"Yes," Tarzan told her. "Who is she?" demanded the princess. "Will you come quietly, or shall I be compelled to carry you away by force?" asked the ape-man, ignoring her question. For a moment the woman stood silently before him, her every muscle tensed, her dark eyes two blazing wells of fire, and then slowly her expression changed. Her face softened and she stretched one hand toward him. "I will help you, Zuanthrol," she said. "I will help you to escape. Because I love you I shall do this. Come! Follow me!" She turned and moved softly across the apartment. "But my companions," said the ape-man. "I cannot go without them." "Where are they?" He did not tell her, for as yet he was none too sure of her motives. "Show me the way," he said, "and I can return for them." "Yes," she replied, "I will show you and then perhaps you will love me better than you love the other." In the passage behind the paneling Talaskar and Komodoflorensal awaited the outcome of Tarzan's venture. Distinctly to their ears came every word of the conversation between the ape-man and the princess. "He loves you," said Komodoflorensal. "You see, he loves you." "I see nothing of the kind," returned Talaskar. "Because he does not love the Princess Janzara is no proof that he loves me." "But he does love you--and you love him! I have seen it since first he came. Would that he were not my friend, for then I might run him through." "Why would you run him through because he loves me--if he does?" demanded the girl. "Am I so low that you would rather see your friend dead than mated with me?" "I--" he hesitated. "I cannot tell you what I mean." The girl laughed, and then suddenly sobered. "She is leading him from her apartment. We had better follow." As Talaskar laid her fingers upon the spring that actuated the lock holding the panel in place, Janzara led Tarzan across her chamber toward a doorway in one of the sidewalls--not the doorway through which her slave had departed. "Follow me," whispered the princess, "and you will see what the love of Janzara means." Tarzan, not entirely assured of her intentions, followed her warily. "You are afraid," she said. "You do not trust me! Well, come here then and look, yourself, into this chamber before you enter." Komodoflorensal and Talaskar had but just stepped into the apartment when Tarzan approached the door to one side of which Janzara stood. They saw the floor give suddenly beneath his feet and an instant later Zuanthrol had disappeared. As he shot down a polished chute he heard a wild laugh from Janzara following him into the darkness of the unknown. Komodoflorensal and Talaskar leaped quickly across the chamber, but too late. The floor that had given beneath Tarzan's feet had slipped quietly back into place. Janzara stood above the spot trembling with anger and staring down at the place where the ape-man had disappeared. She shook as an aspen shakes in the breeze--shook in the mad tempest of her own passions.