? ? ? ? "I did not know him. Kala told me he was a white ape, and hairless like myself. I know now that he must have been a white man."
? ? ? ? D'Arnot looked long and earnestly at his companion.
? ? ? ? "Tarzan," he said at length, "it is impossible that the ape, Kala, was your mother. If such a thing can be, which I doubt, you would have inherited some of the characteristics of the ape, but you have not--you are pure man, and, I should say, the offspring of highly bred and intelligent parents. Have you not the slightest clue to your past?"
? ? ? ? "Not the slightest," replied Tarzan.
? ? ? ? "No writings in the cabin that might have told something of the lives of its original inmates?"
? ? ? ? "I have read everything that was in the cabin with the exception of one book which I know now to be written in a language other than English. Possibly you can read it."
? ? ? ? Tarzan fished the little black diary from the bottom of his quiver, and handed it to his companion.
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