Produced by Al Haines, Cindy Beyer & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net [Cover Illustration] [Illustration: Standing above him was Jad-bal-ja, the Golden Lion] TARZAN AND THE GOLDEN LION BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS AUTHOR OF THE TARZAN BOOKS, THE MARS BOOKS, THE MUCKER, ETC. ILLUSTRATED BY J. ALLEN ST. JOHN [Illustration] GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS NEW YORK Copyright Edgar Rice Burroughs 1923 Published March, 1923 _Copyrighted in Great Britain_ _Printed in the United States of America_ CONTENTS I The Golden Lion II The Training of Jad-bal-ja III A Meeting of Mystery IV What the Footprints Told V The Fatal Drops VI Death Steals Behind VII “You Must Sacrifice Him” VIII Mystery of the Past IX The Shaft of Death X Mad Treachery XI Strange Incense Burns XII The Golden Ingots XIII A Strange, Flat Tower XIV The Chamber of Horrors XV The Map of Blood XVI The Diamond Hoard XVII The Torture of Fire XVIII The Spoor of Revenge XIX A Barbed Shaft Kills XX The Dead Return XXI An Escape and a Capture ILLUSTRATIONS Standing above him was Jad-bal-ja, the Golden Lion He caught the little lion by the scruff of its neck Before him was the body of a giant anthropoid “Upon the third day Tarzan shall die beneath my knife” Tarzan saw a white man, bald and old and shriveled with a long white beard The Golden Lion with two mighty bounds was upon the High Priest Hunting together, the man and the great lion trod the paths toward home With a cry of terror the Spaniard dived into the river Tarzan and the Golden Lion