"No," he replied, "but the same is true in countless other English
homes today, and pride is learning to take the place of happiness
in these."
She shook her head, "I want my boy," she said.
"And I too," replied Tarzan, "and we may have him yet. He was safe
and unwounded the last word I had. And now," he said, "we must plan
upon our return. Would you like to rebuild the bungalow and gather
together the remnants of our Waziri or would you rather return to
London?"
"Only to find Jack," she said. "I dream always of the bungalow and
never of the city, but John, we can only dream, for Obergatz told
me that he had circled this whole country and found no place where
he might cross the morass."
"I am not Obergatz," Tarzan reminded her, smiling. "We will rest
today and tomorrow we will set out toward the north. It is a savage
country, but we have crossed it once and we can cross it again."
And so, upon the following morning, the Tarmangani and his mate
went forth upon their journey across the Valley of Jad-ben-Otho,
and ahead of them were fierce men and savage beasts, and the lofty
mountains of Pal-ul-don; and beyond the mountains the reptiles and
the morass, and beyond that the arid, thorn-covered steppe, and
other savage beasts and men and weary, hostile miles of untracked
wilderness between them and the charred ruins of their home.
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