"I think anyone's a half-wit who'd run about this jungle naked and unarmed."
"You'll find he's not a half-wit, Stimbol; and unless you want to get in more trouble than you ever imagined existed, you'll do just as Tarzan of the Apes tells you to do."
"What do you know about him? Have you ever seen him?"
"No," replied Blake. "But I have heard a lot about him from our men. He's as much a part of this locality as the jungle, or the lions. Very few, if any, of our men have seen him, but he has the same hold upon their imaginations and superstitions as any of their demons, and they are even more fearful of incurring his displeasure. If they think Tarzan has it in for us we're out of luck."
"Well, all I've got to say is that if this monkey-man knows when he's well off he'll not come butting into the affairs of Wilbur Stimbol."
"And he's coming to visit us, is he?" said Blake. "Well, I certainly want to see him. I've heard of little else since we struck his country."
"It's funny I never heard of him," said Stimbol.
"You never talk with the men," Blake reminded him.
"Gad, it seems as though I'm doing nothing but talk to them," grumbled Stimbol.
"I said, talk with them."