It was a crude spear but the
best that she could attain in so short a time. Later, she promised
herself, she should have others--many of them--and they would be
spears of which even the greatest of the Waziri spear-men might be
proud.
18
The Lion Pit of Tu-lur
Though Tarzan searched the outskirts of the city until nearly dawn
he discovered nowhere the spoor of his mate. The breeze coming down
from the mountains brought to his nostrils a diversity of scents
but there was not among them the slightest suggestion of her whom
he sought. The natural deduction was therefore that she had been
taken in some other direction. In his search he had many times
crossed the fresh tracks of many men leading toward the lake and
these he concluded had probably been made by Jane Clayton's abductors.
It had only been to minimize the chance of error by the process of
elimination that he had carefully reconnoitered every other avenue
leading from A-lur toward the southeast where lay Mo-sar's city of
Tu-lur, and now he followed the trail to the shores of Jad-ben-lul
where the party had embarked upon the quiet waters in their sturdy
canoes.
He found many other craft of the same description moored along the
shore and one of these he commandeered for the purpose of pursuit.
It was daylight when he passed through the lake which lies next
below Jad-ben-lul and paddling strongly passed within sight of the
very tree in which his lost mate lay sleeping.
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