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The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Beasts of Tarzan |
This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and |
most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions |
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before using this eBook. |
Title: The Beasts of Tarzan |
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Release date: October 1, 1993 [eBook #85] |
Most recently updated: June 21, 2022 |
Language: English |
Credits: Judith Boss |
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BEASTS OF TARZAN *** |
[Illustration] |
The Beasts of Tarzan |
by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
To Joan Burroughs |
Contents |
CHAPTER I. Kidnapped |
CHAPTER II. Marooned |
CHAPTER III. Beasts at Bay |
CHAPTER IV. Sheeta |
CHAPTER V. Mugambi |
CHAPTER VI. A Hideous Crew |
CHAPTER VII. Betrayed |
CHAPTER VIII. The Dance of Death |
CHAPTER IX. Chivalry or Villainy |
CHAPTER X. The Swede |
CHAPTER XI. Tambudza |
CHAPTER XII. A Black Scoundrel |
CHAPTER XIII. Escape |
CHAPTER XIV. Alone in the Jungle |
CHAPTER XV. Down the Ugambi |
CHAPTER XVI. In the Darkness of the Night |
CHAPTER XVII. On the Deck of the “Kincaid” |
CHAPTER XVIII. Paulvitch Plots Revenge |
CHAPTER XIX. The Last of the “Kincaid” |
CHAPTER XX. Jungle Island Again |
CHAPTER XXI. The Law of the Jungle |
CHAPTER I. |
Kidnapped |
“The entire affair is shrouded in mystery,” said D’Arnot. “I have it on |
the best of authority that neither the police nor the special agents of |
the general staff have the faintest conception of how it was |
accomplished. All they know, all that anyone knows, is that Nikolas |
Rokoff has escaped.” |
John Clayton, Lord Greystoke—he who had been “Tarzan of the Apes”—sat |
in silence in the apartments of his friend, Lieutenant Paul D’Arnot, in |
Paris, gazing meditatively at the toe of his immaculate boot. |
His mind revolved many memories, recalled by the escape of his |
arch-enemy from the French military prison to which he had been |
sentenced for life upon the testimony of the ape-man. |
He thought of the lengths to which Rokoff had once gone to compass his |
death, and he realized that what the man had already done would |
doubtless be as nothing by comparison with what he would wish and plot |
to do now that he was again free. |
Tarzan had recently brought his wife and infant son to London to escape |
the discomforts and dangers of the rainy season upon their vast estate |
in Uziri—the land of the savage Waziri warriors whose broad African |
domains the ape-man had once ruled. |
He had run across the Channel for a brief visit with his old friend, |
but the news of the Russian’s escape had already cast a shadow upon his |
outing, so that though he had but just arrived he was already |
contemplating an immediate return to London. |
“It is not that I fear for myself, Paul,” he said at last. “Many times |
in the past have I thwarted Rokoff’s designs upon my life; but now |
there are others to consider. Unless I misjudge the man, he would more |
quickly strike at me through my wife or son than directly at me, for he |
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