And thus they came down out of the hills from which A-lur is carved, to the meadows that skirt the lower end of Jad-ben-lul, with Jane Clayton carried between two of Mo-sar's men. At the edge of the lake lay a fleet of strong canoes, hollowed from the trunks of trees, their bows and sterns carved in the semblance7 of grotesque8 beasts or birds and vividly9 colored by some master in that primitive10 school of art, which fortunately is not without its devotees today.
Into the stern of one of these canoes the warriors tossed their captive at a sign from Mo-sar, who came and stood beside her as the warriors were finding their places in the canoes and selecting their paddles.
"Come, Beautiful One," he said, "let us be friends and you shall not be harmed. You will find Mo-sar a kind master if you do his bidding," and thinking to make a good impression on her he removed the gag from her mouth and the thongs11 from her wrists, knowing well that she could not escape surrounded as she was by his warriors, and presently, when they were out on the lake, she would be as safely imprisoned12 as though he held her behind bars.
And so the fleet moved off to the accompaniment of the gentle splashing of a hundred paddles, to follow the windings13 of the rivers and lakes through which the waters of the Valley of Jad-ben-Otho empty into the great morass14 to the south. The warriors, resting upon one knee, faced the bow and in the last canoe Mo-sar tiring of his fruitless attempts to win responses from his sullen15 captive, squatted16 in the bottom of the canoe with his back toward her and resting his head upon the gunwale sought sleep.
Thus they moved in silence between the verdure-clad banks of the little river through which the waters of Jad-ben-lul emptied—now in the moonlight, now in dense17 shadow where great trees overhung the stream, and at last out upon the waters of another lake, the black shores of which seemed far away under the weird18 influence of a moonlight night.
Jane Clayton sat alert in the stern of the last canoe. For months she had been under constant surveillance, the prisoner first of one ruthless race and now the prisoner of another. Since the long-gone day that Hauptmann Fritz Schneider and his band of native German troops had treacherously19 wrought20 the Kaiser's work of rapine and destruction on the Greystoke bungalow21 and carried her away to captivity22 she had not drawn23 a free breath. That she had survived unharmed the countless24 dangers through which she had passed she attributed solely25 to the beneficence of a kind and watchful26 Providence27.
At first she had been held on the orders of the German High Command with a view of her ultimate value as a hostage and during these months she had been subjected to neither hardship nor oppression, but when the Germans had become hard pressed toward the close of their unsuccessful campaign in East Africa it had been determined28 to take her further into the interior and now there was an element of revenge in their motives29, since it must have been apparent that she could no longer be of any possible military value.
Bitter indeed were the Germans against that half-savage30 mate of hers who had cunningly annoyed and harassed31 them with a fiendishness of persistence32 and ingenuity33 that had resulted in a noticeable loss in morale34 in the sector35 he had chosen for his operations. They had to charge against him the lives of certain officers that he had deliberately36 taken with his own hands, and one entire section of trench37 that had made possible a disastrous38 turning movement by the British. Tarzan had out-generaled them at every point. He had met cunning with cunning and cruelty with cruelties until they feared and loathed39 his very name. The cunning trick that they had played upon him in destroying his home, murdering his retainers, and covering the abduction of his wife in such a way as to lead him to believe that she had been killed, they had regretted a thousand times, for a thousandfold had they paid the price for their senseless ruthlessness, and now, unable to wreak40 their vengeance directly upon him, they had conceived the idea of inflicting41 further suffering upon his mate.
In sending her into the interior to avoid the path of the victorious42 British, they had chosen as her escort Lieutenant43 Erich Obergatz who had been second in command of Schneider's company, and who alone of its officers had escaped the consuming vengeance of the ape-man. For a long time Obergatz had held her in a native village, the chief of which was still under the domination of his fear of the ruthless German oppressors. While here only hardships and discomforts44 assailed45 her, Obergatz himself being held in leash46 by the orders of his distant superior but as time went on the life in the village grew to be a veritable hell of cruelties and oppressions practiced by the arrogant47 Prussian upon the villagers and the members of his native command—for time hung heavily upon the hands of the lieutenant and with idleness combining with the personal discomforts he was compelled to endure, his none too agreeable temper found an outlet48 first in petty interference with the chiefs and later in the practice of absolute cruelties upon them.
What the self-sufficient German could not see was plain to Jane Clayton—that the sympathies of Obergatz' native soldiers lay with the villagers and that all were so heartily49 sickened by his abuse that it needed now but the slightest spark to detonate the mine of revenge and hatred50 that the pig-headed Hun had been assiduously fabricating beneath his own person.
And at last it came, but from an unexpected source in the form of a German native deserter from the theater of war. Footsore, weary, and spent, he dragged himself into the village late one afternoon, and before Obergatz was even aware of his presence the whole village knew that the power of Germany in Africa was at an end. It did not take long for the lieutenant's native soldiers to realize that the authority that held them in service no longer existed and that with it had gone the power to pay them their miserable51 wage. Or at least, so they reasoned. To them Obergatz no longer represented aught else than a powerless and hated foreigner, and short indeed would have been his shrift had not a native woman who had conceived a doglike affection for Jane Clayton hurried to her with word of the murderous plan, for the fate of the innocent white woman lay in the balance beside that of the guilty Teuton.
"Already they are quarreling as to which one shall possess you," she told Jane.
"When will they come for us?" asked Jane. "Did you hear them say?"
"Tonight," replied the woman, "for even now that he has none to fight for him they still fear the white man. And so they will come at night and kill him while he sleeps."
Jane thanked the woman and sent her away lest the suspicion of her fellows be aroused against her when they discovered that the two whites had learned of their intentions. The woman went at once to the hut occupied by Obergatz. She had never gone there before and the German looked up in surprise as he saw who his visitor was.
Briefly52 she told him what she had heard. At first he was inclined to bluster53 arrogantly54, with a great display of bravado55 but she silenced him peremptorily56.
"Such talk is useless," she said shortly. "You have brought upon yourself the just hatred of these people. Regardless of the truth or falsity of the report which has been brought to them, they believe in it and there is nothing now between you and your Maker57 other than flight. We shall both be dead before morning if we are unable to escape from the village unseen. If you go to them now with your silly protestations of authority you will be dead a little sooner, that is all."
"You think it is as bad as that?" he said, a noticeable alteration58 in his tone and manner.
"It is precisely59 as I have told you," she replied. "They will come tonight and kill you while you sleep. Find me pistols and a rifle and ammunition60 and we will pretend that we go into the jungle to hunt. That you have done often. Perhaps it will arouse suspicion that I accompany you but that we must chance. And be sure my dear Herr Lieutenant to bluster and curse and abuse your servants unless they note a change in your manner and realizing your fear know that you suspect their intention. If all goes well then we can go out into the jungle to hunt and we need not return.
"But first and now you must swear never to harm me, or otherwise it would be better that I called the chief and turned you over to him and then put a bullet into my own head, for unless you swear as I have asked I were no better alone in the jungle with you than here at the mercies of these degraded blacks."
"I swear," he replied solemnly, "in the names of my God and my Kaiser that no harm shall befall you at my hands, Lady Greystoke."
"Very well," she said, "we will make this pact61 to assist each other to return to civilization, but let it be understood that there is and never can be any semblance even of respect for you upon my part. I am drowning and you are the straw. Carry that always in your mind, German."
If Obergatz had held any doubt as to the sincerity62 of her word it would have been wholly dissipated by the scathing63 contempt of her tone. And so Obergatz, without further parley64, got pistols and an extra rifle for Jane, as well as bandoleers of cartridges65. In his usual arrogant and disagreeable manner he called his servants, telling them that he and the white kali were going out into the brush to hunt. The beaters would go north as far as the little hill and then circle back to the east and in toward the village. The gun carriers he directed to take the extra pieces and precede himself and Jane slowly toward the east, waiting for them at the ford67 about half a mile distant. The blacks responded with greater alacrity68 than usual and it was noticeable to both Jane and Obergatz that they left the village whispering and laughing.
"The swine think it is a great joke," growled69 Obergatz, "that the afternoon before I die I go out and hunt meat for them."
As soon as the gun bearers disappeared in the jungle beyond the village the two Europeans followed along the same trail, nor was there any attempt upon the part of Obergatz' native soldiers, or the warriors of the chief to detain them, for they too doubtless were more than willing that the whites should bring them in one more mess of meat before they killed them.
A quarter of a mile from the village, Obergatz turned toward the south from the trail that led to the ford and hurrying onward70 the two put as great a distance as possible between them and the village before night fell. They knew from the habits of their erstwhile hosts that there was little danger of pursuit by night since the villagers held Numa, the lion, in too great respect to venture needlessly beyond their stockade71 during the hours that the king of beasts was prone72 to choose for hunting.
And thus began a seemingly endless sequence of frightful73 days and horror-laden nights as the two fought their way toward the south in the face of almost inconceivable hardships, privations, and dangers. The east coast was nearer but Obergatz positively74 refused to chance throwing himself into the hands of the British by returning to the territory which they now controlled, insisting instead upon attempting to make his way through an unknown wilderness75 to South Africa where, among the Boers, he was convinced he would find willing sympathizers who would find some way to return him in safety to Germany, and the woman was perforce compelled to accompany him.
And so they had crossed the great thorny76, waterless steppe and come at last to the edge of the morass before Pal-ul-don. They had reached this point just before the rainy season when the waters of the morass were at their lowest ebb77. At this time a hard crust is baked upon the dried surface of the marsh78 and there is only the open water at the center to materially impede79 progress. It is a condition that exists perhaps not more than a few weeks, or even days at the termination of long periods of drought, and so the two crossed the otherwise almost impassable barrier without realizing its latent terrors. Even the open water in the center chanced to be deserted80 at the time by its frightful denizens81 which the drought and the receding82 waters had driven southward toward the mouth of Pal-ul-don's largest river which carries the waters out of the Valley of Jad-ben-Otho.
Their wanderings carried them across the mountains and into the Valley of Jad-ben-Otho at the source of one of the larger streams which bears the mountain waters down into the valley to empty them into the main river just below The Great Lake on whose northern shore lies A-lur. As they had come down out of the mountains they had been surprised by a party of Ho-don hunters. Obergatz had escaped while Jane had been taken prisoner and brought to A-lur. She had neither seen nor heard aught of the German since that time and she did not know whether he had perished in this strange land, or succeeded in successfully eluding83 its savage denizens and making his way at last into South Africa.
For her part, she had been incarcerated84 alternately in the palace and the temple as either Ko-tan or Lu-don succeeded in wresting85 her temporarily from the other by various strokes of cunning and intrigue86. And now at last she was in the power of a new captor, one whom she knew from the gossip of the temple and the palace to be cruel and degraded. And she was in the stern of the last canoe, and every enemy back was toward her, while almost at her feet Mo-sar's loud snores gave ample evidence of his unconsciousness to his immediate87 surroundings.
The dark shore loomed88 closer to the south as Jane Clayton, Lady Greystoke, slid quietly over the stern of the canoe into the chill waters of the lake. She scarcely moved other than to keep her nostrils89 above the surface while the canoe was yet discernible in the last rays of the declining moon. Then she struck out toward the southern shore.
Alone, unarmed, all but naked, in a country overrun by savage beasts and hostile men, she yet felt for the first time in many months a sensation of elation90 and relief. She was free! What if the next moment brought death, she knew again, at least a brief instant of absolute freedom. Her blood tingled91 to the almost forgotten sensation and it was with difficulty that she restrained a glad triumphant92 cry as she clambered from the quiet waters and stood upon the silent beach.
Before her loomed a forest, darkly, and from its depths came those nameless sounds that are a part of the night life of the jungle—the rustling93 of leaves in the wind, the rubbing together of contiguous branches, the scurrying94 of a rodent95, all magnified by the darkness to sinister96 and awe-inspiring proportions; the hoot97 of an owl66, the distant scream of a great cat, the barking of wild dogs, attested98 the presence of the myriad99 life she could not see—the savage life, the free life of which she was now a part. And then there came to her, possibly for the first time since the giant ape-man had come into her life, a fuller realization100 of what the jungle meant to him, for though alone and unprotected from its hideous101 dangers she yet felt its lure102 upon her and an exaltation that she had not dared hope to feel again.
Ah, if that mighty103 mate of hers were but by her side! What utter joy and bliss104 would be hers! She longed for no more than this. The parade of cities, the comforts and luxuries of civilization held forth105 no allure106 half as insistent107 as the glorious freedom of the jungle.
A lion moaned in the blackness to her right, eliciting108 delicious thrills that crept along her spine109. The hair at the back of her head seemed to stand erect—yet she was unafraid. The muscles bequeathed her by some primordial110 ancestor reacted instinctively111 to the presence of an ancient enemy—that was all. The woman moved slowly and deliberately toward the wood. Again the lion moaned; this time nearer. She sought a low-hanging branch and finding it swung easily into the friendly shelter of the tree. The long and perilous112 journey with Obergatz had trained her muscles and her nerves to such unaccustomed habits. She found a safe resting place such as Tarzan had taught her was best and there she curled herself, thirty feet above the ground, for a night's rest. She was cold and uncomfortable and yet she slept, for her heart was warm with renewed hope and her tired brain had found temporary surcease from worry.
She slept until the heat of the sun, high in the heavens, awakened113 her. She was rested and now her body was well as her heart was warm. A sensation of ease and comfort and happiness pervaded114 her being. She rose upon her gently swaying couch and stretched luxuriously115, her naked limbs and lithe116 body mottled by the sunlight filtering through the foliage117 above combined with the lazy gesture to impart to her appearance something of the leopard118. With careful eye she scrutinized119 the ground below and with attentive120 ear she listened for any warning sound that might suggest the near presence of enemies, either man or beast. Satisfied at last that there was nothing close of which she need have fear she clambered to the ground. She wished to bathe but the lake was too exposed and just a bit too far from the safety of the trees for her to risk it until she became more familiar with her surroundings. She wandered aimlessly through the forest searching for food which she found in abundance. She ate and rested, for she had no objective as yet. Her freedom was too new to be spoiled by plannings for the future. The haunts of civilized121 man seemed to her now as vague and unattainable as the half-forgotten substance of a dream. If she could but live on here in peace, waiting, waiting for—HIM. It was the old hope revived. She knew that he would come some day, if he lived. She had always known that, though recently she had believed that he would come too late. If he lived! Yes, he would come if he lived, and if he did not live she were as well off here as elsewhere, for then nothing mattered, only to wait for the end as patiently as might be.
Her wanderings brought her to a crystal brook and there she drank and bathed beneath an overhanging tree that offered her quick asylum123 in the event of danger. It was a quiet and beautiful spot and she loved it from the first. The bottom of the brook was paved with pretty stones and bits of glassy obsidian124. As she gathered a handful of the pebbles125 and held them up to look at them she noticed that one of her fingers was bleeding from a clean, straight cut. She fell to searching for the cause and presently discovered it in one of the fragments of volcanic126 glass which revealed an edge that was almost razor-like. Jane Clayton was elated. Here, God-given to her hands, was the first beginning with which she might eventually arrive at both weapons and tools—a cutting edge. Everything was possible to him who possessed127 it—nothing without.
She sought until she had collected many of the precious bits of stone—until the pouch128 that hung at her right side was almost filled. Then she climbed into the great tree to examine them at leisure. There were some that looked like knife blades, and some that could easily be fashioned into spear heads, and many smaller ones that nature seemed to have intended for the tips of savage arrows.
The spear she would essay first—that would be easiest. There was a hollow in the bole of the tree in a great crotch high above the ground. Here she cached all of her treasure except a single knifelike sliver129. With this she descended130 to the ground and searching out a slender sapling that grew arrow-straight she hacked131 and sawed until she could break it off without splitting the wood. It was just the right diameter for the shaft132 of a spear—a hunting spear such as her beloved Waziri had liked best. How often had she watched them fashioning them, and they had taught her how to use them, too—them and the heavy war spears—laughing and clapping their hands as her proficiency133 increased.
She knew the arborescent grasses that yielded the longest and toughest fibers134 and these she sought and carried to her tree with the spear shaft that was to be. Clambering to her crotch she bent135 to her work, humming softly a little tune136. She caught herself and smiled—it was the first time in all these bitter months that song had passed her lips or such a smile.
"I feel," she sighed, "I almost feel that John is near—my John—my Tarzan!"
She cut the spear shaft to the proper length and removed the twigs137 and branches and the bark, whittling138 and scraping at the nubs until the surface was all smooth and straight. Then she split one end and inserted a spear point, shaping the wood until it fitted perfectly139. This done she laid the shaft aside and fell to splitting the thick grass stems and pounding and twisting them until she had separated and partially140 cleaned the fibers. These she took down to the brook and washed and brought back again and wound tightly around the cleft141 end of the shaft, which she had notched142 to receive them, and the upper part of the spear head which she had also notched slightly with a bit of stone. It was a crude spear but the best that she could attain122 in so short a time. Later, she promised herself, she should have others—many of them—and they would be spears of which even the greatest of the Waziri spear-men might be proud.
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