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"You were kind to me to whom none is now kind, and I have come to warn you in payment of your kindness," answered the old hag. "Warn me of what?" "M'ganwazam has chosen the young men who are to sleep in the hut with you," replied Tambudza. "I was near as he talked with them, and heard him issuing his instructions to them. When the dance is run well into the morning they are to come to the hut.
It was little Buulaoo, the chief's son by one of his younger wives a vindictive, degenerate little rascal who hated Tambudza, and was ever seeking opportunities to spy upon her and report her slightest breach of custom to his father. "Come, then," said Tarzan quickly, "let us be on our way."
"Yes, bwana," replied Tambudza, "there was a woman with them and a little child a little white piccaninny. It died here in our village of the fever and they buried it!" A Black Scoundrel When Jane Clayton regained consciousness she saw Anderssen standing over her, holding the baby in his arms. As her eyes rested upon them an expression of misery and horror overspread her countenance.
Finding Rokoff's tent empty, Tarzan was about to set out in search of the Russian when Tambudza suggested to him that the departure of the white man could only have resulted from word reaching him from M'ganwazam that Tarzan was in his village. "He has doubtless hastened there," argued the old woman. "If you would find him let us return at once."
Without a tremor and without regret she darted away from the camp, and a moment later the mysterious jungle had closed about her. Alone in the Jungle Tambudza, leading Tarzan of the Apes toward the camp of the Russian, moved very slowly along the winding jungle path, for she was old and her legs stiff with rheumatism.
"I had forgotten the reward," said Tarzan, half to himself, and then he added, "How may M'ganwazam hope to collect the reward now that the white men who are my enemies have left his country and gone he knows not where?" "Oh, they have not gone far," replied Tambudza. "M'ganwazam knows where they camp. His runners could quickly overtake them they move slowly." "Where are they?" asked Tarzan.
It was only with the greatest difficulty that he could proceed faster than a walk upon the ground, and in the trees he discovered that it not only impeded his progress, but rendered travelling distinctly dangerous. From the old negress, Tambudza, Tarzan had gathered a suggestion that now filled his mind with doubts and misgivings.
Tarzan himself thought that this would probably prove to be the fact, so he did not waste time in an endeavour to locate the Russian's trail, but, instead, set out briskly for the village of M'ganwazam, leaving Tambudza to plod slowly in his wake. His one hope was that Jane was still safe and with Rokoff.
"Do you wish to come to them?" asked Tambudza in way of reply. Tarzan nodded. "I cannot tell you where they lie so that you could come to the place yourself, but I could lead you to them, bwana." In their interest in the conversation neither of the speakers had noticed the little figure which crept into the darkness of the hut behind them, nor did they see it when it slunk noiselessly out again.
As the ape-man entered the boma with old Tambudza at his elbow the seven sailors, recognizing him, turned and fled in the opposite direction. Tarzan saw that Rokoff was not among them, and so he let them go their way his business was with the Russian, whom he expected to find in his tent.
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