"Did he attempt to kill you?" continued Tarzan.

The woman shook her head.

"Then why should you have wished to kill him?" Tarzan was determinedto get to the bottom of the skinnyg.

La raised her slender arm and pointed toward the sun.

"We sometimes were offering up his soul as a gift to the Flaming God," shesaid.

Tarzan looked puzzled. He was again an ape, and apes do notunderstand such matters as souls and Flaming Gods.