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26 - The Height of Civilization · Tarzan of the Apes

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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty six, the height of civilization. Another month brought
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  Speaker 1: them to a little group of buildings at the mouth
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  Speaker 1: of a wide river, and there Tarzan saw many boats,
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  Speaker 1: and was filled with the timidity of the wild thing
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  Speaker 1: by the sight of many men. Gradually he became accustomed
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  Speaker 1: to the strange noises and the odd ways of civilization,
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  Speaker 1: so that presently none might know that two short months before,
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  Speaker 1: this handsome frenchman in immaculate white ducks, who laughed and
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  Speaker 1: chatted with the gayest of them, had been swinging naked
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  Speaker 1: through primeval forests to pounce upon some unweary victim, which
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  Speaker 1: raw was to fill his savage belly. The knife and
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  Speaker 1: fork so contemptuously flung aside a month before, Tarzan now
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  Speaker 1: manipulated as exquisitely as did the polished d'artneault. So apt
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  Speaker 1: a pupil had he been that the young Frenchman had
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  Speaker 1: labored assiduously to make of Tarzan of the Apes a
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  Speaker 1: polished gentleman, in so far as none icity of manners
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  Speaker 1: and speech were concerned, God has made you a gentleman
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  Speaker 1: at heart, my friend d'arnault had said. But we want
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  Speaker 1: his works to show upon the exterior Also, as soon
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  Speaker 1: as they had reached Little Port, Darnault had cabled his
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  Speaker 1: government of his safety and requested a three month's leave,
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  Speaker 1: which had been granted. He had also cabled his bankers
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  Speaker 1: for funds, and the enforced weight of a month under
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  Speaker 1: which both chafed was due to their inability to charter
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  Speaker 1: a vessel for the return to Tarzan's jungle after the treasure.
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  Speaker 1: During their stay at the coast town, Monsieur Tarzan became
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  Speaker 1: the wonder of both whites and blacks because of several
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  Speaker 1: occurrences which to Tarzan seemed the merest of nothings. Once,
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  Speaker 1: a huge black, crazed by drink, had run amuck and
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  Speaker 1: terrorized the town until his evil star had led him
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  Speaker 1: to where the black haired French giant lulled upon the
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  Speaker 1: veranda of the hotel. Mounting the broad stone with brandish knife,
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  Speaker 1: the negro made straight for a party of four men
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  Speaker 1: sitting at a table sipping the inevitable Absinthe. Shouting in alarm,
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  Speaker 1: the four took to their heels, and then the black
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  Speaker 1: spied Tarzan. With a roar, he charged the ape man
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  Speaker 1: while half a hundred heads peered from sheltering windows and
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  Speaker 1: doorways to witness the butchering of the poor Frenchman by
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  Speaker 1: the giant black. Tarzan met the rush with the fighting
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  Speaker 1: smile that the joy of battle always brought to his lips.
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  Speaker 1: As the negro closed upon him, steel muscles gripped the
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  Speaker 1: black wrist of the uplifted knife hand, and a single
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  Speaker 1: swift wrench left the hand dangling below a broken bone.
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  Speaker 1: With the pain and surprise, the madness left the black man,
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  Speaker 1: and as Tarzan dropped back into his chair, the fellow turned,
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  Speaker 1: crying with agony, and dashed wildly toward the native village.
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  Speaker 1: On another occasion, as Tarzan and d'arnault sat at dinner
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  Speaker 1: with a number of other whites, the talk fell upon
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  Speaker 1: lions and lion hunting. Opinion was divided as to the
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  Speaker 1: bravery of the King of Beasts, some maintaining that he
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  Speaker 1: was an errant coward, but all agreeing that it was
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  Speaker 1: with a feeling of greater security that they gripped their
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  Speaker 1: express rifles when the monarch of the jungle roared about
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  Speaker 1: a camp at night. D'artnault and Tarzan had agreed that
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  Speaker 1: his past be kept secret, and so none other than
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  Speaker 1: the French officer knew of the ape man's familiarity with
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  Speaker 1: the beasts of the jungle. Monsieur Tarzan has not expressed himself,
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  Speaker 1: said one of the party, a man of his prowess
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  Speaker 1: who has spent some time in Africa. As I understand,
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  Speaker 1: Monsieur Tarzan has must have had experiences with lions. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: some replied Tarzan dryly, enough to know that each of
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  Speaker 1: you are right in your judgment of the characteristics of
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  Speaker 1: the lions you have met. But one might as well
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  Speaker 1: judge all blacks by the fellow who run amook last week,
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  Speaker 1: or decide that all whites are cowards because one has
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  Speaker 1: met a cowardly white. There is as much individually among
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  Speaker 1: the lower orders, gentlemen, as there is among ourselves. Today
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  Speaker 1: we may go out and stumble upon a lion which
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  Speaker 1: is over timid. He runs away from us. Tomorrow we
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  Speaker 1: may meet his uncle or his twin brother, and our
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  Speaker 1: friends wonder why we do not return from the jungle.
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  Speaker 1: For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious,
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  Speaker 1: and so I am never caught off my guard. There
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  Speaker 1: would be little pleasure in hunting, retorted the first speaker.
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  Speaker 1: If one is afraid of the thing he hunts, Darneault,
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  Speaker 1: smiled Tarzan, afraid, I do not exactly understand what you
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  Speaker 1: mean by fear, said Tarzan. Like lions, fear is a
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  Speaker 1: different thing in different men. But to me, the only
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  Speaker 1: pleasure in the the hunt is the knowledge that the
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  Speaker 1: hunted thing has power to harm me as much as
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  Speaker 1: I have to harm him. If I went out with
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  Speaker 1: a couple of rifles and a gun bearer and twenty
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  Speaker 1: or thirty beaters to hunt a lion, I should not
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  Speaker 1: feel that the lion had much chance, and so the
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  Speaker 1: pleasure of the hunt would be lessened in proportion to
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  Speaker 1: the increased safety which I felt. Then I am to
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  Speaker 1: take it that Monsieur Tarzan would prefer to go naked
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  Speaker 1: into the jungle, armed only with a jackknife to kill
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  Speaker 1: the king of beasts, laughed the other, good naturedly, but
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  Speaker 1: with the merest touch of sarcasm in his tone. And
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  Speaker 1: a piece of rope, added Tarzan, And then the deep
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  Speaker 1: roar of a lion sounded from the distant jungle, as
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  Speaker 1: though to challenge whoever dared entered the lists with him.
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  Speaker 1: There is your opportunity, Monsieur Tarzan, bantered the Frenchman. I
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  Speaker 1: am not hungry, said Tarzan. Simply. The men laughed, all
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  Speaker 1: but Darnault, he alone knew that a savage beast had
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  Speaker 1: spoken its simple reason through the lips of the ape man.
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  Speaker 1: But you are afraid, just as any of us would be,
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  Speaker 1: to go out there naked, armed only with a knife
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  Speaker 1: and a piece of rope, said the banterer. Is it
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  Speaker 1: not so, no, replied Tarzan. Only a fool performs any
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  Speaker 1: act without reason. Five thousand francs is a reason, said
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  Speaker 1: the other. I wager that amount. You cannot bring back
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  Speaker 1: a lion from the jungle under the conditions we have named,
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  Speaker 1: naked and armed only with a knife and a piece
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  Speaker 1: of rope. Tarzan glanced toward d'arnault and nodded his head.
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  Speaker 1: Make it ten thousand, said Darnault. Done, replied the other.
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan arose, I shall have to leave my clothes at
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  Speaker 1: the edge of the settlement, so that if I do
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  Speaker 1: not return before daylight, I shall have something to wear
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  Speaker 1: through the streets. You are not going now, exclaimed the wager,
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  Speaker 1: at night. Why not, asked Tarzan. Numa walks abroad at night,
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  Speaker 1: it will be easier to find him. No, said the other,
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  Speaker 1: I do not want your blood upon my hands. It
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  Speaker 1: will be foolhardy enough if you go forth by day.
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  Speaker 1: I shall go now, replied Tarzan, and went to his
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  Speaker 1: room for his knife and rope. The men accompanied him
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  Speaker 1: to the edge of the jungle, where he left his
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  Speaker 1: clothes in a small storehouse. But when he would have
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  Speaker 1: entered the blackness of the undergrowth, they tried to dissuade him,
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  Speaker 1: and the wagerer was most insistent of all that he
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  Speaker 1: abandoned his full hearty venture. I will exceed that you
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  Speaker 1: have won, he said, and the ten thousand francs are
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  Speaker 1: yours if you will but give up this foolish attempt,
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  Speaker 1: which can only end in your death. Tarzan laughed, and
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  Speaker 1: in another moment the jungle had swallowed him. The men
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  Speaker 1: stood silent for some moments, and then slowly turned and
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  Speaker 1: walked back to the hotel Veranda. Tarzan had no sooner
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  Speaker 1: entered the jungle than he took to the trees, and
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  Speaker 1: it was with a feeling of exultant freedom that he
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  Speaker 1: swung once more through the forest branches. This was life, ah,
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  Speaker 1: how he loved it. Civilization held nothing like this in
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  Speaker 1: its narrow and circumscribed sphere hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities.
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  Speaker 1: Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last
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  Speaker 1: he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner
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  Speaker 1: he had been, how easy it would be to circle
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  Speaker 1: back to the coast and then make toward the south
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  Speaker 1: than his own jungle and cabin. Now he caught the
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  Speaker 1: scent of Numa, for he was traveling upwind. Presently, his
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  Speaker 1: quick ears detected the familiar sound of padded feet and
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  Speaker 1: the brushing of a huge, fur clad body through the undergrowth.
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan came quietly above the unsuspecting beast and silently stalked
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  Speaker 1: him until he came into a little patch of moonlight.
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  Speaker 1: Then the quick noose settled and tightened around the tawny throat.
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  Speaker 1: And as he had done it a hundred times in
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  Speaker 1: the past, Tarzan made fast the end to a strong branch,
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  Speaker 1: and while the beast fought and clawed for freedom, dropped
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  Speaker 1: to the ground behind him, and, leaping upon the great back,
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  Speaker 1: plunged his long, thin blade a dozen times into the
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  Speaker 1: fierce heart. Then, with his foot upon the carcass of Numa,
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  Speaker 1: he raised his voice in the awesome victory cry of
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  Speaker 1: his savage tribe. For a moment, Tarzan stood irresolute, swayed
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  Speaker 1: by conflicting emotions of loyalty to d'arnault and a mighty
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  Speaker 1: lust for the freedom of his own jungle. At last,
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  Speaker 1: the vision of a beautiful face and the memory of
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  Speaker 1: warm lips crushed to his dissolved the fascinating picture he
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  Speaker 1: had been drawing of his old life. The ape man
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  Speaker 1: threw the warm carcass of Numa across his shoulders and
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  Speaker 1: took the trees once more. The men upon the veranda
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  Speaker 1: had sat for an hour, almost in silence. They had
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  Speaker 1: tried ineffectually to converse on various subjects, and always the
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  Speaker 1: thing uppermost in the mind of each had caused the
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  Speaker 1: conversation to lapse. Mon Dieu, said the wager at length.
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  Speaker 1: I can endure it no longer. I'm going into the
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  Speaker 1: jungle with my express and bring back that madman. I
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  Speaker 1: will go with you, said one, and I and I
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  Speaker 1: and I chorused the others, as though the suggestion had
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  Speaker 1: broken the spell of some horrid nightmare. They hastened to
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  Speaker 1: their various quarters, and presently were headed toward the jungle,
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  Speaker 1: each one heavily armed. God, what was that? Suddenly cried
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  Speaker 1: one of the party an Englishmen, as Tarzan's savage cry
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  Speaker 1: came faintly to their ears. I heard the same thing
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  Speaker 1: once before, said a Belgin, when I was in the gorilla.
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  Speaker 1: My carrier said it was the cry of a great
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  Speaker 1: bull ape who was made a kill. d'Arnaud remembered Clayton's
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  Speaker 1: description of the awful roar with which Tarzan had announced
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  Speaker 1: his kills, and he half smiled in spite of the horror,
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  Speaker 1: which filled him to think that the uncanny sound could
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  Speaker 1: have issued from a human throat, from the lips of
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  Speaker 1: his friend. As the party stood finally near the edge
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  Speaker 1: of the jungle, debating as to the best distribution of
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  Speaker 1: their forces, they were startled by a low laugh near them,
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  Speaker 1: and turning beheld advancing toward them a giant figure bearing
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  Speaker 1: a dead lion upon its broad shoulders. Even d'arnau was thunderstruck,
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  Speaker 1: for it seemed impossible that the man could have so
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  Speaker 1: quickly dispatched a lion with the pitiful weapons he had taken,
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  Speaker 1: or that alone he could have borne the huge carcass
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  Speaker 1: through the tangled jungle. The men crowded about Tarzan with
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  Speaker 1: many questions, but his only answer was a laughing deprecation
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  Speaker 1: of his feet. To Tarzan, it was as though one
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  Speaker 1: should eulogize a butcher for his heroism in killing a cow.
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  Speaker 1: For Tarzan had killed so often for food and for
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  Speaker 1: self preservation that the act seemed anything but remarkable to him.
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  Speaker 1: But he was indeed a hero in the eyes of
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  Speaker 1: these men, men accustomed to hunting big game. Incidentally, he
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  Speaker 1: had won ten thousand francs for Darnault insisted that he
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  Speaker 1: keep it all. This was a very important item to Tarzan,
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  Speaker 1: who was just commencing to realize the power which lay
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  Speaker 1: beyond the little pieces of metal and paper which always
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  Speaker 1: changed hands when human beings rode or ate, or slept,
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  Speaker 1: or clothed themselves, or drank, or worked or played, or
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  Speaker 1: sheltered themselves from the rain or cold or sun. Yet
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  Speaker 1: had become evident to Tarzan that without money, one must die.
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  Speaker 1: Darnault had told him not to worry, since he had
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  Speaker 1: more than enough for both. But the ape man was
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  Speaker 1: learning many things, and one of them was that people
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  Speaker 1: looked down upon one who had accepted money from another
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  Speaker 1: without giving something of equal value in exchange. Shortly after
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  Speaker 1: the episode of the Lion Hunt, d'artnaud succeeded in chartering
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  Speaker 1: an ancient tub for the coastwise trip to Tarzan's landlocked harbor.
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  Speaker 1: It was a happy morning for them both when the
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  Speaker 1: little vessel weighed anchor and made for the open sea.
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  Speaker 1: The trip to the beach was uneventful, and the morning
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  Speaker 1: after they dropped anchor before the cabin, Tarzan garbed once
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  Speaker 1: more in his jungle regalia, and, carrying a spade, set
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  Speaker 1: out alone for the amphitheater of the Apes, where lay
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  Speaker 1: the treasure. Late the next day he returned bearing the
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  Speaker 1: great chest upon his shoulder, and at sunrise the little
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  Speaker 1: vessel worked through the harbor's mouth and took up her
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  Speaker 1: northward journey. Three weeks later, Tarzan and d'artnau were passengers
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  Speaker 1: on board a French steamer born for Lyons, and after
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  Speaker 1: a few days in that city, Dartnaud took Tarzan to Paris.
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  Speaker 1: The ape man was anxious to proceed to America, but
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  Speaker 1: d'artagnaud insisted that he must accompany him to Paris first,
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  Speaker 1: nor would he divulge the nature of the urgent necessity
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  Speaker 1: upon which he based his demand. One of the first
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  Speaker 1: things which Dartnaud accomplished after their arrival was to arrange
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  Speaker 1: to visit a high official of the police department, an
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  Speaker 1: old friend, and to take Tarzan with him. Adroitly, Darnaul
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  Speaker 1: led the conversation from point to point until the policeman
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  Speaker 1: had explained to the interested Tarzan many of the methods
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  Speaker 1: in vogue for apprehending and identifying criminals. Not the least
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  Speaker 1: interesting to Tarzan was the part played by finger prints
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  Speaker 1: in this fascinating science. But of what value are these imprints,
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  Speaker 1: asked Tarzan, When after a few years the lines upon
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  Speaker 1: the fingers are entirely changed by the wearing out of
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  Speaker 1: the old tissue and the growth new the the lines
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  Speaker 1: never change, replied the official, from infancy to senility. The
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  Speaker 1: finger prints of an individual change only in size, except
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  Speaker 1: as injuries alter the loops and walls. But if imprints
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  Speaker 1: have been taken of the thumb and four fingers of
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  Speaker 1: both hands, one must needs lose all entirely to escape identification.
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  Speaker 1: It is marvelous, exclaimed d'arnault. I wonder what the lines
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  Speaker 1: upon my own fingers may resemble. We can soon see,
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  Speaker 1: replied the police officer, and ringing a bell, he summoned
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  Speaker 1: an assistant, to whom he issued a few directions. The
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  Speaker 1: man left the room, but presently returned with a little
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  Speaker 1: hardwood box, which he placed on his superior's desk. Now,
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  Speaker 1: said the officer, you shall have your finger prints in
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  Speaker 1: a second. He drew from the little case a square
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  Speaker 1: of plate glass, a little tube of thick ink, a
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  Speaker 1: rubber roller, and a few snowy white cards. Squeezing a
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  Speaker 1: drop of ink onto the glass, he spread it back
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  Speaker 1: and forth with a rubber roller until the entire surface
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  Speaker 1: of the glass was coated to his satisfaction with a
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  Speaker 1: very thin and uniform layer of ink. Place the four
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  Speaker 1: fingers of your right hand upon the glass. Thus, he
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  Speaker 1: said to Darnaux. Now the thumb that is right. Now
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  Speaker 1: place them in just the same position upon this card. Here, No,
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  Speaker 1: a little to the right. We must leave room for
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  Speaker 1: the thumb and the fingers of the left hand. There,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. Now the same with the left Come, Tarzan,
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  Speaker 1: cried Darnault. Let's see what your whorls look like. Tarzan complied, readily,
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  Speaker 1: asking many questions of the officer during the operation. Do
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  Speaker 1: finger prints show racial characteristics? He asked, Could you determine
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  Speaker 1: for example, solely from finger prints. Whether the subject was
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  Speaker 1: Negro or Caucasian, I think not, replied the officer. Could
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  Speaker 1: the finger prints of an ape be detected from those
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  Speaker 1: of a man, probably because the apes would be far
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  Speaker 1: simpler than those of the higher organism. But a cross
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  Speaker 1: between an ape and a man might show the characteristics
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  Speaker 1: of either progenitor, continued Tarzan, Yes, I should think likely,
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  Speaker 1: responded the official. But the science has not progressed sufficiently
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  Speaker 1: to render it exact enough in such matters I should
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  Speaker 1: hate to trust its findings further than to differentiate between individuals.
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  Speaker 1: There it is absolute no two people born into the
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  Speaker 1: world probably have ever had identical lines upon all their digits.
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  Speaker 1: It is very doubtful if any single finger print will
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  Speaker 1: ever be exactly duplicated by any finger other than the
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  Speaker 1: one which originally made it. Does the comparison require much
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  Speaker 1: time or labor, asked Darnault. Ordinarily, but a few moments
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  Speaker 1: if the impressions are distinct. Darnaul drew a little black
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  Speaker 1: book from his pocket and commenced turning the pages. Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: looked at the book in surprise. How did Darnaux come
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  Speaker 1: to have his book presently? Darnault stopped at a page
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  Speaker 1: on which were five tiny little smudges. He handed the
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  Speaker 1: open book to the policeman. Are these imprints similar to
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  Speaker 1: mine or Monsieur Tarzan's, or can you say that they
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  Speaker 1: are identical with either? The officer drew a powerful glass
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  Speaker 1: from his desk and examined all three specimens, carefully making notations. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: upon a pad of paper, Tarzan realized, now what was
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  Speaker 1: the meaning of their visit to the police officer. The
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  Speaker 1: answer to his life's riddle lay in these tiny marks.
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  Speaker 1: With tense nerves, he sat leaning forward in his chair,
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  Speaker 1: but suddenly he relaxed, ax and dropped back smiling. Darnault
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  Speaker 1: looked at him in surprise. You forget that for twenty
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  Speaker 1: years the dead body of the child who made those
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  Speaker 1: fingerprints lay in the cabin of his father, and that
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  Speaker 1: all my life I have seen it lying there, said
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan bitterly. The policeman looked up in astonishment. Then go ahead, Captain,
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  Speaker 1: with your examination, said Darnault. We will tell you the
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  Speaker 1: story later, provided Monsieur Tarzan is agreeable, Tarzan nodded his head.
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  Speaker 1: But you are mad, my dear Darnault, He insisted, those
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  Speaker 1: little fingers are buried on the west coast of Africa.
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  Speaker 1: I do not know as to that, Tarzan replied Darnault.
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  Speaker 1: It's possible. But if you are not the son of
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  Speaker 1: John Clayton, then how in Heaven's name did you come
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  Speaker 1: into that god forsaken jungle where no white man other
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  Speaker 1: than John Clayton had ever set foot. You forget Kayla,
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  Speaker 1: said Tarzan. I do not even consider her, replied Darnault.
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  Speaker 1: The friends had walked to the broad window overlooking the
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  Speaker 1: boulevard as they talked. For some time. They stood there,
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  Speaker 1: gazing out upon the busy throng beneath, each wrapped in
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  Speaker 1: his own thoughts. It takes some time to compare finger prints,
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  Speaker 1: thought Darnault, turning to look at the police officer. To
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  Speaker 1: his astonishment, he saw the official leaning back in his chair,
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  Speaker 1: hastily scanning the contents of the Little Black Diary. Darnaut coughed.
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  Speaker 1: The policeman looked up, and, catching his eye, raised his
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  Speaker 1: finger to admonish silence. Darnaud turned back to the window,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: and presently the police officer spoke. Gentlemen, he said, both
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: turned toward him. There is evidently a great deal at
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: stake which must hinge to a greater or lesser extent,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: upon the absolute correctness of this comparison. I therefore ask
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: that you leave the entire matter in my hands until
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Monsieur Descerq, our expert, returns. It will be but a
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: matter of a few days. I had hoped to know it, once,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: said d'arnault. Monsieur Tarzan sails for America tomorrow. I will
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: promise that you can cable him a report within two weeks,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: replied the officer. But what it will be, I dare
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: not say. There are resemblances yet. Well, we had better
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: leave it for Monsieur de cart to solve. End of
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  Speaker 1: chapter