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Instantly the apes, now maddened by the effects of the dancing and the
moonlight, turned to note the cause of the interruption. They saw this she
Tarmangani, helpless and alone and they started for her. Sheeta, the panther,
knowing that not even Numa, the lion, unless maddened by starvation, dares
meddle with the great apes at their Dum-Dum, had silently vanished into the
night, seeking his supper elsewhere.
Tarzan, turning with the other apes toward the cause of the interruption, saw the
girl, recognized her and also her peril. Here again might she die at the hands of
others; but why consider it! He knew that he could not permit it, and though the
acknowledgment shamed him, it had to be admitted.
The leading shes were almost upon the girl when Tarzan leaped among them, and
with heavy blows scattered them to right and left; and then as the bulls came to
share in the kill they thought this new ape-thing was about to make that he
might steal all the flesh for himself, they found him facing them with an arm
thrown about the creature as though to protect her.
"This is Tarzan's she," he said. "Do not harm her." It was the only way he could
make them understand that they must not slay her. He was glad that she could
not interpret the words. It was humiliating enough to make such a statement to
wild apes about this hated enemy.
So once again Tarzan of the Apes was forced to protect a Hun. Growling, he
muttered to himself in extenuation:
"She is a woman and I am not a German, so it could not be otherwise!"
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