The garden he knew to be devoted
exclusively to the uses of the princess and her women and it was
only reasonable to assume therefore that if Jane had been brought
to the garden it could only have been upon an order from Ko-tan.
This being the case the natural assumption would follow that he
would find her in some other portion of O-lo-a's quarters.
Just where these lay he could only conjecture, but it seemed
reasonable to believe that they must be adjacent to the garden, so
once more he scaled the wall and passing around its end directed
his steps toward an entrance-way which he judged must lead to that
portion of the palace nearest the Forbidden Garden.
To his surprise he found the place unguarded and then there fell
upon his ear from an interior apartment the sound of voices raised
in anger and excitement. Guided by the sound he quickly traversed
several corridors and chambers until he stood before the hangings
which separated him from the chamber from which issued the sounds
of altercation. Raising the skins slightly he looked within. There
were two women battling with a Ho-don warrior. One was the daughter
of Ko-tan and the other Pan-at-lee, the Kor-ul-ja.
At the moment that Tarzan lifted the hangings, the warrior threw
O-lo-a viciously to the ground and seizing Pan-at-lee by the hair
drew his knife and raised it above her head.
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