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Chapter III In the German Lines
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Tarzan was not yet fully1 revenged. There were many millions of Germans yet alive—enough to keep Tarzan pleasantly occupied the balance of his life, and yet not enough, should he kill them all, to recompense him for the great loss he had suffered—nor could the death of all those million Germans bring back his loved one.
While in the German camp in the Pare Mountains, which lie just east of the boundary line between German and British East Africa, Tarzan had overheard enough to suggest that the British were getting the worst of the fighting in Africa. At first he had given the matter but little thought, since, after the death of his wife, the one strong tie that had held him to civilization, he had renounced2 all mankind, considering himself no longer man, but ape.
After accounting3 for Schneider as satisfactorily as lay within his power he circled Kilimanjaro and hunted in the foothills to the north of that mightiest4 of mountains as he had discovered that in the neighborhood of the armies there was no hunting at all. Some pleasure he derived5 through conjuring6 mental pictures from time to time of the German he had left in the branches of the lone7 tree at the bottom of the high-walled gulch8 in which was penned the starving lion. He could imagine the man's mental anguish9 as he became weakened from hunger and maddened by thirst, knowing that sooner or later he must slip exhausted10 to the ground where waited the gaunt man-eater. Tarzan wondered if Schneider would have the courage to
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