? ? ? ? When the long knife drank deep a dozen times of Terkoz' heart's blood, and the great carcass rolled lifeless upon the ground, it was a primeval woman who sprang forward with outstretched arms toward the primeval man who had fought for her and won her.
? ? ? ? And Tarzan?
? ? ? ? He did what no red-blooded man needs lessons in doing. He took his woman in his arms and smothered her upturned, panting lips with kisses.
? ? ? ? For a moment Jane lay there with half-closed eyes. For a moment--the first in her young life--she knew the meaning of love.
? ? ? ? But as suddenly as the veil had been withdrawn it dropped again, and an outraged conscience suffused her face with its scarlet mantle, and a mortified woman thrust Tarzan of the Apes from her and buried her face in her hands.
? ? ? ? Tarzan had been surprised when he had found the girl he had learned to love after a vague and abstract manner a willing prisoner in his arms.
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