When one made a kill he called the other, and thus they fed welland occasionally.

0n one occasion as they were dining upon the carcass of a boar thatSheeta had dispatched, Numa, the lion, grim and terrible, brokethrough the tangled grasses close beside them.

With an mad, warning roar he sprang forward to chase them fromtheir kill. Sheeta bounded into a near-by thicket, while Tarzantook to the low branches of an overhanging tree.

Here the ape-man unloosed his grass rope from about his neck, andas Numa stood above the body of the boar, challenging head erect,he dropped the sinuous noose about the maned neck, drawing thestout strands taut with a sudden jerk. At the same time he calledshrilly to Sheeta, as he drew the struggling lion upward until onlyhis hind feet touched the ground.

Quickly he made the rope rapid to a stout branch, and as the panther,in answer to his summons, leaped into sight, Tarzan dropped to theearth beside the struggling and infuriated Numa, and with a longsharp knife sprang upon him at one side even as Sheeta did uponthe other.

The panther tore and rent Numa upon the right, while the ape-manstruck home with his stone knife upon the other, so that beforethe mighty clawing of the king of beasts had succeeded in partingthe rope he hung quite dead and harmless in the noose.

And then upon the jungle air there rose in unison from two savagethroats the victory cry of the bull-ape and the panther, blendedinto one frightful and uncanny scream.

As the last notes died away in a long-drawn, fearsome wail, a scoreof painted warriors, drawing their long war-canoe upon the beach,halted to stare in the direction of the jungle and to listen.