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  Speaker 1: to send Jane a trifle beside each year. As she
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  Speaker 1: is planning on our going up there the first of
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  Speaker 1: the week, Falander and mister Clayton have already gone to
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  Speaker 1: get things in readiness for us. Clayton has gone there,
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  Speaker 1: exclaimed Candler, visibly chagrined. Why was I not told? I
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  Speaker 1: would gladly have gone and seen that every comfort was provided.
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  Speaker 1: Jane feels that we are already too much in your debt,
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  Speaker 1: mister Candler, said Professor Porter. Candler was about to reply
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  Speaker 1: when the sound of footsteps came from the hall without
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  Speaker 1: and Jane entered the room. Oh, I beg your pardon,
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  Speaker 1: she exclaimed, pausing on the threshold. I thought you were alone, Papa.
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  Speaker 1: It is only I, Jane, said Candler, who had risen.
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  Speaker 1: Won't you come in and join the family. Group. We
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  Speaker 1: were just speaking of you. Thank you, said Jane, entering
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  Speaker 1: and taking the chair Candler placed for her. I only
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  Speaker 1: wanted to tell Papa that Toby is coming down from
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  Speaker 1: the college tomorrow to pack his books. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to be sure, Papa, to indicate all that you can
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  Speaker 1: do without until fall. Please don't carry this entire library
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  Speaker 1: to Wisconsin, as you would have carried it to Africa
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  Speaker 1: if I had not put my foot down. Was Toby here,
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  Speaker 1: asked Professor Porter. Yes, I just left him. He and
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  Speaker 1: Esmeralda are exchanging religious experiences on the back porch. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Tut tut, I must see him at once, cried the professor.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me just a moment. Children, and the old man
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  Speaker 1: hastened from the room. As soon as he was out
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  Speaker 1: of earshot, Candler turned to Jane. See here, Jane, he said, bluntly,
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  Speaker 1: how long is this thing going on like this? You
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  Speaker 1: haven't refused to marry me, but you haven't promised either.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get the license tomorrow so that we
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  Speaker 1: can be married quietly before you leave for Wisconsin. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care for any fuss or feathers, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: you don't either. The girl turned cold, but she held
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  Speaker 1: her head bravely. Your father wishes it, you know, added Candler, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I know, she spoke scarcely above a whisper. Do you
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  Speaker 1: realize that you are buying me, mister Candler, she said, finally,
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  Speaker 1: and in a cold level voice, buying me for a
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  Speaker 1: few paltry dollars. Of course you do, Robert Candler, And
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  Speaker 1: the hope of just such a contingency was in your
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  Speaker 1: mind when you loan Popa the money for that hair
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  Speaker 1: brained escapade, which, but for a most mysterious circumstance, would
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  Speaker 1: have been surprisingly successful. But you, mister Candler, would have
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  Speaker 1: been the most surprised. You had no idea that the
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  Speaker 1: venture would succeed. You are too good of business men
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  Speaker 1: for that, And you are too good a businessmen to
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  Speaker 1: low money for buried treasure seeking, or to low money
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  Speaker 1: without security unless you had some special object in view.
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  Speaker 1: You knew that without security you had a greater hold
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  Speaker 1: on the honor of the porters than with it. You
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  Speaker 1: knew the one best way to force me to marry you,
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  Speaker 1: without seeming to force me. You have never mentioned the
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  Speaker 1: loan in any other man. I should have thought that
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  Speaker 1: the prompting of a magnanimous and noble character. But you
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  Speaker 1: are deep, mister Robert Candler. I know you better than
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  Speaker 1: you think I know you. I shall certainly marry you
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  Speaker 1: if there is no other way, but let us understand
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  Speaker 1: each other once and for all. While she spoke, Robert
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  Speaker 1: Candler had alternately flushed and paled, And when she ceased speaking,
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  Speaker 1: he arose and, with a cynical smile upon his strong face, said,
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  Speaker 1: you surprise me, Jane. I thought you had more self control,
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  Speaker 1: more pride. Of course you are right. I am buying you,
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  Speaker 1: and I knew that you knew it, and I thought
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  Speaker 1: you would prefer to pretend that it was otherwise. I
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  Speaker 1: should have thought your self respect and your porter pride
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  Speaker 1: would have shrunk from admitting even to yourself that you
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  Speaker 1: were a bought woman. But have it your own way,
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  Speaker 1: dear girl, he added lightly, I am going to have you,
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  Speaker 1: and that is all that interests me. Without a word,
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  Speaker 1: the girl turned and left the room. Jane was not
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  Speaker 1: married before she left with her father and Esmeralda for
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  Speaker 1: her little Wisconsin farm, and as she coldly bid Robert
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  Speaker 1: Candler good bye, as her train pulled out, he called
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  Speaker 1: to her that he would join them in a week
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  Speaker 1: or two. At their destination, they were met by Clayton
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  Speaker 1: and mister Falander in a huge touring car belonging to
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  Speaker 1: the former, and quickly whirled away through the dense northern
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  Speaker 1: woods towards the little farm which the girl had not
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  Speaker 1: visited before since childhood. The farmhouse, which stood on a
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  Speaker 1: little elevation some hundred yards from the tenant house, had
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  Speaker 1: undergone a complete transformation during the three weeks that Clayton
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  Speaker 1: and mister Flander had been there. The former had imported
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  Speaker 1: a small army of carpenters and plasterers, plumbers and painters
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  Speaker 1: from a distant city, and what had been but a
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  Speaker 1: dilapidated shell when they reached it was now a cozy,
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  Speaker 1: little two story house filled with every modern convenience procurable
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  Speaker 1: in so short a time. Why, mister Clayton, what have
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  Speaker 1: you done? Cried Jane Porter, her heart sinking within her
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  Speaker 1: as she realized the probable size of the expenditure that
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  Speaker 1: had been made. Sh cautioned, Clayton, don't let your father guess.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't tell him, then he will never notice.
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  Speaker 1: And I simply couldn't think of him living in the
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  Speaker 1: terror will squalor in sordidness which mister Flander and I
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  Speaker 1: found it was so little when I would like to
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  Speaker 1: do so much, Jane, for his sake, Please never mention it.
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  Speaker 1: But you know that we can't repay you, cried the girl.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you want to put me under such terrible obligations? Don't, Jane,
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  Speaker 1: said Clayton, sadly. If it had been just you, believe me,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have done it for I knew from the
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  Speaker 1: start that it would only hurt me in your eyes.
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  Speaker 1: But I couldn't think of that dear old man living
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  Speaker 1: in the hole we found here. Won't you please believe
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  Speaker 1: that I did it just for him and give me
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  Speaker 1: that little crumb of pleasure? At least I do believe you,
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  Speaker 1: mister Clayton, said the girl, because I know you are
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  Speaker 1: big enough and generous enough to have done it just
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  Speaker 1: for him, And oh, Cecil, I wish I might repay
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  Speaker 1: you as you deserve, as you would wish. Why can't you, Jane?
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  Speaker 1: Because I love another candler? No, but you are going
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  Speaker 1: to marry him. He told me as much before I
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  Speaker 1: left Baltimore. The girl winced. I do not love him,
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  Speaker 1: she said, almost proudly. Is it because of the money, Jane,
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  Speaker 1: she nodded. Then am I so much less desirable than Candler?
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  Speaker 1: I have money enough and far more for every need,
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  Speaker 1: he said bitterly. I do not love you, Cecil, she said,
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  Speaker 1: but I respect you. If I must disgrace myself by
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  Speaker 1: such a bargain with any man, I prefer that it
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  Speaker 1: be one I already despise. I should loathe the man
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  Speaker 1: to whom I soul myself, without love, whomsoever he might be,
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  Speaker 1: you will be happier, she concluded, alone with my respect
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  Speaker 1: and friendship, than with me and my contempt. He did
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  Speaker 1: not press the matter further. But if ever a man
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  Speaker 1: had murder in his heart, it was William Cecil Clayton,
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  Speaker 1: Lord Greystoke. When a week later Robert Candler drew up
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  Speaker 1: before the farmhouse in his purring six cylinder. A week
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  Speaker 1: passed a tense, uneventful, but uncomfortable week for all the
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  Speaker 1: inmates of the Little Wisconsin Farmhouse. Candler was insistent did
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  Speaker 1: Jane marry him at once. At length, she gave in,
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  Speaker 1: from sheer loathing of the continued and hateful importuning. It
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  Speaker 1: was agreed that on the morrow Candler was to drive
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  Speaker 1: to town and bring back the license and a minister.
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  Speaker 1: Clayton had wanted to leave as soon as the plan
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  Speaker 1: was announced, but the girl's tired, hopeless look kept him.
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  Speaker 1: He could not desert her. Something might happen. Yet he
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  Speaker 1: tried to console himself by thinking, and in his heart
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  Speaker 1: he knew that it would require but a tiny spark
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  Speaker 1: to turn his hatred for Candler into the bloodlust of
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  Speaker 1: the killer. Early the next morning, Candler set out for town.
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  Speaker 1: In the east, smoke could be seen lying low over
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  Speaker 1: the forest, for a fire had been raging for a
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  Speaker 1: week not far from them, but the wind still lay
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  Speaker 1: in the west and no danger threatened them. About noon,
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  Speaker 1: Jane started off for a walk. She would not let
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  Speaker 1: Clayton accompany her. She wanted to be alone, she said,
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  Speaker 1: and he respected her wishes. In the house, Professor Porter
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  Speaker 1: and mister Flander were immersed in the absorbing discussion of
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  Speaker 1: some weighty scientific problem as Maralda dozed in the kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: and Clayton, heavy eyed after a sleepless night, threw himself
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  Speaker 1: down upon the couch in the living room and soon
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  Speaker 1: dropped into a fitful slumber. To the east, the black
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  Speaker 1: smoke clouds rose higher into the heavens. Suddenly they eddied,
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  Speaker 1: and then commenced to drift rapidly toward the west. On
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  Speaker 1: and on they came. The inmates of the tenant house
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  Speaker 1: were gone, for it was market day, and none was
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  Speaker 1: there to see the rapid approach of the fiery demon. Soon,
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  Speaker 1: the flames had spanned the road to the south and
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  Speaker 1: cut off Candler's return. A little fluctuation of the wind
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  Speaker 1: now carried the path of the forest fire to the north,
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  Speaker 1: then blew back, and the flames nearly stood still, as
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  Speaker 1: though held in leash by some master hand. Suddenly, out
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  Speaker 1: of the northeast, a great black car came careening down
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  Speaker 1: the road with a jolt. It stopped before the cottage,
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  Speaker 1: and a black haired giant leaped out to run up
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  Speaker 1: onto the porch. Without a pause, he rushed into the house.
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  Speaker 1: On the couch lay Clayton. The man started in surprise,
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  Speaker 1: but with a bound was at the side of the
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  Speaker 1: sleeping man, shaking him roughly by the shoulder. He cried,
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  Speaker 1: my god, Clayton, are you all mad here? Don't you know?
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  Speaker 1: You are nearly surrounded by fire? Where is miss Porter?
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  Speaker 1: Clayton sprang to his feet. He did not recognize the man,
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  Speaker 1: but he understood the words and was upon the veranda
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  Speaker 1: in a bound Scott, he cried, and then dashing back
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  Speaker 1: into the house. Jane, Jane, where are you? In an instant, Esmeralda,
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  Speaker 1: Professor Porter and mister Falander had joined the two men.
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  Speaker 1: Where is miss Jane, cried Clayton, seizing as Maraalda by
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  Speaker 1: the shoulders and shaking her roughly. Oh, Gabberrell, mister Clayton,
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  Speaker 1: She done gone for a walk? Hasn't she come back yet?
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  Speaker 1: And without waiting for a reply, Clayton dashed out into
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  Speaker 1: the yard, followed by the others. Which way did she go?
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  Speaker 1: Cried the black haired giant of Esmeralda. Down that road,
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  Speaker 1: cried the frightened woman, pointing toward the south, where a
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  Speaker 1: mighty wall of roaring flames shut out the view. Put
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  Speaker 1: these people in the other car, shouted the stranger to Clayton.
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  Speaker 1: I saw one as I drove up, and get them
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  Speaker 1: out of here by the the north road. Leave my
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  Speaker 1: car here. If I find miss Porter, we shall need it.
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  Speaker 1: If I don't, no one will need it. Do as
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  Speaker 1: I say, as Clayton hesitated, and then he saw the
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  Speaker 1: lithe figure bound away across the clearing, toward the northwest,
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  Speaker 1: where the forest still stood untouched by flame. In each
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  Speaker 1: rose the unaccountable feeling that a great responsibility had been
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  Speaker 1: raised from their shoulders, a kind of implicit confidence in
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  Speaker 1: the power of the stranger to save Jane, if she
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  Speaker 1: could be saved. Who was that, asked Professor Porter. I
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  Speaker 1: do not know, replied Clayton. He called me by name,
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  Speaker 1: and he knew Jane, for he asked for her, and
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  Speaker 1: he called Esmeralda by name. There was something most startlingly
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  Speaker 1: familiar about him, exclaimed mister Flander. And yet, bless me,
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  Speaker 1: I know I never saw him before. Tut tut, cried
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  Speaker 1: Professor Porter. Most remarkable. Who could it have been? And
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  Speaker 1: why do I feel that Jane is safe now that
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  Speaker 1: he has set out in search of her. I can't
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  Speaker 1: tell you, Professor, said Clayton soberly. But I know I
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  Speaker 1: have the same uncanny feeling. But come, he cried, we
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  Speaker 1: must get out of here ourselves, or we shall be
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  Speaker 1: shut off, and the party hastened toward Clayton's car. When
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  Speaker 1: Jane turned to retrace her steps homeward, she was alarmed
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  Speaker 1: to note how near the stroke of the forest, fire seemed,
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  Speaker 1: and as she hastened onward, her alarm became almost a
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  Speaker 1: panic when she perceived that the rushing flames were rapidly
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  Speaker 1: forcing their way between herself and the cottage. At length,
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  Speaker 1: she was compelled to turn into the dense thicket and
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  Speaker 1: attempt to force their way to the west in an
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  Speaker 1: effort to circle around the flames and reach the house
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  Speaker 1: in a short time. The futility of her attempt became apparent,
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  Speaker 1: and that her one hope lay in retracing her steps
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  Speaker 1: to the road and flying for her life to the
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  Speaker 1: south toward the town. The twenty minutes that it took
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  Speaker 1: her to regain the road was all that had been
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  Speaker 1: needed to cut off her retreat as effectually as her
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  Speaker 1: advance had been cut off before. A short run down
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  Speaker 1: the road brought her to a horrified stand, for there
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  Speaker 1: before her was another wall of flame. An arm of
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  Speaker 1: the main conflagration had shot out a half mile south
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  Speaker 1: of its parent to embrace this tiny strip of road
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  Speaker 1: in its implacable clutches. Jane knew that it was useless
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  Speaker 1: again to attempt to force her way through the undergrowth.
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  Speaker 1: She had tried at once and failed. Now she realized
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  Speaker 1: that it would be but a matter of minutes ere
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  Speaker 1: the whole space between the north and the south would
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  Speaker 1: be a seething mass of billowing flames. Calmly, the girl
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  Speaker 1: kneeled down in the dust of the roadway and prayed
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  Speaker 1: for strength to meet her fate bravely, and for the
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  Speaker 1: delivery of her father and her friends from death. Suddenly
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  Speaker 1: she heard her name being called aloud through the forest, Jane,
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  Speaker 1: Jane Porter. It rang strong and clear, but in a
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  Speaker 1: strange voice. Here she called in reply. Here in the roadway.
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  Speaker 1: Then through the branches of the trees, she saw a
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  Speaker 1: figure swinging with the speed of a squirrel. A veering
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  Speaker 1: of the wind blew a cloud of smoke about them,
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  Speaker 1: and she could no longer see the man who was
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  Speaker 1: speeding toward her. But suddenly she felt a great arm
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  Speaker 1: about her. Then she was lifted up, and she felt
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  Speaker 1: the rushing of the wind and the occasional brush of
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  Speaker 1: a branch. As she was borne along. She opened her eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Far below her lay the undergrowth and the hard earth.
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  Speaker 1: About her was the waving foliage of the forest. From
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  Speaker 1: tree to tree swung the giant figure which bore her
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  Speaker 1: and It seemed to Jane that she was living over
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  Speaker 1: in a dream the experience that had been hers in
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  Speaker 1: that far African jungle. Oh if it were but the
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  Speaker 1: same man who had borne her so swiftly through the
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  Speaker 1: tangled verdure on that other day. But that was impossible. Yet,
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  Speaker 1: who else in all the world was there with the
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  Speaker 1: strength and agility to do what this man was now doing.
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  Speaker 1: She stole a sudden glance at the face close to hers,
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  Speaker 1: and then she gave a little frightened gasp. It was he,
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  Speaker 1: my forest man, she murmured. No, I must be delirious. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: your man, Jane Porter, your savage primeval man, come out
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  Speaker 1: of the jungle to claim his mate, the woman who
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  Speaker 1: ran away from him, He added, almost fiercely. I did
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  Speaker 1: not run away, she whispered. I would only consent to leave.
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  Speaker 1: When they had waited a week for you to return.
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  Speaker 1: They had come to a point beyond the fire now,
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  Speaker 1: and he had turned back to the clearing. Side by side,
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  Speaker 1: they were walking toward the cottage. The wind had changed
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  Speaker 1: once more, and the fire was burning back upon itself.
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  Speaker 1: Another hour like that and it will be burned out.
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  Speaker 1: Why did you not return, she asked, I was nursing Darnault.
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  Speaker 1: He was badly wounded. Ah, I knew it, she exclaimed.
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  Speaker 1: They said you had gone to join the Blacks, that
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  Speaker 1: they were your people, he laughed, But you did not
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  Speaker 1: believe them. Jane, No, what shall I call you? She asked?
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  Speaker 1: What is your name? I was Tarzan of the Apes
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  Speaker 1: when you first knew me, he said, Tarzan of the Apes.
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  Speaker 1: She cried, And that was your note, I answered when
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  Speaker 1: I left. Yes, whose did you think it was? I
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: did not know, only that it could not be yours.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: For Tarzan of the Apes had written in English, and
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: you cannot understand a word of any language. Again, he laughed,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: It is a long story, but it was I who
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: wrote what I could not speak. And now Darnault has
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: made matters worse by teaching me to speak French instead
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: of English. Come, he added, Jump into my car. We
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: must overtake your father. They are only a little way ahead.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: As they drove along, he said, Then, when you said
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: in your note to Tarzan of the Apes that you
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: loved another, you might have meant me. I might have,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: she answered, simply. But in Baltimore, Oh, how I have
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: searched for you. They told me you would possibly be
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: married by now that a man named Kendler had come
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: up here to wed you. Is that true? Yes? Do
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: you love him? No? Do you love me? She buried
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: her face in her hands. I am promised to another.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I cannot answer you, Tarzan, of the apes, she cried,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: you have answered. Now tell me why you would marry
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: one you do not love? My father owes him money.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Suddenly there came back to Tarzan the memory of the
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: letter he had read, and the name Robert Candler, and
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the hinted trouble which he had been unable to understand.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Then he smiled, if your father had not lost the treasure,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: you would not feel forced to keep your promise to
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: this man Candler. I could ask him to release me,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: and if he refused, I have given my promise. He
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: was silent for a moment. The car was plunging along
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the uneven road at a reckless pace, for the fires
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: showed threateningly at their right, and another change of the
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: wind might sweep it on with raging fury, across this
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: one avenue of escape. Finally they passed the danger point,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: and Tarzan reduced their speed. Suppose I should ask him,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: ventured Tarzan, he would scarcely accede to the demand of
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: a stranger, said the girl, especially one who wanted me
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: himself to her cous did, said Tarzan grimly. Jane shuddered
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: and looked fearfully up at the giant figure beside her,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: for she knew that he meant the great anthropoid he
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: had killed in her defense. This is not the African jungle,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: she said. You are no longer a savage beast. You
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: are a gentleman, and gentlemen do not kill in cold blood.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: I am still a wild beast at heart, he said,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: in a low voice, as though to himself. Again. They
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: were silent for a time. Jane said the man at length,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: if you were free, would you marry me? She did
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: not reply at once, but he waited patiently. The girl
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: was trying to collect her thoughts. What did she know
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: of this strange creature at her side? What did he
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: know of himself? Elf? Who was he? Who his parents? Why?
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: His very name echoed his mysterious origin and his savage life?
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: He had no name? Could she be happy with this
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: jungle waif? Could she find anything in common with a
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: husband whose life had been spent at the treetops of
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: an African wilderness, frolicking and fighting with fierce anthropoids, tearing
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: his food from the quivering flank of fresh killed prey,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: sinking his strong teeth into raw flesh, and tearing away
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: his portion while his mates growled and fought about him
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: for their share. Could he ever rise to her social sphere?
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Could she bear to think of sinking to his? Would
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: either be happy in such a horrible misalliance? You do
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: not answer, he said, Do you shrink from wounding me?
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I do not know what answer to make, said Jane, sadly.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I do not know my own mind. You do not
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: love me, then, he asked, in a level tone, Do
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: not ask me. You will be happier without me. You
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: were never meant for the formal restrictions and conventionalities of society.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Civilization would become irksome to you, and in a little
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: while you would long for the freedom of your old life,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: a life to which I am as totally unfitted as
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: you to mine. I think I understand you, he replied quietly.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I shall not urge you, for I would rather see
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: you happy than to be happy myself. I see now
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: that you could not be happy with an ape. There
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: was just the faintish tinge of bitterness in his voice. Don't,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: she remonstrated, don't say that you do not understand. But
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: before she could go on, a sudden turn in the
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: road brought them into the midst of a little hamlet.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Before them stood Clayton, his car, surrounded by the party
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: he had brought from the cottage. End of chapter