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Updated: June 23, 2025
"You came just in time," replied Pan-at-lee; "but who are you and how did you know that I was here and what do you know of Om-at and where did you come from and what did you mean by calling Om-at, gund?" "Wait, wait," cried Tarzan; "one at a time. My, but you are all alike the shes of the tribe of Kerchak, the ladies of England, and their sisters of Pal-ul-don.
"I will make you a good gund," said Om-at, seeing that no one appeared inclined to dispute his rights. "Your wives and daughters will be safe they were not safe while Es-sat ruled. Go now to your crops and your hunting. I leave to search for Pan-at-lee. Ab-on will be gund while I am away look to him for guidance and to me for an accounting when I return and may Jad-ben-Otho smile upon you."
The gund examined him from head to foot, making comments, especially upon the shape and size of his thumbs and great toes. "With these and with no tail," he said, "it cannot climb." "No," agreed one of the warriors, "it would surely fall even from the cliff pegs." "I have never seen a thing like it," said the chief. "It is neither Waz-don nor Ho-don.
Two young warriors climbed closer to the ledge upon which Om-at stood. They were In-sad and O-dan. It was the latter who spoke. "Gund of Kor-ul-ja," he said, "we would go with you to search for Pan-at-lee."
A rude stone cresset containing burning oil lighted the interior and as the flame rose and fell the exaggerated shadows of the warriors danced upon the walls behind them. "We brought him to you alive, Gund," he heard one of them saying, "because never before was Ho-don like him seen. He has no tail he was born without one, for there is no scar to mark where a tail had been cut off.
For a time silence reigned in the Kor-ul-ja. The tribesmen waited, looking now down upon the dead thing that had been their chief, now at one another, and now at Om-at and the two who stood upon his either side. Presently Om-at spoke. "I am Om-at," he cried. "Who will say that Om-at is not gund of Kor-ul-ja?" He waited for a taker of his challenge.
And all this he did because of his friendship for Om-at, who is gund of Kor-ul-ja and with whom I should have mated had the Ho-don not captured me."
Hand the strangers over to your people to be slain as is the way of the Waz-don and then may Om-at be gund." Neither Tarzan nor Ta-den spoke then, they but stood watching Om-at and waiting for his decision, the ghost of a smile upon the lips of the ape-man. Ta-den, at least, knew that the old warrior had spoken the truth the Waz-don entertain no strangers and take no prisoners of an alien race.
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