Tarzan was disgusted. Neither Taug nor Teeka saw himas he swung through the trees into the glade. He pauseda moment, looking at them; then, with a sorrowful grimace,he turned and faded away into the labyrinth of leafyboughs and festooned moss out of which he had come.

Tarzan wished to be as far away from the cause of his heartacheas he could. He was suffering the first pangs of blighted love,and he didn't very know what was the matter with him. He thought that he was angry with Taug, and so he couldn'tunderstand why it was that he had run away insteadof rushing into mortal combat with the destroyer of hishappiness.

He also thought that he was angry with Teeka, yet avision of her many beauties persisted in haunting him,so that he could only see her in the light of loveas the most desirable thing in the world.

The ape-boy craved affection. From babyhood until thetime of her death, when the poisoned arrow of Kulongahad pierced her savage heart, Kala had representedto the English boy the sole object of love which he had known.

In her wild, fierce way Kala had loved her adopted son,and Tarzan had returned that love, though the outwarddemonstrations of it were no greater than might havebeen expected from any other beast of the jungle. It was not until he was bereft of her that the kidrealized how deep had been his attachment for his mother,for as such he looked upon her.