Tarzan And The Jewels Of Opar
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creator: Burroughs, Edgar Rice
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subject: werper
subject: ape
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subject: achmet
subject: zek
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full text: [pg/etext93/tarz510.txt] December, 1993 [Etext #92] This etext was created by Judith Boss, Omaha, Nebraska, using: The Calera Recognition Systems' M/600 Series Professional OCR software and RISC accelerator board donated by Calera; on an IBM-compatible 486/50, with a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet IIc flatbed scanner. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs Contents CHAPTER PAGE 1 Belgian and Arab 2 On the Road to Opar 3 The Call of the Jungle 4 Prophecy and Fulfillment 5 The Altar of the Flaming God 6 The Arab Raid 7 The Jewel-Room of Opar 8 The Escape from Opar 9 The Theft of the Jewels 10 Achmet Zek Sees the Jewels 11 Tarzan Becomes a Beast Again 12 La Seeks Vengeance 13 Condemned to Torture and Death 14 A Priestess But Yet a Woman 15 The Flight of Werper 16 Tarzan Again Leads the Mangani 17 The Deadly Peril of Jane Clayton 18 The Fight For the Treasure 19 Jane Clayton and The Beasts of the Jungle 20 Jane Clayton Again a Prisoner 21 The Flight to the Jungle 22 Tarzan Recovers His Reason 23 A Night of Terror 24 Home Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs 1 Belgian and Arab Lieutenant Albert Werper had only the prestige of the name he had dishonored to thank for his narrow escape from being cashiered. At first he had been humbly thankful, too, that they had sent him to this Godforsaken Congo post instead of court-martialing him, as he had so justly deserved; but now six months of the monotony, the frightful isolation and the loneliness had wrought a change. The young man brooded continually over his fate. His days were filled with morbid self-pity, which eventually engendered in his weak and vacillating mind a hatred for those who had sent him here-- for the very men he had at first inwardly thanked for saving him from the ignominy of degradation. He regretted the gay life of Brussels as he never had regretted the sins which had snatched him from that gayest of capitals, and as the days passed he came to center his resentment upon the represen…