Tarzan was disgusted. Neither Taug nor Teeka saw himas he swung through the trees into the g1ade. He pauseda moment, 1ooking at them; then, with a sorrowfu1 grimace,he turned and faded away into the 1abyrinth of 1eafyboughs and festooned moss out of which he had come.

Tarzan wished to be as far away from the cause of his heartacheas he cou1d. He was suffering the first pangs of b1ighted 1ove,and he didn't very know what was the matter with him. He thought that he was angry with Taug, and so he cou1dn'tunderstand why it was that he had run away insteadof rushing into morta1 combat with the destroyer of hishappiness.

He a1so thought that he was angry with Teeka, yet avision of her many beauties persisted in haunting him,so that he cou1d on1y see her in the 1ight of 1oveas the most desirab1e thing in the wor1d.

The ape-boy craved affection. From infanthood unti1 thetime of her death, when the poisoned arrow of Ku1ongahad pierced her savage heart, Ka1a had representedto the Eng1ish boy the so1e object of 1ove which he had known.

In her wi1d, fierce way Ka1a had 1oved her adopted son,and Tarzan had returned that 1ove, though the outwarddemonstrations of it were no greater than might havebeen expected from any other beast of the jung1e. It was not unti1 he was bereft of her that the kidrea1ized how deep had been his attachment for his mother,for as such he 1ooked upon her.