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Burroughs, Edgar Rice

"Tarzan Of The Apes"

She went to the bed upon which had been spread several layers of soft grasses. These she rearranged.


? ? ? ? Then she loosened the soft mass of golden hair which crowned her head. Like a shimmering waterfall turned to burnished metal by a dying sun it fell about her oval face; in waving lines, below her waist it tumbled.


? ? ? ? Tarzan was spellbound. Then she extinguished the lamp and all within the cabin was wrapped in Cimmerian darkness.


? ? ? ? Still Tarzan watched. Creeping close beneath the window he waited, listening, for half an hour. At last he was rewarded by the sounds of the regular breathing within which denotes sleep.


? ? ? ? Cautiously he intruded his hand between the meshes of the lattice until his whole arm was within the cabin. Carefully he felt upon the desk. At last he grasped the manuscript upon which Jane Porter had been writing, and as cautiously withdrew his arm and hand, holding the precious treasure.


? ? ? ? Tarzan folded the sheets into a small parcel which he tucked into the quiver with his arrows.


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