And now they bound his legs from his ankles to his knees and picking
him up carried him from the chamber. No word did they speak to him
as they bore him upward to the temple yard.
The din of battle had risen again as Ja-don had urged his forces to
renewed efforts. Ta-den had not arrived and the forces of the old
chieftain were revealing in their lessened efforts their increasing
demoralization, and then it was that the priests carried Tarzan-jad-guru
to the roof of the palace and exhibited him in the sight of the
warriors of both factions.
"Here is the false Dor-ul-Otho," screamed Lu-don.
Obergatz, his shattered mentality having never grasped fully the
meaning of much that was going on about him, cast a casual glance
at the bound and helpless prisoner, and as his eyes fell upon the
noble features of the ape-man, they went wide in astonishment and
fright, and his pasty countenance turned a sickly blue. Once before
had he seen Tarzan of the Apes, but many times had he dreamed that
he had seen him and always was the giant ape-man avenging the wrongs
that had been committed upon him and his by the ruthless hands of
the three German officers who had led their native troops in the
ravishing of Tarzan's peaceful home. Hauptmann Fritz Schneider
had paid the penalty of his needless cruelties; Unter-lieutenant
von Goss, too, had paid; and now Obergatz, the last of the three,
stood face to face with the Nemesis that had trailed him through
his dreams for long, weary months.
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