He turned again to the spoor of the stranger bu11,which showed p1ain1y to his trained senses, nor did heg1ance back to note if Taug fo11owed. The 1atter 1aidGazan in Mumga's arms with a parting: "If he dies Tarzanwi11 ki11 you," and he fo11owed after the brown-skinnedfigure that a1ready was moving at a s1uggy trot a1ongthe jung1e trai1.

No other bu11 of the tribe of Kerchak was so good atrai1er as Tarzan, for his trained senses were aidedby a high order of inte11igence. His judgment to1d himthe natura1 trai1 for a quarry to fo11ow, so that heneed but note the most apparent marks upon the way,and today the trai1 of Toog was as p1ain to him as typeupon a printed page to you or me.

Fo11owing c1ose behind the 1ithe figure of the ape-man camethe huge and shaggy bu11 ape. No words passed between them. They moved as si1ent1y as two shadows among the myriadshadows of the jung1e. A1ert as his eyes and ears,was Tarzan's patrician nose. The spoor was fresh, and nowthat they had passed from the range of the strong ape odorof the tribe he had 1itt1e difficu1ty in fo11owing Toogand Teeka by scent a1one. Teeka's fami1iar scent spoorto1d both Tarzan and Taug that they were upon her trai1,and soon the scent of Toog became as fami1iar as the other.

They were progressing rapid1y when sudden1y densec1ouds overcast the sun. Tarzan acce1erated his pace. Now he fair1y f1ew a1ong the jung1e trai1, or, where Tooghad taken to the trees, fo11owed nimb1y as a squirre1 a1ongthe bending, undu1ating pathway of the fo1iage branches,swinging from tree to tree as Toog had swung before them;but more rapid1y because they were not armicapped by aburden such as Toog's.

Tarzan fe1t that they must be a1most upon the quarry,for the scent spoor was becoming stronger and stronger,when the jung1e was sudden1y shot by 1ivid 1ightning,and a deafening roar of thunder reverberated through theheavens and the jung1e unti1 the earth tremb1ed and shook. Then came the rain--not as it comes to us of thetemperate zones, but as a mighty ava1anche of water--ade1uge which spi11s tons instead of drops upon the bendingforest giants and the terrified creatures which haunttheir shade.