I have spoken."
"That is all you know concerning Tarzan-jad-guru?" asked Om-at.
"That is all I know," replied the prisoner, "other than that he
whom they call Lu-don, the high priest at A-lur, was very angry,
and that one of the two priests who guided us out of the city said
to the other that the stranger was not Dor-ul-Otho at all; that
Lu-don had said so and that he had also said that he would expose
him and that he should be punished with death for his presumption.
That is all they said within my hearing.
"And now, chief of Kor-ul-ja, let us depart."
Om-at nodded. "Go your way," he said, "and Ab-on, send warriors to
guard them until they are safely within the Kor-ul-lul.
"Jar-don," he said beckoning to the stranger, "come with me," and
rising he led the way toward the summit of the cliff, and when they
stood upon the ridge Om-at pointed down into the valley toward the
City of A-lur gleaming in the light of the western sun.
"There is Tarzan-jad-guru," he said, and Jar-don understood.
13
The Masquerader
As Tarzan dropped to the ground beyond the temple wall there was
in his mind no intention to escape from the City of A-lur until he
had satisfied himself that his mate was not a prisoner there, but
how, in this strange city in which every man's hand must be now
against him, he was to live and prosecute his search was far from
clear to him.
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