? ? ? ? What could D'Arnot do against Sabor--or if Bolgani, the gorilla, should come upon him--or Numa, the lion, or cruel Sheeta?
? ? ? ? Tarzan paused in his flight.
? ? ? ? "What are you, Tarzan?" he asked aloud. "An ape or a man?"
? ? ? ? "If you are an ape you will do as the apes would do-- leave one of your kind to die in the jungle if it suited your whim to go elsewhere.
? ? ? ? "If you are a man, you will return to protect your kind. You will not run away from one of your own people, because one of them has run away from you."
? ? ? ? D'Arnot closed the cabin door. He was very nervous. Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.
? ? ? ? He loaded one of the rifles and placed it within easy reach. Then he went to the desk and took up the unsealed letter addressed to Tarzan.
? ? ? ? Possibly it contained word that his people had but left the beach temporarily.
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