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18 - The Spoor of Revenge · Tarzan and the Golden Lion

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Speaker 1: Chapter eighteen, The Spore of Revenge. As Tarzan of the Apes,
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Speaker 1: adapting his speed to that of jad Baljah, made his
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Speaker 1: comparatively slow way toward home. He reviewed with varying emotions
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Speaker 1: the experiences of the past week. While he had been
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Speaker 1: unsuccessful in raiding the treasure vaults of Opar, the sack
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Speaker 1: of diamonds which he carried compensated several fold for this
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Speaker 1: miscarriage of his plans. His only concern now was for
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Speaker 1: the safety of his waziri, and perhaps a troublesome desire
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Speaker 1: to seek out the whites who had drugged him and
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Speaker 1: meet out to them the punishment they deserved. In view, however,
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Speaker 1: of his greater desire to return home, he decided to
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Speaker 1: make no effort at apprehending them for the time being,
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Speaker 1: at least hunting together, feeding together, and sleeping together. The
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Speaker 1: man and the great Lion trod the savage jungle trails
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Speaker 1: toward home. Yesterday they shared the meat of Bara the deer.
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Speaker 1: To day they feasted upon the carcass of Horta the boar,
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Speaker 1: and between them there was little chance that either would
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Speaker 1: go hungry. They had come within a day's march of
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Speaker 1: the Bungalow when Tarzan discovered the spoor of a considerable
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Speaker 1: body of warriors. As some men devour the latest stock
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Speaker 1: market quotations as though their very existence depended upon an
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Speaker 1: accurate knowledge of them, so Tarzan of the Apes devoured
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Speaker 1: every scrap of information that the jungle held for him, for,
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Speaker 1: in truth, an accurate knowledge of all that this information
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Speaker 1: could impart to him had been during his lifetime, a
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Speaker 1: sine qua known to his existence. So now he carefully
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Speaker 1: examined the spoor that lay before him, several days old,
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Speaker 1: though it was and partially obliterated by the passage of
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Speaker 1: beasts since it had been made, but yet legible enough
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Speaker 1: to the keen eyes and nostrils of the ape man.
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Speaker 1: His partial indifference suddenly gave way to keen interest, for
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Speaker 1: among the footprints of the great warriors, he saw now
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Speaker 1: and again the smaller one of a white woman, a
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Speaker 1: loved footprint that he knew as well as you know
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Speaker 1: your mother's face. The Wazir returned and told her that
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Speaker 1: I was missing. He soliloquized, and now she has set
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Speaker 1: out with them to search for me. He turned to
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Speaker 1: the lion well jad Baljaw. Once again we turn away
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Speaker 1: from home, but no where she is home. The direction
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Speaker 1: that the trail led rather mystified Tarzan of the Apes,
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Speaker 1: as it was not along the direct route toward Opar,
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Speaker 1: but in a rather more southerly direction. On the sixth day,
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Speaker 1: his keen ears caught the sound of approaching men, and
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Speaker 1: presently there was wafted to his nostrils the spoor of blacks,
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Speaker 1: sending jad Baljaw into a thicket to hide. Tarzan took
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Speaker 1: to the trees and moved rapidly in the direction of
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Speaker 1: the approaching negroes. As the distance between them lessened, the
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Speaker 1: scent became stronger, until even before he saw them, Tarzan
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Speaker 1: knew that they were Waziri, but the one effluvium that
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Speaker 1: would have filled his soul with happiness was lacking. It
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Speaker 1: was a surprised Usula, who, at the head of the
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Speaker 1: sad and dejected Waziri, came at the turning of the trail,
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Speaker 1: suddenly face to face with his master. Tarzan of the
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Speaker 1: Apes cried, Usula, is it indeed you? It is none other,
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Speaker 1: replied the ape man. But where is lady Greystoke? Ah, Master,
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Speaker 1: how can we tell you? Cried Usula? You do not mean,
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Speaker 1: cried Tarzan. It cannot be nothing could happen to her
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Speaker 1: while she was guarded by Mawaziri. The warriors hung their
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Speaker 1: heads in shame and sorrow. We offer our lives for hers,
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Speaker 1: said Usula simply. He threw down his spear and shield, and,
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Speaker 1: stretching his arms wide apart, bared his great breast to Tarzan.
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Speaker 1: Strike Buana, he said. The ape man turned away with
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Speaker 1: bowed head. Presently, he looked at Usula again. Tell me
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Speaker 1: how it happened, he said, And forget your foolish speech,
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Speaker 1: as I have forgotten the suggestion which prompted it. Briefly,
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Speaker 1: Usula narrated the events which had led up to the
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Speaker 1: death of Jane, and when he was done, Tarzan of
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Speaker 1: the Apes spoke but three words, voicing a question which
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Speaker 1: was typical of him. Where is Luvini? He asked. Ah
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Speaker 1: that we do not know, replied Usula. But I shall know,
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Speaker 1: said Tarzan of the Apes. Go upon your way, my children,
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Speaker 1: back to your huts and your women and your children.
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Speaker 1: And when next you see Tarzan of the Apes, you
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Speaker 1: will know that Luvini is dead. They begged permission to
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Speaker 1: accompany him, but he would not listen. To them. You
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Speaker 1: are needed at home this time of year, he said,
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Speaker 1: already you have been gone too long from the herds
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Speaker 1: and fields. Return then, and carry word to Korak, But
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Speaker 1: tell him that it is my wish that he too
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Speaker 1: remains at home. If I fail, then may he come
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Speaker 1: and take up my unfinished work if he wishes to
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Speaker 1: do so. As he ceased speaking, he turned back in
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Speaker 1: the direction from which he had come and whistled once,
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Speaker 1: a single, low, long drawn note, and a moment later,
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Speaker 1: jad Baljah, the Golden Lion, bounded into view along the
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Speaker 1: jungle trail. The Golden Lion cried Usula when he escaped
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Speaker 1: from Kiwazi. It was to search for his beloved Buana.
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Speaker 1: Tarzan nodded. He followed many marches to a strange country
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Speaker 1: until he found me, he said. And then he bid
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Speaker 1: the Waziri good bye, and bent his steps once more,
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Speaker 1: away from home in search of Luvini and revenge. John Peebles,
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Speaker 1: wedged in the crotch of a large tree, greeted the
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Speaker 1: coming dawn with weary eyes. Near him was Dick Throck,
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Speaker 1: similarly braced in another crotch, while Krasky more intelligent and
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Speaker 1: therefore possessing more inventive genius, had rigged a small platform
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Speaker 1: of branches across two parallel boughs, upon which he lay
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Speaker 1: in comparative comfort. Ten feet above him. Blew bir swung,
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Speaker 1: half exhausted and wholly terrified to a smaller branch, supported
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Speaker 1: in something that approximated safety by a fork of the
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Speaker 1: branch to which he clung. Gord groaned, Peebles, how let
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Speaker 1: the bloody lions have me before I'll spend another such
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Speaker 1: a night as this, And here we are, and that's that,
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Speaker 1: and BlimE me too, said droc Hart sleeps on the
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Speaker 1: ground after this. Lions are no lions. If the combined
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Speaker 1: intelligence of the three of you was equal to that
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Speaker 1: of a Walrius, remarked Krasky, we might have slipped in
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Speaker 1: comparative safety and comfort last night on the ground. Here
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Speaker 1: they are, Blueber. Mister Krasky is spiking to you, called
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Speaker 1: Peebles in fine sarcasm, accenting the mister oy oy. I
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Speaker 1: don't care what nobody says, mon Blueber. He wants us
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Speaker 1: to build a house for him every night, continued Peebles.
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Speaker 1: While he stands about and tells us bloomin well, how
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Speaker 1: to do it, and him, being a fine gentleman, don't
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Speaker 1: do no work. Why should I do any work with
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Speaker 1: my hands when you two big beasts haven't got anything
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Speaker 1: else to work with, asked Krasky. You would all have
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Speaker 1: starved by this time if I hadn't found food for you,
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Speaker 1: and you'll be lying meat in the inn, or they
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Speaker 1: have exhaustion if you don't listen to me. Not that
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Speaker 1: it would be much loss. The others paid no attention
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Speaker 1: to this last sally. As a matter of fact, they
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Speaker 1: had all been quarreling so much for such a long
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Speaker 1: time that they really paid little attention to one another,
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Speaker 1: with the exception of Peoples in Throck, they all hated
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Speaker 1: one another cordially and only clung together because they were
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Speaker 1: afraid to separate. Slowly, Peoples lowered his bulk to the ground.
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Speaker 1: Throck followed him, and then came Krasky, and then finally Blueber,
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Speaker 1: who stood for a moment in silence, looking down at
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Speaker 1: his disreputable clothing. Mind got he exclaimed, at last, look
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Speaker 1: at me this suit, but it costs me twenty guineys.
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Speaker 1: Look at it ruined, ruined, If wouldn't bring one penny
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Speaker 1: hunder pound the hill with your clothes, exclaimed Krasky. Here
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Speaker 1: we are lost, half starved, constantly menaced by wild animals,
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Speaker 1: and maybe, for all we know, by cannibals, with four
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Speaker 1: missing in the jungle, and you can stand there and
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Speaker 1: talk about your twentic guineys suit. You make me tired blueber.
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Speaker 1: But come on, we might as well keep moving. Which way,
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Speaker 1: asked Throc. Why to the west? Of course, replied Grass.
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Speaker 1: The coast is there and there is nothing for us
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Speaker 1: to do but try to reach it. We can't reach
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Speaker 1: it by going east, roared Peebles. And here we are,
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Speaker 1: and that's that. Who said we could? Demanded Krasky. Well,
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Speaker 1: we was traveling east all day yesterday, said Peebles. I
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Speaker 1: knew all the time that there was something wrong, and
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Speaker 1: I've just got it figured out. Throck looked at his
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Speaker 1: partner in stupid surprise. What do you mean, he growled,
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Speaker 1: What makes you think we was traveling east? It's easy enough,
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Speaker 1: replied Peebles, And I can prove it to you, because
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Speaker 1: this party here knows so much more than the rest
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Speaker 1: of us. We've been traveling straight toward the interior ever
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Speaker 1: since the Niggers deserted us. He nodded towards the Russian,
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Speaker 1: who stood with his hands on his hips, eyeing the
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Speaker 1: other quizzically. If you think I'm taking you the wrong direction,
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Speaker 1: Peoples said Krasky, you just turn around and go the
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Speaker 1: other way. But I'm going to keep on the way
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Speaker 1: we've been going, which is the right way. It ain't
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Speaker 1: the right way, retorted Peebles, and I'll show you. Listen here,
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Speaker 1: when you travel west, the sun is at your left,
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Speaker 1: isn't it. That is all. We're in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the day. Well, ever since we've been traveling without the niggers,
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Speaker 1: the sun's been at all right. I felt all the
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Speaker 1: time there was something wrong, but I could never figure
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Speaker 1: it out until just now. It's plain as the face
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Speaker 1: on your nose. We've been traveling due east right along. Blimey,
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Speaker 1: cried Throc that we have due east. And this blodder
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Speaker 1: thinks how he knows it all, Eich, groaned Blueber. Once
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Speaker 1: we got to vok it all back again, yet finds more,
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Speaker 1: Krasky laughed and turned away to resume the march in
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Speaker 1: the direction he had chosen. You, fellows, going your own
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Speaker 1: way if you want to, he said, And while you're traveling,
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Speaker 1: just ponder the fact that you're south of the equator,
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Speaker 1: and that therefore the sun is always in the north,
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Speaker 1: which however, doesn't change its old fashioned habit of setting
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Speaker 1: in the west. Blueber was the first to gress the
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Speaker 1: truth of Krasky's statement. Come on, boys, he said, carves right,
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Speaker 1: and he turned and followed. The Russian people stood scratching
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Speaker 1: his head, entirely baffled by the puzzling problem, which Throck
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Speaker 1: also was pondering deeply. Presently, the latter turned after Blueber
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Speaker 1: and Krasky. Come on, John, he said to Peebles, I
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Speaker 1: don't understand it, but I guess they're right. They're heading
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Speaker 1: straight for where the sun set last night, and that
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Speaker 1: sure must be west. His theory tottering people's followed Throck,
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Speaker 1: though he remained unconvinced. The four men, hungry and footsore,
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Speaker 1: had dragged their weary way along the jungle trail toward
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Speaker 1: the west for several hours in vain search for game.
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Speaker 1: Unschooled in jungle craft, they blundered on. There might have
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Speaker 1: been on every hand fierce carnivore or savage warriors, but
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Speaker 1: so dull of the perceptive faculties of civilized man. The
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Speaker 1: most blatant foe might have stalked them unperceived. And so
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Speaker 1: it was that shortly afternoon, as they were crossing a
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Speaker 1: small clearing, the zip of an arrow that barely missed
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Speaker 1: Blueber's head brought them to a sudden, terrified halt. With
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Speaker 1: a shrill scream of terror, the Jew crumpled to the ground.
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Speaker 1: Krasky threw his rifle to his shoulder and fired there.
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Speaker 1: He cried behind those bushes, and then another arrow from
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Speaker 1: another direction pierced his forearm. Peebles in throck. Beefy and
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Speaker 1: Cumbersome got into action with less celerity than the Russian,
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Speaker 1: but like him, they showed no indication of fear. Down,
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Speaker 1: cried Krasky, suiting the action to the word lie down
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Speaker 1: and let them have it. Scarcely had the three men
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Speaker 1: dropped among the long grass, when a score of pigmy
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Speaker 1: hunters came into the open, and a volley of arrows
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Speaker 1: whizzed above the prone men, while from a nearby tree,
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Speaker 1: two steel gray eyes looked down upon the ambush. Blueber
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Speaker 1: lay upon his belly, with his face buried in his arms,
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Speaker 1: his useless rifle laying at his side, But Krasky Peebles
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Speaker 1: and Throck, fighting for their lives, pumped lead into the
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Speaker 1: band of yelling pigmies. Krasky and Peebles each dropped a
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Speaker 1: native with his rifle, and then the foe withdrew into
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Speaker 1: the concealing safety of this surrounding jungle. For a moment,
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Speaker 1: there was a cessation of hostilities. Utter silence reigned, and
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Speaker 1: then a voice broke the quiet from the veendure of
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Speaker 1: a nearby forest giant. Do not fire until I tell
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Speaker 1: you to, it said in English, and I will save you.
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Speaker 1: Blueber raised his head. Come quick, come quick, he cried,
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Speaker 1: Viva Nott shoot, save me, Save me, wouldn't I give
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Speaker 1: you five pounds? From the tree from which the voice
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Speaker 1: had issued, there came a single, low, long drawn, whistled note,
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Speaker 1: and then silence for a time. The Pigmies, momentarily surprised
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Speaker 1: by the mysterious voice emanating from the foliage of a tree,
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Speaker 1: ceased their activities, but presently, hearing nothing to arouse their fear,
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Speaker 1: they emerged from the cover of the bushes and launched
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Speaker 1: another volley of arrows toward the four men lying among
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Speaker 1: the grasses in the clearing. Simultaneously, the figure of a
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Speaker 1: white giant leaped from the lower branches of a patriarch
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Speaker 1: of the jungle as a great black maned lion sprang
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Speaker 1: from the thicket below. Ach shrieked blueber, and again buried
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Speaker 1: his face in his arms. For an instant. The pygmies
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Speaker 1: stood terrified, and then their leader cried, it is Tarzan,
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Speaker 1: and turned and fled into the jungle. Yes, it is Tarzan,
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Speaker 1: Tarzan of the Apes, cried Lord Greystoke, It is Tarzan
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Speaker 1: and the Golden Lion. But he spoke in the dialect
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Speaker 1: of the pigmies, and the whites understood no word of
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Speaker 1: what he said. Then he turned to them. The Gomangani
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Speaker 1: have gone, he said, get up. The four men crawled
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Speaker 1: to their feet. Who are you and what are you
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Speaker 1: doing here? Demanded Tarzan of the Apes. But I do
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Speaker 1: not need to ask who you are. You are the
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Speaker 1: men who drugged me and left me helpless in your camp.
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Speaker 1: A prayer to the first passing lion or savage native
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Speaker 1: Bluver stumbled forward, rubbing his palms together and cringing and smiling. Oi, Oi,
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Speaker 1: mister Tarzan. We did not know you. Never Vabe Deva
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Speaker 1: Bedan had been known. It was Tarzan. Of the apes,
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Speaker 1: Save me ten pounds, twenty pounds anything, name your own price,
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Speaker 1: save me when it is yours. Tarzan ignored the Jew
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Speaker 1: and turned toward the others. I am looking for one
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Speaker 1: of your men, he said, a black named Luvini. He
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Speaker 1: killed my wife. Where is he? We know nothing of that,
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Speaker 1: said Krasky. Luvini betrayed us and deserted us. Your wife
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Speaker 1: and another white woman were in our camp at the time.
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Speaker 1: None of us knows what became of them. They were
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Speaker 1: behind us when we took our posts to defend the
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Speaker 1: camp from our men and the slaves of the Arabs.
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Speaker 1: Your Wazirri were there. After the enemy had withdrawn, we
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Speaker 1: found that the two women had disappeared. We do not
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Speaker 1: know what became of them. We are looking for them now.
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Speaker 1: Ma Waziri told me as much, said Tarzan. But have
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Speaker 1: you seen aught of Luvini? Sents no, we have not,
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Speaker 1: replied Krasky, What are you doing here? Demanded Tarzan. The
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Speaker 1: apes we came with mister Bluber on the scientific expedition,
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Speaker 1: replied the Russian. We have had a great deal of trouble.
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Speaker 1: Our head men, Ascari and porters have mutinied and deserted.
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Speaker 1: We are absolutely alone and helpless, och Uch, cried Blueber.
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Speaker 1: Save us, save us, But keep that lying of ey.
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Speaker 1: He makes me narfus. He will not hurt you unless
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Speaker 1: I tell him to, said Tarzan. Then please don't tell
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Speaker 1: him too, cried Blueber. Where do you want to go,
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Speaker 1: asked Tarzan. If you are trying to get back to
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Speaker 1: the coast, replied Kraski, and from there to London. Come
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Speaker 1: with me, said Tarzan. Possibly I can help you. You
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Speaker 1: do not deserve it, but I cannot see white men
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Speaker 1: perish here in the jungle. They followed him toward the west,
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Speaker 1: and that night they made camp beside a small jungle stream.
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Speaker 1: It was difficult for the four Londoners to accustom themselves
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Speaker 1: to the presence of the great Lion, and Blueber was
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Speaker 1: in a state of palpable terror as they squattered around
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Speaker 1: the fire after the evening meal, which Tarzan had provided,
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Speaker 1: Krasky suggested that they set to and build some sort
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Speaker 1: of a shelter against the wild beasts. It will not
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Speaker 1: be necessary, said Tarzan. Jod Baljaw will guard you. He
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Speaker 1: will sleep here beside Tarzan of the apes, and what
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Speaker 1: one of us does not hear the other will Blueber sighed.
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Speaker 1: Hine gots, he cried, I shall give ten pounds for
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Speaker 1: fine night's sleep. You may have it tonight for less
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Speaker 1: than that, replied Tarzan, For nothing shall befall you. While
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Speaker 1: job Baljohn and I are here, well, didn't I think?
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Speaker 1: I say good night? And moving a few paces away
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Speaker 1: from the fire, he curled up and was soon asleep.
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Speaker 1: Throck and peoples followed suit, and shortly after Krasky too.
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Speaker 1: As the Russian lay half dozing, his eyes partially open,
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Speaker 1: he saw the ape man rise from the squatting position
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Speaker 1: he had maintained before the fire, and turned toward a
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Speaker 1: nearby tree. As he did so, something fell from beneath
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Speaker 1: his loincloth, a little sack made of hides, A little
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Speaker 1: sack bulging with its contents. Krasky, thoroughly awakened, now watched
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Speaker 1: it as the ape man moved off ashore distance, accompanied
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Speaker 1: by jod Baljaw, and lay down to sleep. The great
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Speaker 1: lion curled beside the prostrate man, and presently the Russian
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Speaker 1: was assured that both slept. Immediately he commenced, crawling stealthily
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Speaker 1: and slowly towards the little package lying beside the fire.
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Speaker 1: With each forward move that he made, he paused and
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Speaker 1: looked at the recumbent figures of the two ferocious beasts
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Speaker 1: before him, but both slept on peacefully. At last, the
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Speaker 1: Russian could reach out and grasp the sack, and, drawing
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Speaker 1: it toward him, he stuffed it quickly inside his shirt.
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Speaker 1: Then he turned and crawled slowly and carefully back to
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Speaker 1: his place beyond the fire. There, lying with his head
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Speaker 1: upon one arm, as though in profound slumber, he felt
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Speaker 1: carefully of the sack with the fingers of his left hand.
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Speaker 1: They feel like pebbles, he muttered to himself. And doubtless
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Speaker 1: that is what they are, for the barbaric ornamentation of
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Speaker 1: this savage barbarian who is a peer of England. It
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Speaker 1: does not seem possible that this wild beast has sat
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Speaker 1: in the house of lords. Noiselessly, Krasky undid the knot
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Speaker 1: which held the mouth of the sack closed, and a
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Speaker 1: moment later he let a portion of the contents trickle
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Speaker 1: forth into his open palm. My God, he cried. Diamonds greedily.
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Speaker 1: He poured them all out and gloated over them, great
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Speaker 1: scintillating stones of the first water five pounds of pure
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Speaker 1: white diamonds, representing so fabulous a fortune that the very
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Speaker 1: contemplation of it staggered the Russian. My God, he replied,
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Speaker 1: the wealth of criesus in my own hands. Quickly he
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Speaker 1: gathered up the stones and replaced them in the sack,
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Speaker 1: always with one eye upon Tarzan and Jabaljaw, But neither stirred.
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Speaker 1: And presently he had returned them all to the pouch
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Speaker 1: and slipped the package inside his shirt. Tomorrow, he muttered,
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Speaker 1: to morrow, would to God that they had the nerve
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Speaker 1: to attinted to night. In the middle of the following morning, Tarzan,
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Speaker 1: with the four Londoners approached a good sized stockaded village
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Speaker 1: containing many huts. He was received not only graciously, but
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Speaker 1: with the deference due an emperor. The Whites were awed
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Speaker 1: by the attitude of the Black Chief and his warriors.
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Speaker 1: As Tarzan was conducted into their presence. After the usual
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Speaker 1: ceremony had been gone through, Tarzan turned and waved his
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Speaker 1: hand toward the four Europeans. These are my friends, he
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Speaker 1: said to the Black Chief. When they wish to reach
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Speaker 1: the coast in safety, send with them then sufficient warriors
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Speaker 1: to feed and guard them during the journey. It is
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Speaker 1: i Tarzan of the Apes, who requests its favor. Tarzan
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Speaker 1: of the Apes, the great chief lord of the jungle,
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Speaker 1: has but to command, replied the Black Good. Exclaimed Tarzan.
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Speaker 1: Feed them well and treat them well. I have other
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Speaker 1: business to attend to, and may not remain. The bellies
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Speaker 1: shall be filled, and they shall reach the coast unscathed,
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Speaker 1: replied the chief, without a word of farewell, without even
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Speaker 1: a sign that he realized their existence. Tarzan of the
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Speaker 1: Apes passed from the sight of the four Europeans, while
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Speaker 1: at his heels paced jab Balja, the Golden Lion. End
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Speaker 1: of chapter