They say that there is a strange
she hidden in the temple and that Lu-don wants her for a priestess
and that Ko-tan wants her for a wife and that neither as yet dares
take her for fear of the other."
"Do you know where she is hidden in the temple?" asked Tarzan.
"No," said Pan-at-lee. "How should I know? I do not even know that
it is more than a story and I but tell you that which I have heard
others say."
"There was only one," asked Tarzan, "whom they spoke of?"
"No, they speak of another who came with her but none seems to know
what became of this one."
Tarzan nodded. "Thank you Pan-at-lee," he said. "You may have helped
me more than either of us guess."
"I hope that I have helped you," said the girl as she turned back
toward the palace.
"And I hope so too," exclaimed Tarzan emphatically.
14
The Temple of the Gryf
When night had fallen Tarzan donned the mask and the dead tail of
the priest he had slain in the vaults beneath the temple. He judged
that it would not do to attempt again to pass the guard, especially
so late at night as it would be likely to arouse comment and
suspicion, and so he swung into the tree that overhung the garden
wall and from its branches dropped to the ground beyond.
Avoiding too grave risk of apprehension the ape-man passed through
the grounds to the court of the palace, approaching the temple from
the side opposite to that at which he had left it at the time of
his escape.
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