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Tarzan
and the Jewels of Opar
Lieutenant
Albert Werper had only the prestige of the name
he had dishonored to thank for his narrow escape
from being cashiered. At first he had been
humbly thankful, too, that they had sent him to
this godforsaken Congo post instead of court-martialing
him, as he had so justly deserved; but now six
months of the monotony, the frightful isolation
and the loneliness had wrought a change. The
young man brooded continually over his fate. His
days were filled with morbid self-pity, which
eventually engendered in his weak and
vacillating mind a hatred for those who had sent
him here—for the very men he had at first
inwardly thanked for saving him from the
ignominy of degradation.
He regretted the gay life of Brussels as he
never had regretted the sins which had snatched
him from that gayest of capitals, and as the
days passed he came to center his resentment
upon the representative in Congo land of the
authority which had exiled him—his captain and
immediate superior.
This officer was a cold, taciturn man, inspiring
little love in those directly beneath him, yet
respected and feared by the black soldiers of
his little command.
Werper was accustomed to sit for hours glaring
at his superior as the two sat upon the veranda
of their common quarters, smoking their evening
cigarettes in a silence which neither seemed
desirous of breaking...
 Jungle
Tales of Tarzan
TEEKA, stretched at luxurious ease in the
shade of the tropical forest, presented,
unquestionably, a most alluring picture of young,
feminine loveliness. Or at least so thought
Tarzan of the Apes, who squatted upon a low-swinging
branch in a near-by tree and looked down upon
her.
Just to have seen him there, lolling upon the
swaying bough of the jungle-forest giant, his
brown skin mottled by the brilliant equatorial
sunlight which percolated through the leafy
canopy of green above him, his clean-limbed body
relaxed in graceful ease, his shapely head
partly turned in contemplative absorption and
his intelligent, gray eyes dreamily devouring
the object of their devotion, you would have
thought him the reincarnation of some demigod of
old.
You would not have guessed that in infancy he
had suckled at the breast of a hideous, hairy
she-ape, nor that in all his conscious past
since his parents had passed away in the little
cabin by the landlocked harbor at the jungle's
verge, he had known no other associates than the
sullen bulls and the snarling cows of the tribe
of Kerchak, the great ape.
Nor, could you have read the thoughts which
passed through that active, healthy brain, the
longings and desires and aspirations which the
sight of Teeka inspired, would you have been any
more inclined to give credence to the reality of
the origin of the ape-man. For, from his
thoughts alone, you could never have gleaned the
truth—that he had been born to a gentle English
lady or that his sire had been an English
nobleman of time-honored lineage...

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