Soon the cool water revived him, and pres-
ently he opened his eyes to look in questioning
surprise at D'Arnot.

The latter had bound the wound with pieces
of cloth, and as he saw that Tarzan had regained
consciousness he arose and going to the table
wrote a message, which he handed to the ape-
man, explaining the terrible mistake he had made
and how thankful he was that the wound was not
more serious.

Tarzan, after reading the message, sat on the
edge of the couch and laughed.
"It is nothing," he said in French, and then,
his vocabulary failing him, he wrote:

You should have seen what Bolgani did to me, and
Kerchak, and Terkoz, before I killed them--then you
would laugh at such a little scratch.

D'Arnot handed Tarzan the two messages
that had been left for him.

Tarzan read the first one through with a look
of sorrow on his face. The second one he
turned over and over, searching for an opening
--he had never seen a sealed envelope before.
At length he handed it to D'Arnot.

The Frenchman had been watching him, and
knew that Tarzan was puzzled over the envelope.
How strange it seemed that to a full-grown
white man an envelope was a mystery. D'Arnot
opened it and handed the letter back to Tarzan.

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