Chapter 10

Lukedi was gone for half an hour. When he returned he brought an old, rusted slave chain and an ancient padlock. “Nyuto says that we may chain him to the centre pole and then cut the bonds that secure his hands,” he said to the guard. The three men entered the hut where Lukedi passed one end of the chain around the centre pole, pulling it through a ring on the other end; the free end he then passed round Tarzan’s neck, securing it there with the old slave padlock. “Cut the bonds that hold his wrists,” said Lukedi t…