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threatened danger he wheeled and hurled his spear at Buto's chest。                    It was 

a heavy spear shod with iron�察�and behind it were the giant muscles of the 

ape´man�察�while coming to meet it was the enormous weight of Buto and 

the   momentum   of   his   rapid   rush。      All   that   happened   in   the   instant   that 



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Tarzan   turned   to   meet   the   charge   of   the   irascible   rhinoceros   might   take 

long to tell�察�and yet would have taxed the swiftest lens to record。 As his 

spear left his hand the ape´man was looking down upon the mighty horn 

lowered   to   toss   him�察  �so   close   was   Buto   to   him。    The   spear   entered   the 

rhinoceros'  neck   at   its   junction   with the  left   shoulder   and passed   almost 

entirely   through   the   beast's   body�察  �and   at   the   instant   that   he   launched   it�察�

Tarzan leaped straight into the air alighting upon Buto's back but escaping 

the mighty horn。 

     Then   Buto   espied   the   lions   and   bore   madly   down   upon   them   while 

Tarzan of the Apes leaped nimbly into the tangled creepers at one side of 

the trail。     The first lion met Buto's charge and was tossed high over the 

back of the maddened brute�察�torn and dying�察�and then the six remaining 

lions were upon the rhinoceros�察�rending and tearing the while they were 

being   gored   or   trampled。       From  the   safety  of   his   perch Tarzan   watched 

the   royal   battle   with   the   keenest   interest�察  �for   the   more   intelligent   of   the 

jungle folk are interested in such encounters。                They are to them what the 

racetrack and the prize ring�察�the theater and the movies are to us。 They see 

them often�察�but always they enjoy them for no two are precisely alike。 

     For a time it seemed to Tarzan that Buto�察�the rhinoceros�察�would prove 

victor in the gory battle。 Already had he accounted for four of the seven 

lions and badly wounded the three remaining when in a momentary lull in 

the encounter he sank limply to his knees and rolled over upon his side。 

Tarzan's   spear  had   done  its   work。       It   was   the  man´made   weapon   which 

killed the great beast that might easily have survived the assault of seven 

mighty   lions�察  �for   Tarzan's   spear   had   pierced   the   great   lungs�察  �and   Buto�察�

with victory almost in sight�察�succumbed to internal hemorrhage。 

     Then Tarzan came down from his sanctuary and as the wounded lions�察�

growling�察  �dragged   themselves   away�察  �the   ape´man   cut   his spear   from  the 

body   of   Buto�察  �hacked   off   a   steak   and   vanished   into   the   jungle。        The 

episode   was   over。      It   had   been   all   in   the   day's   worksomething   which 

you and I might talk about for a lifetime Tarzan dismissed from his mind 

the moment that the scene passed from his sight。 



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                                   La Seeks Vengeance 

       Swinging back through the jungle in a wide circle the ape´man came 

to the river at another point�察�drank and took to the trees again and while he 

hunted�察  �all   oblivious   of   his   past   and   careless   of   his   future�察  �there   came 

through the dark jungles and the open�察�parklike places and across the wide 

meadows�察      �where     grazed    the   countless     herbivora     of  the   mysterious 

continent�察�a weird and terrible caravan in search of him。               There were fifty 

frightful men with hairy bodies and gnarled and crooked legs。                  They were 

armed   with   knives   and   great   bludgeons   and   at   their   head   marched   an 

almost   naked   woman�察  �beautiful   beyond   compare。            It   was   La   of   Opar�察�

High     Priestess    of  the   Flaming     God�察  �and    fifty  of  her   horrid   priests 

searching for the purloiner of the sacred sacrificial knife。 

     Never before had La passed beyond the crumbling outer walls of Opar�察�

but never before had need been so insistent。             The sacred knife was gone� �

Handed down through countless ages it had come to her as a heritage and 

an insignia of her religious office and regal authority from some long´dead 

progenitor of lost and forgotten Atlantis。           The loss of the crown jewels or 

the Great Seal of England could have brought no greater consternation to a 

British   king   than   did   the   pilfering   of   the   sacred   knife   bring   to   La�察  �the 

Oparian�察�Queen and High Priestess of the degraded remnants of the oldest 

civilization upon earth。        When Atlantis�察�with all her mighty cities and her 

cultivated fields and her great commerce and culture and riches sank into 

the sea long ages since�察�she took with her all but a handful of her colonists 

working   the   vast   gold   mines   of   Central   Africa。    From   these   and   their 

degraded slaves   and a  later intermixture of   the blood of   the  anthropoids 

sprung the gnarled men of Opar�察�but by some queer freak of fate�察�aided by 

natural     selection�察  �the   old   Atlantean     strain   had    remained     pure    and 

undegraded in the females descended from a single princess of the royal 

house of Atlantis who had been in Opar at the time of the great catastrophe。 

Such was La。 

     Burning     with   white´hot    anger    was   the  High    Priestess�察  �her  heart   a 

seething�察�molten mass of hatred for Tarzan of the Apes。                  The zeal of the 



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religious fanatic whose altar has been desecrated was triply enhanced by 

the rage of a woman scorned。             Twice had she thrown her heart at the feet 

of the godlike ape´man and twice had she been repulsed。                        La knew that 

she     was    beautifuland      she   was    beautiful�察    �not   by   the   standards     of 

prehistoric Atlantis alone�察�but by those of modern times was La physically 

a creature of perfection。          Before Tarzan came that first time to Opar�察�La 

had never seen a human male other than the grotesque and knotted men of 

her clan。      With one of these she must mate sooner or later that the direct 

line   of   high   priestesses   might   not   be   broken�察  �unless   Fate   should   bring 

other men to Opar。 Before Tarzan came upon his first visit�察�La had had no 

thought that such men as he existed�察�for she knew only her hideous little 

priests and the bulls of the tribe of great anthropoids that had dwelt from 

time   immemorial   in   and   about   Opar�察  �until   they   had   come   to   be   looked 

upon almost as equals by the Oparians。               Among the legends of Opar were 

tales of godlike men of the olden time and of black men who had come 

more recently�察�but these latter had been enemies who killed and robbed。 

And�察  �too�察  �these   legends   always   held   forth   the   hope   that   some   day   that 

nameless   continent   from   which   their   race   had   sprung�察  �would   rise   once 

more   out   of   the   sea   and   with   slaves   at   the   long   sweeps   would   send   her 

carven�察�gold´picked galleys forth to succor the long´exiled colonists。 

     The   coming   of   Tarzan   had   aroused   within   La's   breast   the   wild   hope 

that at last the fulfillment of this ancient prophecy was at hand�察�but more 

strongly   still   had   it   aroused   the   hot   fires   of   love   in   a   heart   that   never 

otherwise would have known the meaning of that all´consuming passion�察�

for such a wondrous creature as La could never have felt love for any of 

the repulsive priests of Opar。          Custom�察�duty and religious zeal might have 

commanded   the   union�察  �but   there   could   have   been   no   love   on   La's   part。 

She     had   grown     to   young    womanhood         a  cold   and    heartless    creature�察�

daughter   of   a   thousand   other   cold�察  �heartless�察  �beautiful   women   who   had 

never known love。          And so when love came to her it liberated all the pent 

passions      of  a   thousand     generations�察     �transforming      La   into   a   pulsing�察�

throbbing volcano of desire�察�and with desire thwarted this great force of 

love and gentleness and sacrifice was transmuted by its own fires into one 

of hatred and revenge。 



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     It was in a state of mind superinduced by these conditions that La led 

forth   her   jabbering   company   to   retrieve   the   sacred   emblem   of   her   high 

office and wreak vengeance upon the author of her wrongs。                       To Werper 

she gave little thought。        The fact that the knife had been in his hand when 

it departed from Opar brought down no thoughts of vengeance upon his 

head。     Of course�察�he should be slain when captured�察�but his death would 

give La no pleasureshe looked for that in the contemplated death agonies 

of   Tarzan。    He   should   be   tortured。   His   should   be   a   slow   and   frightful 

death。     His punishment should be adequate to the immensity of his crime。 

He had wrested the sacred knife from La�察�he had lain sacreligious hands 

upon the High Priestess of the Flaming God�察�he had desecrated the altar 

and the temple。        For these things he should die�察�but he had scorned the 

love   of   La�察  �the   woman�察  �and   for   this   he   should   die   horribly   with   great 

anguish。 

     The    march     of  La  

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