www.freeclassicebooks.com

successes in Africa and conjectures as to when the German army in Europe

would reach Paris. Some said the Kaiser was doubtlessly already there, and there

was a great deal of damning Belgium.

In the smaller back room a large, red-faced man sat behind a table. Some other

officers were also sitting a little in rear of him, while two stood at attention before

the general, who was questioning them. As he talked, the general toyed with an

oil lamp that stood upon the table before him. Presently there came a knock upon

the door and an aide entered the room. He saluted and reported: "Fraulein

Kircher has arrived, sir."

Bid her enter," commanded the general, and then nodded to the two officers

before him in sign of dismissal.

The Fraulein, entering, passed them at the door. The officers in the little room

rose and saluted, the Fraulein acknowledging the courtesy with a bow and a

slight smile. She was a very pretty girl. Even the rough, soiled riding habit and

the caked dust upon her face could not conceal the fact, and she was young. She

could not have been over nineteen.

She advanced to the table behind which the general stood and, taking a folded

paper from an inside pocket of her coat, handed it to him.

"Be seated, Fraulein," he said, and another officer brought her a chair. No one

spoke while the general read the contents of the paper.

Tarzan appraised the various people in the room. He wondered if one might not

be Hauptmann Schneider, for two of them were captains. The girl he judged to be

of the intelligence department--a spy. Her beauty held no appeal for him--without

a glimmer of compunction he could have wrung that fair, young neck. She was

German and that was enough; but he had other and more important work before

him. He wanted Hauptmann Schneider.

Finally the general looked up from the paper.

Good," he said to the girl, and then to one of his aides, "Send for Major

Schneider."

Major Schneider! Tarzan felt the short hairs at the back of his neck rise. Already

they had promoted the beast who had murdered his mate--doubtless they had

promoted him for that very crime.

The aide left the room and the others fell into a general conversation from which

it became apparent to Tarzan that the German East African forces greatly

outnumbered the British and that the latter were suffering heavily. The ape-man

Tarzan the Untamed