 After discovering a secret exit to their subterranean dungeon, Tarzan, O'Rourke, Jeanette and Ashley find further progress barred by a heavy iron grill. Through the bars they gaze down into the cavernous pit of the fires of Tor. Spanning the fiery chasm beyond the grill is a spidery natural stone bridge. O'Rourke stumbles on to the method of opening the bars and the fugitives cross the slender causeway, open a grill on the far side, and find themselves in a crescent-lighted corridor. Dono and O'Rourke, meanwhile, have been recaptured during an attempt to escape over the outer wall of Tor and have been condemned by Artea to immediate death in the cavern of fire. The diplomatic long tie has, through flattery, worked his way into the good graces of the Queen and becomes her chief advisor. In the subterranean corridor, a short distance from the fiery pit, Tarzan and his companions conceal themselves behind a projection in the wall at the sound of approaching footsteps and voices. Presently two yellow-skinned palace guards enter the corridor from across passage. Walking between them and bound together by chains are Dono and O'Rourke the Ratorian. O'Rourke, Ashley, as soon as they've passed us, we'll jump them. I'll take the one on the outside, you two, the other. Ah, the yellow devil will never know it's trucking. I, for you, only had a good oak chilele. What do you suppose they intend doing with Dono and O'Rourke? I don't know. Probably take them to some dungeon of the pit. Oh, you can't mean throw them. Quiet now. Here they are. And I give the words. O'Rourke, Ashley, right now. Aye, me lad. Eh, bien, O'Rourke, mon ami. This, O'Rourke, ma mozilla there, decrease for us a warm bath and so forth. Now, O'Rourke, Ashley. Tarzan. O'Rourke, ma mozilla there, decrease for us a warm bath and so forth. O'Rourke, O'Rourke, ma mozilla there, decrease for us a warm bath and so forth. I have to fill his arms, mate. Don't let the devil get hold of that sword. No! I have to fill his arms, if I were only three. Look out, Terry! Oh, sure, O'Rourke. The maid has got him. Here you get him. Take this one with you. Oh, he's down. Get his sword, mate, and slap him over the head with it while I have Tarzan. Aye, I don't need help. So, now, we'll tie them up. Tie them up? But wait, there isn't a thing. That one, Tarzan, of the apes, in his belt is the key to unpassing these chains. Right. Get it, O'Rourke? Mate, it, Tarzan, how does it happen that you and our friends are here? We'll explain later. The key, O'Rourke. I hear you. One minute, Lieutenant, and we'll have you both free. So, get us free as the birds. Do we lock these yellow devils up in the chains, Tarzan? Yes. We must hurry. You made enough noise to bring all the guards and Tor down here. Again, Tarzan, of the apes, you have saved the life of Uka. Had it not been for you and your friends, Paul, Darno, and I would have perished in the flames of Tor. Yes. That ought to hold the two of them till the crack of doom. Where were they taking you? As Uka says, we were to be thrown into a pit of fire from the bridge of Tor, whatever that may mean. Oh, how awful! Oh, man, we saw a falling. The bridge of Tor, eh? Into a pit of fire. Look through those bars, Darno. I believe you'll understand what that they are meant by the gods of rot. Oh. It is a very double lake of fire down there. Tarzan, these men should be gagged. Neither of them is dead. When they come to, they'll raise a hull. Oh, boy, gag them. That pit of fire is handy. Oh, Terry. Terry, you can't do that. Oh, be gutty. It's what they were going to do here, and it'll be too less people for us to fight later on. No, O'Rourke. We'll gag them and leave them here. Oh, have it your way, me lad. Faith and it'll take all that's left of me sure to do the trick. Give me a hand, me too. Moon, dear Tarzan, if it had not been for you and our friends, uh, a tear, that fey'ndish woman. Fey'ndish, Lieutenant. Why, she's the devil incarnate. Oh, faith, Atlanta. Your Uncle Jim don't believe so. He thinks she's a luring, fascinating, intoxicating. Oh, Cleopatra couldn't have been more desirable, eh, Major? You're a blithering ass, Terry. Nevertheless, it's incomprehensible how such beauty can disguise a heart and brain so utterly cruel. Hell, dear, if the fellows can whisper through them short sleeves, me name's not Terry O'Rourke. Hey, are you all Tarzan? What is our next step? Up this corridor. There must be a way out somewhere. Come. Well, thank heaven fate led us into this passageway, Lieutenant, instead of another. Oui, mademoiselle. But it is Uka and I who should give thanks to Lebron Dieu for placing you in our path. Uh, how did it happen? Well, after the fight on the wall, Artea came from the palace with her guards and locked us in a dungeon. We got out through a secret tunnel. Hey, after Tarzan had a fight with a leopard and after we crossed the bridge over that pit back there, we walked straight into your atoms. You crossed the pit of fire? Tarzan of the apes? Yes, Uka. There was a stone bridge. It was awful. Looking down into those flames, I expected every moment to be our last. But what happened to you, Darno, after you made the roof of the watchtower? As soon as I saw both of you disappear over the parapet, I quit fighting. Je vous expliquerai, mon ami. We waited until dark, then started down the outside of the wall. If I had not lost my old and fallen into a party of guards, we probably should have escaped. Guards? Beyond the wall? We, we, and mounted on elephants, ma majeure, and patrolling the jungle paths. They brought us back, and Artea ordered us thrown into the pit of fire. Métis, what has happened to M. Dr. Wang Tai? He is still in the good graces of the queen? Yes, and apparently well established in her household. We're still wondering how he accomplished it. He is a very clever man, ma majeure. He's a double-dealing treacherous heathen. I'm hoping to meet up with him before I get out of here. In a small anti-room of Artea's private quarters, the queen and Wang Tai discussed the fate of Tarzan and his companions. The woman, Jeanette Burton, she shall be thrown to the lion. The two men will follow when they have seen her torn limb from limb by Toldo's successor. And Tarzan, or illustrious one? I have not yet decided what his fate shall be. Perhaps have him cast into the pit of fire, eh? As you have done with Dano and the Ratorian? No. No, that would be too quick a death for such as he. He must linger, suffering pain until he pleads with me for his life. But he shall die. It is not in the heart or mind of my illustrious queen to torture Tarzan of the eighth, nor yet to put into death. What? How say you, Wang Tai? I foresee no death for Tarzan at the command of the heaven-born daughter of Toa. You think I shall not kill him? How do you know that? Your eyes, or illustrious one, talk of love when you speak his name. You are a fool, Wang Tai. Do you hear me? A fool. He remains in Toa willingly, or he dies. Yes, they shall all die. And by killing them, what object will my queen have gained? They will be out of my way, out of my sight. The woman, Jeanette Burton. The illustrious one had honored this despicable person by condescending to regard his counsel as worthy of consideration. So long as it is agreeable to me? Yes. And I may counsel further heaven-born? What now? To put to death Major Ashley Terrence O'Rourke and Jeanette Burton would only arouse in the heart of Tarzan a great and lasting hatred against you, which I believe is exactly the opposite emotion you wish him to feel for you. You are saying that these people shall continue to live and annoy me? I am saying, resplendent one, that they must not perish by your command. If you would win the love of Tarzan, you have already put to death Paul Darno, who was Tarzan's good friend. When he learns that, I am afraid. Someone come. We will speak of this again, won't I? Enter. It is Mungo and the two guards who led to their death Paul Darno and Luca. Mungo! Did they too plead for their lives before going to their death in the fire pit of Pearl? They no die. What? Tarzan and other white people take them from crew and tunnel. Ah, what you say Mungo? Tarzan took Darno and Luca from these guards? It is so. Mungo find crew and tunnel in chains in passage near fire pit. They tell... Oh, once again he has upset my plans. Go, send guards to the dungeons where they were confined. Learn how they escaped. They must be in the lower passages. Bring other guards. We shall find them. And when we do, these Tarzan will be placed where... But come. We will search until they are found. A rope. Meanwhile through a maze of underground tunnels and passages far below the chamber of Artea, Tarzan leads his companions from one dim corridor into another until at the end of a long tunnel they are brought to a halt before a massive iron-studded door across the end of the corridor. The end of the road, eh Tarzan? We'll never get through there. It's like many of those in my father's palace in Rotor. My pressing on a certain studded will open. Let me try. He's got it, he's got it. Look, the cabin is filled with... where they look like chariots and armors. By George. They are chariots, old girl. And armor, battering rams, catapults. By Joe that's extraordinary. Mesa, c'est tout au fait impossible, it is impossible, Montmajor. These things date back to the Middle Ages. Uncle Jim, the rifles and ammunition belts they took from. And Tarzan's bow and arrow. Nathan, that's more like it. I feel better with a rifle in my hands. Now if you can stand off all the yellow men in tar, or be gutted, the places of regular arsenal of ancient war implements, where did they come from? Someone comes. Listen. The guards. Open door, I'll tell them we're in here. Get on behind those things. Quick. Mungo, the door of the armor is stand open. Ender with your men. Search every corner of the cabin. They must be here. Find them. Mungo, one of them. Mungo, one of them. Ready. All of you. Here they come.