& - v- - ', BYEsisG PUBLIC IEDGBR-PHIIADBU'HIA, - SATOEQAY, ATTGFtJ&T 30, 1919 g P WHEN THE LION FED , Co"prlshl. l&lft. by TMtr nice IJurrouiha fpARZAN of tho Apes, reared among anthrppolds, suckled at if tno shaggy breast of a she-ape, risen 'to a seat in the House of Lords, had reverted to savagery and apedom with the murder of his wife sby Schneider the German captain.; tv uj i.n . . !, 1.1,1 of Numa the man-eater to expiate his sins j but Tarzan was not yet fully revenged. Thero were many millions of Germans yet alive enough to keep Tarzan pleasantly occupied for the rest of his life and yet not enough, should ho kill them all, to recompense him for the great loss he had suffered,; nor could the death of all those million Germans bring back his loved one. While in the German camp m tho Pare mountains, which He just east of the boundary line between German and British East Africa, IVTarzan had overheard enough to nggest that the British were get ting the woist of the fighting in Africa. At first he had civen tho I .matter but little thought; for after tho death of his Wife, the one strong tie that had held Tilm to civilization, he had renounced all mankind, con sidering himself no longer man, but ape. After accounting for Schneider as satisfactorily as lay within, his .power, he circled Kilimanjaro and hunted in the foothills to the north of that mightiest of mountains. But more and more Tarzan found himself thinking of the English sol diers fighting against heavy odds, v and especially of tho fact that it was Germans who were besting them.t And nt last thf time came r when he could no longer endure the thought -of Germans killing Eng ' lishmen while ho hunted in safety a bare maich away Tarzan's decision made, he sat out in the direction of the German camp, no well-defined plan formu lated, but with the generalidea that once near the field of operations he might find an opportunity to haiass the German command as he so well knew; how to do. Hjs way took him along the goige close to the gulch In which ho had left Schneider, and yielding to a natural curiosity, he scaled the cliffs and made his way to the edge of tho gulch. The tree was empty; nor was there sign of Numa the lion. Picking up a rock, he hurled it into the gulch, where it rolled tojthe very entrance to the cave. Instantly the lion appeared jn the apeituie but such a differ rnt-lonWnp- lion from the irieat sleek' brute that Tarzan had tiappedh8 equipped with telescope sights, there two weeks befoie. Now he was gaunt and emaciated; and when he walked, he staggered. "Where is the German?" shouted Tarzan. "Was he good eating,, or only a bag of bones when he slipped and 'fell from the tree?" Numa growled. "You look hun gry, Numa," continued the Ape sittn. "You must have been very ('hungry to cat all the grass from 1 your lair and even the bark from tho tree as far up as you can reach. Would you like another German?" And smiling, Tarzan turned away. A few minutes laterhe came sud denly upon Bara, the deer, asleep beneath a tree, and as Tarzan was hungry, he made a quick kill and squatting beside his prey proceeded to eat his fill. As he was gnawing the last morsel fiom a" bone, his quick cais caught tho padding of stealthy feet behind him; and turn ing he confronted Dango the hyena, sneaking upon him. With a row! the Ape-man picked up a aJTen bianch and hulled it at the ulking biute. "Go away, eater of ' carrion," heciied; but Dango was hungiy, and being large and power lf i , he only snailed and circled J i3vly about as though watching (, foi an opportunity to charge. Tar ;' zan of tjie Apes knew Dango even V better than Dango knew himself. 1 He knew that the, brute, made sav ' age by hunger, was mustering its . ..ni.v.n.v1 fnn art if4-iM Mnfr if ii'ne yK vuua(v .iw n. ukMtvn) wimv tv i. . ' proDamy nccusiomeu io man ana ' therefore more or less fearless of ' him; and snl he unslung his heavy i spear and laid it ready at his side awhile he continued his meal. He cSelt no fearjfor long familiarity Svith the dangers of his wild world had so accustomed him to them that he took whatever came as a part of each day's existence as you accept the homely though no less real dan- gers of the farm, tho range or the crowded metropolis. Dango mjgfht have charged sooner but foKthe savage growls of 4 tno Ape-man growis wnicn, com I Snc from human. lies, raised a Ques tion and.a fear in the hyena's heart. Jte had attacked .women and chil dren in the native fields, and he had frightened their men about their fires at night; but never had he seen i a maivthing who made this sound i that reminded hint more of Numa , angry than of a man afraid. When Tarzan had' completed his m repast, ho, was about torise and lj& hurl a ciean-picKea Done at tnc - uva ui-vw ..v. ..w.v ...a nu;, tv.u- ing the remains of his kill to A Dango; but a Budden thought W stayed him, and instead he picked ip-up the carcass or, the deer, threw It Kover his shoulderand set off in the 1 direction of the gulch. For a few .yarefs Dango followed, growling, and then realizing; that he was be ing lobbed of even a taste of the luscious flesh, he cast discretion' to , the winds and charged. Instantly, (y as though nature" had given himJ j nvp.s in the nacic or ma head. Tar. san sensed -the impending' danger , --r - - -. r- -- ' . -r-- ?an,d dropping Bara to yie ground, turned witn raised spear, tar back went tfie brown right hand and then .forward, lightninglike, backed by. tniyowcr. oi, giant muscles. and the veiKti.'OS nw Drawn and bone. Tho drovo straight for Dango, caught him in tho neck where it joined the" shoulders and passed through the body. When ho had withdrawn the shaft from tho hyena, Tarzan shouldered both carcasses and continued on to- r""1. "eJ '"y xumu beneath the shade of the lone tree, and at tho Ape-man's call he stag gered slowly to his feet; weak os he was, he still growled savagely, even essaying a roar at the sight of his enemy. Tarzan let the two bodies slide over the rim of the cliff. "Eat, Numa!" he cried. "It may be that I shall need you again."-He saw the lion, quickened to new life at the sight of food, spring upon the body of the deer; and then he left him rending and tearing the flesh as he bolted great pieces into his empty maw. The following day Tarzan came within sight of the German lines. From a wooded spur of the hills he looked down upon the enemy's left flank, and beyond to the British lines. His position gave him a Diras-eye view ot the neid of bat-i tie, 'and his keen eyesight picked out many details that would 'not have been apparent to a man whose every sense was not trained to the highest point of perfection as wore ' ho Ape-man's. He noted machine gun emplacements cunningly hid den ,from the view of the British, and listening posts placed well out in N6 Man's Land. As his interested gaze moved hither and thither from one point of interest to another, he heard from a point Upon the hillside below him, dbove the roar of cannon and the crack of rifle-fire, a single rifle-spit. Immediately his attention was cen tered upon the spot where he knew a sniper must be hid. Patiently he awo'ted th nct shot to learn the exact location of the rifleman, and when it came, he moved dotan tho steep hillside with the stealth of a panther. Apparently he took no cognizance of where he stepped; yet never a loose stone was disturbed nor a twig broken. Presently as Tarzan passed"! through a clump of bushes, he came to the edge of n low cliff and sav upon a ledge some fifteen feet below him a German soldier prone behind an embankment of loose rock and leafy boughs that hid him from the view of the British lines. The man must have been an excellent shot, for he was well back of the Ger man lines, firing over the heads of his -fellows. His high-powered rifle and he also carried binoculars which he was just in the act of using. Tarzan let his dye move quickly to ward that part of the British line i the, German seamed to be scanning, his keen sight revealing many ex cellent targets for a rifle placed so high above the. trenches. The Hun, evidently satisfied with his observations, laid aside his binoculars and again took up his rifle, placed its butt in the hollow of his shoulder and took careful aim. At the same instant a brqwn body sprang outward from the cliff above him. There was no sound, and it is doubtful that the German ever knew what manner of creature it was that alighted heavily upon his back; for at the instant of impact, the sinewy fingers of the Ape-man encircled the hairy throat of the bochc. There was a moment of- fu-! tile struggling, followed by the sudden relaxation of dissolution;' the snipQr was dead, Lying, behind the rampart of rocks and boughs, Tarzan looked down upon the scene below. Near at hand were the trenches of the Germans. He could see officers and : men moving about in them, and guards and into the British lines, almost in front of him a well-hidden j No man Saw him come. No . man machine-gun wps firing across No knew that he was there. Man's Land in an oblique direction, I Headquarters of tho Second Kho striking the British at such an angle desians occupied a sheltered posi as to make it difficult for them to ' tion far enough back of the lines discover its location. . to be comparatively safe from Tarzan watched, toying idly with enemy observation. Even lights the rifle of the dead German. Pros-1 were permitted, and Colonel Capell cntly he fell to examining the sat before a field table on which mechanism of the piece. He glanced again toward the German trenches and changed the adjustment of the sights; then' he placed the rifle to his shoulder and took aim, Tarzan was an excellent shot. With his civil ized friends hev had hunted big game with the weapons of civiliza-. tion, and though he had never killed except for food or in self-defense, he 'had amused himself firing at in animate targets thrown into the air and had perfected himself in the use of firearms without realizing that he had done so. Now indeed would he hunt big game. A slow smile touched his lips as his finger closed gradually upon the trigger. The rifle spoke, and a German machine-gunner collapsed behind his weapon. In three minutes Tarzan picked off the crew of that gun. Then he potted a German officer emerging from a dugout, and the three men in the bay with himrTar zan was careful .to leave no one in the immediate vicinity to question how Germans could be shot in Ger man trenches when they were en tirely concealed frpm enemy view. Again adjusting: his sights, Tar zan took a long-rango shot at a dis tant machine-gun crew to his right. With calm deliberation he wiped them out to a man. Two guns were silenced. He saw men running through the trenches, and he picked off several of them. By -this time the Germans were aware that something was amiss that an un canny sniper had discovered a point of. vantage from whiclr-this sector of ihe trenches was plainl visible to him. At first they sought to dis cover his location in No Man's Land; but when an officer, looking over the parapet through a perl- of the head with a rifle bullet, which passed through his skull and fell to the bottom of tho trench, they real-' ized that it was beyond the parados rather than tho parapet that they should search. One of the soldiers picked up the bullet that had killed his officer, and thpn it was that real excite ment prevailed in that particular bay, for the bullet was obviously of German make. Hugging the para dos, messengers carried the word in both directions, and presently peri scopes were leveled above the para dos and keen eyes were searching out the traitor, it did not take them long to locate the position of the hidden sniper, and then Tarzan saw a, machine-gun being trained upon him. Before it had got into action, its ciew lay dead about it; but here were other men to take their places reluctantly perhaps; but driven on by their officers, they Tlify saw the were forced to it, and at the same time two other machine-guns were swung around toward the Ape-man Tarzan saw that tho game was abou up, and with n farewell shot laid aside the rifle and melted into the hills behind him. For many min utes he could hear the sputter of machine-gun fire concentrated upon the spot he had just quit, and smiled as he contemplated the waste of German "Hmmunitioh. "They have paid heavily for Wasimbu the Waziri, whom they crucified, and for his slain fellows," he thought. "But for Jane they oan never pay no, not if I killed them all." After dark that night he circled the flanks of both armies and out- passed through the British was spread a military map, talking with several of his officers. A large tree spread above them; a lantern sputtered dimly upon the table; a small fire burned upon tho ground close at hand. The enemy ,had no planes, and no other observers could have seen the lights from tlie German lines. The officers were discussing the advantage in numbers possessed By the enemy, and the inability of the British to more than hold their present position. They could not advance. Already they had sus tained severe losses in every attack, and had always been driven back by overwhelming numbers. There were hidden machine-guns, too, that bothered the commander consider ably. It was evidenced by the fact that he often reverted Jo them dur ing the conversation. "Something silenced them for a while this afternoon," said one of the younger officers. "I was observ ing at the time, and I couldn't make out what tho fuss was about; but they seemed to be having a dodl of a time in a section of, trench on tbeir left. At one time I could have sworn they were, attacked in the rear I reporte'd it to you at the. time, sir, you'll recall for thp blighters were peppering away at the side of that bluff behind them. I could see the, dirt flys. I don't know what it could have been." There was a slight rustling among th'e branches of xthe tree above 'them, and simultaneously a lithe brown body dropped in their midst.' Hands moved quickly to the butts of pistols, but otherwise there was no movement among the offi cers. rirji. mey iuukcu wouuenngiy 1 at the almost naked, white man ftatyK. &m JVitb thfUir cers. Firt they looked wonderingly at the almost nakeij white man iTlfrWHlWiiiii iTmffmmC -'fiia" ifl jMir ti f irWr iifTffMnTii '-MsmstmtmsKKM aMnmaMmmnmn' tti ''TrnTiiiMEnri v- xffrj max$imf' - a.sar?s How Tarzan Broke the Back of a Huge German Officer 4rl(,l0r.'AHMKuT V V TKWX kIHH flB.) "-,- it.M Hi'""1! !tamiiiiiiifc,Kr'rvf njuiHKiitv'v.MBKVvvTHnvmiMrTr BmmammsFz&k-. Riant ape-man pick (he heavy German playing upon rounded muscles, took in the primitive attire and the equally primitive armament; and then all eyes turned toward the com mander. v tvjiu liiu ucvii uie yuu, mi i snappeu mat omcer. "Tarzan of the Apes," replied tho newcomer. "Oh, Greystoke!" cried a major, and .stepped forward with out stretched hand. "Prcswick!" acknowledged Tar zan as he took it. "I didn't recognize you at fiist," apologized the major. "The last time I baw you, you were in Lon don in evening dress. Quite a dif ference 'pon my word, man you'll have to admit it." Tarzan smiled and turned toward the Colonel. "I overheard your conveisation," ho said. "I have just come 1 rum ucninu inu uuiniun uncs. Possibly I can help you." The commander looked question ingly toward Major Preswick, who quickly rose to the occasion and presented the Ape-man to his com manding officer nnd fellows. Briefly Tarzan told them what it was that had brought him out alone in pur suit of the Germans. "And now you have come to join us?" asked Colonel Capell. Tarzan shook his head. "Not regularly," he replied. "I must fight in my own way; but I can help you. Whenever I wish, I can enter the 3erman lines." Capell smiled and shook his head. "It's not so easy as you think," he said. "I've lost two good officers in the last week trying it; and they were experienced men none better in the Intelligence Department." "Is it more difficult than entering the British lines?" asked Tarzan. The colonel was about to reply when a new thought appeared to oc cur to him, and ho looked quizzi cally at the Ape-man. "Who brought you here?" ho asked. "Who passed you through our outguards?" "I have just come through the German lines and yours, and passed through your camp," he replied- "Send word to find out if any one saw me." "But "who accompanied you?" in sisted, Capell. t "I came alone," replied Tarzan; and, then, drawing himself to his full height: "You men of civiliza tion, when j ou coirie into the jungle, are as dead among the quick. Mantis e moikcyi 's a saEe by comparison. J marvel that you exist at all only ( your numbers, your weapons and yoiir power of reason ing save' you, Had I a few hundred great apes with your reasoning power, I could drive the Germans into the ocean as quickly as the remnant of them could reach the coast. Fortunate it is for you that wuPi. ruuuww it iw yuu um. ami many ui ms iwusmen. unsnngi the dumb brutes cannot combine. If ing his bow and selecting an arrow, - daoremaiBtfor'Tarzan fitted the ahafjb and drav from (lie rio u ml anil shalie him as a terrier ever free of men. But come, can 1 Would you like to know wheic several machine-gun em placements are hidden?" The colonel assured him that they would, and a moment later Tarzan had traced upon the map the loca tion of three that had been bother ing tho English. "There is a weak spot here," he said, placing a finger upon the map. "It is held by blacks; but the machine-guns out in front aic manned by whites. If Wait! I have a plan. You can fill that trench with your own men and en filade the tienches to its right with their own ma4hine-guns." Colonel Capell smiled and shook his head. "It sounds very easy," ho said. "It is easy for me," replied the Ape-man. "I can empty that sec tion of trench without a shot. I was laised in the jungle; I know the jungle folk the Gomangani a"s well as the others. Look for mo again on the second night." And he turned to leave. "Wait," said the colonel. "I will send an officer to pass you through the lines." Tarzan smiled and moved away. As he was leaving the little group about headquarters', ho passed a small figure wrapped in an officer's heavy overcoat. The collar was turned up, and the visor of the mili tary cap pulled well down over the eyes; but as the Ape-man passed, the light from the fire illuminated tho features of tho newcomer for an in stant, revealing to Tarzan a vaguely familiar face. Some officer he had known in London, doubtless, ho surmised, and went his way through the British camp and the British lines, all unknown to the watchful sentinels of the outguard. Nearly all night Tarzan moved across Kilimanjaro's foothills, tracking by instinct an unknown way, for- he guessed that what ho sought would be found on some wooded slope higher up than ho had come upon his recent journeys in this to him little-knowm country. Three houra before dawn, his keen nostrils apprised him that some where in the vicinity he would find what he- wanted, and so he climbed into a tall tree and settled himself for a few hours' sleep. Kudu the Sun was well up in the heavens when Tarzan awoke. Tho Ape-man stretched his giant limbs, ran his fmgers through his thick hair and swung lightly down to earth. Immediately he took up the trail he had come in search of, fol lowing it by scent down into a deep ravine. Cautiously he went now, for his"nose told him that tho quarry was close at hand, and pres ently from an overhanging bough he looked down upon Horta the boar and many of his kinsmen. Unsllngi By Edgar Rice lug it far back, took caroful aim at the largest of the great pigs. In tho Ape-man's teeth were other ar rows, and no sooner had the first one sped than he had fitted and shot another bolt. Instantly tho pigs were in turmoil, not knowing from whence tho danger threatened. They stood stupidly at first and then commenced milling aiound until six of their number lay dead or dying about them; then with a chorus of grunts and squeals they started off. at a wild run, disappearing quickly in the underbrush. Tarzan descended from the tiee, dispatched those that were not al ready dead and then proceeded to skin the caicasses. As he worked, rapidly and with gicat skill, ho neither hummed nor whistled as does the average man of civiliza tion. Taizan possessed the ability to concentrate each of his five senses misliaMiulic a ral. upon its particular business. Now he worked at skinning the six pigs, and his eyes and his fingers worked as though theie was naught else in all the wot Id than those six car casses; but his cars and his nose were as busily engaged clt.ewheie the foimcr tanging the foicst all about, and the latter assaying each passing zephyr. It was his nose that first discovered the approach of Sabor the lioness when the wind shifted for a moment. As clearly as though he had .seen her with his eyes, Tarzan knew that the lioness had caught tho scent of the fresh-killed pigs and had imme diately moved down-wind in their di lection. He knew, fiom the strength of tho scent-spoor and the rate of the wind, about how far away she was, and that she was ap proaching fiom behind him. He was finishing the last pig and he did not huriy. The five pelts lay close at hand he had been caroful to keep them thus together and near him; an ample tice waved its low branches above him. Ho did not even turn his head, for ho knew she was not yet in sight, but ho bent his cars just a bit more sharply for tho first sound of her nearer approach. When the final skin had been removed, he rose. Now he heard Sabor in the bushes to his rear, but .yet not too close. Leisuiely he gathered up tho six pelts and one of the carcasses, and as the lioness appeared between the boles of two trees, he swung up ward into the branches above him. Hero he hung the hides over a limb, seated himself comfortably upon another with his back against the bole of the tree, cut a hindquarter from tho carcass he had carried with him and proceeded to satisfy his hunger. Sabor slunk growling from the blush, cast a wary eye up ward toward the Ape-man and then fell uppn the nearest carcass. Tarzan looked down upon her and grinned, recalling an argument he had once had with a famous big game hunter, who declared that the king of beasts ate only what he had himself killed. Tarzan knew better, for he had seen Numa and Sabor stoop even to carrion. Having filled his belly, the Ape man fell to work upon the hides nil large and strong. First he cut strips from them about half an inch wide. When he had a sufficient length of these strips, ho sewed two of tho hides together, afterwards piercing holes every thiee or four inches around tho edges. Running another strip through these holes gave him a large bag with a draw string. In similar fashion ho pro duced four other like bags, but smaller, from the four remaining hides, and had several strips left over. ah tnis aone, Tarzan threw a largo juicy fruit att Sabor, cached thq remainder, pfthe j?Ic cjotcV All this done. Tarzan threw a of the trco and swung off toward tho southwest through the middle terraces of thn forest, carrying his fivo bags with him. Straight he went to the rim of the gulch where he had imprisoned Numa the lion Very stealthily he approached the edge and peered over. Numa was not in sight. Tarzan sniffed and listened. He could hear nothing, and yet ho knew Numa must bo within- tho cave. He hoped that Numa slept; much depended upon Numa's not discovering him. Cautiously Tarzan lowered him self over the edge of the cliff, and with utter noiselessncss commenced the descent toward th bottom of the gulch. He stopped often and turned his keen eyes and ears in the direc tion of the cave's mouth at the far end of tho gulch some hundred feet away. As ho ncared the foot of the cliff, his danger increased greatly. If he could reach the bot tom and cover half the distance to the tree that stood in the center of tic gulch, ho would feel compara tively safe, for then even if Numa appeared, Taizan could beat him cither to the cliff or to the tree, with enough of a lead to insure his escape. At last Tarzan stood upon the floor of the gulch. Silent as a d s embodied spirit, he advanced to waid the tree. He was halfway there, nnd no sign of Numa. Ho leached the scarred bole from which the famished lion had devoured the 1 1 1 baik and even torn pieces of the . wood itself, and yet Numa had not I appealed. As Tarzan drew himself up to the lower branches, he began I to wonder if Numa were in tho cave after all. Could it be possible that he had forced the barrier of rocks with which Tarzan had plugged tho other end of the passage where it opened into the outer woild of free dom? Or was Numa dead? Tarzan started to descend and in 1 vestigate tho cavern, when it oc Icuiied to him that it would save effort were he to lure Numa out in I stead. Acting upon the thought, ho . uttered a low growl. Instantly ho was icwaided by the sound of move I ment within the cave, and a moment later a wild-eyed, haggard lion lushed forth ready to face the devil himself, were he edible. When Numa saw Tarzan, fat and sleek, perched in the tree, he became sud denly the embodiment of frightful lage. His eyes and his nose told him that this was the creature who was responsible for his predica ment, and also that this creature was good to cat. Frantically the lion sought to scramble up the bole of tho tree. Twice he leaped high enough to catch the lowest branches with his paws, but both times he fell backward to the earth. Each time he became more furious. His growls and roars were incessant and honiblc, and all the time Tar zan sat grinning down upon him, taunting him in jungle Billingsgate for his inability to reach him, and mentally exulting that always Numa was wasting his alieady waning strength. Finally tho Ape-man rose and un slung his rope. He arranged the coils carefully in his left hand and the noose in his right, and then he took a position with each foot on one of two branches that lay in about the same horizontal plane, and with his back pressed firmly against tho stem of the tree. Thero he stood hurling himself at Numa until the beast was again goaded into leaping upward at him, and as Numa rose, the noose drop ped quickly over his head and about his neck. A quick movement of Tar zan's lope-hand tightened the coil, and when Numa slipped backward .lBLT"Ly.iilh,in,d,eti swinging by the neck. Moving slowly outwaid upon tho two branches, Tarzan swung Numa out, so that ho could not reach the bole of the tice with his raking talons; then Tarzan made the rope fast after drawing the lion clear of the ground, dropped his five pig skin sacks to earth and leaped down himself. Numa was striking fran tically at the grass rope with his claws. At any moment he might sever it, and Tarzan must there fore work rapidly. First Tarzan drew the larger bag over Numa's head and secured it about his neck with the drawstring; then he managed, after considerable effort, during which he ,barely es caped being torn to ribbons by the mighty talons, to hog-tie Numa drawing his four legs together and securing them in that position with the strips he had trimmed from tho pigskins. Bythis time the lion's efforts had almost ceased; it was evident that he was being rapidly strangled; and as that did not at all suit the pur pose of the Tarmangani, the latter swung again into tho tree, unfas tened the rope -from above and lowered the lion to the ground, where ho immediately followed it and loosed the noose about Numn's neck. Then Tarzan drew his hunting-knife and cut two round holes in the front of the headbag oppo site the lion's eyes for the double purpose of permitting him to see and giving him sufficient air to breathe. This done, Tarzan busied himself fitting the other bags, one over each of Numa's formidably armed paws. Thore on the hind feet he secured not only by lightening the draw strings but also rigged garters that fastened tightly around the legs above the hocks. He secured the front-feet bags in place similarly above the great knees. Now, indeed, was Numa tho lion loducrd to the harmlessness of Bara, the deer. By now Numa was showing signs pf turning life, SwiW harmlessness of Bara, the deer. Burroughs breath and struggled; but the strips of pigskin that held his four legs together were numerous and tough. ' xarzan wntcneu nnu was sure tnar. they would hold. After Numa agate breathed normally and was able to roar out his protests and his race. 1.. . .. .. - nis struggles increased to Titanic proportions for a short time; but as a lion's powers of endurance an in no way proportionate to his slzo and strength, he soon tired and lay quietly. Amid renewed growling and another futile attempt to fres himself, Numa was finally forced to submit to the further indignity of liaving a rope secured about his neck; but this timo it was no noose that might tighten and strangle him, but a bowlineknot which floes not tighten or sliTTunder strain and may be easily upset when tho strain is removed. The other end of the rope Tarzan secured to the stem of the tree; then he quickly cut the bonds secur ing Numa's legs and leaped aside as the beast sprang to his feet For a moment the lion stood vrith legs far outspread; then he raised first one paw and then another, shaking them energetically in an effort to dislodge the strange footgear that Tnrzart had fastened upon them. Finally he began to paw at tho bag ipon his head. The Ape-man, stand ing with ready spear, watched Numa's efforts .intently. Would the bags hold? As tho clinging things upon his feet and face resisted his every effort to dislodge .them, Numa became frantic. He rolled Upon the ground, fighting, bit ing scratching and roaring. He leaped to his feet and sprang into the air. He Charged Tarzan, only to bo brought to n sudden stop ns the rope securing him to the tree taut ened. Then Tarzan stepped in and rapped him smartly on the head with the shaft of his s,pear. Numa reared upon his hind feet and struck at the Ape-man, and in re turn received a cuff on one car that sent him reeling sideways. When he icturned to the attack, he was again set sprawling. After the fourth effort it appeared to dawn upon the king of beasts that he had met his master; his head and tall drooped, and when Tarzan ad vanced upon him, he backed away though still growling. Leaving Numa tied to tho tree, Tarzan entered the tunnel and re moVed the barricade from the oppo site end; then ho returned to the. gulch and strode straight for the tree. Numa lay in his path, and as Taizan approached, growled menacingly. The Ape-man cuffed him aside and unfastened the rope from tho tree. Then ensued a half1- hour of stubbornly fought battle while Tarzan endeavored to drive Numa through the tunnel ahead of ' him, and Numa persistently refused to be driven. At last, however, by dint of the unrestricted use of his spear-point the Ape-man succeeded in forcing the lion to move ahead of him and eventually guided him into the passageway. Once inside, the problem became simpler, for Tarzan followed close behind, his sharp speafpoint an unremitting in centive to forward movement on the pait of the lion. And so they passed through the tunnel and emerged into the jungle. Numa had now learned the rudi ments of being driven; Tarzan now urged him forward and there be gan as strange a journey as the un recorded history of the jungle con tains. The rest of that day was eventful, both for Tarzan and for Numa. From open rebellion at first the lion passed through stages of stubborn resistance and grudging obedience, to final sunender. He was n very tired, hungry and thirsty lion when night overtook them; but theie was to be no food for him that day nor the next; Tarzan did not dare risk removing the head-bag, though he did cut another hole in the nose that permitted Numa to quench his .thirst shortly after dark. Then he tied the lion to a tree, sought food for himself and stretched out among the branches above his captive for a few hours' sleep. Early the following morning they resumed their journey, winding over the low foothills south of Kll manjaro, toward the east The beasts of the jungle who saw them took one look and fled. The scent spoor of Numa alone might have been enough to provoke flight in many of the lesser animals, but th? sight of this strange apparition which "Smelled like a lion but looked like nothing they had ever seen be fore led through the jungles -by a giant Tarmangani was too much for even the more formidable denizens of the wild. "DUT Sabor, the lioness, recognis ing from a distance tho scent of her lord and master intermingled with that of a Tarmangani and the hide of Horta, the boar, trotted through the aisles of the forest to investigate. Tarzan and Numa j heard her coming, for she voiced a plaintive and questioning whine as the baffling mixture of odors aroused her curiosity and her fears; m for lions, however terrible they may ? appear, are often timid animals and Sabor was habitually InquuH--' tive as well. Tarzap unslung his speary for cfr knew it was likely that ha would , now have to- fight to retain Ua prize. Numa halted, and turned kfa outraged head in the direction af the coming she. Ho voiced a thrifty 5 growl that was almost a purr., 7Vr,-',n &UI! wa i.fvu tut; jwilll. Ul JJfVuajny him on again, when Sabor; brok Into Wew and behind hrjL),Ai iBmiinr H '- Jfa JMJBMU ftli ,Nl vl h - tJ tf " m v J )J . .
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