Tarzan's curiosity was aroused.

“We have thought of everything,” interrupted Barney. “A throne means less to us than you may imagine, count; but the honor of Lutha means a great deal.”

Jane Clayton had risen to her feet as the Arab died, and now she came forward with outstretched hands toward Werper.

"Yes, but I did not picture so huge a creature. Why, John, he is as big as a battleship."

For two weeks the party divided the time amongst the various duties which had been allotted to each.

“I know the valley from end to end,” she said. “Tell me where you would go and I will lead you there as well by night as by day.”

Smith-Oldwick drew the pistol from his shirt. "If he has made up his mind to kill me,"

For a moment he rushed aimlessly and madly about the room, while the priest and the slave remained upon hands and knees with their foreheads against the floor.

He had not long to wait before he saw a strange white man approach carefully along the trail from the south.

“The pretty pebbles?” cried the man upon his breast. “What did you with the pretty pebbles—with Tarzan’s pretty pebbles?”

Metak, the son of Herog, was no weakling.

Tarzan smiled. "I have been struck thus before, Jane," he said, "and always has the striker died."

Night fell and yet there was no sign of Okonnor.

“Quite dead,” he announced. “It is too bad—he was a splendid creature,” and then he turned to the work of liberating the Belgian.

"It is all the same," replied Tarzan; "the lions would have found us here. We could not hope to hide from them."

Tarzan, her Tarzan, lived!

“You may trust me, sire,” he whispered.

“The king is dead,” he said. “Long live the king!”

“Let the King of Lutha,” he said, “be the first to salute Lutha’s queen.”

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