The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 7, 1921, Page 11

4 t THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1921. ieee sss iistrstriistrsiecriostistestsstssieas Begin Reading This Red-Blood Novel Today i Comrrteht, 1981, BEG AG MeClure @ Ce. N READING HERE TODAY. WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY TARZAN OF THE APES is abducted wife. She had goes into Africa in search of been sent across the border ito the Congo Free State in charge of | LIEUTENANT OBERGATZ and a detachment of Ger- han native troops, Tarzan s aves the life of | TA-DEN by killing a lion that is pursuing him, and later ills a tiger that is charging upon "OM-AT. Thus Tarzan gains the friendship of the two in. Ta-den is hair! t also has a tail. He He has white skin and a tail.| is covered with black hair.| den has fled from his home after a quarrel with his KO-TA F BU-LOT son of 1O-SAR, a mighty chief. a> -SAT, also a chief. PAN-AT-LEE. I f seizes her. She Om- at. finds knocks him unconscious and , over a love affair between Ta-den and j »O0-LO-A, the king’s daughter. The king wants her to wed | Om-at was driven from home} | at is in love with | -an-at-lee alone in a cave flees. | it reaches the cave a few minutes later. sat and Om-at engage in a death struggle. GO ON WITH THE STORY (Continued trem Yesterday) it is a gund-bar,” explained Ta- | “a chief-battle. This fellow be Essat, the chief. If Omat ie him Avithout assistance Omat become chief.” Tarzan smiled. It as the law of Own jungle—the law of the tribe Kerchak, the bull ape—the an law of primitive man that but the refining influences vilization to introduce the hired and the poison cup. Then attention was drawn to the out edge of the vestibule. Above it the shaggy face of one of warriors, Tarzan sprang Intercept the man; but Taden there ahead of him. “Back!” the Hodon to the newcomer. gundbar.” The fellow looked ‘gly at the two fighters, ned his face downward to his fellows. is gund-bar between Es-sat and : "Then he looked back at B and Tarzan. “Who are pr” he asked. ’¢ are Ou-at’s friends,” replied fellow nodded. “We will at to you later,” he said and dis d below the edge of the re ‘The battle upon the ledge con , with unabated ferocity, Tar- fm and Taden having difficulty in tr out of the way of the con- who tore and beat at each with bands and feet and lash tails, Essat was unarmed— had seen to that—bdut at 's side swung a sheathed knife he made no effort to draw. would have been contrary to gavage and primitive code for -battle must be fought with weapons. times they separated for an only to rush upon each oth with all the ferocity and the strength of mad bulls one of them tripped the in that viselike embrace Mould not fall alone—Hs-sat d Omat with him, toppling the brink’ of the niche. Even held bis breath. There they to and fro perilously for a wment and then the inevitable ned—the two, locked in mur 1s embrace, rolled pver the edge disappeared from the ape-man’s Tarzan voiced a suppressed sigh he had liked Om-at and then, Ta-den, approached the ede poked over. Far below, in the light of the coming dawn, two forms should be lying stark in th; but, to Tarzan's amazement, was far from the sight that met “eyes. Instead, there were the figures still vibrant with life and battling only a few feet below Clinging always to the pegs two holds—a hand and a foot, foot and a tail, they seemed as ch at home upon the perpendicu wall as upon the level surface vestibule; but now their tactics slightly altered; fer each 4 particularly bent upon dis his antagonist from his holds recipitating him to certain below. It was soon evident Dm-at, younger and with great- ers of endurance than Es-at, gaining an advantage. Now was Chief almost wholly on the de Holding him by the cross one mighty hand Omat a pid with ke forcing his foeman straight out | other break and qmithe cliff, and with the and one foot was rapi first one of Es-sat’s he f apother, alternating his efforts, ber punctuating them, with blows to the pit of his ad '$ stomach, Rapidly was t weakening and with the dge of impending death there as there comes to every ra and bully under similar cir- nees, a crumbiing of the of bravado which had long ueraded as courage and with it} mbled his code of ethics. Now Es no longer chief of Kor instead he was a whimpering battling for life. Clutching Dmvat, clutching at the nearest he sought any support that id save him from that awful fail, as he strove his tail sought Om and the handle of the knife ng there. flarzan saw and even as Es-sat the blade from its sheath he opped catlike to the pegs beside battling men. Es-sat’s tail had wn back for the cowardly fatal ust. Now many others saw the idious act and a great cry or and disgust arose from savage Wircats; but as the blade sped to- Ward its goal, the apeman seized the hairy member that wielded it, at the same instant Omat lust the body of Es-sat from him such force that its weakened ds were broken and it hurtled mward, a brief meteor of scream fear, to death. 4 a CHAPTER IV TARZAN-JAD-GU As Tarzan and Om-at clambered kk to the veutibule of Pan-at-lee’s 4 took their stand beside Ta Jineas for whatever even ‘might follow the death of Ks ithe sun that topped the eastern touched also the figure of a upon a® distant. thorn-cov: ied steppe, awaxeaing bim to am “Back! he cried, | Jother day of tireless tracking along a faint and rapidly disappearing | spor For a time silence reigned in the Kor-ulja. The tribesmen waited looking now down upon the dead thing that had been thelr chief, now at one another, and now at Omat and the two who stood upon his either side. Presently Om-at spoke. |"L am Omat,” he eried. “Who will | my that Omat is not gund of Kor / | ula? He waited for a taker of his chal- lenge. One or two of the larger! young bucks fidgeted restlessly and | eyed him; but there was no reply, | | “Then Omat is gund.” he sald with finality, “Now tell me, where Jare Pan-atlee, her father, and. her| brothers? ' An old warrior spoke. “Pan-atlee | should be in her cave. Who should know that better than you who are there now? Her father and her brothors wereysent to watch Kor-ul jul; but neither of these questions arouses any tumult in our breasts, | There is one that does: Can Omat be chief of Kor-ulja and yet stand | at bay against his own ple with | a Hodon and that te his side—that terrible man who has no tail? Hand-the stranger over to your people to be slain as is the way of the Wazdon and then may Om-at be gund.” Neither Tarzan nor Taden spoke | then; they but stood watching Om at and waiting for his decision, the | ghost of a «mile upon the lips of | the apeman. Ta-den, at least knew that the old warrior had spoken the | truth—the Wasddn entertain no strangers and take no prisoners of an alien race. Then spoke Omat. “Alwnys there is change,” he said. “Even the old hills of Paluldon appear never) twice alike—the brilfiant sun, a pass | ing cloud, the moon, a mist, the changing season, the sharp ciearnees | following @ storm; these things | bring each a new change tn ou: | hill, From birth to death, day by day, there is constant change in| each of us. Change, then, is one of | Jad-den-Otho's laws. | “And now I, Omat, your gund.| bring another change. Strangers who are brave men and good friends» shall no longer be slain by the Wax don of Korul-ja! There were growls and murmur. | ings and a restless moving among the warriors as each eyed the others to see who would take the initiative against Omat, the iconoclast. “Cease your mutterings,” admon.| ished the new gund. “I am your| chief. My word ts yeur law. You} had no part in making me chief. Some of you helped Essat to drive | me from the cave of my ancestors the rest of you permitted it, I owe | you nothing. Only these two, whom | you would have me kill, were loyal to me. Iam gund and if there be| any who doubts it let him speak—| he cannot die younger.” Tarzan was pleased. man after his own mired the ch Here was @ heart. He a@-| fearlessness of Om-at's! € lienge and he was a sufficiently good judge of men to know that he had listened to no idle bluff—Omat would back up his words to the death jf necessary, and the chances | were that he would not be the one/ to die. Byvidently the majority of the Kor-uljaians entertained the | same conviction. | “I will make you a good gund,” | said Om-at, seeing that no one ap ured inclined to dispute bis rights Your wives and daughters will be they were not safe Es sat ruled. Go now to your crops and your hunting. I leave to search for Pan-at lee. Abon will be gund | while I am away—look to him for guidance and to me for an account ing when I return—and may Jad ben-Otho smile upon you.” | He turned toward Tarzan and the | Ho-don. “And you, my friends," he said, “are free to go among my people; the cave of my ancestors ts you do what you will” | said will go with | Omvat to search for Panat-lee.” | “And 1,” said Ta 1 Omat smiled. ex. | claimed. “And when we have found ber we shall go together upon Tar-| | zan's business and Ta-den’s., Where | first shall we He turned toward his warriors. “Who knows where she may be?” | None knew other than that Pan-| |atlee had gone to her cave with! j the others the previous evening— | there was no clew, no suggestion as| to her whereabouts, while Tarzan search?” | _ “Show me where she sleeps,” said Tarzan; “let me see something that belongs to her-—an article of her ap- parel—then, doubtless, I can help you Two young warriors climbed! closed to the ledge upon which Om at stood. They were In#ad and| O-dan, It was the latter who spoke. | “Gund of Kor-ul-ja,” he said, would go with you to search Pan-at-lee.” It was the first acknowledgment of Om-at's chieftainship and imme. | |diately following it the tenseness | th ad prevailed seemed to relax-— | the warriors spoke aloud instead of | in whispers, and the women appeared from the mouths of caves as with | the passing of a sudden storm. In }wad and O-dan had taken the lead now all seemed glad to follow. Some came to talk with Omat and| lt wok more closely at Tarzan; | “we for | telds with | awaiting ‘TOM DOESN'T CAMPING OUT f LIKE THIS MAKE You THINK OF HOW THE WDIANS USED TO NO, RQewary ‘YES, AND SOME TIMES | WISH 1 WAS AN ' INDIAN SAY, WE'D LIE 60 SONEPLACE For A VACATION —oTHER KIDS ALL AVE VACATIONS NEVSR MIND THE TAKE (1 AND BY HIM SoMmeTHine GooD AL THE BVYTCHSRs others, heads of caves, gathe' their hunters and discussed the bus ness of the day. The women and children prepared to descend to the the youths and the old men, whose duty it was to guard them. “O-dan and In-ead N go with us,” announced Om-at, “we shall not need more, Tarzan, come with me and I 6! you where Pan.at- lee sleeps, tho why you should wish to know I cannot guess—she is not there, I have looked for myself.” ‘The two entered the cave where Om-at led the Way to the apartment which Essat had surprised Pan atlee the previous night “All here are bers,” sald Omat, “except the war club lying on the floor—that was Es-sat's.< ‘The ape moved silently about the apartment, the quivering of his sensitive nostrils scarcely apparent to his companion who only wondered what good purpose could ‘be served here and chafed at the delay. “Comet’ said the ape-man, pres ently, and led the way toward the outer recess. Here their three companions were them. Tarzan passed the left side of the niche and ex ined the pegs that lay within re He looked at them, but it was not his eyes that were examining them. Keener than his keen eyes was that marvelously trained sense of scent that had first been developed in him during infancy under the tutorage of his foster mother, Kala, the she ape, and further sharpened in grim jungles by that master teacher the instinct of self-preservation, From the left side of the niche he yirned to the right, Om-at was be coming impatient Let us be off,” he sald must search for Panatlee would ever find her.” “Where shall we search?” asked ail show in “We if we Tarzan Omat scratched “Where?” he repeated. Pal-ul-don, if necessary.” “A large job," said Tarzan. “Come,” he added, “she went this way,” and he took to the pegs that led aloft toward the summit of the cliff. Here he followed the scent easily since none had passed that his = head “Why all way since Pan-atiee had fled. At the} point at which she had left the per manent pegs and resorted to those carried with her Tarzan came to an abrupt halt, “She went this way to the summit,” he called back to Om-at who was directly behind him; “but there are no pegs here.” “I do not know how you know that she went this way,” said Omat; “but we will get pegs. In-sad, re turn and fetch climbing pegs for five.” The young warrior was soon back and the pegs distributed. Om-at handed five to Tarzan and explained their use. The n returned one, he said. Om-at smiled, “What a wonderful creature you would be if you were not deformed,” he said, “1 admit that I am handicapped,” replied Tarzan. “You others go ahead and leave the pegs in place for me. I am afraid that otherwise it will be slow work as I cannot hold the pegs In my toes as you do.” All right,” agreed Omat; “Ta den, In-sad and [ will go first, you follow and O-dan bring up the rear and collect the pegs—we cannot leave them here for our enemies.” “Can't@your enemies bring their pegs?” asked Tarzan. but it delays them and makes easier our defense and—they do not know which of all the holes you see are deep enough for pegs the others are made to confuse our enemies and are too «hallow to hold & pee” ow Bur to Chick Ch syrup sap.” quite made jthe thief. | not botherir tor, ran floor. They winks, and all hidden bu your eye j Chick, can 80 Chick eyes where gnarled tre: the trail. I oman me in toward swiftly, om. run “You can about the Tarzan ne the lion got we shall det: ridge. Followipg by detected ap a couple of (Cont “Just come with us,” sald Nancy | find out who is stealing your maple Chick went willingly, for he hadn't Scramble Squirre He didn’t like Scramble | jand Scramb |there you are! | Down scrambled the three of them, vator that Munchie Mouse, the jan! from Maple-Tree Flats to the! very tip-top safely Now watch!" on and keep as jtle boy hadn't said to keep Chick would certainly have whis- | At the top | | as strong as upon the pegs and the} the Om-at, she was pursed by a lion.” asked O-dan, as the others gathered | ape-man. did not get her ed toward the southwest, his finger, ee ak BE ill ALL RIGHT=To-MoORROW You WILL ALL BE INA CAMP WHERE You LETS SEE??? T GUESS You BAS CAN CT ABZ a LL Wiles + Do AS You DLEASE = Swim, av awrwers afte, TWINS “Now watch!” said Nick pered, “He can ickaree, ‘and you'll soon |scarcely th thumb. And he {person for his as the moon!’ But did about his not being | up his mind he Je didn’t like him, and and looking. Suddenly Chi itself cautious 1g to walt for the ele. about the red: the basement of self, and his ot Squirrel, “H'm know whose he: Woodpecker’s."" in two they wer a hazel were down in two more behind id Nick. “Keep joor below yours, quiet you that on his saw sat tree the tail th as fastened his little black | Nick said, but if the lit | quiet, “The rascail” nantly. two. the cliff beside the Tarzan again took up flere the scent was fully across the the Kor pved rapidly direction of turned soved and, used and Hege she at Mp speed he p at ning read that in the grass?” again taking encountered cording to the ment we had m “Where's Geo I inquired, “He's home Sunday he's #0 xided, “I do not think | her,” he added; “but that | ermine quickly. No, he! ook!" and he point: | down the the directions tndicated | the others presently | ement in some bushes hundred yards away. inued Tomorrow) “And Jona later I wa feased any inter told m cial,” other day.” “Did he? abroad had ed." “Did you like He seems a we! man.” { “Perhaps that ts why warned Nancy. Will came squeezing out when he! you saw him the sec: "tbe a very big per. son for his door isn't bigger round Smith's | must be a very round | an Farmer doorway is as round n't say it—he just thought it, And he kept on looking | ick saw a head stick out and look around, eat head he had ever seen—much redder than he was him. | “Red” | her name wa: n.” he sniffed” “1 od that is. It's Will “Wait” coast was clear, and 1 on the side of the The next second he disappear- | ed inside Chick's front door, | * cried Chick, tndig- Just then there was a flash and a crash that nearly split the world in (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1921, by Seattle Star) Confessions of a Husband baa Sees HEY! wars | po") COMIN’ OF F be HERE? 4 ee ft Mio “Tell you a legend, Peggy?’ Motherdear loved the legends as much as Peggy did and Peggy knew {t. “All right, I have a new one, a brand new one about our beautiful mountain, which M, H. Saylor has written in the maga- tine called ‘Oregon Native Sons.’ Mr. Saylor used to be a purver on a Puget Sound steamer, and often and often on his boat there would be an old Puyallup In- dian. “The purser tried to get the old fellow to talk, for he was very old and looked as if he would |} have ® vast store of Indian stories in his mind. | “But like most of his *people, he was silent and hard to talk to. But one cold day Mr, Saylor saw him shivering on the deck then and gave him an overgoat, had the cook bring him a good hot dinner. “That changed things. The Ip- Mr. Saylor was his ‘close tillicum,' bis dian was cordial and kind I] vost friend. “One day the Indian sat gaz ing at the mountain so intense | aylor asked him, UU that mountain, ty that Mr. | "What do you c: (Copyright, 1921, by Seattle Star.) PAGE 11 BY ALLMAN «Cae “Pp THESE ARE PRIVATE CLUB GROUNDS, KEEP out! zm Lowe) BY BLOSSER TAS WELL 3 ROLL UP MY SLEEVES = UAT PROMISE MEANS GEE-AINT WE GoT A Good Boss? A TAHOMA LEGEND Rainier or Tacoma? “The old man glared at him and, Ufting his chin, said) in Chinook, ‘The Great Spirit placed the mountain there before ever white men came and that moun tain was Tahoma.’ “Later, bit by bit, he told this very old legend: “‘Long bygone, said, powerful and much wiser long ago,’ he more than my people are now. Among them ‘men were much |was a chief, Do-ce-wal-lops, whose the Whulge country. This great chief was in love with Tahoma, a beau- tiful maiden of his own people, but for reasons of state he was Jurged to marry Metla-ko, a god- dess who held sway over all the salmon in the Columbia river, “Tahoma spent her time causing laughing streamlets gush forth here and there from hillside and ,pluin to give water to all the people and animals and growing things, * ‘Do-ce-wal-lops couldn't give up the maiden he loved, so it was de- cided after many moons that he should marry, both." (To Be Continued) word was law all over in to SRE ER 54. “THE UNITED STATES ISN'T TURKEY!” half-definite appoint ade. orge this afternoon?” asicep. Usually on| fatigued by the ef- forts of living thru the previous week that he is ready to sleep all day.” where's Mr, Salt?” A seo as sorry I had con. rest in him. “What do you care? Haven't you half a dozen times that you aren't jealous of him? “My curiousity is purely commer. I responded, see me on a matter of business the “He called to I knew that his return suddenly been postpon- ‘So he told me.” him any better when nd time?” very shrewd business orge, who isn't must of one, doesn’t like him." It was my turn to be blunt. “Rumor says there are other rea That Sunday afternoon, as I was, sons,” I remarked. obbie to the park, I] Sdith on the street ac-| little impression on Edith, Tho suggestion apparently made “Oh, I guess George is jealous,” she replied carelessly, “but the Unit. ed States isn't Turkey, and simply because.a woman is maried is no re son for shutting her up and forbid ding her to look at other men.” “1 supposd not,” I agreed. “You're a fine one to lecture to me anyway,” she declared. “Here you Jhave induced me to desert my hus- band, who is peacefully sleeping at home, and to run out on a wild spree | with you and Bobbie ‘ “And let me tell you that your son is the more dankerous of the two. beqause I am already madly in love with him.” “Poor Bobbie! him? “If you were really a fond father you would ¢tep between Bobbie and me and say; ‘Spare my young soni take me insteag!’ * “Perhaps 1 will if I find there is no other way to rescue him.” Here Bobbie himself took a hand in the proceedings. “Bobbie walk; Bobbie walk,” he kept repeating. So I lifted him out of his go-cart and permitted him to toddle along be- How can I warn tween us, “Why, Edith—* “Sally! It's been years—" “At least five. You look just the same.” The stranger, a tall, coarse featured brunet, surveyed Edith ap- |provingly. I haven't even met your humband,” she continued. “And what a beautiful child you have!’ re | 18 was a decidedly embarrassing moment for me. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1921, by Seattle Star.) MALTED MILK