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water, and sank beneath its surface, plumbing the
depths.
The fall had not injured him, and when he rose to the
surface, he shook the water from his eyes, and found
that he could see. Daylight was filtering into the
well from the orifice far above his head. It illumined
the inner walls faintly. Tarzan gazed about him.
On the level with the surface of the water he saw a
large opening in the dark and slimy wall. He swam to it,
and drew himself out upon the wet floor of a tunnel.
Along this he passed; but now he went warily, for
Tarzan of the Apes was learning. The unexpected pit
had taught him care in the traversing of dark
passageways--he needed no second lesson.
For a long distance the passage went straight as an
arrow. The floor was slippery, as though at times the
rising waters of the well overflowed and flooded it.
This, in itself, retarded Tarzan's pace, for it was
with difficulty that he kept his footing.
The foot of a stairway ended the passage. Up this he
made his way. It turned back and forth many times,
leading, at last, into a small, circular chamber,
the gloom of which was relieved by a faint light which
found ingress through a tubular shaft several feet in
diameter which rose from the center of the room's
ceiling, upward to a distance of a hundred feet or
more, where it terminated in a stone grating through
which Tarzan could see a blue and sun-lit sky.
Curiosity prompted the ape-man to investigate his
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surroundings. Several metal-bound, copper-studded
chests constituted the sole furniture of the round
room. Tarzan let his hands run over these. He felt
of the copper studs, he pulled upon the hinges, and at
last, by chance, he raised the cover of one.
An exclamation of delight broke from his lips at sight
of the pretty contents. Gleaming and glistening in the
subdued light of the chamber, lay a great tray full of
brilliant stones. Tarzan, reverted to the primitive by
his accident, had no conception of the fabulous value
of his find. To him they were but pretty pebbles.
He plunged his hands into them and let the priceless gems
filter through his fingers. He went to others of the
chests, only to find still further stores of precious
stones. Nearly all were cut, and from these he
gathered a handful and filled the pouch which dangled at
his side--the uncut stones he tossed back into the chests.
Unwittingly, the ape-man had stumbled upon the
forgotten jewel-room of Opar. For ages it had lain
buried beneath the temple of the Flaming God, midway of
one of the many inky passages which the superstitious
descendants of the ancient Sun Worshipers had either
dared not or cared not to explore.
Tiring at last of this diversion, Tarzan took up his way
along the corridor which led upward from the jewel-room
by a steep incline. Winding and twisting, but always
tending upward, the tunnel led him nearer and
nearer to the surface, ending finally in a low-ceiled
room, lighter than any that he had as yet discovered.
Above him an opening in the ceiling at the upper end of
a flight of concrete steps revealed a brilliant sunlit
scene. Tarzan viewed the vine-covered columns in mild
wonderment. He puckered his brows in an attempt to
recall some recollection of similar things. He was not
sure of himself. There was a tantalizing suggestion
always present in his mind that something was eluding
him--that he should know many things which he did not know.
His earnest cogitation was rudely interrupted by a
thunderous roar from the opening above him. Following
the roar came the cries and screams of men and women.
Tarzan grasped his spear more firmly and ascended the
steps. A strange sight met his eyes as he emerged from
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the semi-darkness of the cellar to the brilliant light
of the temple.
The creatures he saw before him he recognized for what
they were--men and women, and a huge lion. The men and
women were scuttling for the safety of the exits.
The lion stood upon the body of one who had been less fortunate
than the others. He was in the center of the temple.
Directly before Tarzan, a woman stood beside a
block of stone. Upon the top of the stone lay
stretched a man, and as the ape-man watched the scene,
he saw the lion glare terribly at the two who remained
within the temple. Another thunderous roar broke from
the savage throat, the woman screamed and swooned
across the body of the man stretched prostrate upon the
stone altar before her.
The lion advanced a few steps and crouched. The tip of
his sinuous tail twitched nervously. He was upon the [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
