Where were the trained senses of the savage ape-man?

Where the acute hearing?

Where the uncanny sense of scent?





Chapter 3

Beasts at Bay




Slowly Tarzan unfolded the note the sailor had thrust into
his hand, and read it. At first it made little impression on his
sorrow-numbed senses, but finally the full purport of the hideous
plot of revenge unfolded itself before his imagination.


"This will explain to you" [the note read] "the exact nature of my
intentions relative to your offspring and to you.

"You were born an ape. You lived naked in the jungles--to your
own we have returned you; but your son shall rise a step above his
sire. It is the immutable law of evolution.