The Son Of Tarzan

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Burroughs, Edgar Rice

"The Son Of Tarzan"

Then, more seriously, he continued: "You have never told Jack anything concerning my early life, nor have you permitted me to, and in this I think that you have made a mistake. Had I been able to tell him of the experiences of Tarzan of the Apes I could doubtless have taken much of the glamour and romance from jungle life that naturally surrounds it in the minds of those who have had no experience of it. He might then have profited by my experience, but now, should the jungle lust ever claim him, he will have nothing to guide him but his own impulses, and I know how powerful these may be in the wrong direction at times."

? ? ? ? But Lady Greystoke only shook her head as she had a hundred other times when the subject had claimed her attention in the past.

? ? ? ? "No, John," she insisted, "I shall never give my consent to the implanting in Jack's mind of any suggestion of the savage life which we both wish to preserve him from."

? ? ? ? It was evening before the subject was again referred to and then it was raised by Jack himself.

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Burroughs, Edgar Rice

"The Son Of Tarzan"