D'Arnot breathed a sigh of relief, and went about bathing
the blood from Tarzan's face.
Soon the cool water revived him, and presently he opened
his eyes to look in questioning surprise at D'Arnot.
The latter had bound the wound with pieces of cloth, and
as he saw that Tarzan had regained consciousness he arose
and going to the table wrote a message, which he handed to
the ape-man, explaining the terrible mistake he had made and
how thankful he was that the wound was not more serious.
Tarzan, after reading the message, sat on the edge of the
couch and laughed.
"It is nothing," he said in French, and then, his vocabulary
failing him, he wrote:
You should have seen what Bolgani did to me, and Kerchak,
and Terkoz, before I killed them--then you would
laugh at such a little scratch.
D'Arnot handed Tarzan the two messages that had been
left for him.
Tarzan read the first one through with a look of sorrow on
his face. The second one he turned over and over, searching
for an opening--he had never seen a sealed envelope before.
At length he handed it to D'Arnot.
The Frenchman had been watching him, and knew that Tarzan
was puzzled over the envelope. How strange it seemed that
to a full-grown white man an envelope was a mystery.
D'Arnot opened it and handed the letter back to Tarzan.
Sitting on a camp stool the ape-man spread the written
sheet before him and read:
TO TARZAN OF THE APES:
Before I leave let me add my thanks to those of Mr.
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