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Updated: May 9, 2025
Tarzan, come with me and I shall show you where Pan-at-lee sleeps, though why you should wish to know I cannot guess she is not there. I have looked for myself." The two entered the cave where Om-at led the way to the apartment in which Es-sat had surprised Pan-at-lee the previous night. "All here are hers," said Om-at, "except the war club lying on the floor that was Es-sat's."
For a week Tarzan and Jane and Korak remained the guests of Ja-don, as did Om-at and his black warriors. And then the ape-man announced that he would depart from Pal-ul-don.
"And I believe, Om-at," concluded the Ho-don, "that he seeks Tarzan the Terrible." At the sound of that name, the first intelligible word that had fallen upon the ears of the stranger since he had come among them, his face lightened. "Tarzan!" he cried, "Tarzan of the Apes!" and by signs he tried to tell them that it was he whom he sought.
"They would have taken the princess and the stranger woman to Tu-lur, Mo-sar's city by the Dark Lake." "I go to find her," he said to Pan-at-lee, "she is my mate. And if I survive I shall find means to liberate you too and return you to Om-at." Before the girl could reply he had disappeared behind the hangings of the door near the foot of the dais.
"Then where can she be?" continued Om-at. "We can but follow while the spoor is fresh," answered the ape-man and again taking up his interrupted tracking he led them down the ridge and at a sharp turning of the trail to the left brought them to the verge of the cliff that dropped into the Kor-ul-lul.
"I can tell you much of this terrible man of whom you ask, Kor-ul-ja," he said. "I saw him yesterday and I know where he is, and if you will promise to let me and my fellows return in safety to the caves of our ancestors I will tell you all, and truthfully, that which I know." "You will tell us anyway," replied Om-at, "or we shall kill you."
Holding him by the cross belt with one mighty hand Om-at was forcing his foeman straight out from the cliff, and with the other hand and one foot was rapidly breaking first one of Es-sat's holds and then another, alternating his efforts, or rather punctuating them, with vicious blows to the pit of his adversary's stomach.
"I am Tarzan," he replied, "and just now I came from Om-at, of Kor-ul-ja, in search of you." Om-at, gund of Kor-ul-ja! What wild talk was this? She would have questioned him further, but now he was approaching the Tor-o-don and the latter was screaming and growling so loudly as to drown the sound of her voice.
"We must search for Pan-at-lee if we would ever find her." "Where shall we search?" asked Tarzan. Om-at scratched his head. "Where?" he repeated. "Why all Pal-ul-don, if necessary." "A large job," said Tarzan. "Come," he added, "she went this way," and he took to the pegs that led aloft toward the summit of the cliff.
In the dim light the ape-man could not see the pegs set in the face of the cliff. Om-at moved warily. In the lower tier of caves there should be a sentry. His knowledge of his people and their customs told him, however, that in all probability the sentry was asleep. In this he was not mistaken, yet he did not in any way abate his wariness.
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