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You must needs shave off that beard of yours, Alexis," he said to his companion.

With it he would recognize you on the instant. We must separate here in the

hour, and when we meet again upon the deck of the Kincaid, let us hope that we

shall have with us two honoured guests who little anticipate the pleasant voyage

we have planned for them.

"In two hours I should be upon my way to Dover with one of them, and by

tomorrow night, if you follow my instructions carefully, you should arrive with the

other, provided, of course, that he returns to London as quickly as I presume he

will.

"There should be both profit and pleasure as well as other good things to reward

our efforts, my dear Alexis. Thanks to the stupidity of the French, they have gone

to such lengths to conceal the fact of my escape for these many days that I have

had ample opportunity to work out every detail of our little adventure so carefully

that there is little chance of the slightest hitch occurring to mar our prospects.

And now good-bye, and good luck!"

Three hours later a messenger mounted the steps to the apartment of Lieutenant

D'Arnot.

"A telegram for Lord Greystoke," he said to the servant who answered his

summons. "Is he here?"

The man answered in the affirmative, and, signing for the message, carried it

within to Tarzan, who was already preparing to depart for London.

Tarzan tore open the envelope, and as he read his face went white.

"Read it, Paul," he said, handing the slip of paper to D'Arnot. "It has come

already."

The Frenchman took the telegram and read:

"Jack stolen from the garden through complicity of new servant. Come at once.--

JANE."

As Tarzan leaped from the roadster that had met him at the station and ran up

the steps to his London town house he was met at the door by a dry-eyed but

almost frantic woman.

Quickly Jane Porter Clayton narrated all that she had been able to learn of the

theft of the boy.

The baby's nurse had been wheeling him in the sunshine on the walk before the

house when a closed taxicab drew up at the corner of the street. The woman had

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