Soon the girl found that the door was equipped with a
heavy wooden bar upon the inside, and after several efforts
the combined strength of the two enabled them to slip it into
place, the first time in twenty years.
Then they sat down upon a bench with their arms about
one another, and waited.
Chapter 14
At the Mercy of the Jungle
After Clayton had plunged into the jungle, the sailors
--mutineers of the Arrow--fell into a discussion of their
next step; but on one point all were agreed--that they should
hasten to put off to the anchored Arrow, where they could at
least be safe from the spears of their unseen foe. And so,
while Jane Porter and Esmeralda were barricading themselves
within the cabin, the cowardly crew of cutthroats were pulling
rapidly for their ship in the two boats that had brought them ashore.
So much had Tarzan seen that day that his head was in a
whirl of wonder. But the most wonderful sight of all, to him,
was the face of the beautiful white girl.
Here at last was one of his own kind; of that he was positive.
And the young man and the two old men; they, too,
were much as he had pictured his own people to be.
But doubtless they were as ferocious and cruel as other
men he had seen. The fact that they alone of all the party
were unarmed might account for the fact that they had killed
no one. They might be very different if provided with weapons.
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