CHAPTER VII

_Lord of the Jungle_ Apeman, never realizing that his actual strength was that of but a puny human being, was racing with Ellen Estabrook into the very midst of animals which would tear him to bits as easily as they would tear any human being to pieces. Apeman, being but an ape after all, would merely think that he was joining his own kind, bearing with him a mate with white skin. But to the other apes he would be a human being, a puny hairless imitation of themselves which they would pounce upon and tear asunder w…