And so he lay down to
sleep, the question that he most wished to put still unasked and
unanswered.
With the coming of a new day he was awake and wandering about the
palace and the palace grounds before there was sign of any of the
inmates of the palace other than slaves, or at least he saw no
others at first, though presently he stumbled upon an enclosure
which lay almost within the center of the palace grounds surrounded
by a wall that piqued the ape-man's curiosity, since he had determined
to investigate as fully as possible every part of the palace and
its environs.
This place, whatever it might be, was apparently without doors or
windows but that it was at least partially roofless was evidenced
by the sight of the waving branches of a tree which spread above
the top of the wall near him. Finding no other method of access,
the ape-man uncoiled his rope and throwing it over the branch of
the tree where it projected beyond the wall, was soon climbing with
the ease of a monkey to the summit.
There he found that the wall surrounded an enclosed garden in which
grew trees and shrubs and flowers in riotous profusion. Without
waiting to ascertain whether the garden was empty or contained
Ho-don, Waz-don, or wild beasts, Tarzan dropped lightly to the
sward on the inside and without further loss of time commenced a
systematic investigation of the enclosure.
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