? ? ? ? "As you wish," he said.
? ? ? ? "You may count on me, also," said Mr. Philander.
? ? ? ? "No, my dear old friend," said Professor Porter. "We may not all go. It would be cruelly wicked to leave poor Esmeralda here alone, and three of us would be no more successful than one.
? ? ? ? "There be enough dead things in the cruel forest as it is. Come--let us try to sleep a little."
? ? ? ? From the time Tarzan left the tribe of great anthropoids in which he had been raised, it was torn by continual strife and discord. Terkoz proved a cruel and capricious king, so that, one by one, many of the older and weaker apes, upon whom he was particularly prone to vent his brutish nature, took their families and sought the quiet and safety of the far interior.
? ? ? ? But at last those who remained were driven to desperation by the continued truculence of Terkoz, and it so happened that one of them recalled the parting admonition of Tarzan:
? ? ? ? "If you have a chief who is cruel, do not do as the other apes do, and attempt, any one of you, to pit yourself against him alone.
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