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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, SAJUBDAY; AUGUST 23, 1919
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Cewrlaht, loin, by Kdear nice Murrought
I. i TUfAUPTMANN FRITZ SCHNEID-
EH trudged wearily through the
somber aisles of the dark forest.
Sweat rolled down his bullet head
end Stood upon his, heavy jowls and
bull neck. His lieutenant marched
beside him, while Untcrleutnant von
Gosso brought up the rear, follow
ing with a handful of Askaris, the
tired and all but exhausted porters.
Whom the black soldiers, imitating
the example of their white officer,
encouraged with the sharp points of
bayonets and the metal-shod butts
of rifles.
There were no porters within
Teach of Hauptmann Schneider, and
so ho vented his Prussian spcen
upon the Askaris nearest at hand,
yet with greater circumspection,
since these men bore rifles and
bandoleers of cartridges and the
three white men were alone with
them In the heart of Africa.
Ahead of Hauptmann marched
half his company, behind him the
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..t t--l. il IV. ,1,.,-,
oi ine savage jungie miimmaeu
for the German captain. At the
forefront of the column staggoiod
two naked savages, fastened to one
another by a neck-chain. These were
the native guides impressed into the
service of Kultur, and upon their
poor, bruised bodies Kultur's branl .
was revealed in divers cruel wounds,
and bruises.
Thus even in daikest Africa was
the light of German civilization be-
ginning to reflect itself upon the (
undeserving natives just as at thc
same period, the fall of 191 t, it
was shedding its glorious effulgence '
upon benighted Belgium.
It is true that the guides had led
the party astray; but this is the
way of most African guide?. Nor
did it matter that ignorance rather
than evil intent had been the cause
of their failure. It was enough for
Hauptmann Fritz Schneider to
know that ho ,was lost in the Afri
can wilderness and that he had at
hand human beings less powerful
than he who could be made to sunor
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by torture. That he did not Kill
them outright was due to a faint
yn that thov mit-ht eventually I
manpp-e to extricate him from his
difficulties.
The poor creatures led on through '
ft dismal forest along a winding
game-trail trodden deep by the feet I
of countless generations of the
fr-avage denizens of the jungle,
Here Tantor, trft clopnant, wok nis
j .i..i. ...AllA,. .
wter Here Bute the "rhinoceros, j
blundered blindly in his solitary
majesty and bv night the great
cats paced sdently upon their pad- j
ded feet beneath the dense canopy
of overreaching trees toward the
broad plain beyond, where they I
knew thej would find the best hunt-
Ing.
It was at the edge of this plain ,
whicli came suddenly and unex-1
pectedly before ' the eyes of the
guides that their poor hearts beat '
with renewed hope. Here the
Hauptmann drew a
deep sigh of
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relief, for after days ot nopeiess
3 Ul ,ucn.
wandering through almost im- toward his home,
penetrable jungle, the broad vista yut at the firBt giance hjs eyea
of waving grasses dotted here an'. I j,arrowed and his muscles tensed.
there with open parklike woods and Even at that distance he could see
In the far distance the -winding line.,,,. ..-..iij.- wns nmin. A thin
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river, appeared to the European a
Veritable heaven.
The Hun smiled in his relief,
passed a cheery word with his lieu
tenant and then scanned the broad
plain with his field-glasses. Back
nd forth thev swept across the
rolling land until at last they came
to rest unon a noint near the center
l'SrJZ. a'"5,r!. 00.arC-alr rL?!!:1
of the landscape anu ciose i'Was more the product of intuition
green-fringed contours of the river. ( than of reasoT1( fot.( even the
"We are in luck," said Schneider , beasta Tarzan of the Apes seemed
to his companions. "Do you see t0 possess a sixth 8cnse. Long be
lt?" The lieutenant, who was gaz- fore he reachcd the bungalow, he
Ing through his own glasses, finally had scnsed wnat he was to find
brought them to rest upon the same th(jJCj had almost pictUred thc scene
spot that had held the attention of I that fina,y broke upon h,g view
W,s.upf,ri0J! :j viuh ! Silent and deserted was the vine-
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ics, ne nuiu, en ...,..-..
s! n rvovot-nVp's for
It must he ureysioKL a, i
foTTrt.
therfe is none other in this part of
British East Africa. God lsgwrth
us, Herr Captain." .
4 "We have come upon tho English
swinehound long before he can have
learne'd that his countiy is at war
With ours," replied Schneider. "Let
him be the first to suffer from the
iron fist of Germany."
"Let us hope that he is at nome,
.. .i ii.i t v.nt wn mnv
take" htm with us 'when we report
t.-M. ,f ot TJnlrobl. It will ko
.,,-it inji with Herr Hauptmann
fj -Fritz Schneider if he brings in the
fambus Tarzan of
the Apes as u
prisoner of war."
Sclmeider smiled and puffed out
KySt chest "You are right, my
j.ij i, cr.1,1 "tr. w'll co well
Ka .with both of us, But i shall have to
lu" 'travel ' to catch Genoral Kraut
ih v.,.. X,c ronclips Mombasa. These
i" .Ihwlish pigs with their contempt-
'iHrl.tf will make (rood tlmo to
vj( im aiifj - -
v lb inamn uceun.
". - I- l.ottnr frnmo of mind
' thst the small force set out across
M pen country towuru mo uuu
ni well-kept f,arm buildings of
JSh"Clayton, Lord Greystokej but
jwypntntment was to be their lot
vMw their arrival there, since neither
TarjjdR of the AFes nor his son was
IMv Ja.
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KjKi
TammuMf, 'ift that
FOR AN EYE
any of tho European nations were
at war, welcomed the officers most
hospitably and gave orders through
her trusted Waziri to prepare a
feast for the black soldiers of the
enemy.
. Far,, to tho cast, Tarzan of tho
Apes was traveling rapidly from
Naiiobi toward tho farm. At Nai
robi he had recelVcd news of the
world war that hall already started,
and anticipating an immediate in
vasion of British East Africa by the
Germans, he was hurrying home
ward to fetch his wife to a placo
of gi eater security. With him were
a score of his ebon warriors, but
for too slow for the ape-man was
the progress of these trained and
hardened woodsmen.
When necessity demanded, Tar
zan of the Apes sloughed the thin
veneer of his civilization and with
it the hampering apparel that was '
its badge. In a moment the polished
English gentleman reverted to the
naked ape-man. His mate was in
danger. For the time that single i
thought dorninate(l.
It was no
member of the House of Lords who
I swung swiftly and grimly through
the tangled forest or trod with un
tiring muscles wide stretches of
open plain it was a great he-ape
filled with a single purpose that ex
cluded all thoughts of fatigue or
yuIe ManU) thp monkcj.t sco,din(?
and chattel ing in the upper tcr-
races of thc orc hjm pasg
Lone md t ,)eon ?incc he ha(, thus
bchrfd Rrcat Talmansani nnk(ui
am, a)onc huitnR thronf;h the
jungc. Bearded and gray was
Manu, the monkey, and to his dim
old eyes came thc fire of recollection
of those days when Tarzan of the
Apes had ruled supreme, Lord of
the Jungle, over all the myriad life
that tiod the matter vegetation be
tween the boles of the great trees
or flew or swung or climbed in the
leafy fastness upward to the very
apex of thc loftiest terraces.
And Numa, lying up for the day
close beside last night's successful
kill, blinked his yellow-green eyes
and twitched his tawny tail as he
nniifrVif fTin cfpnf annnr of
his
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Nor was Tarzan senseless to the
presence of Numa or Manu or any
other of the many jungle beasts
he passed in his rapid flight toward
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senses of the ape-man. however
swift his progress through the wild
country oi nis uuopuon, nuweye.
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hn wna otill mnrtfll. IJfl.Vfc it tOOlC
for his journey, even though he lay
up at night for but a few hours and j
left to chance the finding of meat1
di.ectly on his trail If Wappi, the ,
nntelope, or Horta, the boar, chanced
his way when he was hungry, he
killed and ate, but he paused only ,
long enougn to mane me kiu anu
i cut himself a steak.
But at last the long journey drew
to its close and he was passing
through the last stretch of heavy
forest that bounded his estate upon
the east: then this was traversed
and he stood upon the plain's edge
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lUUKHlg UUL UCIUE& ilia uiuau lo.iua
looking
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of the bungalow where the barns
had stood, but theie were no barns
there now; and from thc bungalow
chimney from which smoke should
have arisen, there arose nothing.
, Once again Tarzan of the Apes
was speeding onward, this time
even more swifty than before
. j.,i ., vv nnnlpU,, fpar tlmt ,
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' covered cottage. Smoldering embers
i,j v, , n- .ent i,gn
marked the site of his great barns,
Gone were the thatched huts of his
sturdy retainers, empty the fields,
the pastures and the corrals. Here
and there, before his eyes, vultures
were rising and circling slowly
above the carcasses of men and
beasts.
It was with a feeling as nearly
akin to terror as he had ever ex -
! npripncpcl thnt the ane-man flnallv
j forced himself to enter his home,
The first sight that met his eyes set
the red haze of hate and blood-lust
across his vision, for there, crucified
against uiu vau ui iuu iiviiig-iuuiii
was wasimou, giani son oi uw
faithful Muviro, and for over a year
tho personal bodyguard of Lady
Jane,
overturned and shattered
The
furniture of the room, the brown
pools of dried hlood Upon the floor
and prints of bloody hands on walls
and woodwork evidenced something
of the frightfulnegs of the battle
that had been waged within the
narrow confines of the apartment
Across the baby-grand piano lay
the corpse of another black warrior
While before tho door of Lacjy"
Jane's, boudoir were the dead bodies
of three more of the faithful Grey
stoke servants.
The door of this1 room was closed.
With drooping shoulders and dull
eyes Tarzaq stood- .gasing dumbly
at thL ln?MHU wwJkh hid
from him what honid seciet
dared not even guests.
Slowly, with leaden feet, lie
moved toward the door. Gropingly
his hand reached for thc knob.
Thus he stood for another long
minute, and then with a sudden
gestuie he straightened his giant
frame, threw back his mighty
shoulders and with fearless head
held high, swung back the door and
stepped across the threshold into I
the room which held for him thc
dealest rror-'oiies and associations
of his life. No change of expres-1
sion crossed his grim and stern-set I
featujes as he stiode across the .
mom an.l ' tnnrl l.nshln thf. litiln '
couch and the inanimate fo.m which j
lay face downward upon it, the still, ,
silent thing that had once been
Jane Clayton, Lady Gieystoke
No tear dimmed the eye of the ,
ape-man, but thc God who made
him alone could know the thoughts
tnat passed through tnat still nan-
savage brain. For a long t'me he
stood theie gazing down upon the
dead body of hi.s mnte; then lie
stooped and lifted her in his arms,
and as he turned the body over and
saw how horribly death had been
'meted to her, he plumbed, in that
I in9i,.ii tho t.ttormnof Horfc f
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crnpf nnri horrnr nnrl hntrcn.
Nor did he lequire the evidence
., i , in iL
nr fhn h.nl'an fZnvivifin vtflo in Tno
outer loom or the torn and blood
stained service cap upon the floor
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crime.
In silence, in love and in reer
ance, he buried them in the little
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and her love the white nnd bcauti-'
ful lady beside the great black
warriors who had given their lhes
so futilelv in her protection.
At one side of the house Tarzan
found other new-made graves, and
in these he sought final evidence of
tho identity of the real perpetrators
of the atrocities that had been com
mitted there in his absence.
Here he disinterred the bodies of
a dozen German Askaris and found
upon their uniforms the insignia of
the company and regiment to which
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they had belonged. This was enough
for the ape-man. White officers
had commanded these men, nor
"would it be a difficult task to dis
cover who they were.
Returning to the rose garden, he
stood among the Hun-trampled
blooms and bushes above the grave
I of his dead mate with bowed head
1 he stood there in a last, mute fare-
I well. As the sun sank slowlv hp-
j hind the towering forests to the
, west, he turned slowly away upon
I the still distinct trail of Hauptmann
j Fritz 'Schneider and his blood-
siuineu company.
jg wa8 the suffering of the
dumb mute mute, but no less
poignant. At first his vast sorrow
numoeu
thought
his other faculties of
his brain was overwhelm -
ed by the calamity to such an ex-
tent that it reacted to but a single
objective suggestion: She is dead I
She is dead! She is dead! Again
and again this phrase beat monot
onously upon his brain, a dull,
throbbing pain; yet mechanically
his feet followed the trail of her
slayer while, subconsciously, his
every sense was upon the alert for
the ever-present perils of the jungle.
Gradually the labor of his great
grief brought forth another emotion
so real, so tangible that it seemed
a companion walking at his side; It
was Kite, and it brought rp him
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Being the First of a New Series of
the Tales of Tarzan the Untamed
ile lirnul f i oni those human lips thc
he , for it wa a sublime hate that cn
i nobled him as it had enobled count
less thousands since hatred for
Germany and Germans. As the
thought took firm hold upon him, he
paused and raising his face to Goro,
the Moon, cuised with upraised hand
the authors of the hideous crime
that had been perpetrated in that
once peaceful bungalow behind him.
Stripped as he was of all the out-
ward symbols of civilization, Tar-
zan had also reverted morally and
mentally to the status of the savage
beast he had been reared. Never
had h,g civjlatJon bccn more than
a veneer put on fol- the sake of her
he loved, because he thought it made
her happier to see him thus. In
leallty he had alwayg heU, the out.
evidenceg of B0.caHcd cuUur0
in dcep contempt. Civilization
meant to Tarzan of the Apes a cur.
tailment of freedom in all its
aspects freedom of action, free
dom of thought, fieedom of love,
fiecdom of hate.
In civilization Tarzan had found
freed and selfishness and cruelty
Tar beyond that which he had
n ln 's """. savaBj
Jungle, and though civilization had
b11-!
him his mate and several
i friends whom he loved nnd admired,
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you and I, who have known little
or nothing else; and so it was with
a sense of relief that he now
finitely abandoned it and all that
h ypnsn fiT rn MPT mnr nn Ttmv
it .stood, for and went forth into tho
lungle once again, stripped to his
loin-cloth and weapons.
The hunting knife of his father
hung at his left hip, his bow and
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his chest, over one shoulder and
beneath the opposite arm was coiled
the long grass rope without which
Taizan would have felt as naked as
would you, Bhould you be suddenly
thrust upon a busy highway clad
only in a union suit. A heavy war
spear which he sometimes carried in
one hand and again slung by a
throng about his 'neck so that it
hung down his back completed his
armament and his apparel. The
diamond-studded locket with the
pictures of his mother and father
which he had worn always Until he
had given it, as a token of his high
est devotion, to Jane Clayton before
their marriage was missing. She
always had worn it since; but it had
not heen on her dead body, so that
now his quest for vengeance in
cluded a quest for the stolen trinket.
Toward midnight Tarzan began
to feel the physical strain of his
long nours oi travel ana to realize
that even muscles such as his had
their limitations.
Having dedicated his life to ven
geance, vengeance became his nat
ural state and not an emergency;
therefore he took his time in nur-
suit. That he had not rested earlier
1 was due to the fact that he had felt
no fatigue, his mind being occupied
by thoughts of sorrow and revenge;
but now he realized that he was
tired, and so he sought a jungle
giant that had harbored him upon
more than a single other jungle
night.
When he swung himself at last
into the tree he sought, tho moon
was obscured by a heavy cloud, the
tree-tops were waving wildly in a
steadily increasing wind whose
soughing drowned the lesser noises
of tho jungle. Upward went Tarzan
(toward a sturdy crotch across which
he had long, since laid and secured
lHtla platform of -breaches, Jt
mi
hunting roar of a wild beast
was
very dark now, darker
even
than it had been before, for almost
tho entire sky was overcast by thick,
black clouds,
Presently the man-beaht paused,
his sensithe nostrils dilating as he
sniffed the air about him. Then,
with the swiftness and agility of a
cat, he leaped far outward upon a
swaying branch, sprang upward
through the darkness, caught an
other, swung himself upon it and
then to one still higher. What
could have so suddenly transform
ed his matter-of-fact ascent of the
gjant bole to the swift and wary
action of his detour among the
branches ? You or 1 could have seen
nothing, not even the little plat
form that had been just above him
an instant before and which now
was immediately below; but as ho
swung above it, we . should have
heard an ominous growl, and then,
as the moon was momentarily un
covered, we should have seen both
the platform, dimly, and a dark
mass that lay stretched upon it
a dark mass that presently, as our
eyes became accustomed to the lesser
darkness, would take the form of
Shceta, the panther.
In answer to the cat's growl a
low and equally ferocious growl
rumbled upward from Tarzan's deep
chest a growl of warning that
told the panther he was trespassing
upon the othei's lair; but Sheeta
was in rro mood to be dispossessed.
With upturned, snarling face he
glared at the brown-skinned Tar
mangani above him. Very slowly
Tarzan moved s inward along the
branch until he was directly above
the panther. In the man's1 hand
was the hunting knjfe of his long
dead father, the weapon that had
first given him his real ascendancy
over the beasts of the jungle; but
he hoped not to be forced to use it,
knowing as he did that more jungle
battles were settled by hideous
growling than by actual combat, the
law of bluff holding good in the
jungle only in matters of love and
food did the beasts usually close
with fangs and talons.
Tarzan braced himself against the
bole of the tree and ldaned closed
toward Sheeta.
"Stealer of BalusI" he cried. Tho
panther rose to a sitting position,
his bared fangs but a few feet from
the ape-man's taunting face. Tar
zan growled hideously and struck
at the cat's face with his knife. "I
am Tarzan of the Apes," he roared.
"This is Tarzan's lair. Go, or I
will kill you." Though he spoke in
the language of the great apes of
the jungle, it is doubtful that Sheeta
understood the words, though he
knew well enough that the hairless
ape wished to frighten him from
his well-chosen station past which
edible creatures might be expected
to wander some time during the
watches of the night.
Like lightning the cat reared and
struck a "vicious blow at his tor
mentor with great, bared talons
that might well have torn away tho
ape-man's face had the blow land
ed; but it did not. land Tarzan
was even quicker than Sheeta. As
the panther came to all fours again
upon the little platform, Turzan un
slung his heavy spear and prodded
at the snarling face, and as SheeU
warded off the blows, "the two con
tinued their, horrid duet; of blood
curdling roars and growls,
Goaded to frensy, the cat present-.
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essayed to leap to tho branch that
held Taizan, ho found the sharp
spear-point always in his face, and
each time as he dropped back he
was prodded viciously in some
tender part; but at length, rage
having conquered his better judg
ment, ho leaped up the rough bole
to the very branch upon whjch Tar
zan stood. Now thc two faced each
other upon an even footing and
Sheeta saw a quick revenge and a
supper all in one. This hairless ape
thing with the tiny fangs and the
puny talons would be helpless be
fore him.
The heavy limb bent beneath the
weight of thc two beasts as Sheeta
crept cautiously out upon it and
Tarzan backed slowly away,) growl
ing. The wind had lisen to tho pro
portions of a gale so that even thc
greatest giants of the forest sway
ed, groaning, to its force and the
blanch upon which the two faced
one another lose and fell like the
deck of a storm-tossed ship. Goro
was now entirely obscured; but
vivid flashes of lightning lighted up
the jungle at brief intevals, re
vealing the grim tableau of primi
tive passion upon the swaying limb.
Tarzan backed away, di awing
Sheeta farther from the stem if Mie
tree and out upon ,the tapering
branch where his footing became
ever more precarious. The cat, in
furiated by the pain of spcar
wounds, was overstepping the
bounds of caution. Already he had
reached a pqjnt where he could do
little more than maintain a secure
footing, and it was, at this moment
that Tarzan chose to charge. With
a roar that mingled with the boom
ing thunder from above he leaped
toward the panther, who cojM only
claw futilely with one huge paw
while he cluncr to the branch vltn
the others; but tho npe-man did not
come within that parabola of de
struction. Instead he leaped above
menacing claws and snapping fangs,
turning in midair and alighting upon
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impact his knife struck deep into
the tawny side,
Then Sheeta, impelled by pain and
hate and rage and the first law of
nature, went mad. Screaming and
clawing, he attempted to turn upon
the npe-thing clinging to his back.
For an instant he toppled upon the
now wildly gyrating limb, clutched
frantically to save himself and then
plunged downward into the darkness
with Tarzan still clinging to him.
Sheeta, catlike, alighted upon four
outsprawled feet, the weight of the
ape-man crushing him to earth, the
long knife again imbedded in his
side. Once the panther struggled to
rise; but only to sink to earth again.
Tarzan felt the giant muscles relax
beneath him. Sheeta was dead.
Rising, the ape-man placed a foot
upon the body of his vanquished
foe, raised his face toward tho
thundering heavens and as the light
ning flashed and the torrential rain
broke upon him, screamed forth the
wild victory cry of thd bull ape.
Having .accomplished his aim and
driven the enemy from his lair,
Tarzan gathered an armful of
large fronds and clambered to his
dripping couch. Spreading a few
of the fronds upon the poles, he lay
down and covered himself against
the rain with the others and despite
the walling of tho wind and the
crashing of the thunder fell imme
diately asleep.
The rain lasted twenty-four hours
and much of the time it fell in tor
rwtSj. so that l?hn 'tceasad the
isod the
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utterly obliterated. Cold nnd un
comfortable, it was n savage Tarzan
who threaded the mazes of the soggy
jungle. Manu, the monkey, shiver
ing and chattering in the dank trees,
scolded nnd fled at his approach.
Even tho panthers and the lions let
tho growling Tarmangani pass un
molested. When the sun shone upon the sec
ond day nnd a wide, open plain lot
the full heat of Kudu flood the chill
ed brown body, Tarzan's spirits rose,
but it was a sullen, surly brute that
moved steadily onward into the
south where he hoped again to pick
up the trail of the Germans. He
was now in German East Africa,
and it was his intention to skirt the
mountains west of Kilimanjaro,
whose rugged peaks he was quite
then swing eastward along tho south
willing to give a wide berth, and
side of the rapgc to the railway that
led to Tanga, for his experience
among men suggested that it was to
ward this railroad that German
troops would be likely to converge.
Two days later, from tho south
ern slopes of Kilimanjaro, he heard
the boom of cannon far away to the
east. The afternoon had been dull
and cloudy, and now as he' was pass
ing through a narrow gorge, a few
great drops of rain began to splatter
upon his naked shoulders. Tarzan
shook his head and growled his dis-appro-al;
then he cast his eyes about
for shelter, for he had had quite
enough of the cold and drenching.
He wanted to hasten on in tho
direction of the booming noise, for
he knew that there would be Ger-
. mans fighting against the English.
I "Tomorrow," he thought, "I will
I travel that way and find tho Ger
mans." Then he set himself to the
immediate task of discovering some
shelter from the storm.
Presently he espied the low and
narrow entrance to what appeared
to be a cave at thc base of the
cliffs which formed the northern
side of the gorge. With drawn
knife he approached the spot warily,
for he knew that if it were a cave,
it was doubtless the lair of some
other beast. Before the entrance
lay many large fragments of rock
of different sizes, similar to others
scattered along the entire base of
the cliff, and it was in Tarzan's
mind that if he found the cave un
occupied, he would barricade the
door and insure himself a quiet and
peaceful night's repose within the
sheltered interior. Let the storm
rage without. Tarzan would remain
within until it ceased, comfortable
and dry. A tiny rivulet of cold
water trickled outward from the
opening.
Close to the cave Tarzan knelt and
sniffed at the ground. A low growl
escaped him, and his upper lip
curved to expose his fighting fangs.
"Numa!" he murmured. But he did
not stop. Numa might not be at
home he would investigate. The
entrance was so low that the ape-
man was compelled to drop to all
fours before he could poke his head
within the aperture; but first he
looked, listened and sniffed to each
direction at his rear he would not
be taken by surprise from that
quarter.
Hit first glance within the cave
revealed a narrow tunnel with day
light at its farther end. The interior
of the tunnel was just light enough
for the ape-man to see that it was
untenanted at present. Advancing
cautiously, he crawled toward the
opposite end, imbued with a full
realization of what it would mean if
Numa should suddenly enter the
tunnel in front of him; but Numa
did not appear, and the ape-man
emerged at length into the open and
stood erect, finding himself in a
rocky cleft whose walls rose almost
sheer on every hand. The gulch was
some hundred feet in length and
about fifty in width and nppeared to
have been worn from the rocky cliff
by the falling of water during long
ages. A tiny stream from Kiliman
jaro's eternal snow-cap still trickled
over the edge of the rocky wall at
the upper en,d of the gulch, forming
a little pool at the bottom of the
cliff from which a small rivulet
wound downward to the tunnel
, through which it passed to the
gorge beyond. A single great tree
flourished near the center of the
gulch, while tufts of grass were
scattered among the rocks of the
gravelly flour.
TDONES of many large animals lay
about among them several
human skulls. Tarzan raised his
eyebrows. "A man-eater," he
thought, "and apparently he has
held sway here for a long time. To
night Tarzan will take the lair of
the man-eater, and Numa may roar
and grumble upon the outside."
Tho ape-man had advanced well
into the gulch as he investigated
his 'surroundings, and now as he
stood near the tree, satisfied that
tho tunnel would prove a dry anil,
quiet retreat for the night, ho turn
ed to retrace his way to the outer
end of the entrance that he might
block it with boulders against
Numa's return; ' but even as he
thought, there came something Jto
his sensitive ears that froze him into
statuesque immobility with eyes
glued upon the tunnel's mouth. A
moment later tho head of n huge
lion framed in a black mane ap
peared in tho opening. The yellow
green eyes glared, round and un
blinking, straight at tho trespassing
Tarmangani; a low growl rumbled
from tho deep chest, and lips curled
back to expose the mighty fangs.
' "Brother of DangolV shouted
Tarzan, angered that Numa's return
I killing of Gsrrawvs , at large was
Burroughs
should have been so timed ns to
frustrate hi3 plans for a comfort
able night's repose. "I am Tarzan
of the Apes, Lord of tho Jungle. To
night I lair here gol"
But Numa did not go. Instead he
rumbled forth n menacing roar and
took a few steps in Tarzan's direc
tion. The ape-man picked up a rock
and hurled it at the snarling face.
One can never be suro of a lion. This
one might turn tall nnd run at th?
first intimation of attack Tarzan
had bluffed many in his time but
not now. The missile struck Numa
full upon the snout a tender part
of a cat's; anatomy and instead of
causing him to flee, it made him an
infuriated engine of wrath and destruction.
Up went his tail, stiff and erect,.!;
anu wun a series oi irigntiui roars
he bore down upon the Tarmangani
at tho speed of an express train.
Not an instant too soon did Tarzan
reach the tree and swing himself
into its branches, and there ho
squatted, hurling insults, while
Numa paced beneath, roaring in
rage.
It was raining now in earnest,
adding to the ape-man's discomfort
and disappointment. Ho was very
angry; but as only direst necessity
had ever led him to close in mortal
combat with a lion, knowing as he
did that he had only luck and agility
to pit against the frightful odds of
muscle, weight, fangs and talons, he
did
not even consider descending
and engaging in so uneoual and use.
less a duel for the mere reward of
a little added creature comfort. And
so he sat perched in the tree while
the rain fell steadily and the lion
padded round and lound beneath.
Tarzan scanned tho precipitous
walls for an avenue of escape. They
would have baffled an ordinary man;
but tho ape-man, accustomed to
climbing, saw several places where
he might gain a foothold precari
ous possibly, but enough to give
him reasonable assurance of escape
if Numa would but betake himself
to the far end of the gulch for a
moment. Numa, however, notwith
standing the rain, gave no evidence
of quitting his post, so that at last
Tarzan really began to consider
seriously if it might not be as well
to take the chance of a battle with
him.
"EWEN as he turned tho matter
over in his mind, Numa turned
and walked majestically toward the
tunnel without even a backward
glance. The instant that he disap
peared, Tarzan dropped lightly to
tho ground upon the far side .of the
tree and was away at top speed for
the clifl. The lion had no sooner
entered the tunnel than he backed
immediately out again, and pivotjng
like a flash, was off across the gulch
in full charge after the flying ape
man; but Tarzan'g lead was too
great.
With the agility of a cat, Tarzan
ran up the.cliff-face for thirty feet
before he paused, and there finding
a secure footfng, he stopped and
looked down upon Numa; who was
leaping upward in a, wild and futile
attempt to scale the rocky wall to
his prey. Fifteen or twenty feet
from the ground the lion would
scramble, only to fall backward
again defeated. Tarzan eyed him
for a moment and then commenced
a slow and cautious ascent toward
the summit. Several times he had
difficulty in finding holds, but at
last he drew himself over the edge
and strode away.
Finding an easy descent to tho
gorge, he was about to pursue his
journey in the direction of the still
booming guns, when a sudden
thought caused him to halt and a
half smile to play about his lips.
Turning, he trotted quickly back to
the outer opening of Numa's tun
nel. Close beside it he listened for
a moment, and then began rapidly
to gather large rocks and pile them
within the entrance. He had almost
closed the aperture when tho lion
appealed upon the inside a very1'
ferocious and angry lion that pawed
and clawed at the rocks and uttered
mighty roars that caused the oartJi
to tremble; but roars did not frighten
xurzan oi me Apes.
Numa could not reach him, and
Tarzan knew it; so he continued de
liberately to choke the entrance until
there was no possibility of Numa's
getting out again. When he was
quite through he made a grimace at
the hidden lion beyond the barrier
and resumed his way toward tho
east. "A man-9ater who will eat no
more men," he soliloquized.
rpHAT night Tarzan lay up unfer
an overhanging shelf of rock.
The next morning he resumed his
journey, stopping .only to make a
kill and satisfy his hungej. The
firing ahead rose and fell dur
ing the day. Ho had noticed that
it was highest at dawn and im
mediately after dusk, and that dur
ing the nights it almost ceased. In
tho middle of the afternoon of the
second day "he came upon troops
moving up toward the front. They
nppeared to be raiding parties, for
they drove goats and cows along
with them, and there were native
porters laden with grain and other
foodstuffs. He saw that these
natives were all secured by neck
chains, and he also saw that tho
troops were composed of native
soldiers in German uniform. The
officers were white men.
No one saw Trfrzan, yet he was
here and there about and umong
them for two hours.
Ho had come unon Germn
apdhad not, killed them; but that
was
explained by tho fact that the
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