rotesque and shaggy caricatures of their
godlike leader.

Silently they made their way to the edge of the clearing which
surrounded the palisade, and here they clambered into the lower
branches of a large tree overlooking the village occupied by the enemy,
the better to spy upon his goings and comings.

A horseman, white burnoosed, rode out through the gateway of the
village. Tarzan, whispering to Chulk and Taglat to remain where they
were, swung, monkey-like, through the trees in the direction of the
trail the Arab was riding. From one jungle giant to the next he sped
with the rapidity of a squirrel and the silence of a ghost.

The Arab rode slowly onward, unconscious of the danger hovering in the
trees behind him. The ape-man made a slight detour and increased his
speed until he had reached a point upon the trail in advance of the
horseman. Here he halted upon a leafy bough which overhung the narrow,
jungle trail. On came the victim, humming a wild air of the great
desert land of the north. Above him poised the savage brute that was
today bent upon the destruction of a human life--the same creature who
a few months before, had occupied his seat in the House of Lords at
London, a respected and distinguished member of that august body.

The Arab passed beneath the overhanging bough, there was a slight
rustling of the leaves above, the horse snorted and plunged as a
brown-skinned creature dropped upon its rump. A pair of mighty arms
encircled the Arab and he was dragged from his saddle to the trail.

Ten minutes later the ape-man, carrying the outer garments of an Arab
bundled beneath an arm, rejoined his companions. He exhibited his
trophies to them, explaining in low gutturals the details of his
exploit. Chulk and Taglat fingered the fabrics, smelled of them, and,
placing them to their ears, tried to listen to them.

Then Tarzan led them back through the jungle to the trail, where the
three hid themselves and waited. Nor had they long to wait before two
of Achmet Zek's blacks, clothed in habiliments similar to their
master's, came down the trail on foot, returning to the camp.

One moment they were laughing and talking together--the next they lay
stretched in death upon the trail, three mighty engines of destruction
bending over them. Tarzan removed their outer garments as he had
removed those of his first victim, and again retired with Chulk and
Taglat to the greater seclusion of the tree they had fir