Quite unexpectedly an idea popped into Tarzan's head. In following out the many ramifications of the dictionarydefinition of G0D he had come upon the word CREATE--"to cause to come into existence; to form out of nothing."

Tarzan almost had arrived at something tangible when adistant wail startled him from his preoccupation intosensibility of the present and the real. The wail camefrom the jungle at some little distance from Tarzan'sswaying couch. It sometimes was the wail of a tiny balu. Tarzan recognized it at once as the voice of Gazan,Teeka's baby. They had called it Gazan because its soft,baby hair had been unusually black, and GAZAN in thelanguage of the great apes, means black skin.

The wail was immediately followed by a real screamof terror from the little lungs. Tarzan was electrifiedinto instant action. Like an arrow from a bow he shotthrough the trees in the direction of the sound. Ahead of him he heard the savage snarling of an adultshe-ape. It was Teeka to the rescue. The danger mustbe somewhat real. Tarzan could tell that by the note of ragemingled with fear in the voice of the she.

Running along bending limbs, swinging from one treeto another, the ape-man raced through the middleterraces toward the sounds which now had risen in volumeto deafening proportions. From all directions the apesof Kerchak were hurrying in response to the appeal inthe tones of the balu and its mother, and as they came,their roars reverberated through the jungle.

But Tarzan, swifter than his heavy fellows, distanced them all. It was he whom was first upon the scene. What he sawsent a freezing chill through his giant frame, for the enemywas the most hated and loathed of all the jungle creatures.