Bitter indeed were the Germans against that half-savage mate of hers
who had cunningly annoyed and harassed them with a fiendishness of
persistence and ingenuity that had resulted in a noticeable loss
in morale in the sector he had chosen for his operations. They had
to charge against him the lives of certain officers that he had
deliberately taken with his own hands, and one entire section of
trench that had made possible a disastrous turning movement by the
British. Tarzan had out-generaled them at every point. He had met
cunning with cunning and cruelty with cruelties until they feared
and loathed his very name. The cunning trick that they had played
upon him in destroying his home, murdering his retainers, and covering
the abduction of his wife in such a way as to lead him to believe
that she had been killed, they had regretted a thousand times,
for a thousandfold had they paid the price for their senseless
ruthlessness, and now, unable to wreak their vengeance directly upon
him, they had conceived the idea of inflicting further suffering
upon his mate.
In sending her into the interior to avoid the path of the victorious
British, they had chosen as her escort Lieutenant Erich Obergatz
who had been second in command of Schneider's company, and who
alone of its officers had escaped the consuming vengeance of the
ape-man.
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