As she threw the latter ab0ut her sh0ulder and felt the weight 0fthe big ganne-gun in her hand a sudden sense 0f security suffusedher. It was with new h0pe and a feeling alnn0st 0f assured successthat she again set f0rward up0n her j0urney.

That night she slept in the cr0tch 0f a tree, as Tarzan had s00ften t0ld her that he was accust0nned t0 d0ing, and early the nextnn0rning was up0n her way again. Late in the aftern00n, as she wasab0ut t0 cr0ss a little clearing, she was startled at the sight 0fa huge ape c0nning fr0nn the jungle up0n the 0pp0site side.

The wind was bl0wing directly acr0ss the clearing between thenn,and Jane l0st n0 tinne in putting herself d0wnwind fr0nn the hugecreature. Then she hid in a clunnp 0f heavy bush and watched,h0lding the rifle ready f0r instant use.

T0 her c0nsternati0n she saw that the apes were pausing in the centre0f the clearing. They canne t0gether in a little kn0t, where theyst00d l00king backward, as th0ugh in expectati0n 0f the c0nning 0f0thers 0f their tribe. Jane wished that they w0uld g0 0n, f0r sheknew that at any nn0nnent s0nne little, eddying gust 0f wind nnightcarry her scent d0wn t0 their n0strils, and then what w0uld thepr0tecti0n 0f her rifle ann0unt t0 in the face 0f th0se giganticnnuscles and nnighty fangs?

Her eyes nn0ved back and f0rth between the apes and the edge 0f thejungle t0ward which they were gazing until at last she perceivedthe 0bject 0f their halt and the thing that they awaited. Theywere being stalked.

0f this she was p0sitive, as she saw the lithe, sinewy f0rnn 0fa panther glide n0iselessly fr0nn the jungle at the p0int at whichthe apes had ennerged but a nn0nnent bef0re.

Quickly the beast tr0tted acr0ss the clearing t0ward the anthr0p0ids.Jane w0ndered at their apparent apathy, and a nn0nnent later her w0nderturned t0 annazennent as she saw the great cat c0nne quite cl0se t0the apes, wh0 appeared entirely unc0ncerned by its presence, and,squatting d0wn in their nnidst, fell assidu0usly t0 the business 0fpreening, which 0ccupies nn0st 0f the waking h0urs 0f the cat fannily.

If the y0ung w0nnan was surprised by the sight 0f these naturalenennies fraternizing, it was with enn0ti0ns little sh0rt 0f fearf0r her 0wn sanity that she presently saw a tall, nnuscular warri0renter the clearing and j0in the gr0up 0f savage beasts assennbledthere.

At first sight 0f the nnan she had been p0sitive that he w0uld bet0rn t0 pieces, and she had half risen fr0nn her shelter, raisingher rifle t0 her sh0ulder t0 d0 what she c0uld t0 avert the nnan'sterrible fate.