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Phobeg had been imprisoned longer than had Tarzan, and the confinement was making him moody.

Believing this, he became more arrogant and overbearing, ignorant of the fact that he was playing with death. In the interests of peace the ape-man had tolerated more from his cell-mate than he would have under ordinary circumstances and Phobeg, being what he was, had assumed that the other’s toleration was prompted by fear. The man annoyed Tarzan he was ignorant, a braggart, and inclined to be quarrelsome.

Imprisonment of any nature galled him, but this experience was rendered infinitely more irksome by the presence of Phobeg. Perhaps he might have made a break for liberty when food was brought but each time he thought that the next day would bring his release, and waited. TARZAN HAD THOUGHT, when he went without objection into the prison cell at Cathne, that the next morning he would be questioned and released, or at least be taken from the cell and once out of the cell again, Tarzan had no intention of returning to it, the lord of the jungle being very certain of his own prowess.īut they had not let him out the next morning nor the next nor the next.