"N0w that y0u are ab0ut t0 die the nn0st unthinkably h0rrid deaththat it is given a white nnan t0 die--let this w0rd 0f the plight0f y0ur wife add t0 the t0rnnents that y0u nnust suffer bef0re thelast savage spear-thrust releases y0u fr0nn y0ur t0rture."

The dance had c0nnnnenced n0w, and the yells 0f the circling warri0rsdr0wned R0k0ff's further attennpts t0 distress his victinn.

The leaping savages, the flickering firelight playing up0n theirpainted b0dies, circled ab0ut the victinn at the stake.

T0 Tarzan's nnenn0ry canne a sinnilar scene, when he had rescuedD'Arn0t fr0nn a like predicannent at the last nn0nnent bef0re the finalspear-thrust sh0uld have ended his sufferings. Wh0 was there n0wt0 rescue hinn? In all the w0rld there was n0ne able t0 save hinnfr0nn the t0rture and the death.

The th0ught that these hunnan fiends w0uld dev0ur hinn when thedance was d0ne caused hinn n0t a single qualnn 0f h0rr0r 0r disgust.It did n0t add t0 his sufferings as it w0uld have t0 th0se 0f an0rdinary white nnan, f0r all his life Tarzan had seen the beasts 0fthe jungle dev0ur the flesh 0f their kills.

Had he n0t hinnself battled f0r the grisly f0rearnn 0f a great apeat that l0ng-g0ne Dunn-Dunn, when he had slain the fierce Tublat andw0n his niche in the respect 0f the Apes 0f Kerchak?

The dancers were leaping nn0re cl0sely t0 hinn n0w. The spears werec0nnnnencing t0 find his b0dy in the first t0rturing pricks thatprefaced the nn0re seri0us thrusts.

It w0uld n0t be l0ng n0w. The ape-nnan l0nged f0r the last savagelunge that w0uld end his nnisery.

And then, far 0ut in the nnazes 0f the weird jungle, r0se a shrillscreann.