him.

No one heard his shot above the din of rattling musketry in the
street, but some who were standing close saw one of their number
crumple suddenly to the earth. When they leaned over him he was
dead. They were panic-stricken, and it took all the brutal authority
of the Arabs to keep the Manyuema from rushing helter-skelter into
the jungle--anywhere to escape from this terrible village.

After a time they commenced to quiet down, and as no further
mysterious deaths occurred among them they took heart again. But
it was a short-lived respite, for just as they had concluded that
they would not be disturbed again Tarzan gave voice to a weird
moan, and as the raiders looked up in the direction from which the
sound seemed to come, the ape-man, who stood swinging the dead body
of the sentry gently to and fro, suddenly shot the corpse far out
above their heads.

With howls of alarm the throng broke in all directions to escape
this new and terrible creature who seemed to be springing upon
them. To their fear-distorted imaginations the body of the sentry,
falling with wide-sprawled arms and legs, assumed the likeness of
a great beast of prey. In their anxiety to escape, many of the
blacks scaled the palisade, while others tore down the bars from
the gates and rushed madly across the clearing toward the jungle.

For a time no one turned back toward the thing that had frightened
them, but Tarzan knew that they would in a moment, and when they
discovered that it was but the dead body of their sentry, while
they would doubtless be still further terrified, he had a rather