? ? ? ? Silently he climbed to a great height until he found a point where he could look through a leafy opening upon the scene beneath him.
? ? ? ? The women were now preparing the prisoner for their cooking pots, while the men stood about resting after the fatigue of their mad revel. Comparative quiet reigned in the village.
? ? ? ? Tarzan raised aloft the thing he had pilfered from the hut, and, with aim made true by years of fruit and coconut throwing, launched it toward the group of savages.
? ? ? ? Squarely among them it fell, striking one of the warriors full upon the head and felling him to the ground. Then it rolled among the women and stopped beside the half-butchered thing they were preparing to feast upon.
? ? ? ? All gazed in consternation at it for an instant, and then, with one accord, broke and ran for their huts.
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