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your men start across No Man's Land slowly. Presently they will hear a

commotion in the enemy trench; but they need not hurry, and, whatever they do,

have them come quietly. You might also warn them that I may be in the trench

and that I do not care to be shot or bayoneted."

"And that is all?" queried Capell, after directing an officer to give Tarzan a hand

grenade; "you will empty the trench alone?"

"Not exactly alone," replied Tarzan with a grim smile; "but I shall empty it, and,

by the way, your men may come in through the tunnel from the listening post if

you prefer. In about half an hour, Colonel," and he turned and left them.

As he passed through the camp there flashed suddenly upon the screen of

recollection, conjured there by some reminder of his previous visit to

headquarters, doubtless, the image of the officer he had passed as he quit the

colonel that other time and simultaneously recognition of the face that had been

revealed by the light from the fire. He shook his head dubiously. No, it could not

be and yet the features of the young officer were identical with those of Fraulein

Kircher, the German spy he had seen at German headquarters the night he took

Major Schneider from under the nose of the Hun general and his staff.

Beyond the last line of sentinels Tarzan moved quickly in the direction of Numa,

the lion. The beast was lying down as Tarzan approached, but he rose as the ape-

man reached his side. A low whine escaped his muzzled lips. Tarzan smiled for he

recognized in the new note almost a supplication--it was more like the whine of a

hungry dog begging for food than the voice of the proud king of beasts.

"Soon you will kill--and feed," he murmured in the vernacular of the great apes.

He unfastened the rope from about the tree and, with Numa close at his side,

slunk into No Man's Land. There was little rifle fire and only an occasional shell

vouched for the presence of artillery behind the opposing lines. As the shells from

both sides were falling well back of the trenches, they constituted no menace to

Tarzan; but the noise of them and that of the rifle fire had a marked effect upon

Numa who crouched, trembling, close to the Tarmangani as though seeking

protection.

Cautiously the two beasts moved forward toward the listening post of the

Germans. In one hand Tarzan carried the bomb the English had given him, in the

other was the coiled rope attached to the lion. At last Tarzan could see the

position a few yards ahead. His keen eyes picked out the head and shoulders of

the sentinel on watch. The ape-man grasped the bomb firmly in his right hand.

He measured the distance with his eye and gathered his feet beneath him, then in

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