"Jack!" she cried, sobbing on his shoulder. "Jack, my son!"
And Tarzan of the Apes came then and put his arms around them both,
and the King of Pal-ul-don and the warriors and the people kneeled
in the temple court and placed their foreheads to the ground before
the altar where the three stood.
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Within an hour of the fall of Lu-don and Mo-sar, the chiefs and
principal warriors of Pal-ul-don gathered in the great throneroom
of the palace at A-lur upon the steps of the lofty pyramid and
placing Ja-don at the apex proclaimed him king. Upon one side of the
old chieftain stood Tarzan of the Apes, and upon the other Korak,
the Killer, worthy son of the mighty ape-man.
And when the brief ceremony was over and the warriors with upraised
clubs had sworn fealty to their new ruler, Ja-don dispatched
a trusted company to fetch O-lo-a and Pan-at-lee and the women of
his own household from Ja-lur.
And then the warriors discussed the future of Pal-ul-don and the
question arose as to the administration of the temples and the fate
of the priests, who practically without exception had been disloyal
to the government of the king, seeking always only their own power
and comfort and aggrandizement. And then it was that Ja-don turned
to Tarzan. "Let the Dor-ul-Otho transmit to his people the wishes
of his father," he said.
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