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12 La Seeks Vengeance
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Swinging back through the jungle in a wide circle the ape-man came to the river at another point, drank and took to the trees again and while he hunted, all oblivious1 of his past and careless of his future, there came through the dark jungles and the open, parklike places and across the wide meadows, where grazed the countless2 herbivora of the mysterious continent, a weird3 and terrible caravan4 in search of him. There were fifty frightful5 men with hairy bodies and gnarled and crooked6 legs. They were armed with knives and great bludgeons and at their head marched an almost naked woman, beautiful beyond compare. It was La of Opar, High Priestess of the Flaming God, and fifty of her horrid7 priests searching for the purloiner8 of the sacred sacrificial knife.
Never before had La passed beyond the crumbling9 outer walls of Opar; but never before had need been so insistent10. The sacred knife was gone! Handed down through countless ages it had come to her as a heritage and an insignia of her religious office and regal authority from some long-dead progenitor11 of lost and forgotten Atlantis. The loss of the crown jewels or the Great Seal of England could have brought no greater consternation12 to a British king than did the
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lash
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sniffed
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