? ? ? ? La was studying the ape-man's features. Slowly her large eyes opened very wide.
? ? ? ? "Tarzan!" she exclaimed, and then, in the vernacular of the great apes which constant association with the anthropoids had rendered the common language of the Oparians: "You have come back to me! La has ignored the mandates of her religion, waiting, always waiting for Tarzan--for her Tarzan. She has taken no mate, for in all the world there was but one with whom La would mate. And now you have come back! Tell me, O Tarzan, that it is for me you have returned."
? ? ? ? Werper listened to the unintelligible jargon. He looked from La to Tarzan. Would the latter understand this strange tongue? To the Belgian's surprise, the Englishman answered in a language evidently identical to hers.
? ? ? ? "Tarzan," he repeated, musingly. "Tarzan. The name sounds familiar."
? ? ? ? "It is your name--you are Tarzan," cried La.
? ? ? ? "I am Tarzan?" The ape-man shrugged.
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