in search of them through the darkness.

Suddenly he felt a light hand upon his shoulder from behind, and
a woman's voice whispering, "Quick, m'sieur; this way. Follow me."

"Come, Abdul," said Tarzan, in a low tone, to the youth; "we can
be no worse off elsewhere than we are here."

The woman turned and led them up the narrow stairway that ended
at the door of her quarters. Tarzan was close beside her. He saw
the gold and silver bracelets upon her bare arms, the strings of
gold coin that depended from her hair ornaments, and the gorgeous
colors of her dress. He saw that she was a Ouled-Nail, and
instinctively he knew that she was the same who had whispered the
warning in his ear earlier in the evening.

As they reached the top of the stairs they could hear the angry
crowd searching the yard beneath.

"Soon they will search here," whispered the girl. "They must not
find you, for, though you fight with the strength of many men, they
will kill you in the end. Hasten; you can drop from the farther
window of my room to the street beyond. Before they discover that
you are no longer in the court of the buildings you will be safe
within the hotel."

But even as she spoke, several men had started up the stairway at
the head of which they stood. There was a sudden cry from one of
the searchers. They had been discovered. Quickly the crowd rushed
for the stairway. The foremost assailant leaped quickly upward,