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Burroughs, Edgar Rice

"Tarzan Of The Apes"

Philander were immersed in an absorbing discussion of some weighty scientific problem. Esmeralda dozed in the kitchen, and Clayton, heavy-eyed after a sleepless night, threw himself down upon the couch in the living room and soon dropped into a fitful slumber.


? ? ? ? To the east the black smoke clouds rose higher into the heavens, suddenly they eddied, and then commenced to drift rapidly toward the west.


? ? ? ? On and on they came. The inmates of the tenant house were gone, for it was market day, and none was there to see the rapid approach of the fiery demon.


? ? ? ? Soon the flames had spanned the road to the south and cut off Canler's return. A little fluctuation of the wind now carried the path of the forest fire to the north, then blew back and the flames nearly stood still as though held in leash by some master hand.


? ? ? ? Suddenly, out of the northeast, a great black car came careening down the road.


? ? ? ? With a jolt it stopped before the cottage, and a black-haired giant leaped out to run up onto the porch.


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