Then she realized that someone was holding
her, and turning her head she saw the smiling eyes of the youth
regarding her. When he smiled she could not fear him, and now she
shrank closer against him in natural revulsion toward the rough
coat of the brute upon her other side.
Korak spoke to her in the language of the apes; but she shook her
head, and spoke to him in the language of the Arab, which was as
unintelligible to him as was ape speech to her. Akut sat up and
looked at them. He could understand what Korak said but the girl
made only foolish noises that were entirely unintelligible and
ridiculous. Akut could not understand what Korak saw in her to
attract him. He looked at her long and steadily, appraising her
carefully, then he scratched his head, rose and shook himself.
His movement gave the girl a little start--she had forgotten Akut
for the moment. Again she shrank from him. The beast saw that she
feared him, and being a brute enjoyed the evidence of the terror
his brutishness inspired. Crouching, he extended his huge hand
stealthily toward her, as though to seize her.
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