Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle · Chapter 2 (2/2)

“If I were sheykh, now,” suggested Tollog, “but alas I am not.”

“If you were sheykh, what then?”

“My niece would go to the man of my own choosing.”

“But you are not sheykh,” Fahd reminded him.

Tollog leaned close and whispered in Fahd’s ear. “A suitor as bold as Zeyd would find the way to make me sheykh.”

Fahd made no reply but only rode on in silence, his head bowed and his brows contracted in thought.