? ? ? ? Tarzan turned again toward La.
? ? ? ? "Why," he asked, "would you have killed this man? Are you hungry?"
? ? ? ? The High Priestess cried out in disgust.
? ? ? ? "Did he attempt to kill you?" continued Tarzan.
? ? ? ? The woman shook her head.
? ? ? ? "Then why should you have wished to kill him?" Tarzan was determined to get to the bottom of the thing.
? ? ? ? La raised her slender arm and pointed toward the sun.
? ? ? ? "We were offering up his soul as a gift to the Flaming God," she said.
? ? ? ? Tarzan looked puzzled. He was again an ape, and apes do not understand such matters as souls and Flaming Gods.
? ? ? ? "Do you wish to die?" he asked Werper.
? ? ? ? The Belgian assured him, with tears in his eyes, that he did not wish to die.
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