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It is true that he had slain Hauptmann Fritz Schneider, that Underlieutenant von Goss had died at his hands, and that he had otherwise wreaked vengeance upon the men of the German company who had murdered, pillaged, and raped at Tarzan's bungalow in the Waziri country. There was still another officer to be accounted for, but him he could not find.
The officers of the Second Rhodesians had seen nothing more of Tarzan of the Apes since he had slain Underlieutenant von Goss and disappeared toward the very heart of the German position, and there were those among them who believed that he had been killed within the enemy lines. "They may have killed him," assented Colonel Capell; "but I fancy they never captured the beggar alive."
The Rhodesians started forward, a cheer upon their lips-a cheer that never was uttered a cheer that froze in their throats, for at that moment Tarzan placed a foot upon the carcass of his kill and, raising his face to the heavens, gave voice to the weird and terrifying victory cry of the bull ape. Underlieutenant von Goss was dead.
The black trembled, his knees giving beneath him. "He ordered us to do it," he plead. "Who ordered it done?" demanded Tarzan. "Underlieutenant von Goss," replied the soldier. "He, too, is here." "I shall find him," returned Tarzan, grimly. "You helped to crucify Wasimbu, the Waziri, and, while he suffered, you laughed." The fellow reeled.
Underlieutenant von Goss is braver he came in and stood beside the door shouting at us, also in a very loud voice, and bade us nail one of the Waziri who was wounded to the wall, and then he laughed loudly because the man suffered. We all laughed. It was very funny." Like a beast of prey, grim and terrible, Tarzan crouched in the shadows beside the tent.
His lieutenant marched beside him while Underlieutenant von Goss brought up the rear, following with a handful of askaris the tired and all but exhausted porters whom the black soldiers, following the example of their white officer, encouraged with the sharp points of bayonets and the metal-shod butts of rifles.
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