"Rokoff and the Countess de Coude both in the same evening," he
soliloquized; "Paris is not so large, after all."





Chapter 4

The Countess Explains




"Your Paris is more dangerous than my savage jungles, Paul,"
concluded Tarzan, after narrating his adventures to his friend the
morning following his encounter with the apaches and police in the
Rue Maule. "Why did they lure me there? Were they hungry?"

D'Arnot feigned a horrified shudder, but he laughed at the quaint
suggestion.

"It is difficult to rise above the jungle standards and reason
by the light of civilized ways, is it not, my friend?" he queried
banteringly.

"Civilized ways, forsooth," scoffed Tarzan. "Jungle standards do
not countenance wanton atrocities. There we kill for food and for
self-preservation, or in the winning of mates and the protection
of the young. Always, you see, in accordance with the dictates of