“If you lead me to where my son is hidden,” replied the ape-man, “you need fear nothing from me.”

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“P.S.—The balance of your punishment has to do with what shall presently befall your wife—that I shall leave to your imagination.”

A cannibal! His little boy a savage man-eater! It was too horrible to contemplate.

“I will spare your life,” said Tarzan, “if you will promise to help me to leave this island. What do you answer?”

So once more Tarzan of the Apes with his hideous pack took up his search for the ape-man’s son and the pursuit of his abductor.

“You were kind to me to whom none is now kind, and I have come to warn you in payment of your kindness,” answered the old hag.

“You are suffering for the sins of the monkey you chose when you might have had the love of a gentleman—of Nikolas Rokoff,”

Thus Rokoff and the seven white sailors found themselves deserted and robbed in the midst of a wilderness.

It was worth risking—if she could make the steamer at all.

Mugambi knew something of the occurrences which had led up to the landing of Tarzan upon Jungle Island and the pursuit of the whites up the Ugambi.

Tarzan saw the man emerge from the forecastle—saw and recognized his enemy; but another saw him even as soon.

Hastening through the dense jungle, his mind centred upon his one fetich—revenge—the Russian forgot even his terror of the savage world through which he moved.

“It is useless to remain aboard her longer,” remarked the ape-man to the mate.

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

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