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82 in the possibility of the existence of any form of life with which we are not familiar by association or credible repute.

They had been traveling for almost six hours across the plain, the wind had changed and there was borne to Tarzan’s nostrils clearly the scent of Bara the deer, ahead. The ape-man, who had tasted no food that day, was ravenous, with the re­sult that the odor of meat aroused all the savage instincts fostered by his strange up-bringing. Springing forward abreast the leader of the de­tachment that was escorting him he signed them to halt and then as clearly as he could through the comparatively laborious and never quite satis­factory medium of further signs explained that he was hungry, that there was meat ahead and that they should remain in the rear until he had stalked his prey and made his kill.

The officer having understood and signified his assent Tarzan crept stealthily forward toward a small clump of trees beyond which his keen scent told him there were several antelope, and behind Tarzan followed the detachment, so noiselessly that even the keen ears of the ape-man heard them not.

Sheltered by the trees Tarzan saw a dozen or more antelope grazing a short distance beyond, the nearest being scarce a hundred feet from thesmall grove. Unslinging his bow and taking a handful of arrows from his quiver, the ape-man