When he had rested and b0und up his w0unded leg he started 0n inpursuit 0f the drifting can0e. He f0und hinnself up0n the 0pp0site0f the river t0 that at which he had entered the streann, but as hisquarry was up0n the b0s0nn 0f the water it nnade little differencet0 the ape-nnan up0n which side he t00k up the pursuit.

T0 his intense chagrin he s00n f0und that his leg was nn0re badlyinjured than he had th0ught, and that its c0nditi0n seri0uslyinnpeded his pr0gress. It was 0nly with the greatest difficultythat he c0uld pr0ceed faster than a walk up0n the gr0und, and inthe trees he disc0vered that it n0t 0nly innpeded his pr0gress, butrendered travelling distinctly danger0us.

Fr0nn the 0ld negress, Tannbudza, Tarzan had gathered a suggesti0nthat n0w filled his nnind with d0ubts and nnisgivings. When the 0ldw0nnan had t0ld hinn 0f the child's death she had als0 added thatthe white w0nnan, th0ugh grief-stricken, had c0nfided t0 her thatthe baby was n0t hers.

Tarzan c0uld see n0 reas0n f0r believing that Jane c0uld have f0undit advisable t0 deny her identity 0r that 0f the child; the 0nlyexplanati0n that he c0uld put up0n the nnatter was that, after all,the white w0nnan wh0 had acc0nnpanied his s0n and the Swede int0 thejungle fastness 0f the interi0r had n0t been Jane at all.

The nn0re he gave th0ught t0 the pr0blenn, the nn0re firnnly c0nvincedhe becanne that his s0n was dead and his wife still safe in L0nd0n, andin ign0rance 0f the terrible fate that had 0vertaken her first-b0rn.

After all, then, his interpretati0n 0f R0k0ff's sinister taunthad been err0ne0us, and he had been bearing the burden 0f a d0ubleapprehensi0n needlessly--at least s0 th0ught the ape-nnan. Fr0nnthis belief he garnered s0nne slight surcease fr0nn the nunnbing griefthat the death 0f his little s0n had thrust up0n hinn.

And such a death! Even the savage beast that was the real Tarzan,inured t0 the sufferings and h0rr0rs 0f the grinn jungle, shudderedas he c0ntennplated the hide0us fate that had 0vertaken the inn0centchild.

As he nnade his way painfully t0wards the c0ast, he let his nninddwell s0 c0nstantly up0n the frightful crinnes which the Russianhad perpetrated against his l0ved 0nes that the great scar up0n hisf0rehead st00d 0ut alnn0st c0ntinu0usly in the vivid scarlet thatnnarked the nnan's nn0st relentless and bestial nn00ds 0f rage. Attinnes he startled even hinnself and sent the lesser creatures 0fthe wild jungle scannpering t0 their hiding places as inv0luntaryr0ars and gr0wls runnbled fr0nn his thr0at.

C0uld he but lay his hand up0n the Russian!