W I" I ,. ,,. .. EVENING PUBLIC tLEDGER-PmLAJDELPHIA, SATURDAY, AUGTJSE 2i 1919 W-. 1 SHE BATTLE FOR TEEKA Teeca Saves Her Own Life, Aided by Tarzan and Taug By Edgar Rice Burroughs a 1 1 S" ' , $ $i V , tt m ?- 3 f I I '5 R: in ;r-' Ij m m LiV - $QHtt- ttll, ! i rubUe Lttoer Co.) t. (GsftsrfffM, 101, Ay Edgar Bice DurrouoM i i y&fTHE day was perfect A cool fjL- Jneezo tempered the heat of the equatorial Bun. Peaco had reigned .within tho tribe for weeks and no jf , aucu cnuiny iiuu n capuoi" ....,. . jf" preserves from without To the ape- is'that tho futuro would bo identical SfKwUh. tho Immediato past that A), fltnti! rnnlr1 nersrist. ifjf Even the individuals became less .watchful ana aicrt, so urn. """ might have thought Numa and Sabor and Sheets entirely deleted from the scheme of things. The shes1 and fthe balus roamed unguarded through the sullen jungle, whilo tho greedy males foraged far afield, and thus it was that Teeka and Gazan, her balu, hunted upon tho extreme southern edge of the tribe with no great male near them. Still farther south there moved through the forest a sinister figure a huge bull ape, maddened by soli tude, and defeat. A week before he had contended for tho kingship of a tribe far distant, and now battered, and still sore, he roamed the wilder-hcr iessor strength. Toog struck and ness an outcast. Later he might i choked her repeatedly until finally, return to his own tribe and submit half unconsciOUSi Bhc lapsed into to the will of the hairy brute he had quasi RUbmission. Then the bull attempted to dethrone; but for the uf ted her to his shoulder and turned time being he dared not do so, since I bnck to tho trnjl toward the south he had sought not only the crown wncnce he had come, but the wives, as well, of his lord and pon th0 ground iay the quiet master. It would lcquire an entire form of iitt0 Gazan. He did not moon at least to bring forgetfulness I moan jie did not move. The sun to him he had wronred, and so Toot; rose sjowy toward meridan. A wandered through the Jungle, grim, mangy thing, lifting its noc to scent terrible, hate-filled. i the jungle breeze, crept through tho It was in this" mental state that umierbrush. It was Dango, the Toog came unexpectedly upon a hyena. Presently its ugly muzzle young she feeding alone in the,hroke through some nearby foliage jungle a stranger she, lithe and an,i jts cruei cycs fastened upon strong and beautiful beyond com pare. Toog caught his breath and slunk quickly to one side of the trail where the dense foliage of the tropi- cal underbrush concealed mm irom at such times as the tribe was rang Teeka while permitting him to feast . ;nff in th0 vicinity. On the floor lay his eyes upon her loelincss. the skeleton of a man all that rc- Toog could see no sign of any ape majncd of the former Lord Grey other than the strange she and a I g iay as ;t had fallen some young balu playing near by. His twenty years before when Kerchak, wicked, blood-shot eyes half closed j the Kreat ap0i had thrown it, lifeless, as they rested upon the charms of there. Long since had the termites the former as for the balu, one I and the small rodents picked clean snap of those great jaws upon the the sturdy English bones. For years back of its little neck would prevent It from raising any unnecessary alarm. Toog, having satisfied himself that only the she and her balu wore in the immediate vicinity, crept steathily forward. Teeka's back was toward him when he finally rushed upon fS," Aher; but her senses were at lastfathCr, the other his mother? The awakened to the presence of danger and she wheeled to face the strange bull just before he reached her. Toog halted a few paces from her. His Mwilinil flA.l Tiofrtvn Tin cprllirf.fvp feminine charms of the stranger. He made conciliatory noises a species of clucking sound with his broad, fiat lips that were, too, not greatly dissimilar to that which might be fc.M proaucea in an oscuiaiury &uiu. f . i 1i . 1 . But Teeka only baied her fangs and growled. Little Gazan started to run toward his mother, but she warned him away with a quick "Kreeg-ah!" telling him to run high into a tall tree. Evidently Teeka was not favorably impressed by her new suitor. Toog lealized this and altered his methods accordingly. He Bwelled his giant chest, bat upon it With his calloused knuckles and Swaggered to and fio before her. "I am Toog," he boasted. "Look ab my fighting fangs. Look at my great arms and my mighty legs. With one bite I can slay your biggest bull. Alone have I slain Shecta. I am Toog. Toog wants you." Then he waited for the effect, nor did he hove long to wait. Teeka turned with a swiftness which belied her frrrfnf -UTPiirTif. rind holtpd in thf on- ?$' posite direction. Toog with an angry p, smaller, lighter female was too fleet for him. He chased her tor a few yards and then, foaming and bark ing, he halted and beat upon the ground with his hard fists. From the tree above him little Gazan looked down and witnessed the stranger bull's discomfituie. Being 'young, and thinking himself safe above the reach of the heavy male, Gazan screamed an ill-timed $nsult at their tormentor. Toog looked up. Teeka had halted at a little distance she would not go far from her balu; that Toog quickly realized and as quickly determined! . "", tlUIWHJ to take advantage of. He saw that the tree in which the young npo squatted was isolated and that Gazan could not reach another with- out coming to earth. He would ob tain the mother thiough her love f for her young. He swung himself into the lowe branches of the tree. Little Gazan I .ceased to insult him; his expression flirt ot jdeviltry changed to one of ap- i I? ttrehension, which was quickly fol- vfLJowed by fear as Toog commenced ftto ascend toward him. Teeka ,;Jt screamed to Gazan to climb higher, " kh.1 4Tn liUln fallMl nnnM amm.3 .. . i5" " "'"0 "" JM..MII..MBU up iwnraauwuB "c y uiuiicjiea wmen ! SL" .wauld not support the weight of the Yraat bull. but nevertheless Toog F kpt' on climbing. Teeka was not , " ipwrfui. She knew that he could not l4cf)d far enough to reach Gazan, fs'khe sat at a little distance from ill 'tree and applied jungle oppro tofetm to him. Being a female, she WW past master of the art. 3og slowly reached tho limit wjdeh he dared risk his great weight lierthe slender branches. Gazan was Hll fen feet above him. The' bull Mjf hmself and seized the "main mMM$etti ?. then ho commenced shaking it vigorously. Teeka was appalled. Instantly she realized what the bull proposed. Gazan clung far out upon a sway ing limb. At the first shake he lost his balance, though he did not quite fall, clinging still with his four hands; but Toog redoubled his ef forts; tho shaking produced a violent snapping of the limb to which the young ape clung. Teeka saw all too plainly what the outcome must be and forgetting her own danger int. tho depth of her mother love, rushed forward to ascend the tree and give battlo to tho fearsomo creature that menaced the life of her little one. But before ever she reached the bole, Toog had succeeded, by violent shaking of the branch, to loosen Gazan's hold. With a cry the little fellow plunged down through the foliage, clutching futilely for a new hold, and alighted with a sickening thud at his mother's feet, where he lay silent and motionless. Moaning, Teeka stooped to lift the still form in her arms; but at the same instant Toog was upon her. Struggling and biting she fought to free herself; but the giant muscles of the great bull were too much for Gazan. Early that morning Tarzan of the Apes had gone to the cabin by the SPa whCrc ho passed many an hour Tar2an had seen it lying there, giv- ing it no more attention that he gave the countless thousand bones that strewed his jungle haunts. On the bed another, smaller, skeleton re posed and the youth ignored it as he ignored the other. How could he know that the one had been his little pile of bones in the rude cradle, fashioned with such loving care by the former Lord Greystoke, meant nothing to him that one day that little skull was to help prove his right to a proud title was as far be vond his ken as the satellites of the suns of Orion. To Tarzan they were bones just bones. He did not need them, for there was no meat left upon them, and they were not in his way, for he knew no necessity for a bed, and the skeleton upon the floor he easily could step over. While Tarzan had been occupied with his own devices in the cabin of hi.s dead sire, Taug, Teeka's mighty mate, had been hunting a mjle to the noith of the tribe. At j aht, his belly filled, he had turned lazily back toward the clearing whore he had last seen the tribe and piesontly commenced passing its members scattered alone or in twos or threes. Nowhere did he see Teeka or Gazan, and soon he began inquiring of the other apes where they might be; but none had seen them recently. Now the lower orders are not highly imaginative. They do not, as you and I, paint vivid mental pic tures of things which might have occurred, and so Taug did not now apprehend that any misfortune had overtaken his mate and their off spring he merely knew that he wished to find Teeka that he might lie down in the shade and have her scratch his back while his break fast digested; but though he called to her and searched for her and asked each whom he met, ho could find no trace of Teeka, nor of Gazan either. He was beginning to become i peeved and had about made up his mind to chastise Teeka for wan dering so far afield when he wanted her. He was moving south along a ,. , , .. . . B" w'.. n caiiousea so.es ana mtuunia khuik iunu u ouuuu, when he came upon Dango at the opposite side of a small clearing. The eater of carrion did not see Taug, for all his eyes were for something which lay in the grass be neath a tree something upon which he was sneaking with the cautious stealth of his breed. Taug, always cautious himself, as it behooves one to be who fares up and down the jungle and desires to survive, swung noiselessly into a tree, where he could have a better vipur nf thfl plparinp. Tip Hirl nnt 'fear Dango; but he wanted to see t .. .1 vt . . - what it was tnat uango stalked. In a way( possibly, he was actuated much by curiosity as by caution. And when Taug reached a place in the branches from which he could have an unobstructed view of the clearing he saw Dango already sniffing at something directly be- - ' neath him something which Taucr ' instantly recognized as the lifeless form of his little Gazan. to With a cry so frightful, so bestial, that it momentarily paialyzed the startieu uango, tne great ape launched his mighty bulk upon the surprised hyena. With a cry and a snarl. Dango, crushed to earth, turn'' .iv mmmm n a ?- m&gmM '&29Mmm. .---v "" Nevor before had Tarzan's assailant ed to tear at his assailant; but as effectively might a sparrow tuin upon a hawk. Taug's great, gnarled fingers closed upon the hyena's throat and back, his jaws snapped once on the mangy neck crushing tho veitebiae, and then he hurlpd the dead body contemptuously aside. Again he raised his voice in the call of the bull ape to its mate, but theie was no reply; then he leaned down to sniff at the body of Gazan. In the breast of this savage, hideous beast there beat a heart which was moved, however slightly, by the same emotions of paternal love which affect us. Even had we no actual evidence of this, we must know it still, since only thus might be explained the survival of the hu man race in which the jealousy and selfishness of the bulls would, in the earliest stages of the race, have wiped out the young as rapidly as they were brought into the world had not God implanted in the sav age bosom that paternal love which evidences itself most strongly in the protective instinct of the male. In Taug, the protective instinct was not alone highly developed; but affection for his offspring as well, for Taug was an unusually intelli gent specimen of these great, man like apes which the natives of the Gobi speak of in whispers; but which no white man eser had seen, or, if seeing, lived to tell of until Tarzan of the Ape3 came among them. And so Taug felt sorrow as any other father might feel sorrow at the loss of a little child. To you little Gazan might have seemed a hideous and repulsive creature, but to Taug and Teeka he was at, beau tiful and as cute as is your little Mary or Johnnie or Elizabeth Ann to you, and he was their first-born, their only balu, and a he three things which might make a young ape the apple of any fond father's eye. For a moment Taug sniffed at the quiet little form. With his muzzle and his tongue he smoothed and caressed the rumpled coat. Fiom his savage lips broke a low moan; but quickly upon the heels of sor row came the overmastering desiie for revenge. Leaping to his feet he screamed out a volley of "Krecg-ahs," punctu ated from time to time by tho blood-freezing cry of an angry, challenging bull a rage-mad bull with the blood lust strong upon him. Answering his cries came the cries of the tribe as they swung through the trees toward him. It was these that Tarzan heard on his return from his cabin, and in reply to them he raised his own voice and hurried forward with increased ' speed until he fairly flew through I r . . .. .. 1 the middle terraces of the forest. as; When at last he came upon the tribe he saw their members gath ered about Taug and something which lay quietly upon the ground. Drooping among them, Tarzan ap proached the center of the group. Taug was still roaring out his chal lenges; but when he saw Tarzan he ceased and stooping picked up Ga zan in his arms and held him out for Tarzan to see. Of all the bulls of the tribe, Taug held affection for Tarzan only. Tarzan he trusted and looked up to as one wiser and more cunning. To Tarzan he came now to the playmate of his balu days, tho . ..t?''"''. swfH1 . 'ft -J" 'fff ItoTT r ' J(tf st , ., rt,--J--T'-'"iSi-d "-' -V . XL. l,i beheld so slranpe a creature as this he battled companion of innumerable battles of ' his maturity, "When Taizan saw the still form in Taug's arms, a low growl broe from his lips, for he too loved Teeka's little balu. "Who did it?" he asked. "Who a is Teeka." "I do not know," replied Taug. "I found him lying here with Dango about to feed upon him; but it was not Dango that did it there are no fang marks upon, him." Tarzan came closer and placed an ear against Gazan's bieast. "He is not dead," he said. "Maybe he will not die." He piessed through the crowd of apes and circled once about them, examining the ground step by step. Suddenly he stopped and placing his nose close to the earth sniffed. Then he sprang to his feet, giving a peculiar ciy. Taug and the others pressed forward, -for the sound told them that the hunter had found the spoor of his quariy. "A stranger hull has been here," said Tarzan. "It was he that hurt Gazan. He has carried off Teekh." Taug and the othpr bulls com menced to loar and threaten; but they did nothing. Had the stranger bull been within bight they would have torn him to pieces; but it did not occur to them to follow him. "If the thiee bulls had been watching around the tribe this would not have happened," said Tarzan. "Such things will happen as long as you do not keep the three bulls watching for an enemy. The jungle is full of enemies, and yet you let your shes and your balus feed where they will, alone and unprotected. Tarzan goes now ho goes to find Teeka and bring her back to the tribe." The idea appealed to the other bulls. "We will all go," they cued. "No," said Tarzan, "you will not all go. We cannot take shes and balus when we go out to hunt and fight. You must remain to guard them or you will lose them all." They scratched their heads. The wisdom of his advice was dawning upon them, but at first they had been cariied away by the new idea the idea of following up an enemy offender to wrest his prize from him and punish him. The community instinct was ingrained in their characters through ages of custom. They did not know why they had not thought to pursue and punish the offender they could not know that it was because they had as yet not reached a mental plane which would permit them to work as indi viduals. In times of stress, the com munity instinct sent them huddling into a compact herd where the great bulls, by the weight of their com bined strength and ferocity, could best piotect them from an enemy. The idea of separating to do battle with a foe had not yet occurred to them it was too foreign to custom, too inimical to community interests; but to Tarzan it was the first and most natural thought. His senses told him that there was but a single bull connected with the attack upon Teeka and Gazan. A single enemy did not require the entire tribe for his punishment. Two swift bulls could quickly overhaul him and res cue Teeka. In tho past no one ever had thought to go forth in search of the shes that were occasionally stolen from the tribe. If Numa, Sabor, -".-rf.r.V-'r..u . ... 'L" jts rvirrJ.ytJsiyrjT.. .--&i.-jiwxiii'5; -JJff . -.-. 77-Z2-r'T snppcry, hairless bull with which Sheeta or a wandering bull ape from another tribe chanced to carry off a maid or a matron while no one was looking, that was the end of it she was gone, that was all. The bereaved husband, if the victim chanced to have been mated, growl ed around for a day or two and then, if he were strong enough, took an other mate within the tribe, and if not, wandeied far into the jungle on the chance of stealing one from another community. In the past Tarzan of the Apes had condoned this practice for the reason that he had had no interest in those who had been stolen; but Teeka had been his first love and Teeka's balu held a place in his heart such as a balu of his own would have held. Just once before had Tarzan wished to follow and levenge. That had been years be fore when Kulonga, the son of Mbonga, the chief, had slain Kala. Then, single-handed, Tarzan had pursued and avenged. Now, though to a lesser degree, he was moved by the same passion. He turned toward Taug. "Leave Gazan with Mumga," he said. "She is old and her fangs are bioken and she is no good; but she can take care of Gazan until we return with Teeka, and if Gazan is dead when we come back," he turned to address Mumga, "I will kill you, too." "Where aro we going?" asked Taug. "We are going to get Teeka," re plied the ape-man, "and kill the bull who has stolen her. Cornel" Ho turned again to the spoor of the stranger bull, which showed plainly to his trained senses, nor did he glance back to note if Taug followed. The latter laid Gazan in Mumga's arms with a parting: "If he dies Tarzan will kill you," aul he followed after the brown-skinned figure that already was moving ut a slow trot along the jungle trail. No other bull of the tribe of Kei chak was so good a trailer as Tr zan, for his trained senses were aided by a high order of intelligence. His judgment told him the natural trail for a quarry to follow, so that he need but note the most appa-ent marks upon the way, and today the trail of Toog was as plain to him as type upon a printed page to you or me. Following close behind the lithe figure of the ape-man came the hu 'e and shaggy bull ape. No words passed between them. They moved as silently as two shadows among the myriad shadows of the forest. Alert as his eyes and ears was Tarzan's patrician nose. The spoor was fresh, and now that they had passed from the range of tho strong ape odor of the tribe he had little difficulty in following Toog and Teeka by scent alone. Teeka's familiar scent spoor told both Tar zan and Taug that they, were upon her trail, and soon the scent of Toog became as familiar as the other. They were progressing -rapidly when suddenly dense clouds overcast the sun. Tarzan accelerated his Vace. Now he fairly flew along the jungle trail, or where Toog had taken to the trees, followed nimbly as a squirrel along the bending, undulating pathway of the foliaged branches, swinging from tree to tree as Toog had swung before them; but more rapidly because they were not handicapped by a burden such as Toog1 Tarzan felt that they must bo nl-1 most upon the quarry, for the scent spoor was becoming stronger nnd stronger, when the jungle was sud denly shot by livid lightning, and a deafening roar of thunder rever berated through the heavens and tho forest until the earth trembled nnd shook. Then came the rain not as it comes to us of the temper ate zones, but as a mighty ava lanche of water a deluge which spills tons instead of drops upon the bending forest giants and tho terri fied creatures which haunt their shade. And the lain did what Tarzan knew that it would do it wiped the spoor of tho quarry from the face of the earth. For a half hour the torrents fell then tho sun burst forth, jeweling tho forest with a million scintillant gems; but today the ape-man, usually alert to the changing wonders of the jungle, saw them not. Only the fact that the spoor of Teeka and her abductor was obliterated found lodgment in his thoughts. Even among the branches of the trees there are well-worn trails, just as there arc trails upon the surface of the ground; but in the trees they branch and cross more often, since the way is more open than among the dense undergrowth at the surface. Along one of these well-marked trails Tarzan and Taug continued after the lain had ceased, because the ape-man knew that this was the most logical path for the thief to follow; but when they came to a fork, they were at a loss. Hero they halted, while Tarzan examined every branch and leaf which might have been touched by the fleeing ape. He sniffed the bole of the tree, and with his keen eyes he sought to find upon tho bark some sign of the way the quarry had taken. It was slow work and all the time, Tarzan knew, the bull of the alien tribe was forging steadily away from them gaining precious min utes that might carry him to safety befoie they could catch up with him. First along one fork he went, and then another, applying every test that his wonderful junglecraft was cognizant of; but again and again he was baffled, for the scent had been washed away by the -heavy downpour, in every exposed place. For a half hour Tarzan and Taug searched, until at last, upon the bot tom of a broad leaf, Tarzan's keen nose caught the faint trace of the scent spoor of Toog, where the leaf had brushed a hairy shoulder as the great ape passed through the fol iage. Once again the two took up the trail, but it was slow work now and there were many discouraging de lays when the spoor seemed lost be yond recovery. To you or me there would have been no spoor, even be fore the coming of the rain, except, possibly, where Toog had come to earth and followed a game tiail. In such places the imprint of a huge handlikc foot and the knuckles of one great hand weie sometimes plain enough for an ordinary mortal to read. Tarzan knew from these and other indications that the ape was yet carrying Teeka. The depth of the imprint of his feet indicated a much greater weight than that of any of the larger bulls, for they were made under the combined weight of Toog and Teeka, while the fact that the knuckles of but one hand touched the ground at any time showed that the other hand was occupied in some other busi ness the business of holding the prisoner to a hairy shoulder. Tar zan could follow, in sheltered places, the changing of the burden from one shoulder to another, as indicated by the deepening of the foot imprint upon the side of the load, and the changing of the knuckle imprints from one side of the trail to the other. There were stretches along the surface paths where the ape had gone for considerable distances en tirely erect upon his hind feet walking as a man walks; but the same might have been true of any of the great anthropoids of the same species, for, unlike the chimpanzee and the gorilla, they walk without the aid of their hands quite as readily as with. It was such things, however, which helped to identify to Tarzan and to Taug the appearance of the abductor, und with his indi vidual scent characteristic already indelibly impressed upon theii memories, they were in a far bettei position to know him when they came upon 'him, even should he have disposed of Teeka before, than is a modern sleuth with his photographs and Bertillon measurements, equip ped to recognize a fugitive from civilized justice. But with all their high-strung and delicately attuned perceptive facul ties the two bulls of the tribe of Kerchak were often sore pressed to follow the trial at all, and at best were so delayed that in the after - noon of the second day, they still had not overhauled the fugitive. The scent was now strong, for it had been made since the rain, and Tar zan knew that it would not be long before they came upon the thief and his loot. Above them, as they crept stealthily forward, chattered Manu, the monkey, and his thousand fel lows; squawked and screamed the brazen-throated birds of plumage; buzzed and hummed thei countless insects amid the rustling of the forest leaves, and, as they passed, a little gray-beard, squeaking and scolding upon a swaying branch, looked down and saw them. Instantly the scolding and the squeaking ceased, and off tore the long-tailed mite as though Sheeta, the panther, had been endowed with wings and' was in close pursuit of him. To all appearances ho was only a very much frightened little monkey, flee ing for his life there seemed noth ing sinister about him. And what of Teeka during all this time? Was she at last resigned to her fate and accompanying her new mato In the proper humility of a loving and tractable spouse? A single glance at the pair would have answered these questions to the ut ter satisfaction of the most captious. She was torn and bleeding from many wounds, inflicted by the sullen Toog in his vain efforts to subdue her to his will, and Toog too was disfigured and mutilated; but with stubborn ferocity, he still clung to his now useless prize. On through the jungle ho forced his way in tho direction of tho stamping ground of his tribe. Ho hoped that his king would have for gotten his treason; but if not ho was still resigned to his fate any fate would be better than suffering long er the sole companionship of this frightful she, and then, too, he wished to exhibit his captive to his fellows. Maybe he could wish her on the king it is possible that such a thought urged him on. At last they came upon two bulls feeding in a parklike grove a beau tiful grove dotted with huge boul deis half embedded in tho rich loam mute monuments, possibly, to a forgotten age when mighty glaciers rolled their slow course where now a torrid sun beats dowm upon a tropic jungle. The two bulls looked up, baring long fighting fangs, as Toog ap peared in the distance. The latter recognized the two as friends. "It is Toog," he growled. "Toog has come back with a new she." The apes waited his nearer ap proach. Teeka turned a snarling, fanged face toward them. She was not pretty to look upon, yet through the blood and hatred upon her coun tenance they realized that she was beautiful, and they envied Toog alas! they did not know Teeka. As they squatted looking at one another there laced through the trees towaid them a long-tailed little monkey with gray whiskeis. He was a very excited little monkey when ho came to a halt upon the limb of a tree directly overhead. "Two strange bulls come," he cried. "One is a Mangani, the other a hideous ape without hair upon his body. They follow the spoor of Toog. I saw them." The four apes turned their eyes backwaid along the trail Toog had just come; then they looked at one another for a minute. "Come," said the larger of Toog's two friends, "we will wait for the strangers in the thick bushes be yond the clearing." , He turned and waddled away acioss the open place, the others following him. The little monkey danced about, all excitement. His chief diversion in life was to bring about bloody encounters between the larger denizens of the forest, that he might sit in the safety of the trees and witness the spectacles. He was a glutton for gore, was this little, whiskered, gray monkey, so long as it was the gore of others a typical fight fan was the gray beard. The apes hid themselves in the shrubbery beside the tiail along which the two stranger bulls would pass. Teeka trembled with excite ment. She had heard the words of Manu, and she knew that the hair less ape must be Tarzan, while tho other was, doubtless, Taug. Nev :r, in her wildest hopes, had she ex pected succor of this sort. Her one thought had been to escape and find her way back to the tribe of Ker chak; but even this had appeared to her practically impossible, so closely did Toog watch her. As Taug and Tarzan reached the grove where Toog had come upon his friends, the ape scent became so strong that both knew the quarry was but a short distance ahead. And so they went even more cautiously, for they wished to come upon the thief from behind if they could and charge him before he was aware of their presence. That a little gray whiskered monkey had forestalled them they did not know, nor that three pairs of savage eyes were al ready watching their every move and waiting for them to come with in reach of itching paws and slaver ing jowls. On they came across tho grove, and as they entered the path leading into the dense jungle beyond, a sud den "Kreeg-ah!" shrilled out close before them a "Kreeg-ah" in the familiar voice of Teeka. The small brains of Toog and his companions had not been able to foresee that Teeka might betray them, and now that she had, they went wild with rage. Toog struck the she a mighty blow that felled her, and then the ; three rushed forth to do battle with j Tarzan and Taug. The little . monkey danced upon his perch and screamed with delight. And indeed ho might well be de lighted, for it was a lovely fight There were no preliminaries, no formalities, no introductions the five bulls merely charged and clinched. They rolled in the narrow trail and into the thick verdure be side it. They bit and clawed and scratched and struck, and all the while they kept up the most fright ful chorus of growlings and bark ings and roarings. In five minutes they were tom and bleeding, and the little graybeard leaped high, shrilling his primitive bravos; but always his attitude was "thumbs down." He wanted to see something killed. Ho did not care whether It were friend or foe. It was blood ho wanted blood and death. Taflg had been set upon by Toog and another of the apes, while Tar zan had the third a huge bruto with the strength pf a buffalo. Never before had Tarzan's assailant beheld so strange a creature as this slippery, hairless bull with, which he battled. Sweat and blood covered Tarzan's sleek, brown hide. Again and again he slipped from tho clutches of the great bull, and nil tho while he struggled to free his hunt ing knife from tho scabbard in which it had stuck. At length he succeeded a brown hand shot out and cluvched the hairy throat, another flew upward clutch ing the sharp blade. Three swift, powerful strokes and the bull re laxed with a groan, falling limp beneath his antagonist. Instantly Tarzan broke from the clutches of -the dying bull and sprang to Taug's assistance. Toog saw him coming and wheeled to meet him. In tho impact of the charge Tarzan's knife was wrenched from his hand and then Toog closed with him. Now was the battle even two against two while on the verge, Teeka, now recovered from the blow that had felled her, slunk waiting for an op portunity to aid. She saw Tarzan'3 knife and picked it up. She never had used it, but knew how Tarzan used it. Always had she been afraid of the thing which dealt death to the mightiest of the junglo people with the ease that Tantor's great tusks deal death to Tantor's ene mies. She saw Tarzan's pocket pouch torn from his side, nnd with tho curiosity of an ape, that even danger and excitement cannot entirely dis pel, she picked this up, too. Now the bulls were standing the clinches had been -broken. Blood streamed down their sides their faces were crimsoned with it. Little graybeard was so fascinated that at last he had even forgotten to scream and dance; but sat rigid with delight in the enjoyment of the spectacle. Back across the grove Tarzan and Taug forced their adversaries. Teeka followed slowly. She scarce knew what to do. She was lame and sore and exhausted from the fright ful ordeal through which she had passed, and she had the confidence of her sex in tho prowess of her mate and the other bull of her tribe they would not need the help of a she in their battle with these two strangers. The roars and screams of the fighters reverberated through the, jungle, awakening the echoes in the distant hills. From the throat of Tarzan's antagonist had come a score of "Kreeg-ahs!" and now from behind came the reply he had awaited. Into the grove, barking and growling, came a score of huge bull-apes the fighting men of Toog's tribe. Down upon them came the great apes. In a moment Tarzan and Taug would be torn to shreds that would later form the piece de re sistance of the savage orgy of a Dum-Dum. Teeka turned to glance back. She saw the impending fate of her defenders and there sprang to life in her savage bosom tho spark of martyrdom, that some common forbear had transmitted alike to Teeka, the wild ape, and the glorius women of a higher order who have invited death for their men. With a shrill scream she ran toward the battlers who weie rolling in a great mass at tho foot of ono of the huge boulders which dotted the grove; but what could she do? The knife she held she could not use to advantage because of her lesser strength. She had seen Tarzan throw missiles, and she had learned this with many other things from her childhood playmate. She sought for something to throw and at last her fingers touched upon the hard objects in tho pouch that had been torn from the ape-man. Tearing tho receptacle open, she gathered a hand ful of shiny cylinders heavy for their size, they seemed to her, and good missiles. With all her strength she hulled them at the apes' battling in front of the granite boulder. The result surprised Teeka quito as much as it did the apes. There was a loud explosion, which deafened the fighters, and a puff of acrid smoke. Never before had one thero heard such a frightful noise. Scream ing with terror, tho stranger bulls leaped to their feet and fled back toward the stamping ground of their tribe, while Taug and Tarzan slowly gathered themselves together and arose, lame and bleeding, to their feet. They, too, would have fled had they not seen Teeka standing thero before them, the knife and the pocket pouch in her hands. "What was it?" asked Tarzan. Teeka shook her head. "I hurled these at the stranger bulls," and she held forth another handful of tho shiny metal cylinders with the dull gray, cone-shaped ends. Tarzan looked at them and scratched his head. "What are they?" asked Taug. "I do not know," said Tarzan. "I found them." The little monkey with the gray beard halted among the trees a mile away and huddled, terrified, against a branch. He did not know that the dead father of Tarzan of the Apes, reaching back out of the past across a span of twenty years, had saved his son's life. Nor did Tarzan, Lord Greystoke, know it either. The next complete "Jungle TalV will appear (Saturday, August 9, , !: & l 1 ,. 4 . vPl r d" if r. V''4h : it : .. k V4&&aMy'?rMft , 'kl 'iJhMtoee&ktL'JiLll ItXiktS'iri'"!, jiV.-: LWAW.
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