ce through the trees he could see ranges of mighty
mountains, with wide plains in the foreground. Here, in the open
spaces, were new game--countless antelope and vast herds of zebra.
Tarzan was entranced--he would make a long visit to this new world.

On the morning of the fourth day his nostrils were suddenly surprised
by a faint new scent. It was the scent of man, but yet a long way off.
The ape-man thrilled with pleasure. Every sense was on the alert as
with crafty stealth he moved quickly through the trees, up-wind, in the
direction of his prey. Presently he came upon it--a lone warrior
treading softly through the jungle.

Tarzan followed close above his quarry, waiting for a clearer space in
which to hurl his rope. As he stalked the unconscious man, new
thoughts presented themselves to the ape-man--thoughts born of the
refining influences of civilization, and of its cruelties. It came to
him that seldom if ever did civilized man kill a fellow being without
some pretext, however slight. It was true that Tarzan wished this
man's weapons and ornaments, but was it necessary to take his life to
obtain them?

The longer he thought about it, the more repugnant became the thought
of taking human life needlessly; and thus it happened that while he was
trying to decide just what to do, they had come to a little clearing,
at the far side of which lay a palisaded village of beehive huts.

As the warrior emerged from the forest, Tarzan caught a fleeting
glimpse of a tawny hide worming its way through the matted jungle
grasses in his wake--it was Numa, the lion. He, too, was stalking the
black man. With the instant that Tarzan realized the native's danger
his attitude toward his erstwhile prey altered completely--now he was a
fellow man threatened by a common enemy.

Numa was about to charge--there was little time in which to compare
various methods or weigh the probable results of any. And then a
number of things happened, almost simultaneously--the lion sprang from
his ambush toward the retreating black--Tarzan cried out in
warning--and the black turned just in time to see Numa halted in
mid-flight by a slender strand of grass rope, the noosed end of which
had fallen cleanly about his neck.

The ape-man had acted so quickly that he had been unable to prepare
himself to withstand the strain and shock of Numa's great weight upon
the rope, and so it was that though the rope stopped the beast before
his mighty tal