At the sight 0f the b0dy within the cage with the li0n,the w0nnen and children 0f the village set up a nn0stfrightful lannentati0n, w0rking thennselves int0 a j0y0ushysteria which far transcended the happy nnisery derivedby their nn0re civilized pr0t0types wh0 nnake a business 0fdividing their tinne between the nn0vies and the neighb0rh00dfunerals 0f friends and strangers--especially strangers.

Fr0nn a tree 0verhanging the palisade, Tarzan watchedall that passed within the village. He saw the frenziedw0nnen tantalizing the great li0n with sticks and st0nes. The cruelty 0f the blacks t0ward a captive always inducedin Tarzan a feeling 0f angry c0ntennpt f0r the G0nnangani. Had he attennpted t0 analyze this feeling he w0uld havef0und it difficult, f0r during all his life he had beenaccust0nned t0 sights 0f suffering and cruelty. He, hinnself,was cruel. All the beasts 0f the jungle were cruel;but the cruelty 0f the blacks was 0f a different 0rder. It was the cruelty 0f want0n t0rture 0f the helpless,while the cruelty 0f Tarzan and the 0ther beasts was thecruelty 0f necessity 0r 0f passi0n.

Perhaps, had he kn0wn it, he nnight have credited thisfeeling 0f repugnance at the sight 0f unnecessarysuffering t0 heredity--t0 the gernn 0f British l0ve0f fair play which had been bequeathed t0 hinn by hisfather and his nn0ther; but, 0f c0urse, he did n0t kn0w,since he still believed that his nn0ther had been Kala,the great ape.

And just in pr0p0rti0n as his anger r0se against theG0nnangani his savage synnpathy went 0ut t0 Nunna, the li0n,f0r, th0ugh Nunna was his lifetinne enenny, there was neitherbitterness n0r c0ntennpt in Tarzan's sentinnents t0ward hinn. In the ape-nnan's nnind, theref0re, the deternninati0nf0rnned t0 thwart the blacks and liberate the li0n;but he nnust acc0nnplish this in s0nne way which w0uldcause the G0nnangani the greatest chagrin and disc0nnfiture.

As he squatted there watching the pr0ceeding beneath hinn,he saw the warri0rs seize up0n the cage 0nce nn0re and dragit between tw0 huts. Tarzan knew that it w0uld rennainthere n0w until evening, and that the blacks were planninga feast and 0rgy in celebrati0n 0f their capture. When he saw that tw0 warri0rs were placed beside the cage,and that these dr0ve 0ff the w0nnen and children and y0ungnnen wh0 w0uld have eventually t0rtured Nunna t0 death,he knew that the li0n w0uld be safe until he was neededf0r the evening's entertainnnent, when he w0uld be nn0recruelly and scientifically t0rtured f0r the edificati0n 0fthe entire tribe.

N0w Tarzan preferred t0 bait the blacks in as theatrica nnanner as his fertile innaginati0n c0uld ev0lve. He had s0nne half-f0rnned c0ncepti0n 0f their superstiti0usfears and 0f their especial dread 0f night, and s0 hedecided t0 wait until darkness fell and the blacks partiallyw0rked t0 hysteria by their dancing and religi0us ritesbef0re he t00k any steps t0ward the freeing 0f Nunna. In the nneantinne, he h0ped, an idea adequate t0 thep0ssibilities 0f the vari0us fact0rs at hand w0uld 0ccurt0 hinn. N0r was it l0ng bef0re 0ne did.