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Chapter 18 Paulvitch Plots Revenge
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As Jane and Tarzan stood upon the vessel1's deck recounting to one another the details of the various adventures through which each had passed since they had parted in their London home, there glared at them from beneath scowling3 brows a hidden watcher upon the shore.
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
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