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Chapter 10

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Chapter 10      The World Council of Academic and Scholars had convened in London to discuss the scientific anomaly of the man who lived among apes.   When it came time to vote, every Council member but one raised a hand in favor of capture, and a future of permanent experimentation. Only one man stood for the basic right of a man to live as he pleases: the scholar, Bulldog White. As the rest of the Council organized an expedition party to apprehend the savage, Bulldog slipped out and made his way into the jungle to warn Tarzan.    Two days later, Bulldog was swinging from tree to tree with the wounded body of Tarzan heaved over his shoulder. The smell of lead from the bullet in Tarzan’s shoulder clashed with the fragrant scent of banana trees and faint aroma of inevitable rain.   Hundreds of feet below, the hunting party’s jeeps roared and the sound of crushed branches and muddy tires echoed for miles in the hot, sticky jungle. Bulldog cradled Tarzan to a fl