OEIaESI kTr17i';,v(Kffi',liWlW rE.naiiiiiiiii iX EVENING' PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST "16 1919 K I? Vi TARZAN RESCUES THE MOON : Copvrloht, 131), bv PvbHe Ltdotr Co. Ceptrrteht. tilt, bv Edgar Rio Burrouohj rpHB moon shone down out of a cloudless sky a huge, swollen moan that seemed so close to earth that one might wonder that she did not brush the crooning treo tops. It was night, and Tarzan was abroad in the jungle Tarzan, tho ape-man; mighty fighter, mighty hunter. Why he swung through the dark shadows of tho somber forest he could not have told you. It was not that he was nungry ne naa ica wen tins day, and in a safe cache were the remains of his kill, ready against the coming of a new appetite Per - apa it was the very joy of living mat urgeu mm irum m-. '"'' couch to pit his muscles and his senses against the jungle night, and then, too, Tarzan always was goad ed by an intense desire to know. The jungle which is presided over by Kudu, the sun, is a very different jungle from that of Goro, the moon. The diurnal jungle has its own as pect its own lights and shades, its own birdd, its own blooms, its own beasts; its noises are the noises of the day. The lights and shades of a. a , i- .. jm' ......... uenociuramjua uu- as one might imagine the lights and , shades of another world to differ , fromthoseof our world; its blooms I and its birds arc not those of the jungle of Kudu, the sun. Tonight he had swung a wide circle toward the east first and then , toward the south, and now he was . rounding back again into the north. His eyes, his ears and his keen nostrils were ever on the alert. iumgieu whu u.e ,u,u "".""! sounds which he never heard until after Kudu had sought his lair be low the far edge of the big water sounds which belonged to Goro, the moon and to the mysterious period of Goro's supremacy. These sounds often caused Tarzan profound specu lation. They baffled him because he thought that he knew his jungle so well that there could be nothing within it unfamiliar to him. Some times he thought that as colors and ww. - o- - .... forms appeared to differ by night from their familiar daylight aspects, so sounds altered with the passage of Kudu and the coming of Goro, and these thoughts roused within his brain a vague conjecture that perhaps Goro and Kudu influenced these changes. And what more nat ural that eventually he came to attribute to the sun and die moon personalities as real as his own ? The sun was a living creature and ruled the day. The moon, endowed with trains and miraculous powers, ruled the night. As Tarzan swung north again upon his wide circle the scent of the -' Gomangani came to his nostrils, mixed with the acrid odor of wood smoke. The ape-man moved quickly in the direction from which the scent was borne down to him upon the gentle night wind. Presently the ruddy sheen of a great fire filtered through the foliage to him ahead, and when Tarzan came to a halt in the trees near it he saw a party of half a dozen black warriors hud dled close to the blaze. It was ' evidently a hunting party from the village of Mbonga, the chief, caught out in the jungle after dark. In a rude circle about them they had con structed a thorn boma which, with the aid of the fire, they apparently hoped would discourage the advances of the larger carnivora. That hope was not conviction was evidenced by the very palpable ter ror in which they crouched, wide eyed and trembling, for already Numa and Sabor were moaning through the jungle toward them. There were other creatures, too, in the shadows beyond the firelight. Tarzan could see their yellow eyes flaming there. The blacks saw them and shivered. Then one arose and grasping a burning branch from the fire hurled it at the eyes, which immediately disappeared. The black sat down again. Tarzan watched and saw that it was several minutes before the eyes began to reappear in twos and fours. Then came Numa, the lion, and Sabor, his mate. The other eyes scattered to right and left before the menacing growls of the great cats, and then the huge orbs of the man eaters flamed alone out of the dark ness. Some of the blacks threw them selves upon thoir faces and moaned; but he who before had hurled the burning branch now hurled another) straight at the faces of the hungry lions and they, too disappeared as I hurl thn InesAt- linktn knf,,. 4l. 1 "u "" '""' B" u-iuiL- mum. jk Tarzan was much interested. He psaw a new reason for the mighty fires maintained by the blacks a reason in addition to those connected with warmth and light and cooking. The beasts of the jungle feared fire, and so fire was, in a measure, a pro tection from them. Tarzan himself knew a certain awe of fire. Once t.. U-J : :......-: i i . j i i "uBUi.iiB udhh- uuneu iiic in iiic village 01 me blacks, picked up a live coal. Since then he had maintained a respectful distance from such fires as lie had seen. One experience had sufficed. For a few minutes after the black hurled the firebrand no eyes ap peared, though Tarzan could hear tVta. enft rmrlrtlnfr nf foof nil aV.int 0& J)tm. Then flashed once more the wn fire spots that marked the re- otu-ni 01 tne loru ot the jungle and a &:''Jment later, upon a slightly lower ". vel, there appealed those of Sabor, irJtfs'mate. P ? " For some time they remained fixed , V ,m& unwavering a constellation of woe stars in tne jungie nignt ' DtNth.nale lion advanced slowly femrmM, 4fe boma. whr aU but a single black still crouched in trem bling terror. When this Iono guar dian saw that Numa was again ap proaching, he throw nnother fire-1 brand, and, as before. Numn re-1 treated and with him Sabor, tho lioness; but not so far, this time, nor for so long. Almost instantly they turned and began circling the boma, their eyes turning constants toward the firelight, while low, throaty growls evidenced their in creasing displeasure. licyond the lions elowed the flnminp- eves of thp nesscr satellites, until tho black junRie waH shot all around the black nlen's camp wjth uttle spots of fire 1 , riorbnurled hipuny brands nt th ,,. i,:. ,.. h,lf T,on -n(ij ,l,, Numa paid little or no attention to them after the first few rctreVc. The ape-man knew by Numa's vo:t that the lion was hungry and sur miscd that he had made up his mind to feed upon a Gomangani; but would he dare a closer approach to the dreaded flames ? Even as the thought was passing in Tarzan's mind, Numa stopped Vis restless pacing and faced the boma For a moment he stood motionless, for thp j(,k nervoua p cun,. of taj, th(?n he walk(, de,iberatelv forwnnJi whilc Snhor mov(?d rcstIesslv t0 and fro whN.p ho had ,eft her ,fhe b,nck mm ca,ed (J hjs comrndes that tho ion was COming, but they weie too far gonp m fPar to do morc than huddle closer together and moan more oudiy than before. . . u,,j i,..i, , m, 1 t jt 8traight lnto the face of tho Hon. There was an angry roar, fol- lowed by a switt charge. With a single bound the savage beast clear ed the boma wall as, with almost equal agility, the warrior cleared t upon the opposide side and, chanc ing the dangers lurking in the dark ness, belted for the nearest tree. Numa was out of the boma almost as soon at. he was inside it; but as he went back over the low thorn wall, he took a screaming negro with him. Dragging his victim along the ground he walked back toward Sa bor, the lioness, who joined him, and the two continued into the black ness, their savage giowls mingling with the piercing shrieks of tho doomed and terrified man. At a little distance from the blaza the lions halted, their ensued a short succession of unusually vicious growls and roars, during which the cries and moans of the black man ceased forever. Presently Numa reappeared in the firelight. He made a second trip into the boma and the former grisly tragedy was re-enacted with another howling victim. Tarzan rose and stretched lazily. The entertainment was beginning to bore him. He yawned and turned upon his way toward the clearing where the tribe would be sleeping in the encircling trees. Yet even when he had found his familiar crotch and curled himself for slumber he felt no desire to sleep. For a long time he lay awake thinking and dreaming. we looked up into the heavens and watched the moon and the stars. He wondered what they were and what power kept them from falling. His was an inquisitive mind. Always he had been full of questions concerning all that passed around him; but there never had been one to answer his questions. In childhood he had wanted to know, and, denied almost all knowledge, he still, in manhood, was filled with the great, unsatisfied curiosity of a child. He was never quite content merely to perceive that things happened he desired to know why they hap- ; pened. He wanted to know what interested him immensely. The miracle of death he could not quite fathom. Upon inr.iimerable occa sions he had investigated the in ternal mechanism of his kills, and once or twice he had opened the chest cavity of victims in time to see the heart still pumping. He had learned from experience that a knife thrust through this organ brought 'mmediate death nine times out of ten, while he might stab an antagonist innumerable times in other places without even disabling him. And so he had come to think of the heart, or, as he called it, "the red thing that breathes," as the seat and origin of life. The brain and its functionings he dld not comprehend at all. That his .. ,.,.(i ,..v .., .,,! to "his brain and there translated . P ass ed nm lohe o, was some thing quite beyond him. He thought that his fingers knew when they touched something, that his eyes knew when they saw, his ears when they heard, his nose when it scented. He considered his throat, epider mis, and the hairs of his head as the three principal seats of emotion WVion Tfflln Vinr4 Hoon cloin o nonlia "-.. . I.......... choking sensation had possessed his throat; contat- with Histah, the snake, imr&rtc an unpleasant sen sation to the sk.'n of his whole body; while the approach of an enemy made the hairs on his scalp stand erect. Imagine, if you can, a child filled with the wonders of nature, burst ing with queries and surrounded only by beasts of the jungle to whom his questionings were as strange as Sanskrit would have been. If he asked Gunto what made it rain, the big old ape would but gaze at him in dumb astonishment for an instant and then return to his interesting and edifying search for fleas; and when he questioned Mumga, who was very old and should haye been very wise, but vfasn t, as to the reason i ft r. wSw& I Again for the closing of certain flowers after Kudu had deserted the sky, and the opening of others during the night, he was surprised to dis cover that Mumga had never noticed these interesting facts, though she could tell to an inch just where the fattest grubworm should be hiding. To Tarzan these things were won ders. They appealed to his intellect and to his imagination. He saw the flowers close and open; he saw cer tain blooms which turned their faces ilways toward the sun; he saw leaves which moved when there was no breeze; he saw vines crawl like iving things up the boles and over . the branches of great trees; and to Tarzan of the Apes the flowers and ' the vines and the trees were living ' cieatures. He often talked to them, ' as he talked to Goro, the moon, and I Kudu, the sun, and always was he disappointed that they did not reply. , He asked them questions; but they . could not answer, though he knew that the whispering of the leaves was the language of the leaves they talked with one another. The wind he attributed to the trees and grasses. He thought that they swayed themselves to and fro, creating the wind. In no other way could he account for this phenom enon. The rain he finally attributed to the stars, the moon, and the sun; but his hypothesis was entirely un lovely and unpoetical. Tonight as Tarzan lay thinking, there sprang to his fertile imagina tion an explanation of the stars and the moon. He became quite excited about it. Taug was sleeping in a near-by crotch. Tarzan swung over beside him. "Taug!" he cried. Instantly the great bull was awake and bristling, sensing danger from the nocturnal summons. "Look, Taug!" exclaimed Tarzan, pointing toward the stars. "See the eyes of Numa and Sabor, of Sheeta and Dango. They wait around Goro to leap in upon him for their kill. See the eyes and the nose and the mouth of Goro. And the light that shines upon his face is the light of the great fire he has built to frighten away Numa and Sabor and Dango and Sheeta. "All about him are the eyes, Taug, you can see them! But they do not come very close to the fire there are few eyes close to Goro. They fear the fire! It is the fire that saves Goro from Numa. Do you see them, Taug? Some night Numa will be very hungry and very angry then he will leap over the thorn bushes which encircle Goro and we will have no more light after Kudu seeks his lair the night will be black with the blackness that comes when Goro is lazy and sleeps late into the night, or when he wanders through the skies by day, forgetting the jungle and its people." Taug looked stupidly at the heavens and then at Tarzan. A meteor fell, blazing a flaming way through the sky. "Look!" cried Tarzan. "Goro has thrown a burning branch at Numa." Taug grumbled. "Numa Js down and again did Tarzan launch his arrow below," he said. "Numa does not i hunt above the trees." But he look-' ed curiously and a little fearfully at I tne bright stars above him, as though he saw them lor the first time, and doubtless it was the fivt time that Taug ever had seen the stars, though they had been in the sky above him every night of his life. To Taug they were as the gorgeous jungle blooms he could not eat them and so he ignored them. Taug fidgeted and was nervous. For a long time he lay sleepless, watching the stars the flaming eyes f the heasts of prey surrounding Goro, the moon Goro, by whose ''Bht the apes danced to the beating f their earthen drums. If Goro should be eaten by Numa there culcl no more Dum-Dums. Taug wis overwhelmed by tho thought, He glanced at Tarzan half fearfully. Why was his friend so different from the others of the tribe ? No one else whom Taug ever had known had had such queer thoughts as Tarzan. Tho ape scratched his head and wonder ed, dimly, if Tarzan was a safe com panion, and then he recalled slowly, and by a laborious mental process, that Tarzan had served him better than any other of the apes, even tho strong and wise bulls of the tribe. Tarzan it was who had fieed him from the blacks at the very time that Taug had thought Tarzan wanted Teeka. It was Tarzan who had saved Taug's little balu from death. It was Tarzan who had con ceived and carried out the plan to pursue Teeka's abductor and rescuo the stolen one. Tarzan had fought and bled in Taug's service so many times that Taug, although only a brutal ape, had had impressed upon his mind a fierce loyalty which noth ing now could swerve his friend ship for Tarzan had become a habit, a tradition almost, which would en dure while Taug endured. He never showed any outward demonstration, of affection ho growled at Tarzan as he growled at the other bulls who came too close while he was feeding but he would have died for Tarzan. He knew it and Tarzan knew it; but of such things apes do not speak their vocabulary, for ,the finer in stincts, consisting more of actions than words. But now Taug was worried, and he fell asleep again still thinking of the strange words of his fellow. The following day he thought of them again, and without any inten tion of disloyalty he mentioned to Gunto what Tarzan had suggested about the eyes surrounding Goro, and the possibility that sooner or later Numa would charge the moon and devour him. To the apes all large things in nature are male, and so Goro, being the largest creature in the heavens by night, was, to them, a bull. Gunto bit a sliver from a horny finger and recalled the fact that Tarzan had once said that the trees talked to one another, and Gozan re counted having seen tne ape-man dancing alone In the moonlight with Z& 3ieeta, the panther. They did not Ifiow that Tarzan had roped the savage beast and tied him to a tree before he came to earth and leaped about before the rearing cat, to tantalize him. Others told of seeing Tarzan ride upon the back of Tantor, the ele phant; of his bringing the black boy, Tibo, to the tribe, and of mysterious things with which he communed in the strange lair by tho sea. They had never understood his books, and after he had shown them to one or two of the tribe and dis covered that even the pictures car ried no impression to their brains, he had desisted. "Tarzan is not an ape," said Gunto. ''He will bring Numa to eat us, as he is bringing him to eat Goro. We should kill him." Immediately Taug bristled. Kill Tarzan! "First you will kill Taug," he said, and lumbered away to search for food. But others joined the plotters. They thought of many things which Tarzan had done things which apes did not do and could not under stand. Again Gunto voiced the opinion that the Tarmangani, the white ape, should be slain, and the others, filled with terror about the stories they had heard, and thinking Tarzan was planning to slay Goro, greeted the proposal with growls of accord. Among them was Teeka, listening with all her ears; but her voice was not raised in furtherance of the plan. Instead she bristled, showing her fangs, and afterward she went away in search of Tarzan; but she could not find him, as he was roaming far afield in search of meat. She found Taug, though, and told him what the others were planning, and the great bull stamped upon the ground and roared. His blood-shot eyes blazed with wrath, his upper lip curled up to expose his fighting fangs, and' the hair upon his spine stood erect, and then a rodent scurried across the open and Taug sprang to seize it In an instant he seemed to have forgotten his rage against the ene mies of his friend; but such is the mind of .an ape. Several miles away Tarzan of the Apes lolled upon the broad head of Tantor, the elephant He scratched beneath the great ears with the point of a sharp stick, and he talked to the huge pachyderm of every thing which filled his black-thatched head. Little, or nothing, of what he said did Tantor understand; but Tantor is a good listener. Swaying from side to side he stood there en joying the companionship of his friend, the friend he loved, and ab sorbing the delicious sensations of the scratching. Numa,, tho Hon, caught the scent of man, and warily stalked It until he came within sight of his prey upon the head of the mighty tusker; then he turned, growling and mut tering, away in search of more propitious hunting grounds. The elephant caught tne scent 01 the Ilea, borne to Mm by an e4dy- : By Edgar Rice ing breeze, ana lifting his trunk trumpeted loudly. Terzan stretched back luxuriously, lying supine at full length along the rough Hide. Flies swarmed about his face; but with a leafy branch torn 'from a tree he lazily brushed them away. "Tantor," he said, "it is good to be alive. It is good to He in tho cool shadows. It is good to look upon tho green trees and the bright col ors of the flowers upon everything which Bulamutumumo has put here for us. He is very good to us, Tan tor; he has given you tender leaves and bark, and rich grasses to eat; to me He has given Bara and Horta and Pisah, the fruits and the nuts and the roots. He provides for each the food that each likes best. All that He asks is that we be strong enough or cunning enough to go forth and take it. Yes, Tantor, it is good to live. I should hate to die." Tantor made a little sound in his throat and curled his trunk upward that he might caress the ape-man's cheek with the finger at its tip. "Tantor," said Tarzan presently, "turn and feed in the direction of the tribe of Kerchak, the great ape, that Tarzan may ride homo upon your head without walking. The tusker turned and moved slowly off along a broad, tree-arched trail, pausing occasionally to pluck a tender branch, or strip the edible bark from an adjacent tree. Tarzan sprawled face downward upon the beast's head and back, his legs hang ing on either side, his head supported by his open palms, his elbows rest ing on tho broad cranium. And thus they made their leisurely way to ward the gathering place of the tribe. Just before they arrived at the clearing from the north there reach ed it from the south another figure that of a well-knit black warrior, who stepped cautionsly through the jungle, every sense upon the alert against the many dangers which might lurk anywhere along the way. Yet he pnssed beneath the southern most sentry that was posted in a great tree commanding the jtrail from tho south. The ape permitted tho Gomangani to pass unmolested, for ho saw that he was alone; but the moment that the warrior had entered the clearing a loud "Kreeg ah!" rang out from behind him, im mediately followed by a chorus of replies from different directions, as the great bulls crashed through the trees in answer to the summons of their fellow. Tho black man halted at the first cry and looked about him. He could see nothing, but he knew the voice of the hairy tree men whom he and his kind feared, not alone because of the strength and ferocity of the sav age beings, but as well through a superstitious terror engendered. by the manlike appearance of the apes. But Bulabantu was no coward. He heard the apes all about him; ho knew that escape was probably im possible, so he stood his ground, his spear ready in his hand and a war cry trembling on his lips. He would sell his life dearly, would Balu bantu, under-chief of the village of Mbonga, the chief. Tarzan and Tantor were but a short distance away when the first cry of the sentry rang out through the quiet jungle. Like a- flash the ape-man leaped fr.om the elephant's back to a near-by tree and was swinging rapidly in the direction of the clearing before the echoes of the first "Kreeg-ah" had died away. When he arrived he saw a dozen bulls circling a single Gomangani. With a blood-curdling scream Tar zan sprang to the attack. He hated the blacks even more than did the, apes, and here was an opportunity for a kill in the open. What had the Gomangani done? Had he slain one of the tribe? Tarzan asked the nearest ape. No, the Gomangani had harmed none. Gozan, being on watch, had seen him coming through the forest and had warned the tribe that was all. The ape-man pushed through the circle of bulls, none of which as yet had worked himself into sufficient frenzy for a charge, and came where he had a full and close view of the black. He recognized the man in stantly. Only the night before he had seen him facing the eyes in the dark, while his fellows groveled in the dirt at his feet, too terrified even to defend themselves. Here was a brave man, and Tarzan had deep ad miration for bravery. Even his hatred of the blacks was not so strong a passion as his love of courage. He would have joyed in battling with a black warrior at al most any time; but this one he did not wish to kill he "felt, vaguely, that the man had earned his life by his brave defense of it on the pre ceding night, nor did he fancy the odds that were pitted against the lone warrior. He turned to the apes. "Go back to your feeding," ho said, "and let this Gomangani go his way in peace. He has not harmed us, and last night I saw him fighting Numa and Sabor with fire, alone in the jungle. He is brave. Why sould we kill one who is brave and who has not at tacked us? Let him go." The apes growled. They were dis pleased. 'Kill the Gomangani!" cried one. "Yes," roared another, "kill the Gomangani and the Tarmangani as well." "Kill the white ape!" screamed Gozan, "he is no ape at all; but a Gomangani with his skin off." "Kill Tarzan!" bellowed Gunto. "Kill! Kill! Kill!" The bulls were not Indeed work ing themselves Into the frenzy of slaughter: but against Tarzan rath er, than, the black maa, A shaggy form charged throgh them, hurl ing those it came in contact with to one side as a strong man might scat ter children. It was Taug great, savage Taug. "Who says 'kill Tarznn'?" ho de manded. "Who kills Tarzan must kill Taug, too. Who can kill Taug ? Taug will tear your insides from you and feed them to Dango." "We can kill you all," replied Gunto. There are many of us and few of you," and he was right. Tar zan knew that he was right. Taug knew it; but neither would admit such a possibility. It is not tho way of bull apes. ''I am Tarzan," cried the ape-man. "I am Tarzan. Mighty hunter; Mighty fighter. In all the jungle none 60 great as Tarzan." Then, one by one, the opposing bulls recounted their virtues and their prowess. And all the time the combatants came closer and closer to one another. Thus do tho bulls work themselves to the proper pitch before engaging in battle. Gunto came, stiff-legged, close to Tarzan and sniffed at him, with bared fangs. Tarzan rumbled forth a low, menacing growl. They might repeat these tactics a dozen times; but sooner or later one bull would close with another and then tho whqle hideous pack would be tearing and rending at their prey. Bulabantu, the black man, had stood wide-eyed in wonder from the moment ho had seen Tarzan ap proaching through the apes. He had heard much of this devil-god who ran with the hairy tree people; but never had he seen 'him in full day light. He knew him well enough from the description of those who had seen him and from the glimpses ho had had of the marauder upon several occasions when tho ape-man had entered the. village of Jlbonga, the chief, by night, in the perpetra tion of one of his numerous ghastly jokes. Bulabantu could not, of course, understand anything which passed between Tarzan and the apes; but ho saw that the apc-ianRand one of the larger bulls were in argu ment with the others. He saw that these two were standing with their back toward him and between him and the balance of the tribe, and he guessed, though it seemed improb able, that they might be defending him. He know that Tarzan had once spared the life of Mbonga, tho chief, and that he had succored Tibo, and Tibo's mother, Momaya. So it was riot impossible that he would help Bulabantu; but how ho could ac complish it Bulabantu could not guess; nor as a matter of fnct could Tarzan, for the odds against him were too great. Gunto and the others we're slowly forcing Tarzan and Taug back to ward Bulabantu. Tho ape-man thought of his words with Tantor just a short time before: "Yes, Tantor, it is good to live. I should hate to die." And now he knew that he was about to die, for the temper of the great bulls was mounting rapidly against him. Always had many of them hated him, and all were suspicious of him. They knew he was different. Tarzan knew it too; but he was glad that he was he was a MAN; that ho had learn ed 'from his picture-books, and he was very proud of the distinction. Presently, though, he woujd be a dead man. Gunto was preparing to charge. Tarzan knew the signs. He knew that the balance of the bulls would charge with Gunto. Then it would soon be over. Something- moved among tho verdure at tho opposite side of the clearing. Tarzan saw it just as Gunto, with the terrifying cry of a challenging ape, sprang for ward. Tarzan voiced a peculiar call and then crouched to meet the as sault. Taug crouched, too, and Bulabantu, assured now that these two wore fighting upon hj" side, couched his spear and sprang be tween them to receive the first charge of the enemy. Simultaneously a huge bulk broke into the clearing from the jungle behind the charging bulls. The trumpeting of a mad tusker rose shrill above the cries of the anthropoids, as Tantor, the elephant, dashed swiftly across the clearing to the aid of his friend. Gunto never closed upon tho ape man, nor did a fang enter flesh upon either side. The terrific reverbera tion of Tantor's challenge sent the bulls scurrying to the trees, jabber ing and scolding. Taug raced off with them. Only Tarzan and Bulabantu remained. The latter stood his ground because he saw that the devil-god did not run, and because the black had the courage to face a certain and horrible death beside ono who had quite evidently dared death for him. But it was a surprised Gomangani who saw the mighty elephant come to a sudden halt in front of the ape man and caress him with his long, sinuous trunk. Tarsan turned toward the black man. "Go!" he said in the language of the apes, and pointed in the direc tion of the village of Mbonga. Bula bantu understood the gesture, If not the word, nor did he lose time in obeying. Tarzan stood watching him until he had disappeared. He knew that the apes would not follow. Then he said to the elephant: "Pick me up!" and the tusker swung him lightly to his head. "Tarzan goes to his lair by the big water," shouted the ape-man to tthe apes in the trees. "All of you are more foolish than Manu, except Taug and Teeka. Taug and Teeka may come to see Tarzan; but the others must keep away. Tarzan Is dono With the tribe of Kerchak." Burroughs He prodded Tantor with a cal loused toe and the big beast swung off across the clearing, the apes watching them until they were swal lowed up by the jungle. Before the night fell Taug killed Gunto, picking a quarrel with him over his attack upon Tnrznn. For a moon tho tribe saw nothing of Tarzan of the Apes. Many of them probably never gave him a thought; but thero were those who missed him more than Tarzan imagined. Taug and Teeka often wished that he was back, and Taug determined a dozen times to go and visit Tarzan in his seaside lair; but first one thing and then another in terfered. One night when Taug lay sleep less looking up at the starry heavens he recalled the strange things that Tarzan once had suggested to him that the bright spots were tho eye3 -of tho meat-eaters waiting in the dark of the Jungle sky to leap upon Goro, the moon, and devour him. Tho more he thought about this matter the more perturbed he became. And then a strange thing happened. Kven as Taug looked at Goro, ho saw a portion of ono edge disappear, precisely as though something was gnawing upon it. Larger and larg er became tho hole in tho side of Goro. With a scream, Taug leaped to his feet. His frenzied "Kreeg ahs!" brought the terrified tribe screaming and chattering toward him. "Look!" cried Taug, pointing at the moon. "Look! It is as Tarzan said. Numa has sprung through the fires and is devouring Goro. You called Tarzan names and drovo him from the tribe; now seo how wise ho was. Let one of you who hated Tarzan go to Goro's aid. Seo tho eyes in tho dark jungle all about Goro. He is in danger and none can help him nono except Tarzan. Soon Goro will be devoured by Numa and wo shall have no more light after Kudu seeks his lair. How shall we danco the Dum-Dum with out the light of Goro?" Tho apes trembled and whimper ed. Any manifestation of the pow ers of nature always filled them with terror, for they could not under stand. ''Go and bring Tarzan," cried one, and then they all took up the cry of "Tarzan!" "Bring Tarzan!" "Ho will save Goro." But who was to travel tho dark jungle by night to fetch him? "I will go," volunteered Taug, and an instant later he was off through the Stygian gloom toward the little , land-locked harbor by the sea. And as the tribe waited they watched tho slow devouring of the moon. Already Numa had eaten out a great semicircular piece. At that rate Goro would bo entirely gone before Kudu came again. The apes trembled at tho thought of por petual darkness by night. They could not sleep. Restlessly they moved hero and thero among tho branches of trees, watching Numa of the skies at his deadly feast, and listening for the coming of Taug with Tarzan. Goro was nearly gone when tho apes heard tho sounds of tho ap proach through the trees of the two they awaited, and presently Tarzan, followed by Taug, swung into a near-by tree. The ape-man wasted no time in idle words. In his hand was his long bow and at his back hung a quiver full of arrows, poisoned arrows that he had stolen from the village of the blacks; just as he had stolen tho bow. Up into a great tree he clam bered, higher and higher until ho stood swaying upon a small limb which bent low beneath his weight ) Here he had a clear ana unobstruct ed view of the heavens. Ho saw Gord and the inroads which tho hungry Numa had made into his Bhining surface. Raising his face to tho moon, Tar zan shrilled forth his hideous chal lenge.' Faintly and from afar camo the roar of an answering lion. The apes shivered. Numa of the skies had answered Tarzan. Then the ape-man fitted an arrow to his bow, and drawing the shaft far back, aimed its point at the heart of Numa where he lay in the heavens' devouring Grfro. There was a loud twarJg as tho released bolt shot into the dark heavens. Again and again did Tarzan of the Apes launch his arrows at Numa, and all the while tho apes of the tribe of Kerchak huddled together in terror. At last came a cry from Taug. "Look! Look!" he screamed. "Numa is killed. Tarzan has killed Numa. See! Goro is emerging from the belly of Numa," and, sure enough, tho moon was gradually emerging from whatever had devoured her, whether it was Numa, the lion, or the shadow of tho earth; but were t you to try to convince an ape of the tribe of Kerchak that it was aught but Numa who so nearly devoured Goro that night, or that another than Tarzan preserved the brilliant god of their savage and mysterious rites from a frightful death, you would have difficulty and n fight on your hands. And so Tarzan of the Apes came back to the tribe of Kerchak, and in his coming ho took a long stride toward the kingship, which he ulti mately won, for now the apes look ed up to him as a superior being. In all tho tribe there was but one who was at all skeptical about the plausibility of Tarzan's remarkable rescue of Goro, and that one, strange as it may seem, was Tarzan of the Apes. The first of a new series of com- plete jungle tales will appear Sat urday, August 2S. " . " " r a i . 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