Come,"
he said, "I will take you to Ko-tan, for this is a matter in which
no common warrior may interfere. Follow me," and still clutching
the handle of his knife and keeping a wary side glance upon the
ape-man he led the way through A-lur.
The city covered a large area. Sometimes there was a considerable
distance between groups of buildings, and again they were quite
close together. There were numerous imposing groups, evidently hewn
from the larger hills, often rising to a height of a hundred feet
or more. As they advanced they met numerous warriors and women, all
of whom showed great curiosity in the stranger, but there was no
attempt to menace him when it was found that he was being conducted
to the palace of the king.
They came at last to a great pile that sprawled over a considerable
area, its western front facing upon a large blue lake and evidently
hewn from what had once been a natural cliff. This group of
buildings was surrounded by a wall of considerably greater height
than any that Tarzan had before seen. His guide led him to a
gateway before which waited a dozen or more warriors who had risen
to their feet and formed a barrier across the entrance-way as Tarzan
and his party appeared around the corner of the palace wall, for
by this time he had accumulated such a following of the curious as
presented to the guards the appearance of a formidable mob.
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