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There was nothing in the compartment, and no other occupant. If the child was
on board the Kincaid he was confined elsewhere.
For over twenty years, from infancy to manhood, the ape-man had roamed his
savage jungle haunts without human companionship of any nature. He had
learned at the most impressionable period of his life to take his pleasures and his
sorrows as the beasts take theirs.
So it was that he neither raved nor stormed against fate, but instead waited
patiently for what might next befall him, though not by any means without an eye
to doing the utmost to succour himself. To this end he examined his prison
carefully, tested the heavy planking that formed its walls, and measured the
distance of the hatch above him.
And while he was thus occupied there came suddenly to him the vibration of
machinery and the throbbing of the propeller.
The ship was moving! Where to and to what fate was it carrying him?
And even as these thoughts passed through his mind there came to his ears
above the din of the engines that which caused him to go cold with apprehension.
Clear and shrill from the deck above him rang the scream of a frightened woman.
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