some great natural law. But here! Faugh, your civilized man is
more brutal than the brutes. He kills wantonly, and, worse than
that, he utilizes a noble sentiment, the brotherhood of man, as a
lure to entice his unwary victim to his doom. It was in answer to
an appeal from a fellow being that I hastened to that room where
the assassins lay in wait for me.

"I did not realize, I could not realize for a long time afterward,
that any woman could sink to such moral depravity as that one must
have to call a would-be rescuer to death. But it must have been
so--the sight of Rokoff there and the woman's later repudiation of
me to the police make it impossible to place any other construction
upon her acts. Rokoff must have known that I frequently passed
through the Rue Maule. He lay in wait for me--his entire scheme
worked out to the last detail, even to the woman's story in case
a hitch should occur in the program such as really did happen. It
is all perfectly plain to me."

"Well," said D'Arnot, "among other things, it has taught you what
I have been unable to impress upon you--that the Rue Maule is a
good place to avoid after dark."

"On the contrary," replied Tarzan, with a smile, "it has convinced
me that it is the one worth-while street in all Paris. Never again
shall I miss an opportunity to traverse it, for it has given me
the first real entertainment I have had since I left Africa."

"It may give you more than you will relish even without another
visit," said D'Arnot. "You are not through with the police yet,
remember. I know the Paris police well enough to assure you that