Tarzan #23 - Tarzan And The Madman by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs [Burroughs, Edgar Rice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-07-27T19:48:57+00:00

Chapter SEVENTEEN..The White Slave

MINSKY WAS HUNGRY for good red meat; but when he saw a buck and would have shot it, Crump stopped him. "Don't you know we're in the Waruturi country, you fool?" he said. "Do you want to tell 'em where they'll find some good meat for their cooking pots, and have a whole pack of the devils down on us in no time?"

"I thought you was such a friend of old Chief Mutimbwa," said Minsky. "You was tellin' us how chummy you and him was, and how we couldn't get through the Waruturi country without you. You was always goin' to his village and takin' him presents."

"That was so they wouldn't beef about our goin' along with 'em," said Crump. "I didn't want to have no trouble if I didn't have to. I never been to the Waruturi village and I never seen old Mutimbwa hut once; and then I was with a safari with twenty guns. I give him some grade goods for some goats and chickens, and he give us permission to pass through his country; but the real reason was he was afraid of them twenty guns. If he caught us two alone, we could just kiss ourselves goodby; so I guess you'll have to go on eatin' bananas and plantain for awhile-unless you like grasshoppers and white ants."

Minsky thought this all over very carefully, and the more he thought of it the more bitterly he resented what Crump had done to him. He would not have entered the Waruturi country for any amount of gold, had he not believed that Crump was on friendly terms with Mutimbwa. Now he was in a trap from which he might never escape; but if he ever did, the first thing that he would do would be to kill Crump. He brooded on this constantly as they slunk stealthily through the dark forest.

At last, they came to open country; and across a rolling tree-dotted plain they saw the Ruturi range looming purple in the distance.

"Well," said Crump, "that was not so bad."

"What was not so bad?" demanded Minsky.

"We are out of the Waruturi country. They're forest people. There isn't one chance in a thousand we'll run into any of 'em out here; and there's the mountains where the gold is, and there's the thorn forest."

"And there's some men," said Minsky, pointing toward the right.

The two men drew back into the concealment of the forest, and watched a file of men coming from their right up near the edge of the thorn forest. They counted fifteen walking in single file.

"Them's not Waruturi," said Crump.

"What they wearin'?" demanded Minsky. "They got on shiny coats and hats."

"Five of 'em carryin' packs on their heads," commented Grump. "It looks like a safari all right, but it's the doggonest lookin' safari I ever seen."

"Well, they're probably white men; and as long as they ain't Waruturi, they'll probably be friendly. Let's go on out and see."

Shortly after Crump and Minsky came out into

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