 And the diamond of our share Helen Gregory vanishes from Tarzan's party as if swallowed by the earth After searching vainly for days Tarzan joins the remainder of the group at the mouth of an ancient causeway Where in positive place of Helen has been found Before Tarzan and his friends lies a vast stretch of volcanic rock rising in the distance to form the gleaming cone of Tuenbaca the mountain of sunrise Because they regard this strange land as taboo the natives leave and the little party goes on without them Tom and Wolf wander away from their camp to look over the forbidding prospect They must face on the moral an argument ensues bitter words follow until enraged wolf whips out his gun Tom has seen the German reaching for his pistol like a flashy stoop to gasp both leg the shot goes wide a vicious twist And the German falls to the ground his gun flying through the moon at night if all wolf can move Tom is on a knife at hand What is all about you to own up that knife in a glittering arc the knife flies from Tom's hand The ape man jerks them both to their feet holds them apart as if they were children The little group moves silently back toward the fire Tarzan picks up the knife and revolver and overtakes the others as they step into the circle of firelight What's the matter with you Tom? I've got nothing to say Hey, thank you better talk Dutchman if you want to keep healthy I shall explain Tarzan go ahead wolf intended claiming Margaret if we got out of this business alive I told him that was impossible is that all Not quite he drew his gun naturally. I defended myself That is all Margaret seems to be old enough to know her own mind as long as I am with this party No one will clear without her consent. I agree to that But you do not know the history of the case Margaret is my ward legally would eat mr. Tom. Yes Margaret's father was my best friend. We work together in the same business for years Before he died. I gave him my oath that I would watch over Margaret as long as I lived I have kept my word and shall continue to do so You mean then mr. Tom that you do not believe wolf to be the man for Margaret that is Margaret's affair, Donald However, I mean more than just that Margaret never knew her mother She died when the child was not a year old Since then I have been a father and mother to Margaret and you have been wonderfully kind to me a tantrum The child grew into the beautiful woman who sits beside you Tarzan I Love her it is my intention to make her my wife if we both get safely back to civilization And if she will have me I am glad Tom there is something about you I can admire But there'll be no further argument as to who Margaret does or does not want until we finish the work. We're facing Understand both. Yeah, I understand as far as I am concerned the question is We will need our combined brains and strength to get the father of diamonds I said I understood We start early in the morning and go forward quickly know how fast we proceed remains to be seen We don't know how far too unbaka is but we do know it's going to be no easy trip See what you mean. You got to go easy on the grill. Yeah, sure But what pain still more important we have to go pretty slow on the water all we got been I can't eat And my petite Elaine she is out there somewhere and I cannot help her we find her lieutenant And then we catch the fellas who took me see lots on my brav They wonder what kind of people they've been I wouldn't be surprised if mr. Tone could tell us something about that Monsieur Tom if you know anything tell me I am afraid I cannot help you much lieutenant Brian Gregory knew if he is still alive. He knows what manner of people they are Brian Gregory knew these people Are you Tom Gregory had the story of our share and the father of diamonds from a famous old witch doctor I read the tale in young Gregory's diary or As much of it as he had set down There probably were details which he had not put in writing and how did you come to read the diary? Gregory show it to you. I was as determined then as I am now to get the great gem if it existed I found the diary one day when he was absent and read it may I lordy story Tom and the people continue a There was nothing definite Simple mention of a great temple in which the diamond is kept under the guard of some talking apes But the inhabitants as to that I can only tell you that they call themselves the hessie harriens The legend has it that they are descended from a very ancient race More I do not know There is only one thing however, which I am now positive and Tarzan has guessed it. What is that a time that both Brian Gregory and his sister are prisoners of the people of our share The similar manner in which they vanished is rather significant. Yes Both of them disappeared without leaving a trace of any kind above ground Of course, you did not know because we're at the time. I think you're right Tom We'll find Helen and her brother if he is alive in our share Oh Lord if we start early, we had best get some sleep now. Nisper. Yes, and suppose you take the first watch tonight So mom a magra. Will you hand me my rifle? Please there beside you? Do you my lieutenant? I know if I go with you for the world. I am not the list Venizia but come with me there. I shall take the second watch. Call me. Yeah, Mr. Tom Good night. Tarzan. Good night. Good night. Good night. Good night before we strike out in the dark hell we We'll be sleeping on rocks after this What do you think about those two Tarzan? Tom and Wolf. Yeah, nothing Larson They're just characteristically civilized human beings. Yeah Tom may be been all right If he could get the thought of the diamond out of his head, he'd been pretty frank with us tonight But wolf I wouldn't worry about wolf Tom can handle him Yeah, sure. If it ain't been for you. Tom would have handled him good tonight That's the second time you saved that crazy Dutchman's life Meanwhile, Darno accompanied by Magra has taken up his duty as camp guard on a little note Just beyond the edge of the jungle with the camp under his alert eyes The Frenchman sits talking in low tones with Magra You are very worried are you not to turn and I know I feel so sorry for you and Yet, there is nothing anyone can do and that is what makes me almost crazy this feeling of utter helplessness. Yes, I understand Do you know that I realized that you and Helen were in love before either of you knew it? And then Helen confessed it to me a long time ago before that terrible storm But I would have known anyway. I had only to watch your eyes when you looked at her that being the May I ask you a very frank question? Of course. I too have eyes, you know, and Well, it is neither Tom nor word. Is it no lieutenant? No, you are right it is not But he He does not seem to care you mean Tarzan Aloha, I am not so sure about that. He is a very peculiar man Magra yet. They finest in the world I believe you he saved me from the lion He has saved the lives of every one of us and he's so very kind But I do not believe that cares for me I know positively that he likes you very much as to love. Hmm that I cannot say there have been Other women in his life. Why do you ask that? You do not answer me Then there have been Ecoutez Magra Tarzan has lived his entire life in the jungle He had never seen a white man or woman until Beyond to the comparatively short time ago then he met a very lovely American girl who with her father and several friends Came lost in that section of the jungle where Tarzan roamed like any other wild beast I was a member of that party. I understand He fell in love with his American girl She was the only woman of his own race he had ever seen Yes, it was natural that he should Tell me lieutenant. I know Was this lady Pretty beautiful. She was Magra and she loved him. Yes Then why did she not marry him? There were good reasons why she did not Magra Results which possibly you and I could not understand yet What is it look look behind Deaths and it goes like fire Like the car masks we saw in the cars way Slowly swinging to them through the branches of the trees and out of the black moth the jungle appears a grinning mask of death The specter with its hollow eye sockets its large calcined cheekbones with a sunken house beneath and the large jaw bones with Fleshless lip drawn back in a mirthless ghastly grimace seems to throw off a phosphorescent gleam like liquid blue fire Suspended 10 or 15 feet above the ground the gruesome apparition Silent as sheeted death sways closer Closer with an effort No throws his rifle to his shoulder as he does so Tarzan leaps to his side Wait no no don't shoot but but it is coming for Magra as Darno's trembling voice dies away The ghastly thing opens its fleshless lips and speaks