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? ? ? ? "How can we ever thank you?" he exclaimed. "You have saved us all. You called me by name at the cottage, but I do not seem to recall yours, though there is something very familiar about you. It is as though I had known you well under very different conditions a long time ago."

? ? ? ? Tarzan smiled as he took the proffered hand.

? ? ? ? "You are quite right, Monsieur Clayton," he said, in French. "You will pardon me if I do not speak to you in English. I am just learning it, and while I understand it fairly well I speak it very poorly."

? ? ? ? "But who are you?" insisted Clayton, speaking in French this time himself.

? ? ? ? "Tarzan of the Apes."

? ? ? ? Clayton started back in surprise.

? ? ? ? "By Jove!" he exclaimed. "It is true."

? ? ? ? And Professor Porter and Mr. Philander pressed forward to add their thanks to Clayton's, and to voice their surprise and pleasure at seeing their jungle friend so far from his savage home.


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