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There was a certain amount of preliminary circling, growling, and sniffing, stiff-legged and stiff-haired, before each side discovered that the other had no intention of initiating an attack and then Zu-tag told Go-lat what he had seen among the lairs of the Gomangani. Go-lat grunted in disgust and turned away. "Let the white ape take care of himself," he said. "He is a great ape," said Zu-tag.
"He came to live in peace with the tribe of Go-lat. Let us save him from the Gomangani." Go-lat grunted again and continued to move away. "Zu-tag will go alone and get him," cried the young ape, "if Go-lat is afraid of the Gomangani." The king ape wheeled in anger, growling loudly and beating upon his breast.
Zu-tag hunted alone far from the balance of the tribe of Go-lat, the great ape. He was large, powerful, and ferocious and at the same time far above the average of his kind in intelligence as was denoted by a fuller and less receding forehead.
The moment that he turned he saw that the author of the disturbance was Zu-tag. "What does Zu-tag want?" asked the ape-man. "Zu-tag comes to the water to drink," replied the ape. "Where is the tribe?" asked Tarzan. "They are hunting for pisangs and scimatines farther back in the forest," replied Zu-tag. "And the Tarmangani she and bull " asked Tarzan, "are they safe?"
She had no knife and the bonds were tied tightly but she worked quickly and coolly and as Zu-tag and his apes closed with the warriors, she succeeded in loosening Tarzan's bonds sufficiently to permit him to extricate his own hands so that in another minute he had freed himself.
She shuddered to think of the possibility of having to return to it and of possible recapture, and she wondered why Zu-tag had brought her here. Now the apes advanced slowly once more and with great caution, moving as noiselessly through the trees as the squirrels themselves until they had reached a point where they could easily overlook the palisade and the village street below.
Immediately Zu-tag and his eight apes started off rapidly toward the jungle, so rapidly that Bertha Kircher would have had to run at top speed to keep up with them. This she realized she could not do, and so she was forced to lag behind, much to the chagrin of Zu-tag, who constantly kept running back and urging her to greater speed. Once he took her by the arm and tried to draw her along.
Zu-tag squatted upon a great branch close to the bole of the tree and by loosening the girl's arms from about his neck, indicated that she was to find a footing for herself and when she had done so, he turned toward her and pointed repeatedly at the open doorway of a hut upon the opposite side of the street below them.
Zu-tag was evidently waiting for darkness to fall before carrying out whatever plans had matured in his savage little brain, for he and his fellows sat quietly in the tree about her, watching the preparations of the blacks.
As he had done upon other occasions he took up his position in a tree from which he could overlook the interior of the village and watch the blacks at their vocations in the street below. Zu-tag had scarcely more than established himself in his tree when, with the blacks, he was startled by the crashing of Tarzan's body from the branches of another jungle giant to the ground within the palisade.
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