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44 —_* ‘ pe y i , > | TARZAN THE TERRIBLE pre THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1921. ICE BUR EDGAR R ROUGHS’ GREATEST STORY Begin Reading This Red-Blood Novel Today Copyright, 1921, * BEGIN READING HERE TODAY WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY TARZAN OF THE APES, who goes into Africa in search of his abducted wife. She has been sent across the border into the Congo Free State in charge of LIEUTENANT OBERGATZ and a detachment of Ger- t™an native 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 Tarzan gains the friendship of the two men. Ta-den is hairless. He has white skin and a tail. t also has @ tail and is covered with black hair, Ta-den fled from his home after a quarrel with his king, KO-TAN, over a love affair between Ta-den and O-lo-a, daughter. The king wants her to wed -LOT, son of « MO-SAR, a mighty chief. ome b: ESSAT, also a chief. Om-at is in love with PAN-AT-LEE. Es-sat finds Pan-at-lee alone in a cave and seizes her. She knocks him unconscious and flees. Om-at reaches the cave a few minutes later. There is a tt in which Om-at kills Es-sat and thereby becomes of his tribe. Then Om-at, accompanied by Tarzan, goes in search of Pan-at-lee. Tarzan rescues her from a man of the lower order that tly resembles a huge ape. : goes in search of f and has just killed a deer when a huge gryf appears. The creature is bigger than any animal Tarzan ever has seen before. The gryf charges and Tarzan takes refuge in a tree to which Pan-at-lee also has climbed. A Tor-o-don, the low order of creature from which Tarzan rescued Pan-at-lee, appears and strikes the on the snout. The gryf apparently is cowed by the ‘or-o-don. Tarzan kills the Tor-o-don with a bow and arrow after it shows signs of attacking him, but the gryf still keeps him treed. ON. WITH THE STORY to Pan.atles, “these beasts keep us treed here indefinitely. escape together, You remain here, , the foliage, while start back across the gorge in of them and yelling to attract attention, Unless they have brains than I suspect they will me, When they are gone you) for the cliff. Wait for me in| the cave not longer than today. If not by tomorrow's sun AC MeClure & Oo. Om-at was driven from) bellow from below. Turzan turned quickly and, seeing the hideous face of the gryf below him, seized a large fruit from a near. by branch and hurled it viciously at the horned snout. The miswil struck full between the creature’ eyes,- resulting in @ reaction that surprised the apeman; it did not) @rouse the beast to a show of re vengeful rage, as Tarsan had ex-| pected and hoped; instead the | creature gave a single vicious side snap at the fruit as it bounded from | his skull, and then turned sulkily| away, walking off a few steps. ‘There was that in the act that re- called immediately to Tarzan’s mind similar action on the preceding day when the Torodon had struck one of the creatures across the face with! his staff, and instantly there «prung! to the cunning and courageous brain | .|* Plan of escape from his predica ment that might have blanched the cheek af the most heroic. The gambling instinct is not! strong among creatures of the wild:| the chances of their daily life are sufficient stimuli for the beneficial excitement of their nerve centers. It has rematned for civilized man, pro- siowly seg Both gg tected Im a measure from the nat-| “Good-by, Tarzan.) unate are| Ural dangers of existence, to invent | ies ans tn own-| “*tificial stimulants in the form of | Pane cards and dice and roulette wheeis. Yet when necessity bids there are no greater gamblers than the savage ens of the jungle, the forest, "| ms u hills, for as lightly as you was evidently Lrigaine a, | Foul the ivory cubes upon the green was filled w cloth they will gamble with death— the bellowing a their own lives the stake. farther trom ae ee.) And so Tarzan would gamble now she would take adv&N-| pitting the seemingly wild deduc tions of his shrewd brain against all the proofs of the beatial ferocity of his antagonists that his experience of them had adduced—against all the age-old folklore and legend that had been handed down for count lene generations and passed on to him thru the lips of Pan-at-les, Yet as he worked in preparation for the greatest play that man can make in the game of life, he emiled; nor was there any indication of haste or excitement or nervousness who, day by 4ay./in his demeanor. to face with na-| First he selected a long, straight survival of the fit-| branch about two inches in diameter y of the numer-|at its base. This he cut from the fons that civill-| tree with his knife, removing the thrown around its brood/smalier branches and twigs until he sweaklirigs. had fashioned a pole about 10 feet in Several times during this crossing | length. This he sharpened at the/| the gorge Tarzan endeavored to| smaller end. Ttie staff finished to his keen pursuers, but all a — satisfaction he looked down upon vail. Double as he would he triceratops. abe not. throw them off his track) “Whee-oo!" he cried. ‘ever as he changed his course| Instantly the beasts raised their .| heads and looked at him, From the} AY the verge of the forest upon|throat of one of them came faintly the southeastern side of the gorge|® low rumbling sound. ! sil ais at tnat I commanded you ied Tarzan. & command?” she asked. Good-by, Pan-at-iee, Hasten Omat—you are a fitting the chief of Kor-ul-ja.” He 8 2 3 Esa gekte i it isepl s i Kor-ul-gryf and er Hi eli i i i Ht “s i he sought some point at which the touched some negotiable por- tion of the cliff, but tho he traveled far both up and down the gorge he discovered no such easy avenue of escape. The apeman finally com- menced to entertain an idea of the hopelessness of his case and to real to the full why the Kor-uleryt had been religiously abjured by the races of Pal-uidon for all these many ages. Night was falling and tho since early morning he had sought dili- gently a way out of this cul-de-sac he was no nearer to liberty than at moment the first bellowing gryf 4 charged him ax he stooped over 2 carcass of his kill; but with the ing of night came renewed hope, in common with the great cats, was, to a greater or lesser extent, a nocturnal beast, It is true he could not see by night as well as they, ‘but that lack was largely recompensed for by the keenness of scent and the highly developed) sensitiveneas of his other organs of perception. As the blind follow and interpret their Brailie characters with deft fingers, so Tarzan reads the book of the jungle with feet and hands and eyes and ears and nose; each contributing its share to the quick and accurate translation of the text. But again he wag doomed to be thwarted by one vital weaknees—he did not know the gryf, and before the night was over he wondered if the things never slept, for whereso- ever he moved they moved also, and always they barred his road to lib- erty. Finally, just before dawn, he relinquished his immediate effort and sought rest in a friendly tree crotch in the safety of the middle terrace. Once again was the sun high when ‘Tarzan awoke, rested and refreshed. hn to the necessities of the mo- it, he made no effort to locate| Us jailers lest in the act he might apprise them of his movements, In- stead he sought cautiously and si lently to melt away among the fo Mage of the trees, His first move, however, was heralded by a deep Vrom Yesterday) “Whee-oo!” repeated Tarzan, and! hurled the balance of the carcass of | the deer to them. | Instantly the gryfs fell upon it) with much bellowing, one of them| attempting to seize it and keep it from the other; but finally the sec: | ond obtained a hold and an instant later it had been torn asunder and| | greedily devoured. Once again they looked up at the ape-man and this time they saw him descending to the ground. One of them started toward him. | Again, Tarzan repeated the weird| ery of the Toro-don. The gryt halt ed in his track, apparently puzzled, while Tarzan slipped lightly to the earth and advanced toward the near er beast, hfs staff raised menacingly and the call of the first-man upon his lips. Would the cry be answered by the |low rumbling of the beast of burden | or the horrid bellow of the man-| Upon the answer to this| | question hung the fate of the ape man, | Panatlee was listening intently to the sounds of the departing gryts | as Tatzan led them cunningly from | her, and when she was sure that they were far enough away to in |wure her safe retreat she dropped |swiftly from the branches to the| ground and sped like a frightened | |deer acrous the open space to the| foot of the cliff, stepphed over the |body of the Tor-o-don who had at-| tacked her the night before and was | soon climbing rapidly up the an-| cient stone pegs of the deserted clift village, In the mouth of a cave near |that which she had occupied she kindled a fire and cooked the! haunch of venison that Tarzan had! left her, and from one of the trick-| ling streams that ran down the face lof the escarpment she obtained wa- ter to satisfy her thirst. All day she waited, hearing in the distance, and sometimes close at hand, the bellowing of the gryfu| which pursued the strange creature | that had dropped so miraculously | into her life. For him she felt the same keen, almost fanatical loyalty that many another bad experienced for Tarzan of the Apes, Beast and THE DOINGS OF THE DUFFS ‘TOM, YOU KNOW | HAVEN'T Much USE FOR SaiLBoaTs! VD RATHER oad camp mae the Se MIGHT Saw IT UP WTO MID SHIP IT “TO HAVANA “THEY HAVE. BARS EVERETT TRUE MS OUT HCRE TO See YOu AB@ouT HS SETTLEMOCNT OF THAT Yo'RS NEVER THERE , wr THAT'S WHGRE You human, he had held them to him with bonds that were stronger than steel—those of them that were clean and courageous, and the weak and the helpless; but never could Tarzan claim among his admirers the cow ard, the ingrate or the scoundrel: from such, both man and beast, he had won fear and hatred To Pan-atlee he was all that was brave and n nd heroic and, too, he was Omat's friend—the friend of the man she loved. For any one of these reasons Pan-at-lee would have died for Tarzan, for such is the loyalty of the simple-minded chil dren of nature, It has remained for civilization to teach us to weigh the relative rewards of loyalty and its antithesis, The loyalty of the primi tive is spontaneous, unreasoning, unselfish, and such was the loyalty of Panatlee for the Tarmangani. And #0 it wads that she waited that day and night, hoping that he would return that she might accompany him back to Om-at, for her experi- ence had taught her that in the of danger two have a better chance than one, But Tarzan-Jjad-guru had not come, and #0 upon the following morning Panatlee set out upon her return to Kor-ul-ja. She knew the dangers and yet she faced them with the stolid in- difference of her race, When they directly confronted and menaced her would be time enough to experie fear or excitement or confidence, In the meantime it was unnecessary to waste nerve energy by anticipating them. She moved therefore thru her savage land with no greater show of concern than might mark your sauntering to a corner drug store for a sundae, But this is your life and that is Panatlee’s, and even now as you read this Panatlee may be sitting upon the edge of the re cess of Omat's cave while the ja and the jato roam from the gorge SEATTLE STAR Tom Was All Wrong NOW, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? THE GONE DOWN TWO MILES 1 DON'T WANT ‘To ComE IN THE FIRST PLACE! SAWDUS WHERE WSL, THATS A BUSINGSS MAT TSR, AND YoV MovLD see below and from the ridge above, and the Kor-ullul thr the south and the Ho-don from the Val ley of Jad-ben-Otho far be for Panatlee still lives and preens her silky cont of jet beneath the tropical | moonlight of Pal-ul-don | But she was not to reach Kor-ul | ja this day, nor the next, nor for |many days after, tho the danger |that threatened her Was neither Wazdon enemy nor savage beast. She Kor-ul-lul and after descending rocky southern wall without catching the slightest glimpse of the hereditary enemies of her people, she experienced renewal of confi | dence that was little short of prac tical assurance that she would suc cessfully terminate her venture and be restored once more to her own people and the lover she had not seen for so many long weary moons. She was almost across the gorge and now moving with an extreme caution abated no whit by her confi dence, for wariness Is an instinctive |trait of the primitive, something which cannot be laid aside even mo- mentarily if one would survive. And so she came to the trail that follows the windings of Kor-ul-lul from its uppermost reaches down into the | broad and fertile Valley of Jad-ben- Otho. And as she stepped into the trail there arose on either side of her from out of the bushes that border }the path, as tho materialized from |thin air, a score of tall, white war |riorg of the Ho-don. Like a fright- ened deer Pan-at-lee cast a single startled look at these menacers of her freedom and leaped quickly to- ward the bushes in an effort to es |cape; but the warriors were too close at hiahd, They closed upon her from every side and then, drawing her knife, she turned at bay, metamor. ppponed by the @ires cf fear and hate|captives—that occasionally the pris-| xX HOW DID 1 KNov THE WIND WAS. GOING To Die! \T DIDN'T LOOK SICK WHEN W STARTED ouT! | rl. Row BACK! ~y panei BREEZE HAS AND WER ' WELL, WHE. FROM SHORE + oP 7 "4 NEARLY STARVED AND ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS Clive Roberts Barto SPRING Mr. Sprinkle-Blow, just how hot to shine. After the Nuisance Fairies were buttercups and ragged.robins, as well locked up, spring began in earnest./as all the sweet wood flowers, ap |The Fairy Queen had sent the Spring | peared. And blossomed! You just | | Fairy and her helpers to decorate | should have seen the blossoms! The | woodlands, hills and valleys and soon jorchard looked like a wedding, and | the whole world was 4 bower ofthe wood trees with their lovely | calor. trimmings of white and pink (dog: | Mr. Sprinkle-Blow, the fairy|wood and hawthorne, wild cherry | weather man, told Mr. Sun just how |and wild-crab) looked like brides and | hot to whine, and sent lovely, soft, | bridesmaids, refres) @g showers when things got Farmer Smith's sass-patch garden, | dry, He ed Nancy and Nick would | too, was a sight for sore eyes, with | sit on the edge of fleecy gray clouds |, dozen different shades of green. | jand tilt their watering-pota and giv€ Hen and Blossom Bunny had had | the fairy weather man, told Mr. Sun pame without misadventure to} everything a drink. they would send down sprays of mist, and the mist would become drops and hang onto grass-blades and leaves and violet-pe and blossoms, and earth people called it lew | Things*erew and grew and grew and grew, First the snow-drops, and pussy. willows, and crocuses ap | peared and even Mr. Jack-in-the-Pul lpit poked up his head to preach, xt the violets and forget-me-nots trom a startled deer to a raging |uger-cat. They did not try to kill ver, but only to subdue and capture 1er; and so it was that more than a agle Lio-don warrier felt the keen edge of her blade in his flesh bet 1 ir, overpowering 8, And still she fought and scratched and bit after they had taken the knife from her until it was necessary to tie her hands and fasten a piece of wood between her teeth by means of thongs passed be- hind hor head, At first she refused to walk when they started off in the direction of the valley, but after two of them had geized her by the hair and dragged her for a number of yards she thought better of her original decision and came along with them, |tho. still aw defiant as her bound | wrists and gagged mouth would per mit. Ni the entrance to Kor-uldul |they came upon another body of | their warriers with which were sev: eral Wazdon prisoners from the tribe of Kor-ullul, It was a raiding rty come up from a Ho-don city of the valley after slaves, ‘This Pan jatlee knew, for the occurrence was |by no means unusual, During her |Ifetime the tribe to which she be longed had been sufficiently fortu- nate, or powerful, to withstand sue: made upon them, but yet Pan-at-lee had known of friends and relatives jwho bad been carried into slavery | by the Ho-don, and she knew, too— another thing which gave her hope, as doubtless it did each of the other Night times | cessfully the majority of such raids | lettuce not only for their Sunday din ners, but for every other dinner as | well, for two weeks now, also beet | greens, new pea-shoots, and parsley. | And everywhere birds’ nests had | little speckled blue, pink, white, or | |eray egee in them, depending on the kind of birds they belonged to. In deed, Mrs, Robin called over to Mrs. | Flicker one morning that she'd |heard a little pecking sound inside |of one of hers. Spring had come to stay. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1921, by Seattle Star) | PAGE Wis BY ALLMAN YOU'RE TOO LATE, THE DINING You GET I GP "To THE HOTEL AND HAVE A GOOD DINNER THINGS WILL LOOK ME WUT BROS = CHE I JUST HAD A 1D ROOM 15 CLOSED! CALL THAT ar. Qrattle + * * * on Pe nds] + e. Page 415 THE NOAH OF THE INDIAN (Chapter 2) “Mother-dear,” rupted, “did all the bad, danger- ous animals go up on the moun- tain, too, when they heard the Great Spirit talking about the flood, or did just the good ones and the flowers and things go up? “The story says,” mother dear told her, “that even the worst of them went up, the polsonous snake, and the*animals which killed, and all the bad with the good, every one who heard the news of the coming flood followed the good O-laqua to the moun- tain of safety. “But they were all so frightened that they dared do no harm at that time; it was said that these evil beasts would not have known @ thing about it, but ghey over. heard some vegetables and plants whispering and got the story from them. “After they were gathered to- gether on the mountain, strange things began to happen in the heavens—the skies were filled with blackened clouds, the earth grew dark, low rumblings of harsh thunder began to roll, growing louder and louder as the clouds swept nearer the earth Great zigzag flashes of lightening tore the black curtain of clouds, Peggy inter. and the lightening’s flash was the only ray in the gloom. | “Soon the thunder became one great continuous roar and splash- ing drops of rain began to dall, faster and faster, thicker and thicker, till it seemed as if the sea must have been turned upside down and was emptying itself on the earth. “Night came and the roar never eased, nor ceased the constant falling of the rain, valleys filled #ith water, became rushing riv- ers, and still the rain fell and the waters rose. Mountain after. mountain disappeared in the flood til only the great mountain was left, with waters surging about its base. “O-la-qua looked about him and his soul was filled with awe, and he said to his good squaw, ‘My heart is heavy; I fear these evil creatures with whom we are shut in here on the mountain.’ “ ‘Fear not, O my husband? she answered, ‘for if the Great Spirit has so long protected us from their power, will he not continue to protect now that we are more than ever in need of his help? “And O-la-qua felt comforted and set about to make for himself and his family a tepee wherein they might sleep. “Having finished, this they spread their blankets and sought much-needed rest, for they were very weary. “And when O-la-qua drifted off into sleep, the Great Suiritygame again to him and spoke. (To Be Continued) EERE EE which I wanted to think out to the jitter end, so I left early the next |morning with the intention of walk: | ing a couple of miles before 1 took | |the subway downtown On the way I met George. |. “You're rather early, aren't you?" he asked. | yes, I thought I'd get in a walk re I began work, Come along.” ) “All right. I’m not usually very energetic, but this kind of weather |puts pep into you.” We walked in silence | moments and then Gi | “I'm glad to hear your son is al- most well again, Edith told me yes- | be | oners escaped from the cities of the hairless whites, | After they had joined the other party the entire band set forth into the valley and ‘presently, from the conversation of her captors, Pan-at- lee knew that she was headed for A-lur, the City of Light, while in| the cave of his ancestors, Om-at, \chief of the Kor-ul-Ja, bemoaned the loss of both his friend and she that was to have been his mate, (Continued, Tomorrow) (Copyright, 1921, by Seattle Siar.) to grant him an honorable disclfarge in a week or so.” th is so fond of him. She says that as soon as he saw her he want: ed come to her.” “He was very friendly yesterday, He isn’t always on his good be havior.” dith talked about him*the whole afternoon, I hope that we'll be able to see more of Dot and you, now that the baby is so much better.” “I certainly hope so.” “You see Edith is so fond of you both; I think she would rather be with you two than any other couple.” “She and Dot are such good friends.” It*was the only reply that came into my head, I felt mean and ashamed. For a block or two nothing more was said. Then George: “I think you and Dot understand Edith, Not everyone does, because she is * * * very * * * individual.” He was speaking slowly and evident- ly choosing his words with extreme caution, “Of course,” 1 murmured, rt jot everyone appreciatey that,” Confessions of a Husband 60. SOME ADVICE FROM GEORGE There were a number of questions, terday how much he has improved.” he went on, “The result “Yes, the doctor expects to be able | are—' that they he hesitated—“badly mis+ taken.” “Naturally, Not everyone can be read at a glance like an open-face watch.” \ “That's just it” con it was evi- dent there was something else he wanted to say, It took him a lit: tle time to make up his mind how to pltrase it. “You see,” he said slowly, when he came out of his silence, “some peo- ple were surprised when Edith mar ried me. They can't understand to. this day how we—get along. “She and I are very different, She is so lively and spirited and I—well, you know how quiet and easy-going 1 am—I guess you'd call i lazy. “But that doesn’t make any differ- ence between us, We just take each other the way weé are.” Each of us felt a little embarrassed. during the rest of the walk, I was glad when we went into the subway at 72d st. 1 wondered what George had meant. What did he know? At what was he hinting? Had he been try- ing to give me some indirect ad vice? (To Be Continued yy