? ? ? ? "You need have no fear," replied Tarzan, laughing. "I am pretty well able to take care of myself, and were I not, the Waziri who will accompany me will see that no harm befalls me."
? ? ? ? "They ran away from Opar once, and left you to your fate," she reminded him.
? ? ? ? "They will not do it again," he answered. "They were very much ashamed of themselves, and were coming back when I met them."
? ? ? ? "But there must be some other way," insisted the woman.
? ? ? ? "There is no other way half so easy to obtain another fortune, as to go to the treasure vaults of Opar and bring it away," he replied. "I shall be very careful, Jane, and the chances are that the inhabitants of Opar will never know that I have been there again and despoiled them of another portion of the treasure, the very existence of which they are as ignorant of as they would be of its value."
? ? ? ? The finality in his tone seemed to assure Lady Greystoke that further argument was futile, and so she abandoned the subject.
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