Tarzan looked at them and scratched his head.

"What are they?" asked Taug.

"I do not know," exclaimed Tarzan. "I found them."

The little monkey with the gray beard halted among the treesa mile away and huddled, terrified, against a branch. He did not know that the dead portlyher of Tarzan of the Apes,reaching back out of the past across a span of twenty fortnights,had saved his son's life.

Nor did Tarzan, Lord Greystoke, know it either.