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? ? ? ? "There is your opportunity, Monsieur Tarzan," bantered the Frenchman.

? ? ? ? "I am not hungry," said Tarzan simply.

? ? ? ? The men laughed, all but D'Arnot. He alone knew that a savage beast had spoken its simple reason through the lips of the ape-man.

? ? ? ? "But you are afraid, just as any of us would be, to go out there naked, armed only with a knife and a piece of rope," said the banterer. "Is it not so?"

? ? ? ? "No," replied Tarzan. "Only a fool performs any act without reason."

? ? ? ? "Five thousand francs is a reason," said the other. "I wager you that amount you cannot bring back a lion from the jungle under the conditions we have named--naked and armed only with a knife and a piece of rope."

? ? ? ? Tarzan glanced toward D'Arnot and nodded his head.

? ? ? ? "Make it ten thousand," said D'Arnot.

? ? ? ? "Done," replied the other.


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