"
Ja-don's hand leaped to his knife, but the warriors next him
laid detaining fingers upon his arms. "You are in the temple of
Jad-ben-Otho, Ja-don," they cautioned and the great chief was forced
to swallow Lu-don's affront though it left in his heart bitter
hatred of the high priest.
And now Ko-tan turned toward Lu-don. "What knoweth my daughter of
this matter?" he asked. "You would not bring a princess of my house
to testify thus publicly?"
"No," replied Lu-don, "not in person, but I have here one who will
testify for her." He beckoned to an under priest. "Fetch the slave
of the princess," he said.
His grotesque headdress adding a touch of the hideous to the scene,
the priest stepped forward dragging the reluctant Pan-at-lee by
the wrist.
"The Princess O-lo-a was alone in the Forbidden Garden with but this
one slave," explained the priest, "when there suddenly appeared from
the foliage nearby this creature who claims to be the Dor-ul-Otho.
When the slave saw him the princess says that she cried aloud in startled
recognition and called the creature by name--Tarzan-jad-guru--the
same name that the slave from Kor-ul-lul gave him. This woman is
not from Kor-ul-lul but from Kor-ul-ja, the very tribe with which
the Kor-ul-lul says the creature was associating when he first
saw him.
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