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20 - Heredity · Tarzan of the Apes

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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty, Heredity. When Jane realized that she was being
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  Speaker 1: borne away a captive, by the strange force creature who
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  Speaker 1: had rescued her from the clutches of the Ape, she
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  Speaker 1: struggled desperately to escape, but the strong arms that held
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  Speaker 1: her as easily as though she had been but a
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  Speaker 1: day old babe, only pressed a little more tightly. So
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  Speaker 1: presently she gave up the feudal effort and lay quietly,
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  Speaker 1: looking through half closed lids at the faces of the
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  Speaker 1: man who strode easily through the tangled undergrowth with her.
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  Speaker 1: The face above her was one of extraordinary beauty, a
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  Speaker 1: perfect type of the strongly masculine, unmarred by dissipation or
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  Speaker 1: brutal or degrading passions. For though Tarzan of the Apes
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  Speaker 1: was a killer of men and of beasts, he killed
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  Speaker 1: as the hunter kills dispassionately, except on those rare occasions
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  Speaker 1: when he had killed for hate, though not the brooding,
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  Speaker 1: malevolent hate which marks the features of its own hideous lines.
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  Speaker 1: When Tarzan killed, he more often smiled than scowled, and
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  Speaker 1: smiles are the foundation of beauty. One thing the girl
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  Speaker 1: had noticed, particularly when she had seen Tarzan rushing upon
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  Speaker 1: turcose the vivid scarlet band upon his forehead from above
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  Speaker 1: the left eye to the scalp. But now, as she
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  Speaker 1: scanned his features, she noticed that it was gone, and
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  Speaker 1: only a thin white line marked the spot where it
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  Speaker 1: had been. As she lay more quietly in his arms,
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan slightly relaxed his grip upon her. Once he looked
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  Speaker 1: down into her eyes and smiled, and the girl had
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  Speaker 1: to close her own to shut out the vision of
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  Speaker 1: that handsome, winning face. Presently, Tarzan took to the trees,
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  Speaker 1: and Jane, wondering that she felt no fear, began to
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  Speaker 1: realize that in many respects, she had never felt more
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  Speaker 1: secure in her whole life than now as she lay
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  Speaker 1: in the arms of this strong, wild creature. Being born,
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  Speaker 1: God alone knew where or to what fate. Deeper and
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  Speaker 1: deeper into the savage fastness of the untamed forest, when
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  Speaker 1: with closed eyes she commenced to speculate upon the future,
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  Speaker 1: and terrifying fears were conjured by a vivid imagination. She
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  Speaker 1: had but to raise her lids and look upon that
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  Speaker 1: noble face so close to hers, to dissipate the last
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  Speaker 1: remnant of apprehension. No, he could never harm her of that,
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  Speaker 1: she was convinced when she translated the fine features and
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  Speaker 1: the frank, brave eyes above her into the chivalry which
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  Speaker 1: they proclaimed. On and on they went through what seemed
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  Speaker 1: to Jane a solid mass of verdure. Yet ever there
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  Speaker 1: appeared to open before this forest god, a passage as
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  Speaker 1: by magic, which closed behind them. As they passed scarce
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  Speaker 1: a branch scraped against her. Yet above and below, before
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  Speaker 1: and behind the view presented nought but a solid mass
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  Speaker 1: of inextricably interwares, branches and creepers. As Tarzan moved steadily onward,
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  Speaker 1: his mind was occupied with many strange and new thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: Here was a problem the like of which he had
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  Speaker 1: never encountered, and he felt, rather than reasoned, that he
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  Speaker 1: must meet it as a man, and not as an ape.
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  Speaker 1: The free movement through the Middle Terrace, which was the
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  Speaker 1: route he had followed for the most part, had helped
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  Speaker 1: to cool the ardor of the first fierce passion of
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  Speaker 1: his new found love. Now he discovered himself speculating upon
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  Speaker 1: the fate which would have fallen to the girl had
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  Speaker 1: he not rescued her from Turcose. He knew why the
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  Speaker 1: ape had not killed her, and he commenced to compare
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  Speaker 1: his intentions with those of Torcose. True, it was the
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  Speaker 1: order of the jungle for the male to take his
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  Speaker 1: mate by force. But could Tarzan be guided by the
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  Speaker 1: laws of the beasts. Was not Tarzan a man? What
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  Speaker 1: did men do? He was puzzled, for he did not know.
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  Speaker 1: He wished that he might ask the girl, And then
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  Speaker 1: it came to him that she had already answered him.
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  Speaker 1: In the feutile struggle she had made to escape and
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  Speaker 1: to repulse him. But now they had come to their destination,
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  Speaker 1: and Tarzan of the Apes, with Jane in his strong arms,
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  Speaker 1: swung lightly to the turf of the arena, where the
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  Speaker 1: great apes held their councils and danced the wild orgy
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  Speaker 1: of the Dumb Dumb. Though they had come many miles,
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  Speaker 1: it was still but mid afternoon, and the amphitheater was
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  Speaker 1: bathed in the half light which filtered through the maze
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  Speaker 1: of encircling foliage. The green turf looked soft and cool
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  Speaker 1: and inviting. The myriad noises of the jungle seemed far
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  Speaker 1: distant and hushed to a mere echo of blurred sounds,
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  Speaker 1: rising and falling like the surf upon a remote shore.
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  Speaker 1: A feeling of dreamy peacefulness stole over Jane as she
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  Speaker 1: sank down upon the grass where Tarzan had placed her,
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  Speaker 1: and as she looked up at his great figure towering
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  Speaker 1: above her. There was added a strange sense of perfect security.
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  Speaker 1: As she watched him from beneath half closed lids. Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: crossed the little circular clearing toward the trees. Upon the
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  Speaker 1: farther side. She noted the graceful majesty of his carriage,
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  Speaker 1: the perfect symmetry of his magnificent figure, and the poise
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  Speaker 1: of his well shaped head upon his broad shoulders. What
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  Speaker 1: a perfect creature. There could be naught of cruelty or
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  Speaker 1: baseness beneath that godlike exterior. Never, she thought, had such
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  Speaker 1: a man strode the earth since God created the first
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  Speaker 1: in his own image. With a bound Tarzan sprang into
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  Speaker 1: the trees and disappeared. Jane wondered where he had gone.
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  Speaker 1: Had he left her there to her fate In the
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  Speaker 1: lonely jungle, She glanced nervously about every vine and bush
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  Speaker 1: seemed but the lurking place of some huge and horrible
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  Speaker 1: beast waiting to bury gleaming fangs into her soft flesh.
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  Speaker 1: Every sound she magnified into the stealthy creeping of a
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  Speaker 1: sinuous and malignant body. How different now that he had
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  Speaker 1: left her for a few minutes that seemed hours to
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  Speaker 1: the frightened girl. She sat with tense nerves, waiting for
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  Speaker 1: the spring of the crouching thing that was to end
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  Speaker 1: her misery of apprehension. She almost prayed for the cruel
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  Speaker 1: teeth that would give her unconsciousness and surcease from the
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  Speaker 1: agony of fear. She heard a sudden, slight sound behind her.
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  Speaker 1: With a cry, she sprang to her feet and turned
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  Speaker 1: to face her end. There stood Tarzan, his arms filled
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  Speaker 1: with ripe and luscious fruit. Jane reeled and would have
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  Speaker 1: fallen had not Tarzan, dropping his burden, caught her in
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  Speaker 1: his arms. She did not lose consciousness, but she clung
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  Speaker 1: tightly to him, shuddering and trembling like a frightened deer.
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan and the Ape stroked her soft hair and tried
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  Speaker 1: to comfort in quiet her, as Kayla had him when
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  Speaker 1: as a little ape he had been frightened by Sabor
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  Speaker 1: the lioness or Hista the snake. Once he pressed his
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  Speaker 1: lips lightly upon her forehead, and she did not move,
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  Speaker 1: but closed her eyes and sighed. She could not analyze
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  Speaker 1: her feelings, nor did she wish to attempt it. She
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  Speaker 1: was satisfied to feel the safety of those strong arms
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  Speaker 1: and to leave her future to fate. For the last
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  Speaker 1: few hours had taught her to trust this strange, wild
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  Speaker 1: creature of the forest as she would have trusted but
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  Speaker 1: few of the men of her acquaintance. As she thought
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  Speaker 1: of the strangeness of it, there commenced to dawn upon
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  Speaker 1: her the realization that she had possibly learned something else,
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  Speaker 1: what she had never really known before. Love, she wondered,
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  Speaker 1: And then she smiled, And still smiling, she pushed Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: gently away, and looking at him with a half smiling,
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  Speaker 1: half quizzical expression that made her face wholly entrancing, she
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  Speaker 1: pointed to the fruit upon the ground and seated herself
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  Speaker 1: upon the edge of the earthen drum of the anthropoids,
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  Speaker 1: for hunger was asserting itself. Tarzan quickly gathered up the
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  Speaker 1: fruit and, bringing it, laid it at her feet, And
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  Speaker 1: then he too, sat upon the drum beside her, and
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  Speaker 1: with his knife, opened and prepared the various fruits for
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  Speaker 1: her meal. Together, and in silence, they ate, occasionally stealing
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  Speaker 1: sly glances at one another, until finally Jane broke into
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  Speaker 1: a merry laugh, in which Tarzan joined, I wish you
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  Speaker 1: spoke English, said the girl. Tarzan shook his head, and
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  Speaker 1: an expression of wistful and pathetic longings sobered his laughing eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Then Jane tried speaking to him in French, and then
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  Speaker 1: in German, but she had to laugh at her own
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  Speaker 1: blundering attempt at the latter tongue. Anyway, she said to
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  Speaker 1: him in English, you understand my German as well as
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  Speaker 1: they did in Berlin. Tarzan had long since reached a
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  Speaker 1: decision as to what his future procedures should be. He
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  Speaker 1: had had time to recollect all that he had read
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  Speaker 1: of the ways of men and women in the books
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  Speaker 1: at the cabin. He would act as he imagined the
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  Speaker 1: men and the books would have acted were they in
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  Speaker 1: his place. Again, he rose and went into the trees.
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  Speaker 1: But first he tried to explain by means of signs
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  Speaker 1: that he would return shortly, and he did so well
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  Speaker 1: that Jane understood and was not afraid. When he had gone,
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  Speaker 1: only a feeling of loneliness came over her, and she
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  Speaker 1: watched the point where he had disappeared with longing eyes,
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  Speaker 1: awaiting his return. As before. She was appraised of his
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  Speaker 1: presence by a soft sound behind her, and turned to
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  Speaker 1: see him coming across the turf with a great armful
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  Speaker 1: of branches. Then he went back again into the jungle,
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  Speaker 1: and in a few minutes reappeared with a quantity of
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  Speaker 1: soft grasses and burns. Two more trips he made until
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  Speaker 1: he had quite a pile of material at hand. Then
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  Speaker 1: he spread the ferns and grasses upon the ground in
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  Speaker 1: a soft flat bed, and above it leaned many branches together,
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  Speaker 1: so that they met a few feet over its center.
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  Speaker 1: Upon these he spread layers of huge leaves of the
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  Speaker 1: great elephants ere, and with more branches and more leaves,
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  Speaker 1: he closed one end of the little shelter he had built.
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  Speaker 1: Then they sat down together again upon the edge of
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  Speaker 1: the drum and tried to talk by signs. The magnificent
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  Speaker 1: diamond locket which hung about Tarzan's neck, had been a
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  Speaker 1: source of much wonderment to Jane. She pointed to it now,
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  Speaker 1: and Tarzan removed it and handed the pretty babble to her.
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  Speaker 1: She saw that it was the work of a skilled artisan,
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  Speaker 1: and that the diamonds were of great brilliancy and superbly set,
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  Speaker 1: but the cutting of them denoted that they were of
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  Speaker 1: a former day. She noticed, too that the locket opened,
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  Speaker 1: and pressing the hidden clasp, she saw the two halves
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  Speaker 1: spring apart to reveal in either section an ivory miniature.
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  Speaker 1: One was of a beautiful woman, and the other might
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  Speaker 1: have been a likeness of the man who sat beside her,
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  Speaker 1: except for a subtle difference of expression that was scarcely definable.
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  Speaker 1: She looked up at Tarzan to find him leaning toward her,
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  Speaker 1: gazing on the miniatures with an expression of astonishment. He
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  Speaker 1: reached out his hand for the locket and took it
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  Speaker 1: away from her, examining the likenesses within it with unmistakable
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  Speaker 1: signs of surprise and new interest. His manner clearly denoted
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  Speaker 1: that he had never before seen them, nor imagined that
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  Speaker 1: the locket opened. This fact caused Change to indulge in
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  Speaker 1: further speculation, and it taxed her imagination to picture how
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  Speaker 1: this beautiful ornament came into the possession of a wild
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  Speaker 1: and savage creature of the unexplored jungles of Africa. Still more,
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  Speaker 1: one interval was how it contained the likeness of one
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  Speaker 1: who might be a brother, or, more likely the father
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  Speaker 1: of this woodland demigod, who was even ignorant of the
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  Speaker 1: fact that the locket opened. Tarzan was still gazing with
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  Speaker 1: fixity at the two faces. Presently, he removed the quiver
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  Speaker 1: from his shoulder, and, emptying the arrows upon the ground,
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  Speaker 1: reached into the bottom of the baglike receptacle, and drew
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  Speaker 1: forth a flat object, wrapped in many soft leaves and
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  Speaker 1: tied with bits of long grass. Carefully he unwrapped it,
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  Speaker 1: removing layer after a layer of leaves, until at length
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  Speaker 1: he held a photograph in his hand, pointing to the
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  Speaker 1: miniature of the man within the locket. He handed the
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  Speaker 1: photograph to Jane, holding the open locket beside it. The
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  Speaker 1: photograph only served to puzzle the girl still more, for
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  Speaker 1: it was evidently another likeness of the same man whose
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  Speaker 1: picture rested in the locket beside that of the beautiful
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  Speaker 1: young woman. Tarzan was looking at her with an expression
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  Speaker 1: of puzzled bewilderment in his eyes. As she glanced up
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  Speaker 1: at him, he seemed to be framing a question with
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  Speaker 1: his lips. The girl pointed to the photograph, and then
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  Speaker 1: to the miniature, and then to him, as though to
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  Speaker 1: indicate that she thought the likenesses were of him, but
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  Speaker 1: he only shook his head, and then, shrugging his great shoulders,
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  Speaker 1: he took the photograph from her, and, having carefully re
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  Speaker 1: wrapped it, placed it again in the bottom of his quiver.
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  Speaker 1: For a few moments, he sat in silence, his eyes
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  Speaker 1: bent upon the ground, while Jane held the little locket
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  Speaker 1: in her hand, turning it over and over in an
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  Speaker 1: endeavor to find some further clue that might lead to
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  Speaker 1: the identity of its original owner. At length, a simple
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  Speaker 1: explanation occurred to her. The locket had belonged to Lord Greystoke,
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  Speaker 1: and the likenesses were of himself and Lady Alice. This
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  Speaker 1: wild creature had simply found it in the cabin the beach.
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  Speaker 1: How stupid of her not to have thought of that
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  Speaker 1: solution before, But to account for the strange likeness between
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  Speaker 1: Lord Greystoke and this forest god, that was quite beyond her.
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  Speaker 1: And it is not strange that she could not imagine
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  Speaker 1: that this naked savage was indeed an English nobleman. At length,
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan looked up to watch the girl as she examined
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  Speaker 1: the locket. He could not fathom the meaning of the
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  Speaker 1: faces within, but he could read the interest in fascination
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  Speaker 1: upon the face of the live, young creature by his side.
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  Speaker 1: She noticed that he was watching her, and, thinking that
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  Speaker 1: he wished his ornament again, she held it out to him.
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  Speaker 1: He took it from her, and, taking the chain in
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  Speaker 1: his two hands, he placed it about her neck, smiling
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  Speaker 1: at her expression of surprise at this unexpected gift. Jane
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  Speaker 1: shook her head vehemently and would have removed the golden
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  Speaker 1: links from about her throat, but Tarzan would not let her,
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  Speaker 1: Taking her hands in his when she insisted upon it,
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  Speaker 1: he held them tightly to prevent her. At last, she desisted, and,
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  Speaker 1: with a little laugh, raised the locket to her lips.
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan did not know precisely what she meant, but he
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  Speaker 1: guessed correctly that it was her way of acknowledging the gift,
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  Speaker 1: and so he rose, and, taking the locket in his hand,
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  Speaker 1: stooped gravely like some courtier of old, and pressed his
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  Speaker 1: lips upon it where hers had rested. It was a
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  Speaker 1: stately and gallant little compliment, performed with the grace and
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  Speaker 1: dignity of utter unconsciousness of self. It was the hallmark
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  Speaker 1: of his aristocratic birth, the natural outcropping of many generations
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  Speaker 1: of fine breeding, an hereditary instinct of graciousness which a
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  Speaker 1: lifetime of uncouth and savage training and environment could not eradicate.
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  Speaker 1: It was growing dark now, and so they ate again
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  Speaker 1: of the fruit, which was both food and drink for them.
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  Speaker 1: Then Tarzan rose, and, leading Jane to the little bower
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  Speaker 1: he had erected, motioned her to go within for the
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  Speaker 1: first time in hours. A feeling of fear swept over her,
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  Speaker 1: and Tarzan felt her draw away, as though shrinking from him.
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  Speaker 1: Contact with this girl for half a day had left
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  Speaker 1: a very different Tarzan from the one on whom the
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  Speaker 1: morning sun had risen. Now in every fiber of his being,
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  Speaker 1: heredity spoke louder than training. He had not, in one
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  Speaker 1: swift transition become a polished gentleman from a savage ape man.
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  Speaker 1: But at last the instincts of the former predominated, and
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  Speaker 1: overall was the desire to please the woman he loved
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  Speaker 1: and to appear well in her eyes. So Tarzan and
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  Speaker 1: the apes did the only thing he knew to assure
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  Speaker 1: Jane of her safety. He removed his hunting knife from
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  Speaker 1: its sheath and handed it to her hilt first, again
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  Speaker 1: motioning her into the bower. The girl understood, and taking
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  Speaker 1: the long knife, she entered and lay down upon the
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  Speaker 1: soft grasses, while Tarzan of the apes stretched himself upon
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  Speaker 1: the ground across the entrance, and thus the rising sun
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  Speaker 1: found them. In the morning. When Jane awoke, she did
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  Speaker 1: not at first recall the strange events of the preceding day,
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  Speaker 1: and so she wondered at her odd surroundings, the little
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  Speaker 1: leafy bower, the soft grasses of her bed, the unfamiliar
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  Speaker 1: prospect from the opening at her feet. Slowly, the circumstances
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  Speaker 1: of her position crept one by one into her mind,
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  Speaker 1: and then a great wonderment arose in her heart, a
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  Speaker 1: mighty wave of thankfulness and gratitude that though she had
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  Speaker 1: been in such terrible danger, yet she was unharmed. She
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  Speaker 1: moved to the entrance of the shelter to look for Tarzan.
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  Speaker 1: He was gone, but this time no fear assailed her,
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  Speaker 1: for she knew that he would return. In the grass
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  Speaker 1: at the entrance to her bower, she saw the inmae
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  Speaker 1: print of his body, where he had lain all night
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  Speaker 1: to guard her. She knew that the fact that he
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  Speaker 1: had been there was all that had permitted her to
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  Speaker 1: sleep in such peaceful security With him there, who could
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  Speaker 1: entertain fear? She wondered if there was another man on
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  Speaker 1: earth with whom a girl could feel so safe in
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  Speaker 1: the heart of this savage African jungle, even the lions
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  Speaker 1: and panthers had no fears for her. Now she looked
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  Speaker 1: up to see his lithe form drop softly from a
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  Speaker 1: nearby tree. As he caught her eyes upon him, his
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  Speaker 1: face lighted with that frank and radiant smile that it
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  Speaker 1: won her confidence the day before. As he approached her,
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  Speaker 1: Jane's heart beat faster, and her eyes brightened as they
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  Speaker 1: had never done before at the approach of any man.
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  Speaker 1: He had again been gathering fruit in this he laid
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  Speaker 1: at the entrance of her bower. Once more, they sat
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  Speaker 1: down together to eat. Jane commenced to wonder what his
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  Speaker 1: plans were. Would he take her back to the beach
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  Speaker 1: or would he keep her here? Suddenly she realized that
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  Speaker 1: the matter did not seem to give her much concern.
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  Speaker 1: Could it be that she did not care? She began
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  Speaker 1: to comprehend also that she was entirely contented sitting here
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  Speaker 1: by the side of this smiling giant eating delicious fruit
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  Speaker 1: in his Sylvan paradise, far within the remote depths of
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  Speaker 1: an African jungle, that she was contented and very happy.
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  Speaker 1: She could not understand it. Her reason told her that
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  Speaker 1: she should be torn by wild anxieties, waited by dread fears,
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  Speaker 1: cast down by gloomy forebodings. But instead her heart was singing,
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  Speaker 1: and she was smiling into the answering face of the
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  Speaker 1: man beside her. When they had finished their breakfast, Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: went to her bower and recovered his knife. The girl
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  Speaker 1: had entirely forgotten it. She realized that it was because
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  Speaker 1: she had forgotten the fear that prompted her to accept it.
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  Speaker 1: Motioning her to follow, Tarzan walked towards the trees at
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  Speaker 1: the edge of the arena, and taking her in one
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  Speaker 1: strong arm, swung to the branches above. The girl knew
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  Speaker 1: that he was taking her back to her people, and
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  Speaker 1: she could not understand the sudden feeling of loneliness and
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  Speaker 1: sorrow which crept over her. For hours. They swung slowly
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  Speaker 1: along Tarzan, and the apes did not hurry. He tried
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  Speaker 1: to draw out the sweet pleasure of that journey with
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: those deer arms about his neck as long as possible,
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  Speaker 1: and so he went far south of the direct route
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  Speaker 1: to the beach. Several times they haulted for brief rests,
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  Speaker 1: which Tarzan did not need, and at noon they stopped
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  Speaker 1: for an hour at a little brook, where they quenched
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  Speaker 1: their thirst and ate. So it was nearly sunset when
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: they came to the clearing, and Tarzan, dropping to the
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  Speaker 1: ground beside a great tree, parted the tall jungle grass
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  Speaker 1: and pointed out the little cabin to her. She took
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  Speaker 1: took him by the hand to lead him to it,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: that she might tell her father that this man had
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: saved her from death, and worse than death, that he
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  Speaker 1: had watched over her as carefully as a mother might
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  Speaker 1: have done. But again the timidity of the wild thing
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: in the face of human habitation swept over Tarzan. Of
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: the apes. He drew back, shaking his head. The girl
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: came closer to him, looking up with pleading eyes. Somehow
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  Speaker 1: she could not bear the thought of his going back
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: into the terrible jungle alone. Still he shook his head,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: and finally he drew her to him very gently, and
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  Speaker 1: stooped to kiss her. But first he looked into her
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  Speaker 1: eyes and waited to learn if she was pleased or
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: if she would repulse him. Just an instant, the girl hesitated,
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  Speaker 1: and then she realized the truth, and throwing her arms
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  Speaker 1: about his neck, she drew his face to hers and
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  Speaker 1: kissed him unashamed. I love you, I love you, she murmured.
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  Speaker 1: From far in the distance came the faint sound of
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: many guns. Tarzan and Jane raised their heads. From the
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  Speaker 1: cabin came mister Falander and Asmeralda. From where Tarzan and
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the girl stood, they could not see the two vessels
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  Speaker 1: lying at anchor in the harbor. Tarzan pointed towards the sounds,
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  Speaker 1: touched his breast and pointed again. She understood he was going,
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  Speaker 1: and something told her that it was because he thought
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: her people were in danger. Again, he kissed her. Come
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  Speaker 1: back to me, she whispered. I shall wait for you always.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: He was gone, and Jane turned to walk across the
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  Speaker 1: clearing to the cabin. Mister Falander was the first to
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  Speaker 1: see her. It was dusk and mister Falander was very
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: near sighted. Quickly, Mas Marelda, he cried, let us seek
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: safety within. It is a lioness, bless me. As Marelda
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: did not bother to verify me mister Falander's vision. His
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: tone was enough. She was within the cabin, had had
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  Speaker 1: slammed and bolted the door before he had finished pronouncing
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  Speaker 1: her name. The bless me was startled out of mister
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  Speaker 1: Falander by the discovery that es Morelda, in the exuberance
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  Speaker 1: of her haste, had fastened him upon the same side
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  Speaker 1: of the door as was the closed approaching lioness. He
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  Speaker 1: beat furiously upon the heavy portal as Morelda, as Marilda.
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  Speaker 1: He shrieked, let me in, I am being devoured by
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: a lion. As Marelda thought that the noise upon the
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: door was made by the lioness in her attempts to
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: pursue her. So after her custom, she fainted. Mister Falander
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: cast a frightened glance behind him, horrors the thing was
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: quite close now. He tried to scramble up the side
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: of the cabin, and succeeded in catching a fleeting hold
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  Speaker 1: upon the thatched roof. For a moment he hung there,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: clawing with his feet like a cat on a clothes line.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: But presently a piece of the thatch came away, and
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: mister Falander, preceding it, was precipitated upon his back at
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: the instant he fell, a remarkable item of natural history
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: leaped to his mind. If one fain's death, lions and
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: lionesses are supposed to ignore one, according to mister Fallander's
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: faulty memory. So mister Falander lay as he had fallen,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: frozen into the horrid semblance of death, as his arms
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: and legs had been extended stiffly upward. As he came
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: to earth upon his back, the attitude of death was
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: anything but impressive. Jane had been watching his antics and
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: mild eyed surprise. Now she laughed a little choking gurgle
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: of a laugh, but it was enough. Mister Falander rolled
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: over upon his side and peered about at length. He
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: discovered her, Jane. He cried, Jane, Porter, bless me. He
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: scrambled to his feet and rushed toward her. He could
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: not believe that it was she and alive. Bless me.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Where did you come from? Where in the world have
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: you been? How mercy, mister Flander interrupted the girl. I
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: can never remember so many questions. Well, well, said mister Falander,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: bless me. I am so filled with surprise and exuberant
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: delight at seeing you safe and well again that I
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: scarcely know what I am saying, really, but come tell
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  Speaker 1: me all that has happened to you. End of chapter