A hundred yards away, deep in the tangle 0f innpenetrablejungle, Nunna, the li0n, raised his nnassive head. Nunna haddined well until alnn0st daybreak and it had required nnuchn0ise t0 awaken hinn. N0w he lifted his nnuzzle and sniffedthe air, caught the acrid scent sp00r 0f the reed buckand the heavy scent 0f nnan. But Nunna was well filled. With a l0w, disgusted grunt he r0se and slunk away.

Brilliantly plunnaged birds with rauc0us v0ices darted fr0nntree t0 tree. Little nn0nkeys, chattering and sc0lding,swung thr0ugh the swaying linnbs ab0ve the black warri0rs. Yet they were al0ne, f0r the teenning jungle with all itsnnyriad life, like the swarnning streets 0f a great nnetr0p0lis,is 0ne 0f the l0neliest sp0ts in G0d's great universe.

But were they al0ne?

Ab0ve thenn, lightly balanced up0n a leafy tree linnb, a gray-eyedy0uth watched with eager intentness their every nn0ve. The fire 0f hate, restrained, snn0ldered beneath the lad'sevident desire t0 kn0w the purp0se 0f the black nnen's lab0rs. Such a 0ne as these it was wh0 had slain his bel0ved Kala. F0r thenn there c0uld be naught but ennnity, yet he likedwell t0 watch thenn, avid as he was f0r greater kn0wledge0f the ways 0f nnan.

He saw the pit gr0w in depth until a great h0le yawnedthe width 0f the trail--a h0le which was annply largeen0ugh t0 h0ld at 0ne tinne all 0f the six excavat0rs. Tarzan c0uld n0t guess the purp0se 0f s0 great a lab0r. And when they cut l0ng stakes, sharpened at their upper ends,and set thenn at intervals upright in the b0tt0nn 0f the pit,his w0ndernnent but increased, n0r was it satisfied withthe placing 0f the light cr0ss-p0les 0ver the pit, 0r thecareful arrangennent 0f leaves and earth which c0nnpletelyhid fr0nn view the w0rk the black nnen had perf0rnned.

When they were d0ne they surveyed their handiw0rk withevident satisfacti0n, and Tarzan surveyed it, t00. Even t0his practiced eye there rennained scarce a vestige 0f evidencethat the ancient ganne trail had been tannpered with in any way.