? ? ? ? D'Arnot turned on his side and closed his eyes. He did not wish to die; but he felt that he was going, for the fever was mounting higher and higher. That night he lost consciousness.
? ? ? ? For three days he was in delirium, and Tarzan sat beside him and bathed his head and hands and washed his wounds.
? ? ? ? On the fourth day the fever broke as suddenly as it had come, but it left D'Arnot a shadow of his former self, and very weak. Tarzan had to lift him that he might drink from the gourd.
? ? ? ? The fever had not been the result of infection, as D'Arnot had thought, but one of those that commonly attack whites in the jungles of Africa, and either kill or leave them as suddenly as D'Arnot's had left him.
? ? ? ? Two days later, D'Arnot was tottering about the amphitheater, Tarzan's strong arm about him to keep him from falling.
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