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Burroughs, Edgar Rice

"The Son Of Tarzan"

In his wake leaped his shaggy bulls, vying with one another as to which could spring the highest and which utter the most uncanny sounds.


? ? ? ? Korak laid his hand affectionately upon his father's shoulder.


? ? ? ? "There is but one Tarzan," he said. "There can never be another."


? ? ? ? Two days later the three dropped from the trees on the edge of the plain across which they could see the smoke rising from the bungalow and the cook house chimneys. Tarzan of the Apes had regained his civilized clothing from the tree where he had hidden it, and as Korak refused to enter the presence of his mother in the savage half-raiment that he had worn so long and as Meriem would not leave him, for fear, as she explained, that he would change his mind and run off into the jungle again, the father went on ahead to the bungalow for horses and clothes.


? ? ? ? My Dear met him at the gate, her eyes filled with questioning and sorrow, for she saw that Meriem was not with him.


? ? ? ? "Where is she?" she asked, her voice trembling.


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