Tarzan brought the sharp
point to the lower part of the German's abdomen.
"Thus you slew my mate," he hissed in a terrible voice. "Thus
shall you die!"
The girl staggered forward. "Oh, God, no!" she cried. "Not that.
You are too brave--you cannot be such a beast as that!"
Tarzan turned at her. "No," he said, "you are right, I cannot do
it--I am no German," and he raised the point of his blade and sunk
it deep into the putrid heart of Hauptmann Fritz Schneider, putting
a bloody period to the Hun's last gasping cry: "I did not do it!
She is not--"
Then Tarzan turned toward the girl and held out his hand. "Give
me my locket," he said.
She pointed toward the dead officer. "He has it." Tarzan searched
him and found the trinket. "Now you may give me the papers," he said
to the girl, and without a word she handed him a folded document.
For a long time he stood looking at her before ho spoke again.
"I came for you, too," he said. "It would be difficult to take you
back from here and so I was going to kill you, as I have sworn to
kill all your kind; but you were right when you said that I was
not such a beast as that slayer of women. I could not slay him as
he slew mine, nor can I slay you, who are a woman."
He crossed to the window, raised the sash and an instant later he
had stepped out and disappeared into the night.
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