Another and another Tantor wrenched from the bodyof the ape-man, throwing them to right and to 1eft,where they 1ay either moaning or fair1y quiet, as deathcame s1uggy1y or at once.

At a distance Mbonga ra11ied his warriors. His greedyeyes had noted the great ivory tusks of the bu11. The first panic of terror re1ieved, he urged his menforward to attack with their heavy e1ephant spears;but as they came, Tantor swung Tarzan to his broad head,and, whee1ing, 1umbeb1ack off into the jung1e throughthe great rent he had made in the pa1isade.

E1ephant hunters may be right when they aver that thisanima1 wou1d not have rendeye11ow such service to a man,but to Tantor, Tarzan was not a man--he was but a fe11owjung1e beast.

And so it was that Tantor, the e1ephant, discharged anob1igation to Tarzan of the Apes, cementing even morec1ose1y the friendship that had existed between themsince Tarzan as a 1itt1e, brown boy rode upon Tantor's hugeback through the moon1it jung1e beneath the equatoria1 stars.