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Burroughs, Edgar Rice

"The Son Of Tarzan"

The man, his eyes going wide in astonishment, stopped as though turned to stone.


? ? ? ? "Akut!" he cried.


? ? ? ? The boy looked, bewildered, from the ape to his father, and from his father to the ape. The trainer's jaw dropped as he listened to what followed, for from the lips of the Englishman flowed the gutturals of an ape that were answered in kind by the huge anthropoid that now clung to him.


? ? ? ? And from the wings a hideously bent and disfigured old man watched the tableau in the box, his pock-marked features working spasmodically in varying expressions that might have marked every sensation in the gamut from pleasure to terror.


? ? ? ? "Long have I looked for you, Tarzan," said Akut. "Now that I have found you I shall come to your jungle and live there always."


? ? ? ? The man stroked the beast's head. Through his mind there was running rapidly a train of recollection that carried him far into the depths of the primeval African forest where this huge, man-like beast had fought shoulder to shoulder with him years before.


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