"You took her from
the palace at A-lur. If she is not here, where is she? Tell me not
that harm has befallen her," and he took a sudden threatening step
toward Mo-sar, that sent the chief shrinking back in terror.
"Wait," he cried, "if you are indeed the Dor-ul-Otho you will know
that I speak the truth. I took her from the palace of Ko-tan to
save her for Lu-don, the high priest, lest with Ko-tan dead Ja-don
seize her. But during the night she escaped from me between here
and A-lur, and I have but just sent three canoes full-manned in
search of her."
Something in the chief's tone and manner assured the ape-man that
he spoke in part the truth, and that once again he had braved
incalculable dangers and suffered loss of time futilely.
"What wanted the priests of Lu-don that preceded me here?" demanded
Tarzan chancing a shrewd guess that the two he had seen paddling
so frantically to avoid a meeting with him had indeed come from
the high priest at A-lur.
"They came upon an errand similar to yours," replied Mo-sar; "to
demand the return of the woman whom Lu-don thought I had stolen
from him, thus wronging me as deeply, O Dor-ul-Otho, as have you."
"I would question the priests," said Tarzan. "Bring them hither."
His peremptory and arrogant manner left Mo-sar in doubt as to
whether to be more incensed, or terrified, but ever as is the way
with such as he, he concluded that the first consideration was his
own safety.
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