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Updated: June 17, 2025
Speak woman and speak only the truth." Pan-at-lee drew herself up very erect, her little chin held high, for was not she too among her own people already as good as a princess? "Pan-at-lee, the Kor-ul-ja does not lie," she said, "to protect herself." "Then tell me what you know of this Tarzan-jad-guru," insisted O-lo-a.
"Ah, if you only could, Dor-ul-Otho," cried the girl, "and I know that you would if it were possible for Pan-at-lee has told me how brave you are, and at the same time how kind." "Only Jad-ben-Otho knows what the future may bring," said Tarzan. "And now you two go your way lest someone should discover you and become suspicious." "We will go," said O-lo-a, "but Pan-at-lee will return with food.
A messenger was on his way in search of me to summon me to Ko-tan's presence. To have refused the priesthood once it was offered me by the king would have been to have affronted the temple and the gods that would have meant death; but if I did not appear before Ko-tan I would not have to refuse anything. O-lo-a and I decided that I must not appear.
There were two women battling with a Ho-don warrior. One was the daughter of Ko-tan and the other Pan-at-lee, the Kor-ul-ja. At the moment that Tarzan lifted the hangings, the warrior threw O-lo-a viciously to the ground and seizing Pan-at-lee by the hair drew his knife and raised it above her head.
The former had been told of all that had occurred in the apartments of O-lo-a to whose safety he had attended at the first opportunity and he had also learned of Tarzan's part in leading his men to the gathering of Lu-don's warriors.
"My father dead?" cried O-lo-a, and suddenly her eyes went wide. "Then my place is here with my people," she cried. "If Ko-tan is dead I am queen until the warriors choose a new ruler that is the law of Pal-ul-don. And if I am queen none can make me wed whom I do not wish to wed and Jad-ben-Otho knows I never wished to wed thy cowardly son. Go!"
If Pan-at-lee does right she is greater in the eyes of Jad-ben-Otho than would be the daughter of Ko-tan should she do wrong." It was evident that O-lo-a did not quite understand this interpretation of divine favor, so contrary was it to the teachings of the priesthood of her people. In one respect only did Tarzan's teachings coincide with her belief that there was but one god.
"O Princess of Pal-ul-don," cried Pan-at-lee, "they would have killed him in the temple. They would have killed the wondrous stranger who claimed to be the Dor-ul-Otho." "But he escaped," said O-lo-a. "You were there. Tell me about it."
He saw then that it was the princess O-lo-a and that she was alone and walking with bowed head as though in meditation sorrowful meditation for there were traces of tears upon her lids. Shortly after his ears warned him that others had entered the garden men they were and their footsteps proclaimed that they walked neither slowly nor meditatively.
Jane smiled, sadly; for she had found that beauty may be a curse. "That is indeed a compliment," she replied quickly, "from one so radiant as the Princess O-lo-a." "Ah!" exclaimed the princess delightedly; "you speak my language! I was told that you were of another race and from some far land of which we of Pal-ul-don have never heard."
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