The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 6, 1921, Page 11

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS’ GREATEST STORY TARZAN THE TERRIB Reading This Red-Blood Novel Today Coprrig®t, 1971. A. GC Mectere & Oe BEGIN READING HERE TODAY WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY TARZAN OF THE APES goes into Africa In search of his abducted wife. She had been sent across the border into Congo Free State in charge of LIEUTENANT OBERGATZ and a detachment of native "German troops. Tarzan saves the life of TA-DEN by killing a lion that is pursuing him, and} later kills a tiger that is charging upon OM-AT. Thus he gains the friendship of the two men.) Ta-den is hairless. He has smooth, white skin and a tail. Om-at also has a tail and is covered with black hair. Tar- van decides that they belong to tribes of primitive human} They journey together and Tarzan studies their) Ta-den has fled from his home after a quarrel R |) with his king, KO-TAN, over a love affair between Ta-den and } O-LO-A, the king's daughter. The king wants her to wed) BU-LOT. Om-at was driven from home by BS-SAT. OM-aé is in love with PAN-AT-LEE. Es-sat finda Pan-at-lee alone in a cave) is her. She knocks him unconscious. Then she flees.| GO ON WITH THE STORY ently they halted beneath a great! tree that grew close to the cliff. | “First,” whispered Omat, “I wil . junt|#0 tthe cave of Panatlea, Then “In a niche in the outer room, Just | Win 1 seck the cave of my ancestors | y Deside the doorway leading to the i, nave apeoch with my own blood. | fh Balcony, were neatly piled a number! i: win not take long. Walt here—I| + 0f rounded pegs from 18 to 20 Inches) o.41 return soon. Afterward shall | Hin length. Selecting five of these]... co together to Ta-den’s people.” sPanatlee mate them into & little) “i. moved silently toward the foot ? bundie about which she twined th?) of tne cliff up which Tarzan could j lower extremity of her sinuous tail) wrocently gee him ascending like a nd Qhus carrying them made ber) crea: fly on a wall. In the dim light way to the outer edge of the bal! the ape-man could not see the pees Sony. Assuring herself that there/ see in the face of the cliff. Omat! hone about to see, or hinder her,| moved warily. In the lower tier of | took quickly to the pegs siready | caves there should be @ sentry, His/| fm the face of the cliff and with | knowledge of his and their| Fphe celerity of a monkey clambered | custome told him, er, that in| “ow! aloft to th¢ highest row of) an probabiffty the sentry was.asleep. | f which she followed in the direc-|1n this he was not mistaken, yet he! tion of the lower end of the gore) aid not in any way abate his war et matter of some hundred yards. ness. Smoothly and swiftly he a» labore her head, w & series | cended toward the cave of Panat small holes placed one above an-/jee while from below Tarsan and ‘Other in three parallel rows. Cling-) Ta.den watched him. only with her toes she removed! tow does he do it asked Tar. Of the pegs from the bundle car | san “1 can see no foothold upon in her tail and taking one I) the vertical surface and yet he ap hand she Inserted them in| hears to be climbing with ut | Wo opposite holes of the outer rows | moet ease.” oy far above her as she could reach.| qaden explained the stairway of sing by these new holes she nOW' pegs “You could ascend easily,” he ‘one of the three remaining pex®? said, “altho a tail would be of great each of her feet, leaving the fifth) assistance.” @ securely in her tail. React| They watched unt! Omat was fhg above her with this member she! ahout to enter the cave of Pan.atlee the fifth peg in one of thé) without seeing any indication that holes of the center rows and then.! he had been observed and then, elm h patély hanging by her tail, her/ yltaneously, both saw a head appear feet, or her hands, she moved the/in the mouth of one of the lower upward to new holes, thus Car-jcaves, It was quickly evident that fying her stairway with her as she! its owner had discovered Om-at for s immediately he started upward in| At the summit of the cilff a gnarl. pursuit. Without @ word Tarman @d tree exposed its time-worn rote | an Taden sprang forward toward the topmost holes forming the| the foot of the cliff. The pithecan step from the sheer face of the | thropus was the first to reach it and sipice to level footing. This was| the ape-man saw him spring upward Jast avenue of escape for mem-|for @ handhold on the lowest peg | of the tribe hard preesed by|@bove him. Now Tarzan saw other | 1 /, 2 Begin ~S 2 2e See y af a) {Continued From Yesterday) SPST RP SESE y to use them /|*PT!ng and caught one of thease, ‘This; pulled himself upward by one hand: were no novelty to him and, further, moved qtickly thru th | he had an advan’ et s in the direction of the next which cut fhe mountainside a beyond Kor-ul-ja. It was the of-water, Kor-ul-tul, to which father and two brothers had been Dy Eseat ostensibly to spy upon Nevertheless, the ape-man gave a account of himself, Yeing pres jently urged to redouble efforts by | the fact that the Waz<ion above Ta- den glanced dow: nd discovered his | neighboring tribe. There was a! nursuerg just befote the Hodon over ee, a slender chance, that she) toox him. Instantly a wild cry shat find them; if not, there W45/ tered the silence of the gorge—a cry i deserted Kor-ul-gryf several miles that was immediately answered by where she might hide in| hundreds of savage throats as war 'y from man if she coul lude | rior after warrior emerged from the frightful monster from which the | entrance of his cave. derived its mame and whose| ‘the creature who ralsea e there had rendered i cate layers had now obtory the wth bitable for generations. {before Pan.atiee’s cave and here he -lee crept stealthily along the haited and turned to give battle to fim of the Koruliul Just where/Taden. Unslinging his ¢lub which father and brothers would watch /naq hung about his neck he stood fdid not know. Sometimes their) upon the level floor of thé entrance- remained upon the rim, some-| way effectually blocking Ta<ien’s as they watched from the gorge’s| cent. From all difections the war tom. Panat-lee wus at a loss to riors of Kor-ul-ja were swarming ‘what to do or where to go. She toward te interlopera. Tarzan, who very small and helpless alone had reached a point on the same the vast darkness of the night. |level with Ta-den, but a Uttle te the ad j@ noises fel) upon her ears. | tatter’s left, saw that nothing short rt came from the lonely reaches of a miracle could save them. Just the towering mountains above her,| at the ape-man's left was the ¢ m far away in the invisible valley trance to a cave that either was from the near foothills and | deserted or whowe occupants had not "y Once, in the distance, she heard what as yet been aroused, for the level thought was the bellow of alrecess remained unoccupied. Re. gryf. It came from the direc-| sourceful was the alert mind of Tar. of the Korul-gryt. She shud-|zan of the Apes and quick to respond |were the trained muscles. In the pi Presently there came to her keen|time that you or I might give to nother sound. Something ap-| debating an action he would aceom- 4 thed her along the rim of the plish it ar now, tho only seconds Pwerce. It was coming from above.|separated his nearest halted, listening. Perhaps it was Whar father or a brother. It was com- close. She strained her Pete bot 4 the recess, unslung his long rope | and leaning far out shot the sinuous | long the darkness. She did not move be scarcely breathed. And then,/noose, with the precision of ‘TOM, THAT SUIT Looks TERRIBLE! WHY DON'T You GET SOME NEW CLOTHES P Lm | 1T OFF! Wilbur's Tas NOW.GET IT TODAY, DON'T PUT WHY DONT You TAKE WILBUR WITH You AND GUESS I'LL LET Him WELP You PICK IT OUT? GET A NEW outT as ‘TODAY! ~\ GEE, DONT NA OFTEN WONDER WHATS WAY UP IN WA Sky, ALGK? _ THE CRAZY QUILT EVERETT TRUE WArstere. teus, =. ALL RIGHT, ANY THING: YESSIR«T BET THERES’ LOTS ANGELS UP IN weu., Yes, Pv CAN SO, MONG. TO SGS THAT x Snes YouR MIND antagonist | Sereamed forth the horrid chanlenge | rupted by @ #udden ejaculation as from him, in the brief span of time|of the bull apes of the tribe of Ker-| two figures, locked in deathlike em at his disposal he had stepped Into! cha, and with all the strength of| brace, stumbled thru the doorway his giant sinews he hurled the corpse [heavily upon the ascending warrior. of the cave to the outer porch. One was Om at, the other a creature of @ sudden quite close it seemed,|habitude, toward the menacing fig-| So great was the force of the impact | his own kind but with a rough coat, @ blazed thru the black nighttwo|ure wielding its heavy club above Slow-green spots of fire. Taden. There was a momentary Pan-atlee was brave, but as al-| pause of the rope-hand os the noose Ways with the primitive, the dark-| sped toward its goal, a quick move Beas held infinite terrors for her. Not! ment of the right wriat that closed | lone the terrors of the known, but|it upon its victim as it settled ov fe frightful ones as weli—those | his head and then a surging tug as, | the unknown. She had passed | seizing the rope in both hands, Tar ifu much this night and-her nerves |zan threw back upon it all the weight keyed to the highest pitch—|of his great frame. , taut nerves, they were, rrady| Voicing a terrified shriek, the Waz Teact in an exaggerated form to|don lunged headforemost from the ie slightest shock recess above Taden. Tarzan braced But this was no «light shock. To|himscif for the coming shock when tor a father and a brother and|the creature's body should have @ death instead glaring out of | fallen the full length of the rope and| darkness! Yes, Panat-lee was|as it did there was a enap of the| Wve, but she was not of iron. With | vertebrae that rase sickeningly in the | Ghriek that reverberated among the | momentary silence that had followed iis she turned and fled along the |the doomed man’s departing scream of Kor-ullul and behind her,| Unshaken by the stress.of the «ud iftly, came the devileyed lion of |denly arrested weight at the end of | mountains of Pal-ul-don. |the rope, Tarzan quickly pulled the Pan-atlee was lost. Death wan in-|body to his side that he might re- Witable. Of this there could be no| move the noose from about its neck, oubt, but to die beneath the rend-|for he could not afford to lose #o ig fangs of the carnivore, congeni-| priceless a weapon. I terror of her kind—it was un-| During the several sechnds that hinkable. But there was an alter-| had elapsed since he cast the rope native. The lion was almost upon | the Wazdon warriors had remained —another Instant and he would inert as tho paralyzed by wonder or! her. Panatlee turned sharply by terror. Now, again, one of them @ her left. Just a few steps she|found his voice and bis head and PB) took in the new direction before she | straightway, shrieking invectives at | B disappeared over the rim of Kor-ul-| the strange Intruder, started upward fuk The baffied lion, planting all|for the ape-man, urging his fellows | four feet, barely stopped upon the|to attack. This man was the closest verge of the abyss. Glaring down|to Tarzan. But for him the ape. 4 Xthe black shadows beneath he|man could easily have reached Ta 4 an angry road |den'a side as the latter was urging the darkness at the bottorn| him to do. Tarzan rained the body | 4 Kor-ul-ja, Om-at led the way tow-|of the dead Waz-don above his head, | rd the caves of his people. Behind |held it poised there for a moment m caine Tarzan and Taden. Pres ‘as with face raised to the heavens he that not only was the Waz-don torn the hairs of which eeemed to grow from his hold but two of the pegs) straight outward from the skin, stiff |to which he clung were broken short | ly, in their sockets, As the two bodies, the living and toward t cry arose | “Jad-guru-don! and as one or the other acknowledged the dead, hurtled downward the foot of the cliff a gr from the Waz-don Jad-guru-don!’ they screamed, then: “Kill him! Kl him? And now Tarzan ceas beside n repeated the latter, terrible man! Tarzan amiling: the never forget you.” “They sh here?” Tarzan's statement p You cant help but =» like them! stood in the re-| Il not ki What have we as what “they” should not do was inter- unlike .Omat's «leek covering. he two were quite evidently well matched and equally evident was the ot that each w bent upon mur r. They fought almost in silence except for an occasional low grow! thus some new hurt. Tarzan, following a natural im- “Jad-gurudon? | pulse to aid his ally, leaped forward “The to enter the dispu Terrible! | checked |They may kill you, but they will| from Omat. only to be! ted admonition “This by @ gru kK!" he said. understood | fight is mine, alo The ape man to | stepped aside (Continned Tomorrow) ana| They are DIFFERENT They areGOOD BEECH-NUT | 20 forI5¢ CIGARETTES |help of her Magic Green Shoes. | Nothing to do but wear it UP IN Those CLovos? Gee! 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Why should we not celebrate more than one wedding at this time? It is a happy occasion, we are all here, tt would seem but the reasonable thing to do; so if any among you feel that you would lke to be married, I shall be glad to make you man and wife.’ “A silence followed; several girls who were there with their Sweethearts blushed, and one or two giggled. “One of these giris looked straight into the eyes of her sweetheart and when he dropped his eyes and looked confused and twisted his foot around Uke a small boy being introduced to a stranger, she fumped up, and running out into the middle of the Moor, she laughed a challenge to her sweetheart. | | “At this ber lover glowered angrily at her. He thought it was & joke, and «@ very poor joke at that. “From a group across the room another young man detached himself and, stumbling a little tn his embarrassment, he joined the waiting girl “*You mean tt? he asked “You won't back out? You'll marry me? “‘Surely, I will,’ ‘Didn't I dare your “The minister came to them “‘Children,’ he said, ‘you know that this ts no play? That if I marry you In the presence of God and these witnesses, you are mar tea? “They nodded their heads, “So in a breathless hush of sur- prise, they were married. fermen they went home, the she cried. “‘Here I am,’ she cried, ‘T'm/ with her parents and the boy with: ready to be married.’ And when! | em. be only looked angry and barrassed, she tossed her head, and with Maming checks and a reckless laugh, said: “‘T dare any unmarried man tn this crowd to stand up with me hia. “But tn a few days they started om their own life together and |ceally and truly lived happily ever after, as they are now an old narried couple in Eastern Ore son.” le Confessions of a Husband (Copyright, 1921, by Seattle Star.) 58. EDITH MAKES A STRANGE OFFER “Dot might consent, but I never) become so fond of nagging at him On Sunday morning I suggested that I take Bobbie out for an air ing; it would afford Dot a little re- So our child was put into his go-cart, and I was soon pushing him toward the park. On the way I encountered Edith. She burst into an exclamation of wonder at Bobbie. Dot had dressed him very carefully, and I was com. pelled to admit that the little fellow looked his best, “Why, he's simply beautiful! Edith exclaimed. “I haven't seen him for a few weeks, but each time he gets better looking.” Bobbie obligingly “showed off to the extent of a few words, He seemed to take to Edith. “I'm just crazy about kiddies,” Edith confided to me, She had nev- er before said anything about this infatuation of hers, so I could merely murmur assent, “Ta lier to week,” she went. on, borrow him for a “Dot has so much els¢ to do, don’t you think she| ferring to her husband. would lend him to me?’ “Of course, she'll be glad to get rid of him,” T replied lightly. “No, I'm in earn Don't you think Dot would let me have him? I'd take awfully good care of him,” | | i would.” “Why not? “rm afraid you'd vamp him.” “Then his father would be safe from my wiles. I should think that | would be an argument in favor of | letting me have tim a while.” | “No, it’s really mighty kind of yor | to offer to take care of him, but I know Dot wouldn't let him go even for a day.” “She trusts me with her husband If she doesn’t with her child it isn’t very flattering to you.” “Naturally Bobbie is portant than 1." We walked a few steps in silence. Then Edith said: | “You seem very much at with the baby. I can't imagine George with a child; I'm sure he! wouldn't have the least idea how to handle it.” “He'd learn.” It was her habitual way of re She never mentinode him except slightingly. True, it would have been difficult to picture George as a hero, but I did not see the necessity of her | continually belittling him, | It made me think that she hbad| more tm ease | that she could not forego the pleas ure even when he was out of her sight. Edith. was about to turn down the t that led to her home, ‘Are you gving to play nursemaid this afternoon?” she asked. “That depends upon how Det feels, If I think rest will do her good I make her stay home while I take Bobbie out “You're a model husband.” She looked me full in the face, “I may be walking up this way about half. ff past two.” (To Be © Jeweler and Silversmith NOW LOCATED 1518 Second Ave.