herself that she got rid of him before he tried to carry out a
threat he recently made her that he should kill you at the first
opportunity. She said that she should hate to think that her
brother's blood was on your hands, for she is very fond of you,
and made no bones in saying so before the count. It never for a
moment seemed to occur to her that there might be any possibility
of any other outcome of a meeting between you and Nikolas. The
count quite agreed with her in that. He added that it would take
a regiment of Rokoffs to kill you. He has a most healthy respect
for your prowess.

Have been ordered back to my ship. She sails from Havre in
two days under sealed orders. If you will address me in her
care, the letters will find me eventually. I shall write you
as soon as another opportunity presents.
Your sincere friend,
PAUL D'ARNOT.


"I fear," mused Tarzan, half aloud, "that Olga has thrown away her
twenty thousand francs."

He read over that part of D'Arnot's letter several times in which
he had quoted from his conversation with Jane Porter. Tarzan
derived a rather pathetic happiness from it, but it was better than
no happiness at all.

The following three weeks were quite uneventful. On several
occasions Tarzan saw the mysterious Arab, and once again he had
been exchanging words with Lieutenant Gernois; but no amount of