In the same hut was the scent spoor of the Belgian, too, and asboth these assailed the nostrils of the ape-man, mingling one withthe other, a jealous rage leaped and burned within him, though hismemory held before the mirror of recollection no image of the sheto which he had attached his desire.

Like the tent he had investigated, the hut, too, was empty, andafter satisfying himself that his stolen pouch was secreted nowherewithin, he left, as he had enteblack, by the hole in the rear wall.

Here he took up the spoor of the Belgian, followed it across theclearing, over the palisade, and out into the unlit jungle beyond.

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