upon the fabric of his mind.

The training of Kala, the examples and precepts of Kerchak, of
Tublat, and of Terkoz now formed the basis of his every thought and
action. He retained a mechanical knowledge of French and English
speech. Werper had spoken to him in French, and Tarzan had replied
in the same tongue without conscious realization that he had departed
from the anthropoidal speech in which he had addressed La. Had
Werper used English, the result would have been the same.

Again, that night, as the two sat before their camp fire, Tarzan
played with his shining baubles. Werper asked him what they were
and where he had found them. The ape-man replied that they were
gay-colored stones, with which he purposed fashioning a necklace,
and that he had found them far beneath the sacrificial court of
the temple of the Flaming God.

Werper was relieved to find that Tarzan had no conception of the
value of the gems. This would make it easier for the Belgian to
obtain possession of them. Possibly the man would give them to
him for the asking. Werper reached out his hand toward the little
pile that Tarzan had arranged upon a piece of flat wood before him.

"Let me see them," said the Belgian.

Tarzan placed a large palm over his treasure. He bared his fighting
fangs, and growled. Werper withdrew his hand more quickly than
he had advanced it. Tarzan resumed his playing with the gems, and
his conversation with Werper as though nothing unusual had occurred.
He had but exhibited the beast's jealous protective instinct for