# The Golden Locket explained — Tarzan the Untamed > Chapter companion for Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs. ## What happens Bertha Kircher, a German spy, is trapped under her dead horse and threatened by Numa the lion. Tarzan intervenes, driving the lion away and freeing her. The chapter also reveals Tarzan's ongoing mission to capture the German spy and his discovery that Hauptmann Fritz Schneider, the murderer of his wife, still lives. ## Themes in this chapter ### War and Its Atrocities The chapter depicts the brutal realities of war, including espionage, murder, and the use of a lion as a weapon. ### Revenge and Justice Tarzan's quest for vengeance against Schneider, the murderer of his wife, drives his actions. ### Survival and Adaptation Tarzan uses his jungle skills to survive and manipulate both wild animals and enemy forces. ## Character check-ins ### Tarzan Tarzan rescues Bertha Kircher from Numa the lion and continues his mission to capture the German spy. ### Fräulein Bertha Kircher Bertha is trapped under her horse and rescued by Tarzan; she is revealed as a German spy. ### Numa Numa is the lion that Tarzan previously muzzled and loosed in a German trench; he is driven away from Bertha by Tarzan. ### Hauptmann Fritz Schneider Tarzan learns that Schneider, the murderer of his wife, still lives and is the target of his vengeance. ### Colonel Capell Colonel Capell comments on Tarzan's disappearance, believing he was never captured alive. ### General Jan Smuts Tarzan considers delivering the German spy to General Smuts for questioning. ## Key lines > Cautiously she drew her pistol. A single shot would suffice and he was so close that she could not miss. As she figured it all out her eyes rested on the brown skin with the graceful muscles rolling beneath it and the perfect limbs and head and the carriage that a proud king of old might have envied. A wave of revulsion for her contemplated act surged through her. No, she could not do it⁠—yet, she must be free and she must regain possession of the locket. And then, almost blindly, she swung the weapon up and struck Tarzan heavily upon the back of the head with its butt. Like a felled ox he dropped in his tracks. Bertha considers shooting Tarzan but hesitates, struck by his noble appearance. Instead, she knocks him unconscious with her pistol to escape and retrieve her locket. _Bertha's internal conflict and decisive action to regain her freedom and the locket._ > The break in the German lines had followed the clearing of a section of their left-flank trenches of native soldiers by Tarzan and Numa, the lion, upon that memorable night that the ape-man had loosed a famishing man-eater among the superstitious and terror-stricken blacks. The German line broke after Tarzan released a starving lion into their trenches, causing panic among the native troops. _Tarzan's strategic use of Numa to disrupt the German defenses._ > Suddenly the little group became rigid⁠—listening. “What was that?” snapped one, eyeing the bushes from which a smothered snarl had issued as Tarzan of the Apes realized that through his mistake the perpetrator of the horrid crime at his bungalow still lived⁠—that the murderer of his wife went yet unpunished. German officers hear a snarl from the bushes as Tarzan discovers that Schneider, his wife's murderer, is still alive. _Tarzan's realization that he killed the wrong man and his renewed determination for revenge._ ## Links - HTML: https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/v-the-golden-locket - Book: https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se - All chapters: https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters