Before them stretched the broad Atlantic. At their backs was the Dark Continent. Close around them loomed1 the impenetrable blackness of the jungle.
Savage2 beasts roared and growled3; noises, hideous4 and weird5, assailed6 their ears. They had wandered for miles in search of their camp, but always in the wrong direction. They were as hopelessly lost as though they suddenly had been transported to another world.
At such a time, indeed, every fiber7 of their combined intellects must have been concentrated upon the vital question of the minute — the life-and-death question to them of retracing8 their steps to camp.
Samuel T. Philander9 was speaking.
“But, my dear professor,” he was saying, “I still maintain that but for the victories of Ferdinand and Isabella over the fifteenth-century Moors10 in Spain the world would be today a thousand years in advance of where we now find ourselves. The Moors were essentially11 a tolerant, broad-minded, liberal race of agriculturists, artisans and merchants — the very type of people that has made possible such civilization as we find today in America and Europe — while the Spaniards —”
“Tut, tut, dear Mr. Philander,” interrupted Professor Porter; “their religion positively12 precluded13 the possibilities you suggest. Moslemism was, is, and always will be, a blight14 on that scientific progress which has marked —”
“Bless me! Professor,” interjected Mr. Philander, who had turned his gaze toward the jungle, “there seems to be someone approaching.”
Professor Archimedes Q. Porter turned in the direction indicated by the nearsighted Mr. Philander.
“Tut, tut, Mr. Philander,” he chided. “How often must I urge you to seek that absolute concentration of your mental faculties15 which alone may permit you to bring to bear the highest powers of intellectuality upon the momentous16 problems which naturally fall to the lot of great minds? And now I find you guilty of a most flagrant breach17 of courtesy in interrupting my learned discourse18 to call attention to a mere19 quadruped of the genus FELIS. As I was saying, Mr. —”
“Heavens, Professor, a lion?” cried Mr. Philander, straining his weak eyes toward the dim figure outlined against the dark tropical underbrush.
“Yes, yes, Mr. Philander, if you insist upon employing slang in your discourse, a ‘lion.’ But as I was saying —”
“Bless me, Professor,” again interrupted Mr. Philander; “permit me to suggest that doubtless the Moors who were conquered in the fifteenth century will continue in that most regrettable condition for the time being at least, even though we postpone20 discussion of that world calamity21 until we may attain22 the enchanting23 view of yon FELIS CARNIVORA which distance proverbially is credited with lending.”
In the meantime the lion had approached with quiet dignity to within ten paces of the two men, where he stood curiously24 watching them.
The moonlight flooded the beach, and the strange group stood out in bold relief against the yellow sand.
“Most reprehensible25, most reprehensible,” exclaimed Professor Porter, with a faint trace of irritation26 in his voice. “Never, Mr. Philander, never before in my life have I known one of these animals to be permitted to roam at large from its cage. I shall most certainly report this outrageous27 breach of ethics28 to the directors of the adjacent zoological garden.”
“Quite right, Professor,” agreed Mr. Philander, “and the sooner it is done the better. Let us start now.”
Seizing the professor by the arm, Mr. Philander set off in the direction that would put the greatest distance between themselves and the lion.
They had proceeded but a short distance when a backward glance revealed to the horrified30 gaze of Mr. Philander that the lion was following them. He tightened31 his grip upon the protesting professor and increased his speed.
“As I was saying, Mr. Philander,” repeated Professor Porter.
Mr. Philander took another hasty glance rearward. The lion also had quickened his gait, and was doggedly32 maintaining an unvarying distance behind them.
“He is following us!” gasped33 Mr. Philander, breaking into a run.
“Tut, tut, Mr. Philander,” remonstrated34 the professor, “this unseemly haste is most unbecoming to men of letters. What will our friends think of us, who may chance to be upon the street and witness our frivolous35 antics? Pray let us proceed with more decorum.”
Mr. Philander stole another observation astern.
The lion was bounding along in easy leaps scarce five paces behind.
Mr. Philander dropped the professor’s arm, and broke into a mad orgy of speed that would have done credit to any varsity track team.
“As I was saying, Mr. Philander —” screamed Professor Porter, as, metaphorically36 speaking, he himself “threw her into high.” He, too, had caught a fleeting37 backward glimpse of cruel yellow eyes and half open mouth within startling proximity38 of his person.
With streaming coat tails and shiny silk hat Professor Archimedes Q. Porter fled through the moonlight close upon the heels of Mr. Samuel T. Philander.
Before them a point of the jungle ran out toward a narrow promontory39, and it was for the heaven of the trees he saw there that Mr. Samuel T. Philander directed his prodigious40 leaps and bounds; while from the shadows of this same spot peered two keen eyes in interested appreciation41 of the race.
It was Tarzan of the Apes who watched, with face a-grin, this odd game of follow-the-leader.
He knew the two men were safe enough from attack in so far as the lion was concerned. The very fact that Numa had foregone such easy prey42 at all convinced the wise forest craft of Tarzan that Numa’s belly43 already was full.
The lion might stalk them until hungry again; but the chances were that if not angered he would soon tire of the sport, and slink away to his jungle lair44.
Really, the one great danger was that one of the men might stumble and fall, and then the yellow devil would be upon him in a moment and the joy of the kill would be too great a temptation to withstand.
So Tarzan swung quickly to a lower limb in line with the approaching fugitives45; and as Mr. Samuel T. Philander came panting and blowing beneath him, already too spent to struggle up to the safety of the limb, Tarzan reached down and, grasping him by the collar of his coat, yanked him to the limb by his side.
Another moment brought the professor within the sphere of the friendly grip, and he, too, was drawn46 upward to safety just as the baffled Numa, with a roar, leaped to recover his vanishing quarry47.
For a moment the two men clung panting to the great branch, while Tarzan squatted48 with his back to the stem of the tree, watching them with mingled49 curiosity and amusement.
It was the professor who first broke the silence.
“I am deeply pained, Mr. Philander, that you should have evinced such a paucity50 of manly51 courage in the presence of one of the lower orders, and by your crass52 timidity have caused me to exert myself to such an unaccustomed degree in order that I might resume my discourse. As I was saying, Mr. Philander, when you interrupted me, the Moors —”
“Professor Archimedes Q. Porter,” broke in Mr. Philander, in icy tones, “the time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed53 in the mantle54 of virtue55. You have accused me of cowardice56. You have insinuated57 that you ran only to overtake me, not to escape the clutches of the lion. Have a care, Professor Archimedes Q. Porter! I am a desperate man. Goaded58 by long-suffering patience the worm will turn.”
“Tut, tut, Mr. Philander, tut, tut!” cautioned Professor Porter; “you forget yourself.”
“I forget nothing as yet, Professor Archimedes Q. Porter; but, believe me, sir, I am tottering59 on the verge60 of forgetfulness as to your exalted61 position in the world of science, and your gray hairs.”
The professor sat in silence for a few minutes, and the darkness hid the grim smile that wreathed his wrinkled countenance62. Presently he spoke63.
“Look here, Skinny Philander,” he said, in belligerent64 tones, “if you are lookin’ for a scrap65, peel off your coat and come on down on the ground, and I’ll punch your head just as I did sixty years ago in the alley66 back of Porky Evans’ barn.”
“Ark!” gasped the astonished Mr. Philander. “Lordy, how good that sounds! When you’re human, Ark, I love you; but somehow it seems as though you had forgotten how to be human for the last twenty years.”
The professor reached out a thin, trembling old hand through the darkness until it found his old friend’s shoulder.
“Forgive me, Skinny,” he said, softly. “It hasn’t been quite twenty years, and God alone knows how hard I have tried to be ‘human’ for Jane’s sake, and yours, too, since He took my other Jane away.”
Another old hand stole up from Mr. Philander’s side to clasp the one that lay upon his shoulder, and no other message could better have translated the one heart to the other.
They did not speak for some minutes. The lion below them paced nervously67 back and forth68. The third figure in the tree was hidden by the dense69 shadows near the stem. He, too, was silent — motionless as a graven image.
“You certainly pulled me up into this tree just in time,” said the professor at last. “I want to thank you. You saved my life.”
“But I didn’t pull you up here, Professor,” said Mr. Philander. “Bless me! The excitement of the moment quite caused me to forget that I myself was drawn up here by some outside agency — there must be someone or something in this tree with us.”
“Eh?” ejaculated Professor Porter. “Are you quite positive, Mr. Philander?”
“Most positive, Professor,” replied Mr. Philander, “and,” he added, “I think we should thank the party. He may be sitting right next to you now, Professor.”
“Eh? What’s that? Tut, tut, Mr. Philander, tut, tut!” said Professor Porter, edging cautiously nearer to Mr. Philander.
Just then it occurred to Tarzan of the Apes that Numa had loitered beneath the tree for a sufficient length of time, so he raised his young head toward the heavens, and there rang out upon the terrified ears of the two old men the awful warning challenge of the anthropoid70.
The two friends, huddled71 trembling in their precarious72 position on the limb, saw the great lion halt in his restless pacing as the blood-curdling cry smote73 his ears, and then slink quickly into the jungle, to be instantly lost to view.
“Even the lion trembles in fear,” whispered Mr. Philander.
“Most remarkable74, most remarkable,” murmured Professor Porter, clutching frantically75 at Mr. Philander to regain76 the balance which the sudden fright had so perilously77 endangered. Unfortunately for them both, Mr. Philander’s center of equilibrium78 was at that very moment hanging upon the ragged79 edge of nothing, so that it needed but the gentle impetus80 supplied by the additional weight of Professor Porter’s body to topple the devoted81 secretary from the limb.
For a moment they swayed uncertainly, and then, with mingled and most unscholarly shrieks82, they pitched headlong from the tree, locked in frenzied83 embrace.
It was quite some moments ere either moved, for both were positive that any such attempt would reveal so many breaks and fractures as to make further progress impossible.
At length Professor Porter made an attempt to move one leg. To his surprise, it responded to his will as in days gone by. He now drew up its mate and stretched it forth again.
“Most remarkable, most remarkable,” he murmured.
“Thank God, Professor,” whispered Mr. Philander, fervently84, “you are not dead, then?”
“Tut, tut, Mr. Philander, tut, tut,” cautioned Professor Porter, “I do not know with accuracy as yet.”
With infinite solicitude85 Professor Porter wiggled his right arm — joy! It was intact. Breathlessly he waved his left arm above his prostrate86 body — it waved!
“Most remarkable, most remarkable,” he said.
“To whom are you signaling, Professor?” asked Mr. Philander, in an excited tone.
Professor Porter deigned87 to make no response to this puerile88 inquiry89. Instead he raised his head gently from the ground, nodding it back and forth a half dozen times.
“Most remarkable,” he breathed. “It remains90 intact.”
Mr. Philander had not moved from where he had fallen; he had not dared the attempt. How indeed could one move when one’s arms and legs and back were broken?
One eye was buried in the soft loam91; the other, rolling sidewise, was fixed92 in awe93 upon the strange gyrations of Professor Porter.
“How sad!” exclaimed Mr. Philander, half aloud. “Concussion of the brain, superinducing total mental aberration94. How very sad indeed! and for one still so young!”
Professor Porter rolled over upon his stomach; gingerly he bowed his back until he resembled a huge tom cat in proximity to a yelping95 dog. Then he sat up and felt of various portions of his anatomy96.
“They are all here,” he exclaimed. “Most remarkable!”
Whereupon he arose, and, bending a scathing97 glance upon the still prostrate form of Mr. Samuel T. Philander, he said:
“Tut, tut, Mr. Philander; this is no time to indulge in slothful ease. We must be up and doing.”
Mr. Philander lifted his other eye out of the mud and gazed in speechless rage at Professor Porter. Then he attempted to rise; nor could there have been any more surprised than he when his efforts were immediately crowned with marked success.
He was still bursting with rage, however, at the cruel injustice98 of Professor Porter’s insinuation, and was on the point of rendering99 a tart29 rejoinder when his eyes fell upon a strange figure standing100 a few paces away, scrutinizing101 them intently.
Professor Porter had recovered his shiny silk hat, which he had brushed carefully upon the sleeve of his coat and replaced upon his head. When he saw Mr. Philander pointing to something behind him he turned to behold102 a giant, naked but for a loin cloth and a few metal ornaments103, standing motionless before him.
“Good evening, sir!” said the professor, lifting his hat.
For reply the giant motioned them to follow him, and set off up the beach in the direction from which they had recently come.
“I think it the better part of discretion104 to follow him,” said Mr. Philander.
“Tut, tut, Mr. Philander,” returned the professor. “A short time since you were advancing a most logical argument in substantiation105 of your theory that camp lay directly south of us. I was skeptical106, but you finally convinced me; so now I am positive that toward the south we must travel to reach our friends. Therefore I shall continue south.”
“But, Professor Porter, this man may know better than either of us. He seems to be indigenous107 to this part of the world. Let us at least follow him for a short distance.”
“Tut, tut, Mr. Philander,” repeated the professor. “I am a difficult man to convince, but when once convinced my decision is unalterable. I shall continue in the proper direction, if I have to circumambulate the continent of Africa to reach my destination.”
Further argument was interrupted by Tarzan, who, seeing that these strange men were not following him, had returned to their side.
Again he beckoned108 to them; but still they stood in argument.
Presently the ape-man lost patience with their stupid ignorance. He grasped the frightened Mr. Philander by the shoulder, and before that worthy109 gentleman knew whether he was being killed or merely maimed for life, Tarzan had tied one end of his rope securely about Mr. Philander’s neck.
“Tut, tut, Mr. Philander,” remonstrated Professor Porter; “it is most unbeseeming in you to submit to such indignities110.”
But scarcely were the words out of his mouth ere he, too, had been seized and securely bound by the neck with the same rope. Then Tarzan set off toward the north, leading the now thoroughly111 frightened professor and his secretary.
In deathly silence they proceeded for what seemed hours to the two tired and hopeless old men; but presently as they topped a little rise of ground they were overjoyed to see the cabin lying before them, not a hundred yards distant.
Here Tarzan released them, and, pointing toward the little building, vanished into the jungle beside them.
“Most remarkable, most remarkable!” gasped the professor. “But you see, Mr. Philander, that I was quite right, as usual; and but for your stubborn willfulness we should have escaped a series of most humiliating, not to say dangerous accidents. Pray allow yourself to be guided by a more mature and practical mind hereafter when in need of wise counsel.”
Mr. Samuel T. Philander was too much relieved at the happy outcome to their adventure to take umbrage112 at the professor’s cruel fling. Instead he grasped his friend’s arm and hastened him forward in the direction of the cabin.
It was a much-relieved party of castaways that found itself once more united. Dawn discovered them still recounting their various adventures and speculating upon the identity of the strange guardian113 and protector they had found on this savage shore.
Esmeralda was positive that it was none other than an angel of the Lord, sent down especially to watch over them.
“Had you seen him devour114 the raw meat of the lion, Esmeralda,” laughed Clayton, “you would have thought him a very material angel.”
“There was nothing heavenly about his voice,” said Jane Porter, with a little shudder115 at recollection of the awful roar which had followed the killing116 of the lioness.
“Nor did it precisely117 comport118 with my preconceived ideas of the dignity of divine messengers,” remarked Professor Porter, “when the — ah — gentleman tied two highly respectable and erudite scholars neck to neck and dragged them through the jungle as though they had been cows.”
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