 Tarzan of the Eighth brought to you from out the pages of Edgar Rice borrows enchanting books Filtering through the tangled mouth of leaf and vine the darting rays of the rising sun stabbed the jungle gloom in little jets of furnished gold From above sounds the screech of brilliantly gloomed palace the ceaseless chatter of apes and monkeys Below from the dark green recesses of the jungles torturous paths comes the soft padding of cat-like feet on the spongy moss A shadowy movement in the fall bamboo a glinting of black and gold as sheet of the leopard takes a cool retreat after his nightly kill Flash of green more vivid than the shuttering leaves Soft slithering sounds like lapping waves on a shingle beach and his father snake slides into the ranked grasses On the little platform in the trees Jane Porter and Tarzan what's the ever-changing jungle away? Oh When you've already gathered the fruit root Well, yes white skin One by one Jane holds up the fruits as she names them and Tarzan picks them up as she lays them down then Then Anna banana No Banana White skin go come back many fruit white skin go come back Give Give And Jane as she says give hands to Tarzan a wild plum Tarzan's eyes brighten as for the first time he recognizes a new word Not at the end of a sentence white skin give Jane from White skin give Jane Yes, now you're really talking talking talking. That's right Jane emphasizes the movements of her lips or she says the words talking eat Talking No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no white skin No, no white skin eat Jane moves her lips without sound and Tarzan watches intensely to catch this difference He cannot quite understand now. This is talking Jane hungry eat Why can't hungry go quickly come back each fruit? Yes. Yes white skin talk talk Talk and Tarzan nods his head several times to convince Jane that he at last understands the difference between eat and talk Oh Tarzan turns as the young ape gays and swings on to the platform Chica they do Gays and Tarzan tries to explain that the young ape is gays and Chica's baby He turns again to the ape back a lot fool up, but pando John White skin go Come back quick all right white skin, but come back quick. Yes. Yes. Yes Jane cannot understand what Tarzan is going to do But where before she would have been terrified of being left alone now She accepts it with Tarzan's assurance that he will come back quickly as for Tarzan He does not have sufficient command of his new speech to tell Jane that talk about the bull a business Treating one of the tribe and that he Tarzan as leader of the great apes must do as gave on asks go to the dumb dumb and Settle the difference as the ape man swings off into the jungle On the platform To satisfy his curiosity about this white hairless sheet with whom Tarzan spent so much of his time Often another part of the forest Professor Porter Philander Clayton and darno press on toward the cannibal crowd This almost impenetrable wall of trees and vines and everything seemed endless We don't need to be making any headway We are making some headway and in any case Philander don't forget that while we we are more or less bringing up the rear Cleaking down no and the sails of the head are really making it quite easy for us. I suppose so. I suppose so by the way, Professor I've been thinking yes, I didn't want to mention this as long as Clayton was within hearing But you know it strikes me as being more than a mere coincidence that our jungle friend rescued me from the blast Come to the point Philander come to the point. What are you trying to say? And why should you be a first to letting Clayton here because Clayton seems to have taken the most unreasonable Slight to this pagan person what I used to say was perhaps Clayton is after all correct And Jane has already been rescued by him and yet and yet yet what Unbelievable as there can be two people living in this jungle I mean Tarzan of the apes leaves a notice on the door of the hut warning us that he's watching Then this pagan who neither speaks or understands English is always at hand just as if he were watching and unless he is Tarzan of the apes Then why have we not seen Tarzan for days yet the night the same thing has been puzzling me Philander I am almost convinced that this that this night of the jungle is Tarzan, but professor, how do you And there you go again Philander one minute to try to convince me of something and then when I am about to offer Corroborate in evidence you begin arguing against your own Possibility but listen professor Can you explain how this man can read and write and still not understand the talk English yes But you asked me a question and I gave you a most emphatic answer Yes, then explain yourself professor explain with eight come pictures of John moves shop for your by name Translated the room better stone of course of course I know that I know that and George Smith transcribed and translated innumerable tablets of cuneiform Yes, yes, I agree But what then what then but can you or anyone else talk ancient Egyptian or calcium or a serious of course not But you and I as archaeologists can read and write both we cannot however speak the language Why cannot they afford Tarzan of the eight have the ability to read and write English Without being able to utter a word of it Professor you you almost convinced me Still I don't see how you could have learned to read and write There has not enough that my dear sir at the lander is a different problem But one which is in no way detached from the soundness of my previous theory Amanda water God just reported that they've cited the village Rather early yet to tell definitely The end of our search is insane so clean just say now, Mr We do not want to act as it in any haste or with any fear of being outnumbered But we want to be on our God may we suffer so dear that goes without saying but we must not have the appearance of an attacking party I'm afraid I don't understand Here we come all this way to affect change rescue if possible and now when we do get within hailing distance of the place We're not to do anything now click You're all together to impetuous I'm sure that you came and down. No does not mean to sit down and wait for the blacks to release. They must be Yeah, mr. The professor, mr. Clayton We have no means of us failing how many there are in the village therefore to attack is foolish They could shoot us down with comparative ease That's not what I meant on all that I'm trying to say is that I think the time has arrived For strong measures not me at all strong measures my friend are ideal when you have at your command a strong force Now we have only a small party But we do represent the authority of the French nation I propose to reason with these blacks convince them if I can that resistance and our Deaths will be avenged by the arrival of many ships and innumerable soldiers with all due respect to the avenging arm of the French Government will do us little good if we put our heads so to speak into the lion's mouth and the lion gets shot Out for his eatin at the same time Clayton if we ruthlessly attack these people the first thing they'll do probably is to kill Jane Yes, yes, sir, and I totally agree. That is the thing I have most fear though I've not brought myself to speak of it then measure with a little noise as possible with nowhere kept that concealment We were blind To Jane Porter lying on the platform in the tree the breeze carries faintly the distant sounds of the search party The girl scrambles to her knees leans out as far as she can listening intensely Again the voices can it possibly be does it mean that they did not leave on the steamer for a moment She's threatened. She hears pencil voice and then fell and there's deep voice answer She glances about if only white skin would come back Again she listens The only answering sounds now at the jungle noises the sounds die in the distance Faintly in the lull comes a sharp crackling of underbrush the confused murmur of what may be voices Once more Jane branches down the jungle trail still no signs of white skin's return in an instant She makes up her mind. She knows it is a search party quickly Jane grasps a branch He's on the young ape realizing the danger in which this hairless. She is plunging tries to stop her She lowers herself by swinging feet reach for a good hold She's enticed desperately to stop her Far as I know that's hard in his care But Jane is heedless of the danger that scrambles to the ground and ignoring the warning chatter of the end Such as headlong into the jungle I'm sorry, I'm sorry