Tarzan the Untamed


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Lady Jane, ignorant of the fact that a state of war existed between Great Britain  
and Germany, welcomed the officers most hospitably and gave orders through her  
trusted Waziri to prepare a feast for the black soldiers of the enemy.  
Far to the east, Tarzan of the Apes was traveling rapidly from Nairobi toward the  
farm. At Nairobi he had received news of the World War that had already started,  
and, anticipating an immediate invasion of British East Africa by the Germans,  
was hurrying homeward to fetch his wife to a place of greater security. With him  
were a score of his ebon warriors, but far too slow for the ape-man was the  
progress of these trained and hardened woodsmen.  
When necessity demanded, Tarzan of the Apes sloughed the thin veneer of his  
civilization and with it the hampering apparel that was its badge. In a moment  
the polished English gentleman reverted to the naked ape man.  
His mate was in danger. For the time, that single thought dominated. He did not  
think of her as Lady Jane Greystoke, but rather as the she he had won by the  
might of his steel thews, and that he must hold and protect by virtue of the same  
offensive armament.  
It was no member of the House of Lords who swung swiftly and grimly through  
the tangled forest or trod with untiring muscles the wide stretches of open plain--  
it was a great he ape filled with a single purpose that excluded all thoughts of  
fatigue or danger.  
Little Manu, the monkey, scolding and chattering in the upper terraces of the  
forest, saw him pass. Long had it been since he had thus beheld the great  
Tarmangani naked and alone hurtling through the jungle. Bearded and gray was  
Manu, the monkey, and to his dim old eyes came the fire of recollection of those  
days when Tarzan of the Apes had ruled supreme, Lord of the Jungle, over all the  
myriad life that trod the matted vegetation between the boles of the great trees, or  
flew or swung or climbed in the leafy fastness upward to the very apex of the  
loftiest terraces.  
And Numa, the lion, lying up for the day close beside last night's successful kill,  
blinked his yellow-green eyes and twitched his tawny tail as he caught the scent  
spoor of his ancient enemy.  
Nor was Tarzan senseless to the presence of Numa or Manu or any of the many  
jungle beasts he passed in his rapid flight towards the west. No particle had his  
shallow probing of English society dulled his marvelous sense faculties. His nose  
had picked out the presence of Numa, the lion, even before the majestic king of  
beasts was aware of his passing.  
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