Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzan and the Golden Lion Edgar Rice Burroughs

AND so Tarzan of the Apes, and Jane Clayton, and Korak came home after a long absence andwith them came Jad-bal-ja, the golden lion, and Za, the bitch. Among the first to meet them and towelcome them home was old Muviro, father of Wasimbu, who had given his life in defense of thehome and wife of the ape-man."Ah, Bwana," cried the faithful black, "my old eyes are made young again by the sight of you. Ithas been long that you have been gone, but though many doubted that you would return, oldMuviro knew that the great world held nothing that might overcome his master. And so he knew, too, that his master would return to the home of his love and the land where his faithful Waziriawaited him; but that she, whom we have mourned as dead, should have returned is beyond belief, and great shall be the rejoicing in the huts of the Waziri tonight. And the earth shall tremble to thedancing feet of the warriors and the heavens ring with the glad cries of their women, since the threethey love most on earth have come back to them."And in truth, great indeed was the rejoicing in the huts of the Waziri. And not for one nightalone, but for many nights did the dancing and the rejoicing continue until Tarzan was compelled toput a stop to the festivities that he and his family might gain a few hours of unbroken slumber. Theape-man found that not only had his faithful Waziri, under the equally faithful guidance of hisEnglish foreman, Jervis, completely rehabilitated his stables, corrals, and outbuildings as well as thenative huts, but had restored the interior of the bungalow, so that in all outward appearances theplace was precisely as it had been before the raid of the German