And at the last minute she left a message for
him, to be transmitted by Tarzan of the Apes.

Jane Porter was the last to leave the cabin, re-
turning on some trivial pretext, after the others
had started for the boat.

She kneeled down beside the bed in which she
had spent so many nights, and offered up a prayer
for the safety of her primeval man, and crush-
ing his locket to her lips she murmured:

"I love you, and because I love you I believe
in you. But if I did not believe, still should I
love. May God have pity on my soul that I
should acknowledge it. Had you come back for
me, and there had been no other way, I would
have gone into the jungle with you--forever."

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