? ? ? ? When he arrived he found the entire tribe gathered jabbering about the dead body of his slain mother.
? ? ? ? Tarzan's grief and anger were unbounded. He roared out his hideous challenge time and again. He beat upon his great chest with his clenched fists, and then he fell upon the body of Kala and sobbed out the pitiful sorrowing of his lonely heart.
? ? ? ? To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known.
? ? ? ? What though Kala was a fierce and hideous ape! To Tarzan she had been kind, she had been beautiful.
? ? ? ? Upon her he had lavished, unknown to himself, all the reverence and respect and love that a normal English boy feels for his own mother. He had never known another, and so to Kala was given, though mutely, all that would have belonged to the fair and lovely Lady Alice had she lived.
? ? ? ? After the first outburst of grief Tarzan controlled himself, and questioning the members of the tribe who had witnessed the killing of Kala he learned all that their meager vocabulary could convey.
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