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Om-at would never forgive me." "Tell Om-at that I commanded you to go," replied Tarzan. "It is a command?" she asked. "It is! Good-bye, Pan-at-lee. Hasten back to Om-at you are a fitting mate for the chief of Kor-ul-ja." He moved off slowly through the trees. "Good-bye, Tarzan-jad-guru!" she called after him. "Fortunate are my Om-at and his Pan-at-lee in owning such a friend."
Tarzan of the Apes drew his hunting knife and crouched in the path of the fanged fury. It was almost upon him when it swerved to the right and leaped for Om-at only to be sent to earth with a staggering blow upon the head. Almost instantly it was up and though the men rushed fearlessly in, it managed to sweep aside their weapons with its mighty paws.
"You are fit companions for Om-at, the Waz-don." "What do you mean?" asked Tarzan. "I brought you this way," replied the black, "to learn if either lacked the courage to follow where Om-at led. It is here that the young warriors of Es-sat come to prove their courage.
Thus he would travel northwest until opposite the Kor-ul-ja where he planned to stop to pay his respects to Om-at and give the gund word of Pan-at-lee, and a plan Tarzan had for insuring her safe return to her people.
The Waz-don have no cities they live in the trees of the forests and the caves of the hills is it not so, black man?" he concluded, turning toward the hairy giant beside him. "Yes," replied Om-at, "We Waz-don are free only the Hodon imprison themselves in cities. I would not be a white man!" Tarzan smiled. Even here was the racial distinction between white man and black man Ho-don and Waz-don.
The baffled lion, planting all four feet, barely stopped upon the verge of the abyss. Glaring down into the black shadows beneath he mounted an angry roar. Through the darkness at the bottom of Kor-ul-ja, Om-at led the way toward the caves of his people. Behind him came Tarzan and Ta-den. Presently they halted beneath a great tree that grew close to the cliff.
"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."
He turned toward Tarzan and the Ho-don. "And you, my friends," he said, "are free to go among my people; the cave of my ancestors is yours, do what you will." "I," said Tarzan, "will go with Om-at to search for Pan-at-lee." "And I," said Ta-den. Om-at smiled. "Good!" he exclaimed. "And when we have found her we shall go together upon Tarzan's business and Ta-den's. Where first shall we search?"
"I do not think the lion got her," he added; "but that we shall determine quickly. No, he did not get her look!" and he pointed toward the southwest, down the ridge. Following the direction indicated by his finger, the others presently detected a movement in some bushes a couple of hundred yards away. "What is it?" asked Om-at. "It is she?" and he started toward the spot. "Wait," advised Tarzan.
Om-at then pointed to the cave where they stood, pronouncing Tarzan's name and imitating a walking man with the first and second fingers of his right hand upon the floor of the recess, sought to show that Tarzan had walked out of the cave and climbed upward on the pegs five days before, but this was as far as the sign language would permit him to go.
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