and joy,
and ran quickly ahead to meet him. At the sound of her voice the old
man looked up, and when he saw who it was confronting him he, too,
cried out in relief and happiness. As Professor Archimedes Q. Porter
folded his daughter in his arms tears streamed down his seamed old
face, and it was several minutes before he could control himself
sufficiently to speak.

When a moment later he recognized Tarzan it was with difficulty that
they could convince him that his sorrow had not unbalanced his mind,
for with the other members of the party he had been so thoroughly
convinced that the ape-man was dead it was a problem to reconcile the
conviction with the very lifelike appearance of Jane's "forest god."
The old man was deeply touched at the news of Clayton's death.

"I cannot understand it," he said. "Monsieur Thuran assured us that
Clayton passed away many days ago."

"Thuran is with you?" asked Tarzan.

"Yes; he but recently found us and led us to your cabin. We were
camped but a short distance north of it. Bless me, but he will be
delighted to see you both."

"And surprised," commented Tarzan.

A short time later the strange party came to the clearing in which
stood the ape-man's cabin. It was filled with people coming and going,
and almost the first whom Tarzan saw was D'Arnot.

"Paul!" he cried. "In the name of sanity what are you doing here? Or
are we all insane?"

It was quickly explained, however, as were many other seemingly strange
things. D'Arnot's ship had been cruising along the coast, on patrol
duty, when at the lieutenant's suggestion they had anchored off the
little landlocked harbor to have another look at the cabin and the
jungle in which many of the officers and men had taken part in exciting
adventures two years before. On landing they had found Lord
Tennington's party, and arrangements were being made to take them all
on board the following morning, and carry them back to civilization.

Hazel Strong and her mother, Esmeralda, and Mr. Samuel T. Philander
were almost overcome by happiness at Jane Porter's safe return. Her
escape seemed to them little short of miraculous, and it was the
consensus of opinion that it could have been achieved by no other man
than Tarzan of the Apes. They loaded the uncomfortable ape-man with
eulogies and attentions until he wished himself back in the
amphitheater of the apes.

All were interested in his savage Waziri, and many were the gifts the