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. . . . . . . . . . 1 2 Marooned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9 3 Beasts at Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 4
Sheeta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 5 Mugambi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
37 6 A Hideous Crew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 7
Betrayed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 8 The Dance of
Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 9 Chivalry or Villainy . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 10
The Swede . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 11
Tambudza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 12 A Black
Scoundrel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 13 Escape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
14 Alone in the Jungle . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 15 Down the
Ugambi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 16 In the Darkness of the
Night . . . . . . . . 132 17 On the Deck of the "Kincaid" . . . . . . . . 140 18

Paulvitch Plots Revenge . . . . . . . . . . . 147 19 The Last of the
"Kincaid" . . . . . . . . . . 158 20 Jungle Island Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
21 The Law of the Jungle . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Chapter 1
Kidnapped
"The entire affair is shrouded in mystery," said D'Arnot. "I have it on
the best of authority that neither the police nor the special agents of the
general staff have the faintest conception of how it was accomplished.
All they know, all that anyone knows, is that Nikolas Rokoff has
escaped."
John Clayton, Lord Greystoke--he who had been "Tarzan of the
Apes"--sat in silence in the apartments of his friend, Lieutenant Paul
D'Arnot, in Paris, gazing meditatively at the toe of his immaculate boot.
His mind revolved many memories, recalled by the escape of his
arch-enemy from the French military prison to which he had been
sentenced for life upon the testimony of the ape-man.
He thought of the lengths to which Rokoff had once gone to compass
his death, and he realized that what the man had already done would
doubtless be as nothing by comparison with what he would wish and
plot to do now that he was again free.
Tarzan had recently brought his wife and infant son to London to
escape the discomforts and dangers of the rainy season upon their vast
estate in Uziri--the land of the savage Waziri warriors whose broad
African domains the ape-man had once ruled.
He had run across the Channel for a brief visit with his old friend, but
the news of the Russian's escape had already cast a shadow upon his
outing, so that though he had but just arrived he was already
contemplating an immediate return to London.
"It is not that I fear for myself, Paul," he said at last. "Many times in the

past have I thwarted Rokoff's designs upon my life; but now there are
others to consider. Unless I misjudge the man, he would more quickly
strike at me through my wife or son than directly at me, for he
doubtless realizes that in no other way could he inflict greater anguish
upon me. I must go back to them at once, and remain with them until
Rokoff is recaptured--or dead."
As these two talked in Paris, two other men were talking together in a
little cottage upon the outskirts of London. Both were dark,
sinister-looking men.
One was bearded, but the other, whose face wore the pallor of long
confinement within doors, had but a few days' growth of black beard
upon his face. It was he who was speaking.
"You must needs