Wait­ing ai

Wait­ing ai

Wait­ing ai

Wait­ing ai

Wait­ing ai

Wait­ing ai

Wait­ing ai

Wait­ing ai

Wait­ing ai

Wait­ing ai

Wait­ing ai

Wait­ing ai

Wait­ing ai

After suc­cess­ful­ly sneak­ing out of his tent, Wer­p­er heads to Jane Clay­ton’s hold­ing hut, only to find it emp­ty and deduces she’s escaped through a cut open­ing in the hut’s wall. Con­clud­ing she attempt­ed to flee the vil­lage, he does­n’t seek her but instead focus­es on his own escape, con­tem­plat­ing his ini­tial motive to res­cue Jane to gain favor with the Eng­lish and con­sid­er­ing a future with her, envi­sion­ing him­self as her sav­ior from a deceased Tarzan. His jour­ney out of the vil­lage uti­lizes poles against the pal­isade, mir­ror­ing Jane’s pre­vi­ous escape method.

In the jun­gle, Jane hides from a lion, illus­trat­ing her resource­ful­ness. Mean­while, Wer­p­er encoun­ters an Arab on his trail but escapes con­fronta­tion when a lion attacks the Arab, allow­ing Wer­p­er to flee on the Arab’s horse.

Simul­ta­ne­ous­ly, Tarzan, unaware of Jane’s activ­i­ties, seeks revenge for the theft Wer­p­er com­mit­ted. He deals with a lion he encoun­ters but finds no sat­is­fac­tion as his tar­get, believed to be dead from the lion’s attack, leaves no trail for him to fol­low.

Mugam­bi, loy­al to Jane, ven­tures to find her but stum­bles into an Abyssin­ian camp search­ing for Achmet Zek. Wer­p­er, cap­tured by the same par­ty, deceives them about his iden­ti­ty and inten­tions, men­tion­ing Achmet Zek to shift blame and escape his crimes, mis­lead­ing them about Zek’s loca­tion.

Both Wer­p­er and Mugam­bi are impris­oned, fac­ing the prospect of being pre­sent­ed to Menelek of Abyssinia. Mugam­bi plans an escape, bid­ing his time and gain­ing the sol­diers’ trust, while Werper’s inten­tions remain cloaked in secre­cy.

An acci­den­tal reveal of Wer­per’s pos­ses­sion of the Jew­els of Opar to Mugam­bi hints at a poten­tial turn­ing point, show­cas­ing both Wer­per’s des­per­a­tion to retain the jew­els and Mugam­bi’s intel­li­gence and world­ly expe­ri­ence, rec­og­niz­ing the val­ue and sig­nif­i­cance of the spilled trea­sure.

This chap­ter weaves togeth­er the fates of Wer­p­er, Jane, Tarzan, and Mugam­bi, show­ing their strug­gles and plans, set­ting the stage for sub­se­quent con­fronta­tions and rev­e­la­tions that fur­ther com­pli­cate their inter­twined des­tinies in the wild and moral­ly ambigu­ous land­scape of ear­ly 20th-cen­tu­ry colo­nial Africa.