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tonight." Then he turned to the table, on which the two pieces of
paper still lay. As he picked them up Rokoff gasped in horror.

Tarzan examined both the check and the other. He was amazed at the
information the latter contained. Rokoff had partially read it, but
Tarzan knew that no one could remember the salient facts and figures it
held which made it of real value to an enemy of France.

"These will interest the chief of staff," he said, as he slipped them
into his pocket. Rokoff groaned. He did not dare curse aloud.

The next morning Tarzan rode north on his way to Bouira and Algiers.
As he had ridden past the hotel Lieutenant Gernois was standing on the
veranda. As his eyes discovered Tarzan he went white as chalk. The
ape-man would have been glad had the meeting not occurred, but he could
not avoid it. He saluted the officer as he rode past. Mechanically
Gernois returned the salute, but those terrible, wide eyes followed the
horseman, expressionless except for horror. It was as though a dead
man looked upon a ghost.

At Sidi Aissa Tarzan met a French officer with whom he had become
acquainted on the occasion of his recent sojourn in the town.

"You left Bou Saada early?" questioned the officer. "Then you have not
heard about poor Gernois."

"He was the last man I saw as I rode away," replied Tarzan. "What
about him?"

"He is dead. He shot himself about eight o'clock this morning."

Two days later Tarzan reached Algiers. There he found that he would
have a two days' wait before he could catch a ship bound for Cape Town.
He occupied his time in writing out a full report of his mission. The
secret papers he had taken from Rokoff he did not inclose, for he did
not dare trust them out of his own possession until he had been
authorized to turn them over to another agent, or himself return to
Paris with them.

As Tarzan boarded his ship after what seemed a most tedious wait to
him, two men watched him from an upper deck. Both were fashionably
dressed and smooth shaven. The taller of the two had sandy hair, but
his eyebrows were very black. Later in the day they chanced to meet
Tarzan on deck, but as one hurriedly called his companion's attention
to something at sea their faces were turned from Tarzan as he passed,
so that he did not notice their features. In fact, he had paid no
attention to them at all.

Following the instructions of his chief, Tarzan had booked his passage
under an as