-) ;. EVENING PUBLIC1 LEJJGEK PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1910 I &. If I.' IE R. ft .f J MEiV LOOZ TOLD ioo; TARZAN Is Forced to Protect a German Spy By Edgar Rice Burroughs mnrknble story suggested by these mute j evidences 01 a trugcuy oi a time ions past. The ape-man fell a sense of deep ad miration for this nameless adventurer of n bygone day. What a brute of a man lie must have been, and what a glorious talc of battle and vicissitudes of fortune ' mtiit nnpn hnvn been locked within that terlcutnnnt von Ooss had died at hla I whitcncil skull I Tnrzan stooped to cv- liands and that he had others iso amine the shreds of clothing that still nanus, nnu wiai no " , b th(, bonns ,-,,.,. ,mrtlci,. f wrought vengeance upon the men of the 1(1-,)(. ,a( diMippcarcd. doubtless rnten Gcrmau company that had murdered, i,y y,. No boots lemnined, If the man nlllaced and outraged at Tarzan's bun- had worn boot"-, but there were several ii i- -H-.,t,.i xnnntrr There buckles scattered about suggesting that galow In the Uazlri country. "'" t t of ,,. ,lappings had been (CamrloM, 1P19, v Moor Rle JJurrouenjJ fCor-irtflnt ISli. iu tht Publlo Ltiotr Co.) rPARZAN of the. Apes was disgusted. " Ho had bad the German spy, Bertha Klrchcr, In his power, and had left her unscathed. It Is true that he had slain Hauptmann Fritz Schneider, that Un .. A. 1.. U.I was etlll anotner omcer 10 ue ixuuuu-u fori but him he could not find. I.ieu tcnant Obcrgatz he still sought, though Talnly, for nt last he learned that the man of leather, while just beneath the bones of one hand lay a metal cylinder about eight inches long and two inches in diameter. As Tnrzan picked it up. he saw that it had been heavily lacquered hml been sent unon some special inil lmtl withstood the slicht ravages of mission, whether in Africa or back to time so well as to be in us periect a Europe, Tarzan's informant either did TZ dropped Uo 'hN not know or would not divulge. 1 ,ajf jnn(. ..jp centuries ago. But the fact that Tarran had per- A Tnr7!ln examined it, he discovered nutted sentiment to stay his hand when 'that one end was tloscd with a friction he might so easily have put Bertha cover which a little twisting force soon 1 lie iiiiMn. e " . ' , loosened anil removed, revealing a loll Klrchcr out of the way in the Hotel at o( 1)arrnm(,nt wtlimi hich the npe Wilhclmstal that night rankled in the maII extracted und opened, disclosing a nne. man's bosom. He was shamed by 1 number of age-yellowed sheets closclv his weakness and when he had handed written upon in n tine hand in a Ian nis wcahnc-s, anu uiu gunge wlnth he guessed to be Spanish. the raner she had given him to tuo , . .,hi..h ll(, ..,,,.1,1 , decipher. Pnon British chief of staff, even though the the last sheet was 11 roughly drawn map information it contained permitted the with imm.rous rclcrence-points marked ; British to frustrate a German think- upon it. all unintelligible to lar.nn J attack be was still much dissatisfied who. after n brief examination of the I with 'himself Tarzan blamed tin pupcis, leturned them to their metal, i .. .. l. ......al.lArnM it. mum 11s ''lis,., leiweeu me mil uuu simmicu u i r IVCUMK'. "" MV ........... v.. ... -.,.-- - ; association with the etiein mating mini- '"" "- i'.i..-i - "" .."". nnere .,f civilization, for in the bottom And then, with 11 Darting glance nt of his savage heart he held in contempt J the an' ienr skeUtnn. he turned to the both civilization nnu lis represciiiiinn-- in.sK 01 ,i-i culling iiie wcvutii wau 01 -the men nnd women of the civilised t lie on r. on . Slowly and with manv rests countries of the worlo. Always wn ne ni uraggeit ln weahening nouv upward, comparmi; their weaknesses, thrir vice. Again nnd again he -lipped bail; trom their hvporisbs and their little vain shei r eh rii-ti"ii. and would have fallen ties witli fie open, primitive wnvs of 1 to the tlooi i.f the iiiiivon but for fie his ferocious jungle mates; and all the (merest nance How lung it took In 11 while thcro battled in that same biff, to scale that frightful wall he could not lienrt with these forces another mighty have told, and when nt lust ho dragee 1 , force Tarzan's love and loyalty for his, himself over the top it was to lie wiak una gasping, too spent to uo more. 1 At last Tarzan arose, very slowly gaining Ins knees lirst nntl then stag goring to his feet; jet his indomitable will was evidenced by a suddi u straightening of hi shoulders and a ilctermined shake of Ins head as lie friends of the civilized world. More than once had Tarzan rovertcd to the primitive, only to return ngaln to civili zation through love for his mate; but now that she wa gone, he felt that this time he had definitely departed forever fpnm the lmnnts of man, and that lie should live and dlo a beast anions ,,, f t . . beasts, even as he had been trom ",, his valiant fight for survival. Ahead fancy to mnturitv. he canned the rough landscape for sign Tor several davs inrrnn traversed n j 0fI10tiu.r ,.,,,. which lie knew would country rid, in game and watercourses fU innUMf, f,ooni -rilo cs,,rn niN He moved -lovvh. hunting and nsmtig s,.Pmci rl.er now. though weirdlv 1111 or again fraterniing or i1uarreiing w ltn , for (hlj v(V,.m(.( , (Umri, m th(. the other savage denizens of the jungle. kn1Rht s though mocking him with Now it was little Maim the monkiv 1 rli-ir nearness at the moment his e vv'uo chattered and scolded at the mign v , iClutlnH ns Ilbout , r,,I1(er them fni Tarmangani and in the nevt '"' ,,vcr uuattniiiable. ..nnn.l Ii t ... t l!lT I 1 1ST 11 1 IIP s,jiM.- , it . !l,wl i (lie lunir irrnss mst ahead, "t Mile after mile Tarzan of the Apes VV"W' 'V,.. 1V... ."".;: i. ..,,,;. .ninir tl,e' put shml behind him. bo.ne up bv .... L !niniwl wns told, sheer for. e of will, where a lesser man ?!.-.?.. :..i.,.k;i..i Vl.is, nnrt of the would have lain dow n to die and ies lUll H iiiuuuuiu ..... , i. . J tl...i nn l ,n ti nrn liMlil- jungle. l.an ...,.t e.vw --- .'" .m an ouonv of effort : but nt Inst 1. j forever tirtd muscles whose every move ig' progress fiecanie practically mechanical said Manu. i '1P staggered on with a ilnzed mind thin ..x.-..?f" A-mmmja'mr.iirm:miiiiraiKmKrim!nmmmm :":-' .. '-. im pm.; mmamEmmmsmau ,; ,- rti'Wyii , c-i'i'jKMKmiBSisesmnim i: Mmm&mu tiMsw i ill II ) im T 1 mmMmmKmmmm . - nihikib i iwsigafiM fflmm&u "KW! 1 - w Mm fBliwFVHHnKi , -1 mWmimMaKmiKMMMmBmmmrM;' ::i--mMBam;'- m zMMwmmmMfrM&mmmwwMiBmmmmmmmf?? MftBKaHBBsja? ' : 'c IWfCifsS&fS . a I'JfiiSBSFfFT ,4 -K ..lawrwrfiSWfr- -fr.T !?.';;. twl?gIR?fi55s3SB59atB'5i ff'- - ,v . bv sl -vvw-a 'i i - . .Jui:ui3rMi . j..jjtti v jzriLrtsi ,. -i rt-n- .v i in F'sn-VBaricu-hi- J -w .-: .--.--. biissasfefcsevssfflHB iscs wcro as unavailing as threats, at last lost both his patience and his bend, and seizing the girl roughly, threw her to the floor, and simultaneously thero burst Into the hut a raging demon qf jealousy. Naratu had come. Kicking, scratching, striking', biting, the ncgress routed the terrlfleir Usanga. Bcrthn Klrchcr heard her Bcremlng down the vlllaee street at Usanga'a heels, nnd trembled nt the thought of '..,.... , t . 1 ..l !. I.H...I.. vviiui. iu in store ior iter iu un; uuuua of these two, for she knew that toriior rovv nt the latest Naratu would take out upon her the full measure, of her jealous hatred after she had spent her first wrath upon TJsnnga. The two had departed but a few min utes when the warrior guard returned. He looked in and then entered. YUKAX of the Apes, feasting well upon n juicy hnunch from Bara the tp the cars of the girl from the direc tion of the village she had recently quitted a weird and high-pitched cry, I he effect upon the npes was clcc trical; they stopped their movements and stood In attitudes of Intent listening for a moment j nnd then one fellow, huger than his companions, raised his face to the heavens and In n voice that Bfinl tbf cold sl'UIIs through the girl's slight frame answered the far-off cry. Unco again the beaters took up their (irumming nnd the slow dance went on, lhcre waH n certain fascination in tho savage ceremony that held the girl, and as there seemed little likelihood of her being discovered, She felt that she might as well remain the rest of the night la her tree nnd resume her flight by the comparatively greater safety of day light. L A HALF-HOUIl passed, during which! "the caijcncc of tho drums Increased gradually. Now the great hull .that hod replied to tlve distant call leaped from the inner circle to dance nlone be tween the drummers and the other l.nlla and to utter a piercing scream thc tiimieiigc or ttie bun ape, had the girl UUl ClIUVVU 11. Ho stood thus in the full clnre nf ih great moon, motionless after screaming Ing farther t" the north at this sea son of th vuir. 1,.., ,!..... 1.. Tlnlqm 1UI men- 13 iM..u.. , ,, .:....!.. 'Would von like to see Uolgamr" "" , uU , l.. u mwiu "'h ' Manu's tone whs sneering, and Tar- I""- ' U" lulls were now but a dim ian knew that it was hecause little ill-de lined b hir ahead. Sometimes- he Mam thought all creatures feared , forgot that they were hills, and again migh v Ilolgaui the gorill.i. Tarzan ' ' ''l 'red vaguely w hv he must go arched his gie.it chest and struck it ;n f. ever through nil this torture, eu with a clenched fist. "I am Tarzan," , dealing to overtake tljpm-the fleeing, lie cried "While Tarzan was vet a elusive hills. 1'reseiitly he began to balu. ho slew u Holgani. Tnrzan seeks ' bale them und there formed within his the Mauguni. vvl.ii are his brothers, but i'"''"""" brain the hal u.iua ion that Bolgani he does not seek: so let Ilolgann !'- 'nils were German hills that he.v keep from the path of Tar.an." , "' -l'"" ome one dear to him wlii.m Little Mnnu the monkey was much "' "ubl never quite lecall. und that In impressed, for tie way of the jungle is ' was pursuing to slay them, to boast and to believe. It was then This nlea growing, appeared to give that he condescended to tell Tarzan '""' strength a new and revivifwng more of the Mangani. I I'urpns.-: UIIli y for time he no longer "Thev go thcie and there and there," staggered, but went forward s eadil.v. he said, making a wide sweep with a 't '"''i'' "p t Once lie .stumbled and brown hand first toward the north, then f'1". "" " '"' "ed to rise, he found west and then south again. 'Tor ' that he could not that his strength was ii .,.i i, .,,,.(..,! ,; iwt "i almost gone. lie would travel a much hunting: but between lies a great levy vards ami sink down again. place where thin- is no food and no " was ilunng one of these irequent faM,.M U.,,KU t t. jllu bejoinl. The 'of terror, they looked back to see hi. water so thej must go that way. ' periods ot utter exhaustion that liel,cln t):(j ,(.aM.(l, but the sky was still ihod.v rise as though bv magic straight And again he swung ins nauu tnrougn "-- "-. ""i- .....-,...... .....- ...", ,( V(1c a,( 11 Ulat 0cl) ,1H (1(1I1 (,X(S the half circle that explained to Tarzan .ib.vve him Mtli bis remaining could not pen. trate the darkness larther the great detour the apes made to eome strength he turned himself over on his timn n .u f,.ct- AmI tlPr,. . h'pt. to their hunting gnmnd to the west. I'" to see ska wheel quickly upward. , uf.r ,,,,,, nKain o wlmt r.nmined of That was . ' u-l.t for the Mangani. ' h the sight. Jarzans mind o.eared ska, until the morning sun nvvakuied who arc lazv ' to not care to movi tor a while. 1 him with a new sense ot strength und rapidly; but tm Tarzan the straight '1" the end so near as that-'" he well-bem,.'. road would lie hitter, lie woum eioss thougnt. Uoes fska Know tuut i am so .,, M. ... i..st Tnrzan mn.e thronrh 4Rwi-.1. c ' 'JttfKLIiL -i -JTM J' -HaalO T deer, was fneuelv conscious of n tioubled mind. He should hove been l . 1.1. ,-!! ..! nil tt... .nlil uv pence vvuu miiisuii uuu uu mo v.,,u, for was he not in Ills native clement, surrounded by game in plenty nnd rap idly filling his bcllv with the flesh he loved best? But Tnrzan of tho Apes was haunted by the picture of a slight young girl being shoved and struck by L...,i . n..nna TT. hnirnn In u-nnilpr what they were doing to her and where iprtli lih weird ehnllenge, when from !. .rtHn nlj.:- Imr Tie wnu erv ClOSC behind her the m'rl tinnrrl nn . much ashnmed of himself, as he had svvering scream, nnd nn instant later been after the episode in AVilhelmstal saw nn almost naked white man drop when his weakness had permitted him I from n nearby tree intothe clearing, to spare this spy's life. Wns ho to Instantly the apes beenmc n roaring, be thus weak again? No! .snarling pack of angry beasts. Bertha Night came, and he settled himself in ' Kircher held her breath. What manias an ample tree to rest until morning, i was this that dared approach these but sleep would not come. Instead 'frightful creatures in their own haunts, n.n i.n rioinn nt n M-liito pirl belnc nlone ncninst fiftv? Kim cn... i.A ibenten bv black women, and of tho same lirovvn-skinned figure bathed in moon girl nt the mcrcv of the warriors some- light walk straight toward tho snarling' where in that dark and forbidding , pack. She saw the symmetry nnd the jungle. j beauty of that perfect body Its grace, Wflh n growl of anger nnd self-con- I its Strength, its wondrous proportion tempt Tarzan arose, shook himself and mg; nnd then she recognized him. It kwiinir from his tree to that adjoining: was the same creature whom shn bnrl nnd thus, through the lower terraces; seen earning Major Schneider from he followed the 'trail Usanga's partj General Kraut's headquarters, the samn had taken earlier iu tho afternoon. who had rescued her from Numa the Prowling stealthily, as prowls Numa 'lion, the same whom she had struck the lion stalking n wary prey, Tarzan i down with the butt of her pistol and moved noiselessly about the pallsadei .escaped when he would havo returned listening and sniffing. At thetjear of! her to her enemies, the same who had the village ho discovered a tree with, slain Captain Fritz Schneider nnd branches extending over the top of the spared her life that night In Wllhelms palisade, and n moment later he had i tul. dropped quietly Into the village. vFear-filled and fascinated, she From hut to hut he went, searching ! watched him as he neared the apes, with keen ears and nostrils for some i She heard sounds issue from his throat confirming evidence of the presence of sounds identicnl with those uttered the girl, and nt last he found the hut In I by the npes; and though she could which she had been imprisoned. The I scarce believe the testimony of her own village was quiet now, for the last of -I ears, she knew that this godlike crca the.beer and the food had been dis- jturc was conversing with the brutes In posed of, nnd the blacks lay In their their own tongue. huts oveitoine by stupor; yet Tnrzan Tarzan halted just before he reached made no noise that a man keenly alert 'the sties of the outer circle. "I am might have heard. , Tarzan of the Apes!" he cried. "You lie passed around the entrance of the do npt know me. because I am of an hut and listened. From within came no , other tribe; but Tarzan comes in peace, sound, not even the low breathing of or he comes to fight which shall it bo? n.,i rn.-nk..! et he wns sure that thelTarzin will talk with your king." And girl had been here, perhaps was here so saving, he pushed straight forward even now; and so he entered, slipping through the shes nnd the jouug, who now gave way ticiore mm, maKing a narrow lane through which ho passed toward the inner circle until ho faced the great king-npe. Again he spoke. "I am "Tnrzan of the Apes!" he cried. "Tarzan comes to live with bis brothers. He will come In pence and live in pence, or he will kill ; but lie hits come, and he will stay. Which sdiall Tarzan dnnco the Dum- Dum In peace with his brothers, or shall Tarzan kill first?" "I am Go-lat, king of the npes," screamed the great bull, "i kill! I kill! I kill!" And with n sullen roar he charged the Tarmangnni. quiik turn and the bull's right arm was locked beneath the right arm of his foe in a jujutsu hold their approach the villagers came pour- irele aboul the blae. before If .. n!l..n,l.. nu n .1 It rt m V...1 t ttl CIPll III US ftlieiltV " UinUllJUV'lHl.,1 ,...... I For a moment he stood .motionless just within the entrance, listening. .vo, there was no one here, but he would investigate. As his ejes became accus- d- t A ll. Mn4nM ilnKlllAlfl llltrilft ' ,lin I.nf nn nl,iecfr liepnn to take form that presently outlined itself in n hu man figure supine upon the floor. Tarzan stepped closer and leaned over to examine it: it wns the dead body of, a nnked'warrior from whose chest pro truded n short spear. Then he searched I carefully" every square foot of the rc Imaining floor-space and at Inst re- turned to the body again, where he I stooped and sniffed of the linlf of the I weapon that had slain the black. A .slow smile touched his lips that nnd a slight movement of his head betokened I that he understood. I A rapid search of the rest of the vil , lage assured him that the girl had ts icaped, and a feeling of lclief came over i him that no harm had befallen her. I That her life was equally iu jeopardy I in the snvage jungle to which she must which a I have lied did not impress nun us u MlIILU IU IUL into the nir und disappear amidst the leafv foliage. FOU n moment the blacks stood para l.vs'eil with astonishment and fear, but liiescutly the burly serceant who led them, I'snuga, stinted back along lm.il 11 ! ...... 1.1 lnn ViVII !! tlin -w r i . 11(111 -lln'fliri (Ullriiil ll'illei-oiu llillmil niwi 1I1I11I1 IW11L 1IIU 'l 1111 ingout, aim Lsauga advanced witn two, r.. ".'.. .V"'"..," ?.. ' '. ." .'".V"...." " ,,. ti, innile wns not a dangerous milt .Hill l.Wlllieil III llIC KlOlC.squU .' " . " - ., , , pillCe; lie lllllliaiVU nil on." nam ,tt.v than in 1'nris or i,onuon uy nigiii of his warriors to palaver with the jdauec' ilncf. .lhe experiences of the day had so shaken the nerves of the black ser- ! A S TIII: Kirl l'm"' " . keeping in geant that he was ready to treat with 5 '''f s'ia,luu' "f Vie '.""l: 'ooki,1!:1 0T Z ,. . ,. ., . '. ., . ., .Naiatu, she wns suddenly discovered by tl lies,, people rather than take their vil- 0ne upon the pdgp jif the ciowd a huge lage hy force of arms, as would ordi- umnnn ,ii ,,.tl ti,,.i.,i,i i .. sc ,, , ---- .iini 'w hi, iint J.UIII1I1 iiiiiir iiiiviii,!! - , . . "r - ............ . - . .. u. .,.,.. ,. ,,u ,...., .-uiiiHiuj,, mm i iiiiii; , , - . . the dry country and come to the good near gone Unit he dares come down and tn(. hills out of the vullov of dentil into to foil'1" hmi. Loading their guns as ""nly have been his preference; but toward hei. From her aspect the white "'8 branch, he hunting in a tliird of the tune that it perch upon m.v iarcas?" And even n ,,, flf ..uiklike beautv. ri h in game lll0N "me, the blacks ran to sucior h?w. thvr' influenced him a vague con- jKj,. thought the woman meant literally ot a forwt god, would tuke to go far to the north ami then a grim smile touched those swollen jcow him lay a deep 'vullev through tlu'ir fellow, and at X'sanga's command Metioii, that there watched over this to tear lici to pieces. So utterly wan- lu minute l"-1 i0 circle bnck again. And so it was thut lips as into the savage mind urae "'the cuiter of which dense juii'de vege- they spread into n thin lino that pres- l"'t of the jungle a powerful demon ton und uncalled for was the' 'ittaek ' broke from llis THE Ape-man, as the girl watched him, seemed entirely unprepared for the charge, and she looked to sec him borne down nnd slain at the first .rush. The great bull was almost upon him, with huge hands outstretched to seize him. before Tnrzan made a move; and when he did move, his quickness would have put Ara the lightning to shame. As darts forward the head of Histah the snake, so darted forward the left hand of the man-beast as he seized the left wrist of his antagonist. A quick turn, nnd the bull's right arm was locked beneath the right arm of his foe He had entered the trees again and i in a jujutsu lio'd that Tarzan had ras outside the palisade when there nine faintly to ins ears irom lur oe ond the village an old. familiar the tiiul at a run, calling to the others 'ge. by force of arms, as would ordi- oman who lose, shrieklnc. nnd sound. Balancing lightly upon a swa he continued on toward the west crossing came in Blicvwi mm ursuiuie i ui 1 1, . n- uis - , ,ieiu 1DI11 ,niu i uiuuiii ."i, U'f0ot of loftV sno W - CU pill'l! Ill 0 11 11 1 a i II tanco ne saw; anotner range 01 inoun- then he lay very still aim waned )U a3 t lnm, thut TuriKin hnd never tains, beyond winch he felt must li. It was restful l.ving there, for the , ookc)1 u10n )poTC r . lt ,k(.h the huuting-ground of tho Mangani. ' sun was now obscured bv , clouds and lhat ,), foot t another white man ever There he would join them nnd remain Tarzan was very tired. lie feared thnt'UU(j touched it. for a while before continuing on toward he might sleep, and something told him i " the coast and the little cabin that hi that if he did, he would never awaken father had built beside the land-locked , and bo he co he stood, a graceful statue lsteiiuig intently, ljor stood thus, and then there lins the long, weird cry . .-..-. .. ........ ,...- .,, i." . - .. ,,'" "... ............ iwi ,- iiu- illim-K-- ... - . tat ion marked the course of a liver be- " entirely surrounded the ttee into who wiemeu miraculous power ior evil ; timt it found the giil entirelv uiiprp-!f nW culling lo ape, ami ne wns uvvuj KiiuisL iuu5L- nno uuriiueu iiiui. r nsi , ,nmi. nun w int. vvoni hi-,. I..n,l tlirougll IIU- jungle luwuiu iue suuuu in : . - -. ...i. i. w.. i, .. . . , . .,. ., 1.,,. and mdden thought the cunning of th n range of low mountains, wild beast at buy. Closing bis eyes, he ,, W1K, u primeval torest extended wlni h their comrade had vanished sight of a broad plateau, rock- i threw a foiearm across them to protect or m,,Vt to terminate at lust at the lunga called, but leceived no reply ; nielli iroin riKn s iiuwernii iieuu, uuu i .. ... . . . ... i i suiji-u ,uulu it-urn now iiiesu viiiukuis 1,0 mil n, .... i,.,,.i' i ..,.. ,i i... .. ., , .,- ... ... ' . vt...,l ...!,i. tl.lo .....n... .i ..n.l le i.... . . . : .-''. ' "". men ne uiiviinreii siovviy wnn rule ai -"" mm .....-,,..., uu u mrj e guessi d And then I -illicit liotin" the readv, jieering up into the tree, lie Uu' " pood will Lsangn would be, the interruption, came lurehiug forward could see no one nothing. The circle '"ost tureful to treat them with kind- to question her. cioseu in until n uy nincKS were span i- "-i uuu ii-siim-i. "wi.i.t .1.. !.. .!. ,.."..l ...1.1. .!..; , ... u l,n ,,.,!,.,...- it ,l..l.,.l ,i.t ,i, i iv nat do uiK unions inu uiuuenes wnn wieir heen 's i'..t..v, ... uticmiicu ,,ii. uir eyes. harbor at the jungle's edge. ing powers The ape-man found tin; country he maluing awake. Not a musi le moved was crossing rough in the extreme, the to Ska, circling above, it became evi roughest he had iver encountered. The dent that the end had come, that at plateau was out by frequent tanjons, the last he should be rewarded for his lung passage of which often entailed hours I vigil. of wearing effort. The vegetation was circling slowlv. he dropped iloser and sparse arid of a faded brown color that l,.loser to the dying mun. Why did not lent to the whole landscape a most le- , Tnrzan move! Had he Indeed been pressing aspect. (.rent rocks were overcomo by the rIppp of exhaustion, or ucu ii r, hum mi n im T s;i;a rlf,llt nn, ueatn at last eye could see. lying partly embedded in plalmcil ,hat mighty bol ? Was that an impalpable dust that rose m flouds t savage heart stilled forever1 It about him at every step. I lie sun beat ils unthinkable. down mercilessly out of a cloudless skv , ,, . ... . . . , , For a dnv Tarzan tolled across this sk,n. ,lth, susiioi.n. ircled aow hateful land, and at the going ' "'" ,Twl "; nlm"&t "' J1' ",p, dpwn of the sun. the distant mountains ! '"; Krfat nkfd breast, only to wheel to the west seemid no nearer than at 1 hiiddcnly away: but the third time, his morn. Never a sign of living thing had touched the brown skin. It was the ape-man seen, other than Ska. that th."S' ' "-' C0IJtac(t Hose.1 an elePtHc bird of ill omen, that had followed him i ". ? , "lst?,te?u,sJym'1,t",i;'S tirelessly since he had entered this the quiet tlod that had am mot lonlcss .,.H wmit. ho long. A brown hand swept dovyn- uovvever, ne nau no misgivings nut iu, ue woum ,e,c, ;u:rr,IluKI: duys ,ho lt)e man spent iu Minnptitrfitf.1 (ill nit; romnii- I . mum tin. one rlioiichtvof ro- ' x icsthiK and xroupi-rnt inc. oamK ... . f.,:, Perplexed and by this time a bit want. ' In, ccimt .u me iiuiiiver il iieveiopeu iiul ine . ,.f, . ,, , , ., .: ,; ' : , ' .: , ;iin.. ..i.!..f 1....1 t..r..i .... .i i i food and drink.' Come with me" whiih he would be clad to dispose of ml '".' .tllrp,v nn .arm about her aud owed, the ulaoKs drew slowly avvav from the spot and with inuny were most easily bagged, and unon the ' glances und less laughing, continued -m ' ....... . . i inu iiiiT iriivii liniin niitrn n nniir tn rri n a i p-..,, ...i ni.iu nt.,1 !.. ...,.r.sni. 41.... i iroin thn snot nm with manv Imcku m A -'"''" " "v.v" ' " i'i'M uuut uuu mut nnu hit twmiuin tuii', " .". '.' .". ". uith nrnf niia vitiu nn.l nmminiiHnn tv .1 i II (ilwinL !..! Iivcu lAilnhlnn jAtitt....! . '- '- .i j bij uii 4Aftaftv'4 v the very clothiug from their bucks, all he food. happy solution was arrived at by u suggestion of one of his men that the fourth he set out to exploi, the valley upon thei ir Journer jwtll wn ub out a I , Muegin to'see that er had Reeded JZ on'l "S ' " owCd UappXedr thos'i,,1'" ''"' " to wage war to obtain Sne iMA "-re ' le-U saw himpeering from behiml a . Ata,? so ,, Won "--ive, assai eu uy tne scent oi num. ot woman- !" i uu mut mi.- nun jusL lu ..i i f,.r,i, ,i, fnii,vinr ,inv ,i gani the black man There were many ' fiont of them. With shouts .to. the r ." ,'ort . the oUo wi ng da, and ..I ,i..n n...i n..vn.i .. .,1. ,ir.. p. nn, .. ... ('oiiiii:, iiifins iiuir ill, loin o((ii lnitiio ------. --;--,-- .,--,.----. ----, ,i,, -., f,....i , i,t ,i, i, , nesii meal in reiurn ior ineir iiosniiu anotner mui oi a sue iiirniaugaui. ;,"' "" .""mi "'- ... ...... ....- . This ti, nhinf nro,l n t ,. , ,.. ., ., ... rst to reach the tree stonncd sudilenlv ' tins the chiet agreed to, s swinging iiirougu me uees, aarzan .,.,,1 u,r-inlc hnck their eves rollinir fe,n-' '"g the klm and qunntity of gnme to ajiprouched the authors of these .In- r ,K i'i ' ,S paid in return for flour, goats nnd fo turbing scents, lie umc warily from ,., . .,. ,i,i, ,i,. . . land a certain number of huts that we the flniik. but paving no attention to """ ." ."""' ',... ,"'"1 .'.".' .. . lo he turned over tn the visitors. iim nu'iii; UHiuuicaa ou.i'r. iu it-i oiil ward from the brown forehead: and be fore Ska could raise a wing in flight, he was in the clutches of his intended victim. QKA fought, but he was no match for .i. .. :...! r.. I... 1.. . .1.... ....... .. :.i. I me vwiiu, nn in; ivuew iiiui. itiun niin ' ,,wiri ,i,. his dull senii ould npprehend him v. ... .i. i- ...- .ni.nt r ... i aB"hJift.?" ,- n,'J U- I .ion0' hupUftalleu , . " ,. , j branch, the head of their companion l null ine neuse ioiiukc oi u hunt, bringing the villagers iu so much 1- tipulat- be fowl re The details having been settled, the new comers entered the village, where they weie assigned to huts. the hnnmiiic drum of the anthropoids leaving behind him nn awakened and terrified village of cringiug blacks, who would forever after connect that very cry with the disappearaute of their white prisoner und the death of their fellow-warrior. BKRTIIA KIUCHKU, li u r r ing through the jungle nlong a well beaten game-trail, thought only of put ting as much distance as possible be dragged her toward the circle "No"' she cried. "I want Naratu. v here is Naratu?" This seimed to sober Hip hl.-wlr f.. n moment, us though he had temporarily tween herself nnd the village before lui.fcwm-ii jus npuer null. lie cast uayiigin. couiu pciiiiu imrsuii, ui m-i. quick, fearful glances about, und then i Whither she wns going' she did not evidently i.ssurcd that Naratu had no-.know; nor was it a matter of great ticed nothing, he m tiered the vv nrrior moment, since death must be her lot who was still holding the infuriated sooner or later. fortune nivoreii ner tnat nigut, ior slip passed unscathed through as savage nnd lion-ridden un area us there is in all Africa a natural hunting-ground which the white man has not yet dis covered, where deer and antelope and zebrn, giruuc and elephant, Imftalo, tree, he watched them pass a disrep utable mob of blacks, some garbed iu the unifotm of German I'list Afrit nn rent i was propped behind the tree so that it J'-"-l.V rcP- lappeured to be looking out nt tlietn from -L-' nlone in - that he would fare forth into the won der-country of which little Manu had told him, though it was certain that he would do it with a dry skin and nn ..., l.ltn A ...1 ... l.n fniif.li nw. ..,.! daylight, when he again felt the need cven a dying Tarzan. and a moment of rest. He was at the edge of another '?' tlf? ape-man h teeth closed upon of those terrible canyons, the eighth he , carrion -eater. The flesh was coarse hnd crossed, with nrecinitous sides thatlnnrt tough and gave off ail unpleasant would have taxed to the uttermost the cuo,r "J"1 ;' "or.se taste: nut it was lood. strength of an untired man well forti fied by food and water ; and for the first time, as Tarzan looked down into the abyss and then at the opposite side that he must scale, misgivings commenced to assail his mind. A shadow swung slowly across the cround beside him : and looking un. the npe-man saw Ska the vulture wheeling i -wide circle above him. The grim und l1" Bi.ae and slept. nnd the blood was drink ; and Tarzan was only an ape at heart and a dying ape into the bargain dying of starva tion and thirst. Kven mentally wenkened as he was, the ape-man was still master of his ap petite, and so he ate but sparingly, sav ing the rest, mid then, feeling that he now could do so salery, he turned upon persistent harbinger of evil aroused the man to reneweu determination. lie arose and approached the edge of the canyon and then wheeling, with his face turned upward toward the circling bird of prey, he bellowed forth the challenge of tha bull ape. As Tarzan crossed the floor of the canyon, he saw something lying close to the base nf the side wall he wus ap proaching something that stood out in htartling contrast to uu tuu nurrouuu Ings and yet seemed so much a part aud J no sun, the world looked bright and parcel of the somber scene as to suggest an actor amid the settings of a well-appointed stage; and as though to carry out the allegory, the pitiless rays of fivmlng Kudu topped the eastern cliff, picking out the thing lying at the foot of the western wall like a giant spot- Hslit. And as Tarzan camo nearer, he saw the bleached skull and bones of a hu man being, about which were remnants of clothing and artlrleJ of equipment that, as he examined them, filled the Up-wwJth curiosity to"1Hich w,r tent tistVii t a time he forgot hi pwn V -" Z" -v J ,.i:. -.!-1... yreaicanm a :nteuj$uBtMi !: Itnin. beating heavily unon his body. awakened him ; and sitting up, he cupped his hands and caught the pre cious drops, which he transferred to his parched throat. Only a little he got at a time; but that was best. The few mouthfuls of Ska that he had eaten, to gether with the blood and rain-water and the sleep, had refreshed him greatly and put new strength into his tired muscles. Now he could see the hills again, and they were close; and though there was KinCHEU found herself -H'hut close to the nalisade the opposite side of the bole! ,at the fur end of the village street, If li'ni thpn thnt mnliv wished ti.iailll tlimiL'h Hill, wnu npitliAr linitnil nur native troops, others wearing a single turn back, arguing that they had of- I Miardpil, she was assured bv Usanga garment ot the mine uniform while fended some demon of the wood upon thnt she could not escape the village many had revirted to the simple dres u hose preserve they had trespassed, but vvithout running into almost certain of their for bears approximating nud- U-anEa refused to listen to them, as- death in the jungle, which the villagers ity. there were many black women bUriiig them that an inevitable torture assmed them wns infested by lions of with them, laughing and talking as tluj mi, death awaited them bhould they ie- great size nud ferocity. left her, the girls frame shudder, and she same i, Imf n iwl in,.Ajl ln, munition. ( iu much subdued uud terrifitd hand jfaic with her hands. She realized now There were no white officers there, moved in a compact mass, like a diove vvhy the women had not been left to but it was none the less nppareut to of sheep, forward through file valh'j., guard her; it was the work of the cun- Tarzan that these men were Horn .and there were no stragglers. nlug l sangn. Itut would not his woman So utterly inexplicable and uncanny isuspet t something of his intentions? had the entire occurrence been thut She was no fool, and further, being im tlierc was not one of them who could bued with insane jealousy, she was ever find a ray of comfort penetrating the (looking for some overt net upou the dend blackness of its ominous portent, unit of her ehon lord. Iierthn Kircher AVliut hnd happened to one of their felt that only the uegress might save number euch conceived us . being a her, and that she would save her if wholly possible fate for himself m word could be but gotten to her. Ilut tact. Ins quite prouuuie iute. it suiiriiovv with- them, laugtnng anu taiK ng as imj m death awaited them bhould they ie- great size nud feroc kept pace-with, the men, all of vvlinmjini auu ian nBam into the hands of As the brute left were armed with (.erman rifles and their cruel German masters. At last was rucked bv a sh equipped with (jcrman belts and am- l),is reasoning prevailed, to the end that to the floor of the cheerful, for Tarzan knew that he was saved. The bird that would have de voured him, nnd the providential rain, had saved him nt the very moment death seemed inevitable. Again partaking of a few mouthfuls of the unsavory fleBh of the vulture, the ape-man arose with something of his old force and set out with steady gait toward th? hills of promise rising allur ingly ahead. Darkness fell before he reached them ; but be kept on until be felt the steeply rising ground that pro claimed his arrival autJie base of the hills proper : and hn wdxj-wc(i and vein morning m me some (Jcrman native commnnd, nnd he guessed thnt they had slain their ofli eera and taken to the jungle with their women, or had stolen borne from native villages through which they must have passed. It was evident that they were putting us much ground between them selves und the coast as possible Itetween two of the blaik women marched a slender white girl. She vus hatless. und with torn and disheveled clothiug that had evidently oikp been a trim riding habit. Tarzan watched through half-closed eyes. He had recognized her immediately, and it wns because of this fact that he hesitated. What was it to Tarzan of the Apes what befell this enemy spy' He had been unable to kill her because of an inherent weakness thnv would not per mit him to lay lianJs upon a woiaiin, all of which had no bearing upon what others might do. And so ho let the blacks pass, with Fruuleiu Kertha Kircher in their midst, or nt least until the last straggling warrior suggested to his mind the pleas uies of black-baiting. The last man, who must have stopped for some purpose, waB fully a quarter of a mile in the rear of the party. He was hurrying to catch up when Tarzan saw him, and as be passed beneath the tree in which the ape-man perched above the trull, a silent noose dropped deftly about his neck. The main tody i fid frightened man Toleed a piercing siflek ft thine: could humien in broutl daylight what frightful thing might not fall to their lot when night had come? They trembled in anticipation. The white girl in their midst was no less mystified than they, but fur lei.s moved, since sudden death wns the most merciful fate to which Bhe: might now look forvvaid. So far she had been sub jected to nothing worse tliun the petty cruelties oi tne women; jet it nua uten the presence of the women that had saved her from worse treatment nt the bauds of some of the men notably the brutal black sergeant TJsunga. llis own woman was of the purty a veritable giantess, a virago of the first magni tude; and she was evidently the only thiug in the world of which Usanga stood iu owe. Kven though she was particularly cruel to the young woman, the latter believed that she was her sole protection from the degraded black tyrant. , LATE 4a the afternoon the band came upon a small palisaded village of thatched liucn m a clearing' in the iunghji elm rfJ n. placid rirer, At The natives seemed to have forgotten her existence ; 'uo one cntne near the hut, nut even to bring her food. She could hear them at the other end of the village laughing and yelling, and knt'vv that they were celebrating with food und native beer knowledge which only inf reused her apprehension. To be prisoner in a native village lu the very heart of an unexplored region of Cen tral Africa, . the only white woman among a band of drunken savages! The very thought appalled her. Yet there wus u bllghtrpromise lu thi fact that she had so far been unmolested the promise that they might, Indeed, have forgotten her and that soon they might become so hopelessly drunk as to be harmless. Darknees had fallen, and still no one came. The girl wondered If she dared venture forth in search ot Naratu, Usanga's woman. No one was near as she stepped out of the hut and made her way toward fie part of the village where tha reve!wt were drinking and makln 4rrv aboMtf"a la'rze :Sre. .As h aKHNkMtodf 'M1!fvr the villsujara anu wmi" gnaw blink woman fiom the unit,, dri i take the latter back to her hut and re main there on guard over her. First annront inline- n ,nn,.,i t !.,..... tor himselt, the warrior motioned the girl to precede him ; and thus guarded, bhe- returned to her hut, the fellow squatting down just outside the door way, where for some time he confined his itttentioiiH to the gourd. jverina nm-iicr sat down at the far side of the hut awaiting she knew not vvhat impending fate. She could not sleep, so filled was her mind with wild schemes of escape, though each new one must ulways be discarded as im practicable. Half an hour nfter the vvurnor had returned her to her prison, he rose and euteied the hut. where he tried to niter into conversation with her. dropiiig acioss the intcrionj. he leaned his shoit spear against the wall and sat down beside her. nnd as he talked, ha edged closer and closer until at last ne could reach out nnd touch her. Shriukiug, she drew iivvay. "Do not touch me!" she cried. "I will tell I'sanga if you do not leave me nlone, and you know what he will do to jou. The nviu onlv laughed drunken!)-, and reaching out his bund giubbed her arm and dragged her toward him. She fought und cried aloud for Usanga, and at the same instant the entrance to the uui vvuh nuiKeneu uy the form of n man. What is the matter?" shouted the newcomer in the deep tones that the girl recognized as belonging to tiicblnck sergeant. He had come, but would she be nny better off? When Usanga found what had hap pened, he kicked the warrior out of the hut and bade him begone; nnd when the fellow tad disappeared, muttering and grAiibling, the sergeant approached the white girl. He was very drunk, so drunk thut several times she succeeded in eluding him, and twice she pushed him so violently uway that he stumbled und (ell. Finally he beeamu enraged and rush ing upon her, seized hr In his long, apelike arms. Striking nt his face with clenched fists, she tried to protect her self and drive him away. She threat ened him with the1 wrath of Naratu, and at that he changed his tactics and began to plead, und as he argued with her. promising her safety nnd.eventiml Jfrewtem. the -warrior hflfliKdeSMhot Vol ike hut made his stagger jpg w)T to Sc " learned among civilized men a hold with whith he might easily break the great bones, a hold that left the ape helpless. "I am Tarzan of the Apes!" screamed the upe-man. "Shall Tar zan dance in peace or shall Tarzan kill?" He exerted a little pressure on the. bull's hrni. "I kill! I kill! I kill!" shrieked Go-lat. With the quickness of a cat, Tarzan swung the king-npe over one hip and sent him sprawling to the ground. "I nm Tarzun. king of all the apes!" hs shouted. "Shall it be peace?" It was then thftt (io-lat raised his head und slowly crawled t his feet. Tarzan approached him. "1 am Tar zan of the Apes," he cried. "Shall Tnrzan dance the Diim-Dum with his brothers now, or shall he kill lirst?" (,0-lat raised his bloodshot eyes to the face of the Tarmangani. "Ka goda!" he cried. "Tarau of the Apes will dance the Dum-Dum with his brothers, nnd Oo-lat will dance with him !" And then the girl in the tree saw the savage man leaning, bending and stamping with the savage apes In tUa ancient rue oi. tne iJiun-iuiu. As she gazed, spellbound, a stealthy' movement in the tree behind her caused her to turn her head ; and there, back rhinoceros and the other herbivorous , of her. hlnzine in the reflected moon animals of central Africa abound mo-iijght. shone two great yellow-green lested by none but their natural cue-, eyes. . Shecta the panther had found her not ! The beast was so close that it might have reached out und touched her with u great taloncd paw. There was no time to think, no time to weigh chances Willi a mies, the great cats She had fled for an hour or two, per haps, when her nttentiou wns nrrested by the sound nf animals moving about, muttering and growling close ahead. Assured that she had covered a sufli- or to choose alternatives. cient distance to insure her a good i screnm she leaped from the tree. cfn.f if, tlin irinTMitn,. r.ifrtr tlm ltlucl,. ' could take to her trail, and fearful of , INSTANTLY the apes, now maddeped what the creatures might be, she i 1 hy the effects of the dancing and the climbed iiito'u large tiee with the in-j moonlight, turned to note the cause of teution of spending the rest of the .the interruption. They saw this she ufght there. ITarinniigaci, helpless nnd nlone, and Khe had no sooner reacneu n bale anu they started for her. Sheeta the pan tlfldin,, JafJ' 'iDffjuff finding jhafcphjti ai?d pw-- conifortnble branch than she discov cred that the tree stood upon the edge of a small clearing thnt had been hid den from her by the heavy under growth, uud simultaneously she dis covered the identity of the -beasts ,she had heard. In the center of the clearing below her, clearly visible iu the bright moon light, she caw fully twenty huge, man like npes great, shaggy fellows who went upon their ntnu teet with only slight nsslstuuce from the knuckles of their hands. The moonlight glanced from their glossy coats, the numerous gray-tipped hairs imparting a sheen that made the hideous creatures al most uifignlficent in their appearance. The girl had watched them for a minute or two when the little band wus joined by others, coming singly and in groups until there were fully fifty of the great brutes gathered there In the moonlight. Among them were young anes und several little ones clinging 4ielitly to their mothers' shaggy shoul ders, rresently tne group parted, to rorm a circle about what appeared to be a small flat-topped mound of .earth In the center of the clearing. Squat ting close about this niound were three old females armed with short, heavy clubs, with which they presently began to pound upon the flat top of tho earth mound- which gavo forth a dull, booms ine sound; nnd almost immediately the" ower apes began to move aixiui rest ltssiilv. weaving is and ut almlly unr, tH they earfla . un Aw .of a ther. knowing that not even Numa the lion, unless maddened . by starvation. dares meddle with the great apes at their Dum-Dum, had silently vanished into the night, seeking his supper else where. Tarzau. turning with the other apes toward the cause of the Interruption, saw the girl, recognized her and ulso her peril. Hero again might sho die at the hands of others, but why consider it? He knew that he could not permit it, and though the acknowledgment bhamed him, it had to bo admitted. The leading shes were almost upon the girl when Tarzan leaped among them nud with heavy blows scattered them to right arid left ; and then ns the bull came to share In the kill they thought this new ape-tiling was about to make, they found htm facing them with an nrm thrown protectively about the creature they had thought he lni tended killing. "Tills is Tarzan's she," he said. "Do not harm her." It was the only wuy he could make them understand that they must not slay her. He was glad that she could not interpret the words. It was humiliating enough to make such a statement to wild aneS" fabout this hated enemy. Mo once again Tarzan ot the Apes , wait lorccu to protect a nun. ... r Mrawung, ne muttered to nimseii ;a , ,i extenuation; l"She is a woman, IHu' t "Wo, tfenmip, so ,It cottld.lit.lM) 1 1 ..-,. .. 3 " - tmt..' j ii. k i. ... -jm i -,, fWW WWJWVW jMBSkglV WW W .,11 f. wwnwi atawnr'i j i ..ti , "" I Si y i . s( - i&r.- '" .I v i..,, rt . Ti -fl . "H ' .a
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