Bill Gantry, Dutton's guide and hunter, stepped forward toward one of the men with outstretched hand. "Hello, Tom, Long time no see;" then he turned toward Dutton. "This is Tom Crump, Mr. Dutton, an old timer around here."

Crump nodded crustily. "This here's Minsky," he said, indicating his companion.

From a tree at the edge of the clearing, Tarzan recognized Crump as a notorious ivory poacher whom he had run out of the country a couple of years before. He knew him for an all around rotter and a dangerous man, wanted by the authorities of at least two countries. The other three men, Dutton, Gantry and Minsky, he had never seen before. Dutton made a good impression upon the ape-man. Gantry made no impression at all; but he mentally catalogued Ivan Minsky as the same type as Crump.

Crump and Minsky were occupied for a while, directing the unloading of the canoes and the sating up of their camp. Dutton had walked back to his own camp, but Gantry remained with the newcomers.

When Crump was free he turned to Gantry. "What you doin' here, Bill?" he asked; then he nodded toward Dutton, who was standing outside his tent. "Who's that guy, the law?" It was evident that he was nervous and suspicious.

"You don't have to worry none about him," said Gantry, reassuringly. "He ain't even a Britisher. He's an American."

"Hunting?" asked Crump.

"We was," replied Gantry. "I was guide and hunter for this Dutton and a rich old bloke named Timothy Pickerall-you know, Pickerall's Ale. Comes from Edinburgh, I think. Well, the old bloke has his daughter, Sandra, with him. Well, one day, a great big guy comes into camp wearing nothing but a G string. He's a big guy and not bad-lookin'. He said his name was Tarzan of the Apes. Ever hear of him?"

Crump grimaced. "I sure have," he said. "He's a bad 'un. He run me out of good elephant country two years ago."

"Well, it seems that the Pickerall gal and her old man had heard of this here Tarzan. They said he was some sort of a Lord or Duke or something, and they treated him like a long-lost brother.