{"product_id":"2940012859877","title":"Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar","description":"CHAPTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   1  Belgian and Arab\u003cbr\u003e   2  On the Road to Opar\u003cbr\u003e   3  The Call of the Jungle\u003cbr\u003e   4  Prophecy and Fulfillment\u003cbr\u003e   5  The Altar of the Flaming God\u003cbr\u003e   6  The Arab Raid\u003cbr\u003e   7  The Jewel-Room of Opar\u003cbr\u003e   8  The Escape from Opar\u003cbr\u003e   9  The Theft of the Jewels\u003cbr\u003e  10  Achmet Zek Sees the Jewels\u003cbr\u003e  11  Tarzan Becomes a Beast Again\u003cbr\u003e  12  La Seeks Vengeance\u003cbr\u003e  13  Condemned to Torture and Death\u003cbr\u003e  14  A Priestess But Yet a Woman\u003cbr\u003e  15  The Flight of Werper\u003cbr\u003e  16  Tarzan Again Leads the Mangani\u003cbr\u003e  17  The Deadly Peril of Jane Clayton\u003cbr\u003e  18  The Fight For the Treasure\u003cbr\u003e  19  Jane Clayton and The Beasts of the Jungle\u003cbr\u003e  20  Jane Clayton Again a Prisoner\u003cbr\u003e  21  The Flight to the Jungle\u003cbr\u003e  22  Tarzan Recovers His Reason\u003cbr\u003e  23  A Night of Terror\u003cbr\u003e  24  Home\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBelgian and Arab\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLieutenant Albert Werper had only the prestige of the name he had\u003cbr\u003edishonored to thank for his narrow escape from being cashiered.  At\u003cbr\u003efirst he had been humbly thankful, too, that they had sent him to this\u003cbr\u003eGodforsaken Congo post instead of court-martialing him, as he had so\u003cbr\u003ejustly deserved; but now six months of the monotony, the frightful\u003cbr\u003eisolation and the loneliness had wrought a change.  The young man\u003cbr\u003ebrooded continually over his fate.  His days were filled with morbid\u003cbr\u003eself-pity, which eventually engendered in his weak and vacillating mind\u003cbr\u003ea hatred for those who had sent him here--for the very men he had at\u003cbr\u003efirst inwardly thanked for saving him from the ignominy of degradation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe regretted the gay life of Brussels as he never had regretted the\u003cbr\u003esins which had snatched him from that gayest of capitals, and as the\u003cbr\u003edays passed he came to center his resentment upon the representative in\u003cbr\u003eCongo land of the authority which had exiled him--his captain and\u003cbr\u003eimmediate superior.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis officer was a cold, taciturn man, inspiring little love in those\u003cbr\u003edirectly beneath him, yet respected and feared by the black soldiers of\u003cbr\u003ehis little command.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWerper was accustomed to sit for hours glaring at his superior as the\u003cbr\u003etwo sat upon the veranda of their common quarters, smoking their\u003cbr\u003eevening cigarets in a silence which neither seemed desirous of\u003cbr\u003ebreaking.  The senseless hatred of the lieutenant grew at last into a\u003cbr\u003eform of mania.  The captain's natural taciturnity he distorted into a\u003cbr\u003estudied attempt to insult him because of his past shortcomings.  He\u003cbr\u003eimagined that his superior held him in contempt, and so he chafed and\u003cbr\u003efumed inwardly until one evening his madness became suddenly homicidal.\u003cbr\u003eHe fingered the butt of the revolver at his hip, his eyes narrowed and\u003cbr\u003ehis brows contracted.  At last he spoke.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You have insulted me for the last time!\" he cried, springing to his\u003cbr\u003efeet.  \"I am an officer and a gentleman, and I shall put up with it no\u003cbr\u003elonger without an accounting from you, you pig.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe captain, an expression of surprise upon his features, turned toward\u003cbr\u003ehis junior.  He had seen men before with the jungle madness upon\u003cbr\u003ethem--the madness of solitude and unrestrained brooding, and perhaps a\u003cbr\u003etouch of fever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe rose and extended his hand to lay it upon the other's shoulder.\u003cbr\u003eQuiet words of counsel were upon his lips; but they were never spoken.\u003cbr\u003eWerper construed his superior's action into an attempt to close with\u003cbr\u003ehim.  His revolver was on a level with the captain's heart, and the\u003cbr\u003elatter had taken but a step when Werper pulled the trigger.  Without a\u003cbr\u003emoan the man sank to the rough planking of the veranda, and as he fell\u003cbr\u003ethe mists that had clouded Werper's brain lifted, so that he saw\u003cbr\u003ehimself and the deed that he had done in the same light that those who\u003cbr\u003emust judge him would see them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe heard excited exclamations from the quarters of the soldiers and he\u003cbr\u003eheard men running in his direction.  They would seize him, and if they\u003cbr\u003edidn't kill him they would take him down the Congo to a point where a\u003cbr\u003eproperly ordered military tribunal would do so just as effectively,\u003cbr\u003ethough in a more regular manner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWerper had no desire to die.  Never before had he so yearned for life\u003cbr\u003eas in this moment that he had so effectively forfeited his right to\u003cbr\u003elive.  The men were nearing him.  What was he to do?  He glanced about\u003cbr\u003eas though searching for the tangible form of a legitimate excuse for\u003cbr\u003ehis crime; but he could find only the body of the man he had so\u003cbr\u003ecauselessly shot down.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn despair, he turned and fled from the oncoming soldiery.  Across the\u003cbr\u003ecompound he ran, his revolver still clutched tightly in his hand.  At\u003cbr\u003ethe gates a sentry halted him.  Werper did not pause to parley or to\u003cbr\u003eexert the influence of his commission--he merely raised his weapon and\u003cbr\u003eshot down the innocent black.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078991986928,"sku":"2940012859877","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012859877_p0.jpg?v=1763573533","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012859877","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}