The Son Of Tarzan

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Burroughs, Edgar Rice

"The Son Of Tarzan"

He saw the black Mugambi wielding his deadly knob- stick, and beside them, with bared fangs and bristling whiskers, Sheeta the terrible; and pressing close behind the savage and the savage panther, the hideous apes of Akut. The man sighed. Strong within him surged the jungle lust that he had thought dead. Ah! if he could go back even for a brief month of it, to feel again the brush of leafy branches against his naked hide; to smell the musty rot of dead vegetation--frankincense and myrrh to the jungle born; to sense the noiseless coming of the great carnivora upon his trail; to hunt and to be hunted; to kill! The picture was alluring. And then came another picture--a sweet- faced woman, still young and beautiful; friends; a home; a son. He shrugged his giant shoulders.

? ? ? ? "It cannot be, Akut," he said; "but if you would return, I shall see that it is done. You could not be happy here--I may not be happy there."

? ? ? ? The trainer stepped forward. The ape bared his fangs, growling.

? ? ? ? "Go with him, Akut," said Tarzan of the Apes.

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Burroughs, Edgar Rice

"The Son Of Tarzan"