Through the man's brain passed plan after plan whereby he might thwart4 the escape of the Englishman and his wife, for so long as the vital spark remained within the vindictive5 brain of Alexander Paulvitch none who had aroused the enmity of the Russian might be entirely6 safe.
Plan after plan he formed only to discard each either as impracticable, or unworthy the vengeance7 his wrongs demanded. So warped8 by faulty reasoning was the criminal mind of Rokoff's lieutenant10 that he could not grasp the real truth of that which lay between himself and the ape-man and see that always the fault had been, not with the English lord, but with himself and his confederate.
And at the rejection11 of each new scheme Paulvitch arrived always at the same conclusion—that he could accomplish naught12 while half the breadth of the Ugambi separated him from the object of his hatred13.
But how was he to span the crocodile-infested waters? There was no canoe nearer than the Mosula village, and Paulvitch was none too sure that the Kincaid would still be at anchor in the river when he returned should he take the time to traverse the jungle to the distant village and return with a canoe. Yet there was no other way, and so, convinced that thus alone might he hope to reach his prey14, Paulvitch, with a parting scowl2 at the two figures upon the Kincaid's deck, turned away from the river.
Hastening through the dense15 jungle, his mind centred upon his one fetich—revenge—the Russian forgot even his terror of the savage16 world through which he moved.
Baffled and beaten at every turn of Fortune's wheel, reacted upon time after time by his own malign17 plotting, the principal victim of his own criminality, Paulvitch was yet so blind as to imagine that his greatest happiness lay in a continuation of the plottings and schemings which had ever brought him and Rokoff to disaster, and the latter finally to a hideous18 death.
As the Russian stumbled on through the jungle toward the Mosula village there presently crystallized within his brain a plan which seemed more feasible than any that he had as yet considered.
He would come by night to the side of the Kincaid, and once aboard, would search out the members of the ship's original crew who had survived the terrors of this frightful19 expedition, and enlist20 them in an attempt to wrest21 the vessel from Tarzan and his beasts.
In the cabin were arms and ammunition22, and hidden in a secret receptacle in the cabin table was one of those infernal machines, the construction of which had occupied much of Paulvitch's spare time when he had stood high in the confidence of the Nihilists of his native land.
That was before he had sold them out for immunity23 and gold to the police of Petrograd. Paulvitch winced24 as he recalled the denunciation of him that had fallen from the lips of one of his former comrades ere the poor devil expiated25 his political sins at the end of a hempen26 rope.
But the infernal machine was the thing to think of now. He could do much with that if he could but get his hands upon it. Within the little hardwood case hidden in the cabin table rested sufficient potential destructiveness to wipe out in the fraction of a second every enemy aboard the Kincaid.
Paulvitch licked his lips in anticipatory27 joy, and urged his tired legs to greater speed that he might not be too late to the ship's anchorage to carry out his designs.
All depended, of course, upon when the Kincaid departed. The Russian realized that nothing could be accomplished28 beneath the light of day. Darkness must shroud29 his approach to the ship's side, for should he be sighted by Tarzan or Lady Greystoke he would have no chance to board the vessel.
The gale30 that was blowing was, he believed, the cause of the delay in getting the Kincaid under way, and if it continued to blow until night then the chances were all in his favour, for he knew that there was little likelihood of the ape-man attempting to navigate31 the tortuous32 channel of the Ugambi while darkness lay upon the surface of the water, hiding the many bars and the numerous small islands which are scattered33 over the expanse of the river's mouth.
It was well after noon when Paulvitch came to the Mosula village upon the bank of the tributary34 of the Ugambi. Here he was received with suspicion and unfriendliness by the native chief, who, like all those who came in contact with Rokoff or Paulvitch, had suffered in some manner from the greed, the cruelty, or the lust35 of the two Muscovites.
When Paulvitch demanded the use of a canoe the chief grumbled36 a surly refusal and ordered the white man from the village. Surrounded by angry, muttering warriors37 who seemed to be but waiting some slight pretext38 to transfix him with their menacing spears the Russian could do naught else than withdraw.
A dozen fighting men led him to the edge of the clearing, leaving him with a warning never to show himself again in the vicinity of their village.
Stifling39 his anger, Paulvitch slunk into the jungle; but once beyond the sight of the warriors he paused and listened intently. He could hear the voices of his escort as the men returned to the village, and when he was sure that they were not following him he wormed his way through the bushes to the edge of the river, still determined40 some way to obtain a canoe.
Life itself depended upon his reaching the Kincaid and enlisting41 the survivors42 of the ship's crew in his service, for to be abandoned here amidst the dangers of the African jungle where he had won the enmity of the natives was, he well knew, practically equivalent to a sentence of death.
A desire for revenge acted as an almost equally powerful incentive43 to spur him into the face of danger to accomplish his design, so that it was a desperate man that lay hidden in the foliage44 beside the little river searching with eager eyes for some sign of a small canoe which might be easily handled by a single paddle.
Nor had the Russian long to wait before one of the awkward little skiffs which the Mosula fashion came in sight upon the bosom45 of the river. A youth was paddling lazily out into midstream from a point beside the village. When he reached the channel he allowed the sluggish46 current to carry him slowly along while he lolled indolently in the bottom of his crude canoe.
All ignorant of the unseen enemy upon the river's bank the lad floated slowly down the stream while Paulvitch followed along the jungle path a few yards behind him.
A mile below the village the black boy dipped his paddle into the water and forced his skiff toward the bank. Paulvitch, elated by the chance which had drawn47 the youth to the same side of the river as that along which he followed rather than to the opposite side where he would have been beyond the stalker's reach, hid in the brush close beside the point at which it was evident the skiff would touch the bank of the slow-moving stream, which seemed jealous of each fleeting48 instant which drew it nearer to the broad and muddy Ugambi where it must for ever lose its identity in the larger stream that would presently cast its waters into the great ocean.
Equally indolent were the motions of the Mosula youth as he drew his skiff beneath an overhanging limb of a great tree that leaned down to implant49 a farewell kiss upon the bosom of the departing water, caressing50 with green fronds51 the soft breast of its languorous52 love.
And, snake-like, amidst the concealing53 foliage lay the malevolent54 Russ. Cruel, shifty eyes gloated upon the outlines of the coveted55 canoe, and measured the stature56 of its owner, while the crafty57 brain weighed the chances of the white man should physical encounter with the black become necessary.
Only direct necessity could drive Alexander Paulvitch to personal conflict; but it was indeed dire58 necessity which goaded59 him on to action now.
There was time, just time enough, to reach the Kincaid by nightfall. Would the black fool never quit his skiff? Paulvitch squirmed and fidgeted. The lad yawned and stretched. With exasperating60 deliberateness he examined the arrows in his quiver, tested his bow, and looked to the edge upon the hunting-knife in his loin-cloth.
Again he stretched and yawned, glanced up at the river-bank, shrugged61 his shoulders, and lay down in the bottom of his canoe for a little nap before he plunged62 into the jungle after the prey he had come forth63 to hunt.
Paulvitch half rose, and with tensed muscles stood glaring down upon his unsuspecting victim. The boy's lids drooped64 and closed. Presently his breast rose and fell to the deep breaths of slumber65. The time had come!
The Russian crept stealthily nearer. A branch rustled66 beneath his weight and the lad stirred in his sleep. Paulvitch drew his revolver and levelled it upon the black. For a moment he remained in rigid67 quiet, and then again the youth relapsed into undisturbed slumber.
The white man crept closer. He could not chance a shot until there was no risk of missing. Presently he leaned close above the Mosula. The cold steel of the revolver in his hand insinuated68 itself nearer and nearer to the breast of the unconscious lad. Now it stopped but a few inches above the strongly beating heart.
But the pressure of a finger lay between the harmless boy and eternity69. The soft bloom of youth still lay upon the brown cheek, a smile half parted the beardless lips. Did any qualm of conscience point its disquieting70 finger of reproach at the murderer?
To all such was Alexander Paulvitch immune. A sneer71 curled his bearded lip as his forefinger72 closed upon the trigger of his revolver. There was a loud report. A little hole appeared above the heart of the sleeping boy, a little hole about which lay a blackened rim9 of powder-burned flesh.
The youthful body half rose to a sitting posture73. The smiling lips tensed to the nervous shock of a momentary74 agony which the conscious mind never apprehended75, and then the dead sank limply back into that deepest of slumbers76 from which there is no awakening77.
The killer78 dropped quickly into the skiff beside the killed. Ruthless hands seized the dead boy heartlessly and raised him to the low gunwale. A little shove, a splash, some widening ripples79 broken by the sudden surge of a dark, hidden body from the slimy depths, and the coveted canoe was in the sole possession of the white man—more savage than the youth whose life he had taken.
Casting off the tie rope and seizing the paddle, Paulvitch bent80 feverishly81 to the task of driving the skiff downward toward the Ugambi at top speed.
Night had fallen when the prow82 of the bloodstained craft shot out into the current of the larger stream. Constantly the Russian strained his eyes into the increasing darkness ahead in vain endeavour to pierce the black shadows which lay between him and the anchorage of the Kincaid.
Was the ship still riding there upon the waters of the Ugambi, or had the ape-man at last persuaded himself of the safety of venturing forth into the abating83 storm? As Paulvitch forged ahead with the current he asked himself these questions, and many more beside, not the least disquieting of which were those which related to his future should it chance that the Kincaid had already steamed away, leaving him to the merciless horrors of the savage wilderness84.
In the darkness it seemed to the paddler that he was fairly flying over the water, and he had become convinced that the ship had left her moorings and that he had already passed the spot at which she had lain earlier in the day, when there appeared before him beyond a projecting point which he had but just rounded the flickering85 light from a ship's lantern.
Alexander Paulvitch could scarce restrain an exclamation86 of triumph. The Kincaid had not departed! Life and vengeance were not to elude87 him after all.
He stopped paddling the moment that he descried88 the gleaming beacon89 of hope ahead of him. Silently he drifted down the muddy waters of the Ugambi, occasionally dipping his paddle's blade gently into the current that he might guide his primitive90 craft to the vessel's side.
As he approached more closely the dark bulk of a ship loomed91 before him out of the blackness of the night. No sound came from the vessel's deck. Paulvitch drifted, unseen, close to the Kincaid's side. Only the momentary scraping of his canoe's nose against the ship's planking broke the silence of the night.
Trembling with nervous excitement, the Russian remained motionless for several minutes; but there was no sound from the great bulk above him to indicate that his coming had been noted92.
Stealthily he worked his craft forward until the stays of the bowsprit were directly above him. He could just reach them. To make his canoe fast there was the work of but a minute or two, and then the man raised himself quietly aloft.
A moment later he dropped softly to the deck. Thoughts of the hideous pack which tenanted the ship induced cold tremors93 along the spine94 of the cowardly prowler; but life itself depended upon the success of his venture, and so he was enabled to steel himself to the frightful chances which lay before him.
No sound or sign of watch appeared upon the ship's deck. Paulvitch crept stealthily toward the forecastle. All was silence. The hatch was raised, and as the man peered downward he saw one of the Kincaid's crew reading by the light of the smoky lantern depending from the ceiling of the crew's quarters.
Paulvitch knew the man well, a surly cut-throat upon whom he figured strongly in the carrying out of the plan which he had conceived. Gently the Russ lowered himself through the aperture95 to the rounds of the ladder which led into the forecastle.
He kept his eyes turned upon the reading man, ready to warn him to silence the moment that the fellow discovered him; but so deeply immersed was the sailor in the magazine that the Russian came, unobserved, to the forecastle floor.
There he turned and whispered the reader's name. The man raised his eyes from the magazine—eyes that went wide for a moment as they fell upon the familiar countenance96 of Rokoff's lieutenant, only to narrow instantly in a scowl of disapproval97.
"The devil!" he ejaculated. "Where did you come from? We all thought you were done for and gone where you ought to have gone a long time ago. His lordship will be mighty98 pleased to see you."
Paulvitch crossed to the sailor's side. A friendly smile lay on the Russian's lips, and his right hand was extended in greeting, as though the other might have been a dear and long lost friend. The sailor ignored the proffered99 hand, nor did he return the other's smile.
"I've come to help you," explained Paulvitch. "I'm going to help you get rid of the Englishman and his beasts—then there will be no danger from the law when we get back to civilization. We can sneak100 in on them while they sleep—that is Greystoke, his wife, and that black scoundrel, Mugambi. Afterward101 it will be a simple matter to clean up the beasts. Where are they?"
"They're below," replied the sailor; "but just let me tell you something, Paulvitch. You haven't got no more show to turn us men against the Englishman than nothing. We had all we wanted of you and that other beast. He's dead, an' if I don't miss my guess a whole lot you'll be dead too before long. You two treated us like dogs, and if you think we got any love for you you better forget it."
"You mean to say that you're going to turn against me?" demanded Paulvitch.
The other nodded, and then after a momentary pause, during which an idea seemed to have occurred to him, he spoke102 again.
"Unless," he said, "you can make it worth my while to let you go before the Englishman finds you here."
"You wouldn't turn me away in the jungle, would you?" asked Paulvitch. "Why, I'd die there in a week."
"You'd have a chance there," replied the sailor. "Here, you wouldn't have no chance. Why, if I woke up my maties here they'd probably cut your heart out of you before the Englishman got a chance at you at all. It's mighty lucky for you that I'm the one to be awake now and not none of the others."
"You're crazy," cried Paulvitch. "Don't you know that the Englishman will have you all hanged when he gets you back where the law can get hold of you?"
"No, he won't do nothing of the kind," replied the sailor. "He's told us as much, for he says that there wasn't nobody to blame but you and Rokoff—the rest of us was just tools. See?"
For half an hour the Russian pleaded or threatened as the mood seized him. Sometimes he was upon the verge103 of tears, and again he was promising104 his listener either fabulous105 rewards or condign106 punishment; but the other was obdurate107. [condign: of equal value]
He made it plain to the Russian that there were but two plans open to him—either he must consent to being turned over immediately to Lord Greystoke, or he must pay to the sailor, as a price for permission to quit the Kincaid unmolested, every cent of money and article of value upon his person and in his cabin.
"And you'll have to make up your mind mighty quick," growled108 the man, "for I want to turn in. Come now, choose—his lordship or the jungle?"
"You'll be sorry for this," grumbled the Russian.
"Shut up," admonished109 the sailor. "If you get funny I may change my mind, and keep you here after all."
Now Paulvitch had no intention of permitting himself to fall into the hands of Tarzan of the Apes if he could possibly avoid it, and while the terrors of the jungle appalled110 him they were, to his mind, infinitely111 preferable to the certain death which he knew he merited and for which he might look at the hands of the ape-man.
"Is anyone sleeping in my cabin?" he asked.
The sailor shook his head. "No," he said; "Lord and Lady Greystoke have the captain's cabin. The mate is in his own, and there ain't no one in yours."
"I'll go and get my valuables for you," said Paulvitch.
"I'll go with you to see that you don't try any funny business," said the sailor, and he followed the Russian up the ladder to the deck.
At the cabin entrance the sailor halted to watch, permitting Paulvitch to go alone to his cabin. Here he gathered together his few belongings112 that were to buy him the uncertain safety of escape, and as he stood for a moment beside the little table on which he had piled them he searched his brain for some feasible plan either to ensure his safety or to bring revenge upon his enemies.
And presently as he thought there recurred113 to his memory the little black box which lay hidden in a secret receptacle beneath a false top upon the table where his hand rested.
The Russian's face lighted to a sinister114 gleam of malevolent satisfaction as he stooped and felt beneath the table top. A moment later he withdrew from its hiding-place the thing he sought. He had lighted the lantern swinging from the beams overhead that he might see to collect his belongings, and now he held the black box well in the rays of the lamplight, while he fingered at the clasp that fastened its lid.
The lifted cover revealed two compartments116 within the box. In one was a mechanism117 which resembled the works of a small clock. There also was a little battery of two dry cells. A wire ran from the clockwork to one of the poles of the battery, and from the other pole through the partition into the other compartment115, a second wire returning directly to the clockwork.
Whatever lay within the second compartment was not visible, for a cover lay over it and appeared to be sealed in place by asphaltum. In the bottom of the box, beside the clockwork, lay a key, and this Paulvitch now withdrew and fitted to the winding118 stem.
Gently he turned the key, muffling119 the noise of the winding operation by throwing a couple of articles of clothing over the box. All the time he listened intently for any sound which might indicate that the sailor or another were approaching his cabin; but none came to interrupt his work.
When the winding was completed the Russian set a pointer upon a small dial at the side of the clockwork, then he replaced the cover upon the black box, and returned the entire machine to its hiding-place in the table.
A sinister smile curled the man's bearded lips as he gathered up his valuables, blew out the lamp, and stepped from his cabin to the side of the waiting sailor.
"Here are my things," said the Russian; "now let me go."
"I'll first take a look in your pockets," replied the sailor. "You might have overlooked some trifling120 thing that won't be of no use to you in the jungle, but that'll come in mighty handy to a poor sailorman in London. Ah! just as I feared," he ejaculated an instant later as he withdrew a roll of bank-notes from Paulvitch's inside coat pocket.
The Russian scowled121, muttering an imprecation; but nothing could be gained by argument, and so he did his best to reconcile himself to his loss in the knowledge that the sailor would never reach London to enjoy the fruits of his thievery.
It was with difficulty that Paulvitch restrained a consuming desire to taunt122 the man with a suggestion of the fate that would presently overtake him and the other members of the Kincaid's company; but fearing to arouse the fellow's suspicions, he crossed the deck and lowered himself in silence into his canoe.
A minute or two later he was paddling toward the shore to be swallowed up in the darkness of the jungle night, and the terrors of a hideous existence from which, could he have had even a slight foreknowledge of what awaited him in the long years to come, he would have fled to the certain death of the open sea rather than endure it.
The sailor, having made sure that Paulvitch had departed, returned to the forecastle, where he hid away his booty and turned into his bunk123, while in the cabin that had belonged to the Russian there ticked on and on through the silences of the night the little mechanism in the small black box which held for the unconscious sleepers124 upon the ill-starred Kincaid the coming vengeance of the thwarted125 Russian.
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