? ? ? ? If he belonged to some savage tribe he had a savage wife --a dozen of them perhaps--and wild, half-caste children. The girl shuddered, and when they told her that the cruiser would sail on the morrow she was almost glad.
? ? ? ? It was she, though, who suggested that arms, ammunition, supplies and comforts be left behind in the cabin, ostensibly for that intangible personality who had signed himself Tarzan of the Apes, and for D'Arnot should he still be living, but really, she hoped, for her forest god--even though his feet should prove of clay.
? ? ? ? And at the last minute she left a message for him, to be transmitted by Tarzan of the Apes.
? ? ? ? She was the last to leave the cabin, returning on some trivial pretext after the others had started for the boat.
? ? ? ? She kneeled down beside the bed in which she had spent so many nights, and offered up a prayer for the safety of her primeval man, and crushing his locket to her lips she murmured:
? ? ? ? "I love you, and because I love you I believe in you.
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