Clayton
for the kindness you have shown in permitting us the use
of your cabin.
That you never came to make friends with us has been a
great regret to us. We should have liked so much to have
seen and thanked our host.
There is another I should like to thank also, but he did not
come back, though I cannot believe that he is dead.
I do not know his name. He is the great white giant who
wore the diamond locket upon his breast.
If you know him and can speak his language carry my
thanks to him, and tell him that I waited seven days for him
to return.
Tell him, also, that in my home in America, in the city of
Baltimore, there will always be a welcome for him if he cares
to come.
I found a note you wrote me lying among the leaves beneath
a tree near the cabin. I do not know how you learned to
love me, who have never spoken to me, and I am very sorry
if it is true, for I have already given my heart to another.
But know that I am always your friend,
JANE PORTER.
Tarzan sat with gaze fixed upon the floor for nearly an
hour. It was evident to him from the notes that they did not
know that he and Tarzan of the Apes were one and the same.
"I have given my heart to another," he repeated over and
over again to himself.
Then she did not love him! How could she have pretended
love, and raised him to such a pinnacle of hope only to cast
him down to such utter depths of despair!
Maybe her kisses were only signs of friendship.
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