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Again there ensued a brief silence while the onlookers waited for Lu-don to thus consummate the destruction of this presumptuous impostor. "You dare not," taunted Tarzan, "for you know that I would be struck dead no quicker than were you." "You lie," cried Lu-don, "and I would do it had I not but just received a message from Jad-ben-Otho directing that your fate be different."
She had heard of these in the firelight tales of her childhood and of how the gryfs had come from the morasses across the mountains and of how at last the people had fled after many had been seized and devoured by the hideous creatures, leaving their caves untenanted for no man living knew how long. Some said that Jad-ben-Otho, who has lived forever, was still a little boy.
"It is even as he says," she whispered. O-lo-a fell upon her knees and touched her forehead to Tarzan's feet. "Great is the honor that Jad-ben-Otho has done his poor servant," she cried. "Carry to him my poor thanks for the happiness that he has brought to O-lo-a." "It would please my father," said Tarzan, "if you were to cause Pan-at-lee to be returned in safety to the village of her people."
His glance wandered from his body now that the grime and blood were all removed and caught again the white city shimmering beneath the hot sun. "A-lur City of Light!" he shrieked and that reminded him again of Tu-lur and by the same process of associated ideas that had before suggested it, he recalled that the Waz-ho-don had thought him Jad-ben-Otho.
The impetus carried it into the river's current and the current bore it out upon the lake. The naked man stood erect in the center of the little craft, his arms folded upon his chest. He screamed aloud his message to the city: "I am Jad-ben-Otho! Let the high priest and the under priests attend upon me!"
"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."
If he is Jad-ben-Otho we shall know him." And so Lieutenant Erich Obergatz was brought before the high priest at A-lur. Lu-don looked closely at the naked man with the fantastic headdress. "Where did you come from?" he asked. "I am Jad-ben-Otho," cried the German. "I came from heaven. Where is my high priest?" "I am the high priest," replied Lu-don. Obergatz clapped his hands.
But who could question the word of Dor-ul-Otho, especially when she had with her own eyes seen him in actual communion with god in heaven? "The will of Jad-ben-Otho be done," said O-lo-a meekly, "if it lies within my power. But it would be best, O Dor-ul-Otho, to communicate your father's wish directly to the king." "Then keep her with you," said Tarzan, "and see that no harm befalls her."
"You are Jad-ben-Otho," he whispered, "denounce him!" The German shook himself. His mind cleared of all but his great terror and the words of the high priest gave him the clue to safety. "I am Jad-ben-Otho!" he screamed. Tarzan looked him straight in the eye. "You are Lieutenant Obergatz of the German Army," he said in excellent German.
As the fellow conducted him from the chamber the slave who had shown surprise earlier in the evening at sight of him, spoke again at length to one of his fellows. The latter cast a half-frightened look in the direction of the departing ape-man. "If you are right," he said, "they should reward us with our liberty, but if you are wrong, O Jad-ben-Otho, what will be our fate?"
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