The Return of Tarzan

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narrating his adventures to his friend the morning following his encounter with the

ed shudder, but he laughe

ards and reason by the light of civilized ways,

ng. Always, you see, in accordance with the dictates of some great natural law. But here! Faugh, your civilized man is more brutal than the brutes. He kills wantonly, and, worse than that, he utilizes a nob

ight of Rokoff there and the woman's later repudiation of me to the police make it impossible to place any other construction upon her acts. Rokoff must have known that I frequently passed through the Rue M

ght you what I have been unable to impress upon you-t

ne worth-while street in all Paris. Never again shall I miss an opportunity to travers

emember. I know the Paris police well enough to assure you that they will not soon forget what you did to them. Sooner or later t

an of the Apes behind iron

nd the cold, gray eyes made the young Frenchman very apprehensive for this great child, who could recognize no law mightier than his ow

should you persist in defying the police. I can explain it to them once for you, and that I shall do this very day, but hereafter you must obey the law. If its repres

later. He was very cordial. He remembered Tarzan from the visit the

le was playing about the lips of the policeman. He touched a button near his hand, and as he waited for the

se officers-have them come to me at once," and he handed

be inclined to judge you harshly. I am, instead, about to do a rather unheard-of-thing. I have summoned the officers whom you maltreated last

es behind them. The officers whom you attacked were but doing their duty. They had no discretion in the matter. Every day they risk their lives in the protection of t

ess I am gravely in error you are yourself a very br

ance of the four policemen. As their eyes fell on

oluntarily to give himself up. I wish you to listen attentively to Lieutenant D'Arnot, who will tell you a part of

wild beast in self-preservation. It became plain to them that the man had been guided by instinct rather than reason in his attack upon them. He had not understood their in

you that hurts the most. But you need feel no shame. You would not make apologies for defeat had

ted, and always victoriously, against these terrors of the dark continent. It

ape-man did the one thing which was needed to erase the last remnant of animosity

end of the whole matter, except that Tarzan became a subject of much conversation in the

, William Cecil Clayton, Lord Greystoke. The two had maintained a correspondence since the birth of their

d his perusal of the letter. Tarzan did not need to be told who was meant by "they."

attention to what was transpiring upon the stage. Instead he saw only the lovely vision of a beautiful American gi

ing he looked up squarely into the eyes that were looking at him, to find that they were shining from the smiling face of Olga, Countess de Coude. As

you rendered to both my husband and myself no adequate explanation was ever made you of what must have seemed ingra

e been only the most pleasant. You must not feel that a

be of service to you, for I know Nikolas Rokoff quite well enough to be positive that you have not seen the last of him. He will find some means to be revenged upon you. Wha

er good night. From a corner of the theater Rokoff and Paulvitch saw M

entrance of the palace of the Count de Coude. The footman who opened the door raised his ey

ed from the hand of the caller to the hand of the servant. Then the latter turned and led the visitor by a roundab

the room, and presently his hostess ente

that you cam

have prevente

Paris, of the pleasure of renewing their brief acquaintance which had had its inception under suc

e count is intrusted with many of the vital secrets of the ministry of war. He often has in his possession papers that foreig

his government. Rokoff and Paulvitch are Russian spies. They will stop at nothing to procure this information. The affair

ent. He would have been socially ostracized. They intended to hold this club over him-the price of an avowal on their part t

o me. If I would obtain the information for them he promised to go no farther, otherwise Rokoff, who stood without, was to notify the purser that I was entertaining a man othe

were known by the police of St. Petersburg. I dared him to carry out his plan, and then I leaned toward him and whispered a name i

s!" mutter

than that, my fr

you to be on your guard constantly. Tell me that you will, for my sake, for I

Rokoff and Paulvitch." He saw that she knew nothing of the occurrence in

you not turn the scoundrels over to the autho

for a moment b

that very thing. The other, my real reason for fearing to expose them, I have never told-only

ou wonder?" he

tell even to my husband. I believe that you would understand, and that you could te

replied, "for if you had been guilty of murder I should say t

ll tell you the real reason that I dare not. The first is that Nikolas Rokoff is my brother. We are Russians. Nikolas has been a bad man since I can remember. He was cashiered from the

as accomplished it by trumped-up evidence convicting his victims of treason against the czar, and the Russian police, who

bonds of kinship might have accorded him?" asked Tarzan. "The fact that you are his sister

he be my brother, I cannot so easily disavow the fear I hold him i

cated in a convent. While there I met a man whom I supposed to be a gentleman. I knew little or nothing about men and less about lo

o my escort as we descended from the train, and placed him under arrest. They took me also, but when I had told my story they did not detain me, other than to send me back to the convent under the care o

nts knew of it. But Nikolas met the man afterward, and learned the whole stor

ot a little girl at heart you would know it. Go to your husband tonight, and tell him the whole story, just as you have told it to me. Unless I

o fear men. First my father, then Nikolas, then the fathers in the conven

and there it is more often the other way around, except among the black men, and they to my mind are in most ways lower in the scale than the beasts. N

om I think that I should never fear-it is strange, too, for you are very strong. I wondered at the ease with which you handled Nikolas and Paulvitch that night in my cabin. It was marvellous." As Tarzan was

d-by remained with him for the balance of the day. Olga de Coude was a very beautiful woman, and Tarzan of the A

om after Tarzan's departure, she found

n here?" she cried, sh

ver came," he answere

How dare you say such a

t. Had he one-tenth the knowledge of women that I have you would be in his arms this minute. He is a stupid

t her hands

reaten me with, you know that I am a good woman. After tonight you will not dare to anno

thing in the telling when the time comes that the details of the sworn evidence shall be poured into your husband's ears. The other affair ser

d been. From a vague fear her mind was transferred to a very tangible one.