Chapter 6

A Duel




D'Arnot was asleep when Tarzan entered their apartments after
leaving Rokoff's. Tarzan did not disturb him, but the following
morning he narrated the happenings of the previous evening, omitting
not a single detail.

"What a fool I have been," he concluded. "De Coude and his
wife were both my friends. How have I returned their friendship?
Barely did I escape murdering the count. I have cast a stigma on
the name of a good woman. It is very probable that I have broken
up a happy home."

"Do you love Olga de Coude?" asked D'Arnot.

"Were I not positive that she does not love me I could not answer
your question, Paul; but without disloyalty to her I tell you that
I do not love her, nor does she love me. For an instant we were
the victims of a sudden madness--it was not love--and it would have
left us, unharmed, as suddenly as it had come upon us even though