TARZAN OF THE APES
Don't you know you are nearly surrounded by fire? Where is Miss Porter?"
Clayton sprang to his feet. He did not recognize the man, but he understood the words and was upon the veranda in a bound.
"Scott!" he cried, and then, dashing back into the house, "Jane! Jane! where are you?"
In an instant Esmeralda, Professor Porter and Mr. Philander had joined the two men.
"Where is Miss Jane?" cried Clayton, seizing Esmeralda by the shoulders and shaking her roughly.
"Oh, Gaberelle, Marse Clayton, she done gone for a walk."
"Hasn't she come back yet?" and, without waiting for a reply, Clayton dashed out into the yard, followed by the others.
"Which way did she go?" cried the black haired giant of Esmeralda.
"Down dat road," cried the frightened black, pointing toward the south where a mighty wall of roaring flames shut out the view.
"Put these people in the other car," shouted the stranger to Clayton. "I saw one as I drove up—and get them out of here by the north road.
"Leave my car here. If I find Miss Porter we shall need it. If I don't, no one will need it. Do as I say," as Clayton hesitated, and then they saw the lithe figure bound away across the
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