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The Beasts of Tarzan


By

Edgar Rice Burroughs




To Joan Burroughs




                         CONTENTS


 CHAPTER

  1  Kidnapped
  2  Marooned
  3  Beasts at Bay
  4  Sheeta
  5  Mugambi
  6  A Hideous Crew
  7  Betrayed
  8  The Dance of Death
  9  Chivalry or Villainy
 10  The Swede
 11  Tambudza
 12  A Black Scoundrel
 13  Escape
 14  Alone in the Jungle
 15  Down the Ugambi
 16  In the Darkness of the Night
 17  On the Deck of the "Kincaid"
 18  Paulvitch Plots Revenge
 19  The Last of the "Kincaid"
 20  Jungle Island Again
 21  The Law of the Jungle




Chapter 1

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