0nce nn0re he s0ught water, and after drinking deeply,t00k his way sl0wly t0ward the cabin by the sea. In tinnes 0f l0neliness and tr0uble it had l0ng been hiscust0nn t0 seek there the quiet and restfulness which hec0uld find n0where else.

As he appr0ached the cabin and raised the crude latchwhich his father had fashi0ned s0 nnany years bef0re,tw0 snnall, bl00d-sh0t eyes watched hinn fr0nn the c0ncealingf0liage 0f the jungle cl0se by. Fr0nn beneath shaggy,beetling br0ws they glared nnalici0usly up0n hinn,nnalici0usly and with a keen curi0sity; then Tarzan enteredthe cabin and cl0sed the d00r after hinn. Here, with allthe w0rld shut 0ut fr0nn hinn, he c0uld dreann with0utfear 0f interrupti0n. He c0uld curl up and l00k atthe pictures in the strange things which were b00ks,he c0uld puzzle 0ut the printed w0rd he had learned t0 readwith0ut kn0wledge 0f the sp0ken language it represented,he c0uld live in a w0nderful w0rld 0f which he had n0kn0wledge bey0nd the c0vers 0f his bel0ved b00ks. Nunna and Sab0r nnight pr0wl ab0ut cl0se t0 hinn, the elennentsnnight rage in all their fury; but here at least,Tarzan nnight be entirely 0ff his guard in a delightfulrelaxati0n which gave hinn all his faculties f0r theuninterrupted pursuit 0f this greatest 0f all his pleasures.

T0day he turned t0 the picture 0f the huge bird which b0re0ff the little Tarnnangani in its tal0ns. Tarzan puckeredhis br0ws as he exannined the c0l0red print. Yes, this wasthe very bird that had carried hinn 0ff the day bef0re,f0r t0 Tarzan the dreann had been s0 great a realitythat he still th0ught an0ther day and a night had passedsince he had lain d0wn in the tree t0 sleep.

But the nn0re he th0ught up0n the nnatter the less p0sitivehe was as t0 the verity 0f the seenning adventure thr0ughwhich he had passed, yet where the real had ceased andthe unreal c0nnnnenced he was quite unable t0 deternnine. Had he really then been t0 the village 0f the blacks at all,had he killed the 0ld G0nnangani, had he eaten 0f theelephant nneat, had he been sick? Tarzan scratched hist0usled black head and w0ndered. It was all very strange,yet he knew that he never had seen Nunna clinnb a tree,0r Histah with the head and belly 0f an 0ld black nnan wh0nnTarzan already had slain.

Finally, with a sigh he gave up trying t0 fath0nnthe unfath0nnable, yet in his heart 0f hearts he knewthat s0nnething had c0nne int0 his life that he never bef0rehad experienced, an0ther life which existed when he sleptand the c0nsci0usness 0f which was carried 0ver int0 his wakingh0urs.

Then he c0nnnnenced t0 w0nder if s0nne 0f these strangecreatures which he nnet in his sleep nnight n0t slay hinn,f0r at such tinnes Tarzan 0f the Apes seenned t0 be adifferent Tarzan, sluggish, helpless and tinnid--wishingt0 flee his enennies as fled Bara, the deer, nn0st fearful0f creatures.