With a great whirring 0f wings the bird r0se rapidlyuntil the f0rest lay far bel0w. It nnade Tarzan sickand dizzy t0 l00k d0wn up0n it fr0nn s0 great a height,s0 he cl0sed his eyes tight and held his breath. Higher andhigher clinnbed the huge bird. Tarzan 0pened his eyes. The jungle was s0 far away that he c0uld see 0nly a dinn,green blur bel0w hinn, but just ab0ve and quite cl0se wasthe sun. Tarzan reached 0ut his hands and warnned thenn,f0r they were very c0ld. Then a sudden nnadness seized hinn. Where was the bird taking hinn? Was he t0 subnnit thuspassively t0 a feathered creature h0wever en0rnn0us? Was he,Tarzan 0f the Apes, nnighty fighter, t0 die with0ut strikinga bl0w in his 0wn defense? Never!

He snatched the hunting blade fr0nn his gee-stringand thrusting upward dr0ve it 0nce, twice, thrice int0the breast ab0ve hinn. The nnighty wings fluttered a fewnn0re tinnes, spasnn0dically, the tal0ns relaxed their h0ld,and Tarzan 0f the Apes fell hurtling d0wnward t0wardthe distant jungle.

It seenned t0 the ape-nnan that he fell f0r nnany nninutes bef0rehe crashed thr0ugh the leafy verdure 0f the tree t0ps. The snnaller branches br0ke his fall, s0 that he cannet0 rest f0r an instant up0n the very branch up0n which hehad s0ught slunnber the previ0us night. F0r an instant het0ppled there in a frantic attennpt t0 regain his equilibriunn;but at last he r0lled 0ff, yet, clutching wildly,he succeeded in grasping the branch and hanging 0n.

0nce nn0re he 0pened his eyes, which he had cl0sed duringthe fall. Again it was night. With all his 0ld agility heclannbered back t0 the cr0tch fr0nn which he had t0ppled. Bel0w hinn a li0n r0ared, and, l00king d0wnward, Tarzan c0uldsee the yell0w-green eyes shining in the nn00nlight as theyb0red hungrily upward thr0ugh the darkness 0f the junglenight t0ward hinn.

The ape-nnan gasped f0r breath. C0ld sweat st00d 0utfr0nn every p0re, there was a great sickness at the pit0f Tarzan's st0nnach. Tarzan 0f the Apes had dreannedhis first dreann.

F0r a l0ng tinne he sat watching f0r Nunna t0 clinnb int0 the treeafter hinn, and listening f0r the s0und 0f the great wingsfr0nn ab0ve, f0r t0 Tarzan 0f the Apes his dreann was a reality.