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Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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"It is your name--you are Tarzan," cried La.

"I am Tarzan?" The ape-man shrugged. "Well, it is a good name--I
know no other, so I will keep it; but I do not know you. I did not
come hither for you. Why I came, I do not know at all; neither do
I know from whence I came. Can you tell me?"

La shook her head. "I never knew," she replied.

Tarzan turned toward Werper and put the same question to him; but
in the language of the great apes. The Belgian shook his head.

"I do not understand that language," he said in French.

Without effort, and apparently without realizing that he made the
change, Tarzan repeated his question in French. Werper suddenly
came to a full realization of the magnitude of the injury of
which Tarzan was a victim. The man had lost his memory--no longer
could he recollect past events. The Belgian was upon the point of
enlightening him, when it suddenly occurred to him that by keeping
Tarzan in ignorance, for a time at least, of his true identity,
it might be possible to turn the ape-man's misfortune to his own
advantage.

"I cannot tell you from whence you came," he said; "but this I can
tell you--if we do not get out of this horrible place we shall both
be slain upon this bloody altar. The woman was about to plunge her
knife into my heart when the lion interrupted the fiendish ritual.
Come! Before they recover from their fright and reassemble, let
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