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With an angry, warning roar he sprang forward to chase them from their kill.
Sheeta bounded into a near-by thicket, while Tarzan took to the low branches of
an overhanging tree.
Here the ape-man unloosed his grass rope from about his neck, and as Numa
stood above the body of the boar, challenging head erect, he dropped the sinuous
noose about the maned neck, drawing the stout strands taut with a sudden jerk.
At the same time he called shrilly to Sheeta, as he drew the struggling lion
upward until only his hind feet touched the ground.
Quickly he made the rope fast to a stout branch, and as the panther, in answer to
his summons, leaped into sight, Tarzan dropped to the earth beside the
struggling and infuriated Numa, and with a long sharp knife sprang upon him at
one side even as Sheeta did upon the other.
The panther tore and rent Numa upon the right, while the ape-man struck home
with his stone knife upon the other, so that before the mighty clawing of the king
of beasts had succeeded in parting the rope he hung quite dead and harmless in
the noose.
And then upon the jungle air there rose in unison from two savage throats the
victory cry of the bull-ape and the panther, blended into one frightful and
uncanny scream.
As the last notes died away in a long-drawn, fearsome wail, a score of painted
warriors, drawing their long war-canoe upon the beach, halted to stare in the
direction of the jungle and to listen.
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