CHAPTER XIX
A BARBED SHAFT KILLS
KRASKI spent a sleepless night. H e could not help but realize that sooner or later Tarzan would discover the loss of his pouch of diamonds, and that he would return and demand an accounting of the four Londoners he had be friended. A nd so it was that as the first streak of dawn lighted the eastern horizon, the Russian arose from his pallet of dried grasses within the hut that had been assigned him and Bluber by the chief, and crept stealthily out into the village street.
" G o d! " he muttered to himself. " There is only one chance in a thousand that I can reach the coast alone, but this," and he pressed his hand over the bag of diamonds that lay within his shirt— " but this, this is worth every effort, even to the sacrifice of life—the fortune of a thousand kings—my God, what could I not do with it in London, and Paris, and N ew Y o rk! "
Stealthily he slunk from the village, and pres ently the verdure of the jungle beyond closed about Carl Kraski, the Russian, as he disappeared fo r ever from the lives of his companions.
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