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11 - King of the Apes · Tarzan of the Apes

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  Speaker 1: Chapter eleven, King of the Apes. It was not yet
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  Speaker 1: dark when he reached the tribe, though he stopped to
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  Speaker 1: exume and devour the remains of the wild boar. He
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  Speaker 1: cashed the preceding day and again to take Koolonga's bow
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  Speaker 1: and arrows from the tree top in which he had
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  Speaker 1: hidden them. It was a well laden Tarzan who dropped
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  Speaker 1: from the branches into the midst of the tribe of Kirchak.
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  Speaker 1: With swelling chest. He narrated the glories of his adventure
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  Speaker 1: and exhibited the spoils of conquest. Kurchak grunted and turned away,
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  Speaker 1: for he was jealous of this strange member of his band.
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  Speaker 1: In his little evil brain, he sought for some excuse
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  Speaker 1: to wreak his hatred upon Tarzan. The next day, Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: was practicing with his bow and arrows at the first
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  Speaker 1: gleam of dawn. At first he lost nearly every bolty shot,
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  Speaker 1: but finally he learned to guide the little shafts with
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  Speaker 1: fair accuracy, and ere a month had passed he was
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  Speaker 1: no mean shot, but his proficions he had cost him
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  Speaker 1: nearly his entire supply of arrows. The tribe continued to
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  Speaker 1: find the hunting good in the vicinity at the beach,
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  Speaker 1: and so Tarzan and the Apes ferried his archery practice
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  Speaker 1: with further investigation of his father's choice, though little store
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  Speaker 1: of books. It was during this period that the young
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  Speaker 1: English lord found, hidden in the back of one of
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  Speaker 1: the cupboards in the cabin a small metal box. The
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  Speaker 1: key was in the lock, and a few moments of
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  Speaker 1: investigation and experimentation were rewarded with the successful opening of
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  Speaker 1: the receptacle. In it, he found a faded photograph of
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  Speaker 1: a smooth faced young man, a golden locket studded with
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  Speaker 1: diamonds linked to a small gold chain, a few letters,
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  Speaker 1: and a small book. Tarzan examined these all minutely. The
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  Speaker 1: photograph he liked most of all, for the eyes were
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  Speaker 1: smiling and the face was open and frank. It was
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  Speaker 1: his father. The locket, too, took his fancy, and he
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  Speaker 1: placed the chain about his neck in imitation of the
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  Speaker 1: ornamentation he had seemed to be so common among the
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  Speaker 1: black men he had visited. The brilliant stones gleamed strangely
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  Speaker 1: against his smooth brown hide. The letters he could scarcely decipher,
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  Speaker 1: for he had learned little or nothing of script, so
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  Speaker 1: he put them back in the box with the photograph,
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  Speaker 1: and turned his attention to the book. This was almost
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  Speaker 1: entirely filled with fine script. But while the little bugs
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  Speaker 1: were all familiar to him, their arrangement and the combinations
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  Speaker 1: in which they occurred were strange and entirely incomprehensible. Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: had long since learned the use of the dictionary, but
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  Speaker 1: much to his sorrow and perplexity, it proved of no
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  Speaker 1: avail to him in this emergency. Not a word of
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  Speaker 1: all that was writ in the book could he find,
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  Speaker 1: and so he put it back in the metal box,
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  Speaker 1: but with a determination to work out the mysteries of
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  Speaker 1: it later on. Little did he know that this book
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  Speaker 1: held between its covers the key to his origin, the
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  Speaker 1: answer to the strange riddle of his strange life. It
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  Speaker 1: was the Diary of John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, kept in French,
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  Speaker 1: as had always been his custom. Tarzan replaced the box
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  Speaker 1: in the cupboard, but always thereafter he carried the features
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  Speaker 1: of the strong, smiling face of his father in his heart,
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  Speaker 1: and in his head a fixed determination to solve the
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  Speaker 1: mystery of the strange words in the Little Black Book.
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  Speaker 1: At present, he had more important business in hand, for
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  Speaker 1: his supply of arrows was exhausted, and he must needs
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  Speaker 1: journey to the black Men's village and renew it. Early
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  Speaker 1: the following morning he set out, and, traveling rapidly, he
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  Speaker 1: came before midday to the clearing. Once more, he took
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  Speaker 1: up his position in the great tree, and as before,
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  Speaker 1: he saw the women in the fields and the village street,
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  Speaker 1: and the cauldron of bubbling poison directly lay beneath him.
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  Speaker 1: For hours he lay, awaiting his opportunity to drop down
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  Speaker 1: unseen and gather up the arrows for which he had come.
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  Speaker 1: But nothing now occurred to call the villagers away from
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  Speaker 1: their homes. The day wore on, and still Tarzan of
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  Speaker 1: the Apes crouched above the unsuspecting woman at the cauldron. Presently,
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  Speaker 1: the workers in the fields returned, the hunting warriors emerged
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  Speaker 1: from the forest, and when all were within the palisade,
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  Speaker 1: the gates were closed and barred. Many cooking pots were
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  Speaker 1: now in evidence about the village. Before each hut, a
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  Speaker 1: woman presided over a boiling stew, while little cakes of
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  Speaker 1: planting and casaba puddings were to be seen on every hand.
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly there came a hail from the edge of the clearing,
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan looked. It was a party of belated hunters returning
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  Speaker 1: from the north, and among them they half led, half
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  Speaker 1: carried a struggling animal. As they approached the villag the
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  Speaker 1: gates were thrown open to admit them, and then as
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  Speaker 1: the people saw the victim of the chase, a savage
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  Speaker 1: cry rose to the heavens, For the quarry was a man.
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  Speaker 1: As he was dragged, still resisting, into the village street,
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  Speaker 1: the women and children set upon him with sticks and stones,
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  Speaker 1: and Tarzan of the apes, young and savage beast of
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  Speaker 1: the jungle, wondered at the cruel brutality of his own kind.
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  Speaker 1: Sita the leopard alone of all the jungle folk, tortured
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  Speaker 1: his prey. The ethics of all the others meeted a
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  Speaker 1: quick and merciful death to their victims. Tarzan had learned
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  Speaker 1: from his books but scattered fragments of the ways of
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  Speaker 1: human beings. When he had followed Koulonga through the forest,
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  Speaker 1: he had expected to come to a city of strange
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  Speaker 1: houses on wheels, puffing clouds of black smoke from a
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  Speaker 1: huge tree stuck in the roof of one of them,
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  Speaker 1: or to a sea covered with mighty floating buildings, which
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  Speaker 1: he had learned were called variously ships and boats, and
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  Speaker 1: steamers and craft. He had been sorely disappointed with the
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  Speaker 1: poor little village of the Blacks, hidden away in his
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  Speaker 1: own jungle, and with not a single house as large
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  Speaker 1: as his own cabin upon the distant beach. He saw
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  Speaker 1: that these people were more wicked than his own apes,
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  Speaker 1: and as savage and cruel as Sabor herself. Tarzan began
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  Speaker 1: to hold his own kind in low esteam. Now they
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  Speaker 1: had tied their poor victim to a great post near
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  Speaker 1: the center of the village, directly before Mbonga's hut, and
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  Speaker 1: here they had formed a dancing, yelling circle of warriors
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  Speaker 1: about him, alive with flashing knives and menacing spears. In
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  Speaker 1: a larger circle squatted the women, yelling and beating upon drums.
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  Speaker 1: It reminded Tarzan of the dumb Dum, and so he
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  Speaker 1: knew what to expect. He wondered if they they would
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  Speaker 1: spring upon their meat while it was still alive. The
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  Speaker 1: apes did not do such things as that. The circle
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  Speaker 1: of warriors about the cringing captive drew closer and closer
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  Speaker 1: to their prey as they danced in wild and savage,
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  Speaker 1: abandon to the maddening music of the drums. Presently a
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  Speaker 1: spear reached out and pricked the victim. It was the
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  Speaker 1: signal for fifty others. Eyes, ears, arms and legs were pierced.
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  Speaker 1: Every inch of the poor, writhing body that did not
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  Speaker 1: cover a vital organ became the target of the cruel lancers.
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  Speaker 1: The women and children shrieked their delight. The warriors licked
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  Speaker 1: their hideous lips in anticipation of the feast to come,
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  Speaker 1: and vied with one another in the savagery and loathsomeness
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  Speaker 1: of the cruel indignities with which they tortured the still
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  Speaker 1: conscious prisoner. Then it was that Tarzan and the apes
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  Speaker 1: saw his chance. All eyes were fixed upon the thrilling
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  Speaker 1: spectacle at the stake. The light of day had given
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  Speaker 1: place to the darkness of a moonless night, and only
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  Speaker 1: the fires and the immediate vicinity of the orgy had
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  Speaker 1: been kept alight to cast a restless glow upon the
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  Speaker 1: restless scene. Gently, the lithe boy dropped to the soft
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  Speaker 1: earth at the end of the village street. Quickly he
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  Speaker 1: gathered up the arrows, all of them this time, for
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  Speaker 1: he had brought a number of long fibers to bind
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  Speaker 1: them into a bundle. Without haste, he wrapped them securely,
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  Speaker 1: and then ere he turned to leave, the devil of
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  Speaker 1: capriciousness entered his heart. He looked about for some hint
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  Speaker 1: of a wild prank to play upon these strange, grotesque creatures,
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  Speaker 1: that they might be again aware of his presence among them.
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  Speaker 1: Dropping his bundle of arrows at the foot of the tree,
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan crept among the shadows at the side of the
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  Speaker 1: street until he came to the same hut he had
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  Speaker 1: entered on the occasion of his first visit. Inside all
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  Speaker 1: was darkness, but his groping hands soon found the object
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  Speaker 1: for which he sought, and without further delay, he turned
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  Speaker 1: again toward the door. He had taken but a step, however,
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  Speaker 1: ere his quick ear caught the sound of approaching footsteps.
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  Speaker 1: Immediately without in another instant, the figure of a woman
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  Speaker 1: darkened the entrance of the hut. Tarzan drew back silently
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  Speaker 1: to the far wall, and his hands sought the long
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  Speaker 1: keen hunting knife of his father. The woman came quickly
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  Speaker 1: to the center of the hut. There she paused for
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  Speaker 1: an instant, feeling about with her hands for the thing
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  Speaker 1: she sought. Evidently it was not in its accustomed place,
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  Speaker 1: for she explored ever nearer and nearer the wall where
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan stood. So close was she now that the ape
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  Speaker 1: man felt the animal warmth of her naked body. Up
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  Speaker 1: went the hutting knife, and then the woman turned to
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  Speaker 1: one side, and soon a guttural ah proclaimed that her
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  Speaker 1: search had at last been successful. Immediately she turned and
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  Speaker 1: left the hut, and as she passed through the doorway,
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan saw that she carried a cooking pot in her hand.
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  Speaker 1: He followed closely after her, and as he reconnoitered from
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  Speaker 1: the shadows of the doorway, he saw that all the
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  Speaker 1: women of the village were hastening to and from the
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  Speaker 1: various huts with pots and kettles. These they were filling
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  Speaker 1: with water and placing over a number of fires near
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  Speaker 1: the stake where the dying victim now hung and inert
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  Speaker 1: in bloody mass of suffering. Choosing a moment when none
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  Speaker 1: seemed near, Tarzan hastened to his bundle of arrows beneath
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  Speaker 1: the great tree at the end of the village street.
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  Speaker 1: As on the former occasion, he overthrew the cauldron before
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  Speaker 1: leaping sinuous and catlike, into the lower branches of the forest.
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  Speaker 1: Giant Silently, he climbed to a great height until he
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  Speaker 1: found a point where he could look through a leafy
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  Speaker 1: opening upon the scene beneath her him. The women were
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  Speaker 1: now preparing the prisoner for their cooking pots, while the
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  Speaker 1: men stood about resting. After the fatigue of their mad revel,
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  Speaker 1: comparative quiet reigned in the village. Tarzan raised aloft the
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  Speaker 1: thing he had pilfered from the hut, and, with aim
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  Speaker 1: made true by years of fruit and coconut throwing, launched
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  Speaker 1: it toward the group of savages, squarely among them. It fell,
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  Speaker 1: striking one of the warriors full upon the head and
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  Speaker 1: felling him to the ground. Then it rolled among the
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  Speaker 1: women and stopped beside the half butchered thing they were
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  Speaker 1: preparing to feast upon. All gazed in consternation at it
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  Speaker 1: for an instant, and then with one accord broke and
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  Speaker 1: ran for their huts. It was a grinning human skull
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  Speaker 1: which looked up at them from the ground. The dropping
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  Speaker 1: of the thing out of the open sky was a miracle,
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  Speaker 1: well aimed to work upon their superstitious fears. Thus, Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: of the Ape left them filled with terror at this
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  Speaker 1: new manifestation of the presence of some unseen and unearthly
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  Speaker 1: evil power which lurked in the forest about their village. Later,
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  Speaker 1: when they discovered the overturned cauldron, and that once more
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  Speaker 1: their arrows had been pilfered, it commenced to dawn upon
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  Speaker 1: them that they had offended some great God by placing
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  Speaker 1: their village in this part of the jungle without propitiating him.
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  Speaker 1: From then on, an offering of food was daily placed
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  Speaker 1: below the great tree, from whence the arrows had disappeared
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  Speaker 1: in an effort to conciliate the mighty One. But the
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  Speaker 1: seed of fear was deep sown, and had he but
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  Speaker 1: known it, Tarzan and the Apes had laid the foundation
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  Speaker 1: for much future misery for himself and his tribe. That night,
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  Speaker 1: he slept in the forest not far from the village,
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  Speaker 1: and early the next morning set out slowly on his
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  Speaker 1: homeward march, hunting as he traveled. Only a few berries
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  Speaker 1: and an occasional grub worm rewarded his search, and he
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  Speaker 1: was half famished when looking up from a log he
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  Speaker 1: had been rooting beneath, he saw Sabor, the lioness, standing
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  Speaker 1: in the center of the trail, not twenty paces from him.
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  Speaker 1: The great yellow eyes were fixed upon him with a
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  Speaker 1: wicked and baleful gleam, and the red tongue licked the
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  Speaker 1: longing lips. As Sabor crouched, worming her stealthy way, with
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  Speaker 1: belly flattened against the earth, Tarzan did not attempt to escape.
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  Speaker 1: He welcomed the opportunity for which in fact, he had
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  Speaker 1: been searching for days past. Now that he was armed
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  Speaker 1: with something more than a rope of grass, Quickly he
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  Speaker 1: unslung his bow and fitted a well daubed arrow, and
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  Speaker 1: as Saber sprang, the tiny missile leaped to meet her
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  Speaker 1: in mid air. At the same instant, Tarzan and the
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  Speaker 1: Apes jumped to one side, and as the great cat
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  Speaker 1: struck the ground beyond him, another death tipped arrow sunk
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  Speaker 1: deep into Sabor's loin with a mighty roar. The beast's
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  Speaker 1: turned and charged once more, only to be met with
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  Speaker 1: a third arrow full in one eye. But this time
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  Speaker 1: she was too close to the ape man for the
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  Speaker 1: latter to sidestep beyond rushing body. Tarzan and the Apes
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  Speaker 1: went down beneath the great body of his enemy, but
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  Speaker 1: with gleaming knife drawn and striking home. For a moment
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  Speaker 1: they lay there, and then Tarzan realized that the inert
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  Speaker 1: mass lying upon him was beyond power. Ever again to
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  Speaker 1: injure man or Ape, with difficulty, he wriggled from beneath
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  Speaker 1: the great weight, and as he stood erect and gazed
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  Speaker 1: down upon the trophy of his skill, a mighty wave
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  Speaker 1: of exultation swept over him. With swelling breast, he placed
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  Speaker 1: a foot upon the body of his powerful enemy, and,
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  Speaker 1: throwing back his fine young head, roared out the awful
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  Speaker 1: challenge of the victorious bull ape. The force echoed to
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  Speaker 1: the savage in triumphant Paean birds fell still, and the
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  Speaker 1: larger animals and beasts of prey slunk stealthily away. For
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  Speaker 1: few there were of all the jungle who sought for
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  Speaker 1: trouble with the great anthropoids. And in London, another lord, Greatstoke,
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  Speaker 1: was speaking to his kind in the House of Lords,
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  Speaker 1: but none trembled at the sound of his soft voice.
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  Speaker 1: Sabor approved unsavory eating, even to Tarzan of the Apes.
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  Speaker 1: But hunger served as a most efficacious disguise to toughness
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  Speaker 1: and rank tastes, and ere long with well filled stomach,
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  Speaker 1: the ape man was ready to sleep again. First, however,
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  Speaker 1: he must remove the hide, for it was as much
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  Speaker 1: for this as for any other purpose, that he had
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  Speaker 1: desired to destroyed Sabor deaftly he removed the great pelt,
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  Speaker 1: for he had practiced often on smaller animals. When the
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  Speaker 1: task was finished, he carried his trophy to the fork
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  Speaker 1: of a high tree, and there, curling himself securely in
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  Speaker 1: a crotch, he fell into deep and dreamless slumber. What
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  Speaker 1: with loss of sleep, arduous exercise, and a full belly,
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan of the Apes slept the sun around. Awakening about
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  Speaker 1: noon of the following day, he straight weight repaired to
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  Speaker 1: the carcass of Sabor, but was angered to find the
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  Speaker 1: bones picked clean by other hungry denizens of the jungle.
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  Speaker 1: Half an hour's leisurely progressed through the forest brought to
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  Speaker 1: sight a young deer, and before the little creature knew
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  Speaker 1: that an enemy was near, a tiny arrow had lodged
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  Speaker 1: in its neck. So quickly the virus worked that at
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  Speaker 1: the end of a dozen leaps, the deer plunged headlong
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  Speaker 1: into the undergrowth. Dead. Again did Tarzan feast well, but
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  Speaker 1: this time he did not sleep. Instead, he hastened on
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  Speaker 1: toward the point where he had left the tribe, and
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  Speaker 1: when he had found them, proudly exhibited the skin of
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  Speaker 1: Sabor the lion. Look, he cried, apes of Kirchak. See
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  Speaker 1: what Tarzan, the mighty killer has done. Who else among
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  Speaker 1: you has ever killed one of Numa's people. Tarzan is
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  Speaker 1: mightiest amongst you. For Tarzan is no ape. Tarzan is
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  Speaker 1: But here he stopped, for in the language of the
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  Speaker 1: anthropoids there was no word for man, and Tarzan could
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  Speaker 1: only write the word in English, he could not pronounce it.
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  Speaker 1: The tribe had gathered about to look upon the proof
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  Speaker 1: of his wondrous prowess, and to listen to his words.
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  Speaker 1: Only Kurchak hung back, nursing his hatred and his rage.
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  Speaker 1: Something suddenly snapped in the wicked little brain of the anthropoid.
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  Speaker 1: With a frightful roar, the great beast sprang among the assemblage,
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  Speaker 1: biting and striking with his huge hands. He killed and
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  Speaker 1: maimed a dozen ere the balance could escape to the
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  Speaker 1: upper terraces of the forest. Frothing and shrieking in the ende.
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  Speaker 1: In sanity of his fury, Kirchak looked about for the
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  Speaker 1: object of his greatest hatred, and there upon a nearby
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  Speaker 1: limb he saw him sitting. Come down, Tarzan, great killer, cried, Kirchak,
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  Speaker 1: come down and feel the fangs of a greater Do
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  Speaker 1: mighty fighters fly to the trees at the first approach
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  Speaker 1: of danger? And then Kirchak emitted the volleying challenge of
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  Speaker 1: his kind. Quietly, Tarzan dropped to the ground breathlessly. The
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  Speaker 1: tribe watched from their lofty perches as Kirchak, still roaring, charged.
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  Speaker 1: The relatively puny figure nearly seven feet stood Kirchak on
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  Speaker 1: his short legs. His enormous shoulders were bunched and rounded
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  Speaker 1: with huge muscles. The back of his short neck was
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  Speaker 1: as a single lump of iron sinew, which bulged beyond
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  Speaker 1: the base of his skull, so that his head seemed
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  Speaker 1: like a small ball protruding from a huge mountain of flesh.
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  Speaker 1: His back drawn, snarling lips exposed his great fighting fangs,
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  Speaker 1: and his little, wicked, bloodshot eyes gleamed in horrid reflection
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  Speaker 1: of his madness. Awaiting him stood Tarzan, himself a mighty
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  Speaker 1: muscled animal, but his six feet of height and his
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  Speaker 1: great rolling sinews seemed pitifully inadequate. To the ordeal which
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  Speaker 1: awaited them. His bow and arrows lay some distance away
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  Speaker 1: where he had dropped them while showing Sabor's hide to
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  Speaker 1: his fellow Apes, so that he confronted her jack now
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  Speaker 1: with only his hunting knife and his superior intellect to
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  Speaker 1: offset the ferocious strength of his enemy. As his antagonists
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  Speaker 1: came roaring toward him, Lord gray Stoke tore his long
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  Speaker 1: knife from its sheath, and, with an answering challenge as
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  Speaker 1: horrid and blood curdling as that of the beast he faced,
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  Speaker 1: rushed swiftly to meet the attack. He was too shrewd
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  Speaker 1: to allow those long, hairy arms to encircle him, and
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  Speaker 1: just as their bodies were about to crash together, Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: of the Apes grasped one of the huge wrists of
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  Speaker 1: his assailant, and, springing lightly to one side, drove his
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  Speaker 1: knife to the hilt into Kirjak's body below the heart.
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  Speaker 1: Before he could wrench the blade free again, the bull's
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: quick lunge to seize him, and those awful arms had
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: torn the weapon from Tarzan's grasp. Kirchak aimed a terrific
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: blow at the ape man's head with a flat of
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: his hand, a blow, which had it landed, might easily
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: have crushed in the side of Tarzan's skull. The man
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: was too quick, and ducking beneath it himself, delivered a
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: mighty one with a clenched fist in the pit of
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Kirchak's stomach. The ape was staggered, and, what with the
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: mortal wound in his side, had almost collapsed when with
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: one mighty effort, he rallied for an instant, just long
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: enough to enable him to wrest his arm free from
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Tarzan's grasp and close in a terrific clinch. With his
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: wiry opponent straining the ape man close to him, his
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: great jaws sought Tarzan's throat, but the young lord's sinewy
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: fingers were at Kirchak's own before the cruel fangs could
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: close on the sleek brown skin. Thus they struggled, the
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: one to crush out his opponent's life with those awful teeth,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the other to close forever the windpipe beneath his strong
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: grasp while he held the snarling mouth from him. The
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: greater strength of the ape was slowly prevailing, and the
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: teeth of the straining beast were scarce an inch from
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Tarzan's throat, when with a shuddering tremor, the great body
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: stiffened for an instant and then sank limply to the ground.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Kirchak was dead. Withdrawing the knife that had so often
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: rendered him master of far mightdier muscles than his own,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: of his vanquished enemy, and once again loud through the forest,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: rang the fierce, wild cry of the conqueror. And thus
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: came the young Lord Greystoke into the Kingship of the Apes.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter