"
"You may be right," said Tarzan; "but even so I don't intend waiting
here for someone to come along and eat part of me and then feed
the balance to that beast below. If I don't get out of this place
whole it won't be my fault. Come along now and we'll make a try at
it," and so saying he moved off through the tree tops with Pan-at-lee
close behind. Below them, on the ground, moved the horned dinosaur
and when they reached the edge of the forest where there lay fifty
yards of open ground to cross to the foot of the cliff he was there
with them, at the bottom of the tree, waiting.
Tarzan looked ruefully down and scratched his head.
7
Jungle Craft
Presently he looked up and at Pan-at-lee. "Can you cross the gorge
through the trees very rapidly?" he questioned.
"Alone?" she asked.
"No," replied Tarzan.
"I can follow wherever you can lead," she said then.
"Across and back again?"
"Yes."
"Then come, and do exactly as I bid." He started back again through the
trees, swiftly, swinging monkey-like from limb to limb, following
a zigzag course that he tried to select with an eye for the
difficulties of the trail beneath. Where the underbrush was heaviest,
where fallen trees blocked the way, he led the footsteps of the
creature below them; but all to no avail.
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