Then they turned and retraced their way to the amphitheater.
When Akut felt assured that they were no longer pursued he stopped
and released Korak. The boy was furious.
"Why did you drag me away?" he cried. "I would have taught them!
I would have taught them all! Now they will think that I am afraid
of them."
"What they think cannot harm you," said Akut. "You are alive. If
I had not brought you away you would be dead now and so would I.
Do you not know that even Numa slinks from the path of the great
apes when there are many of them and they are mad?"
Chapter 9
It was an unhappy Korak who wandered aimlessly through the jungle
the day following his inhospitable reception by the great apes.
His heart was heavy from disappointment. Unsatisfied vengeance
smoldered in his breast. He looked with hatred upon the denizens
of his jungle world, bearing his fighting fangs and growling at those
that came within radius of his senses. The mark of his father's
early life was strong upon him and enhanced by months of association
with beasts, from whom the imitative faculty of youth had absorbed
a countless number of little mannerisms of the predatory creatures
of the wild.
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