The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 19, 1921, Page 9

vPAGE 9 THE SEATTLE STAR , 1921. - EDGAR RICE BURROWGHS’ GREATEST STORY TARZAN THE TERRIBLE Begin Reading This Red-Blood Novel Today SSESESSETIIITITS Copyright, 1921, AC MoCurg @ Co. getestty Pe Continued From Yesterday) crowded forward and throwing At the entrance to the temple Ko-| thomselves upon thelr knees before bad relinquished the guidance|Tarean, raised thelr voices in the guest to Ludon and now the | thanksgiving j ter led ‘Tarsan thru those por. Ko-tan was almost as staggered Of the temple that he wished |as the high priest by this ruthless to see. Ho showed him the | overturning of an age-old religious Toom where the votive offer |rite, ‘But what,” he 7 Were kept, gifts from the bar.) we do that will be pl chiefs of Pal-uldon and from |¢yes of Jad-ben-Otho turning followers. These things | look of puzsled apprebension toward in value from presents of | the ape-man, | “Lf you seek to please your god,” he replied, “place' upon your altars such gifts of food and apparel as are most welcome in the city of your people, These things will Jad |ben-Otho bless, when you may dis tribute them among those of the city who need them most, With | such things are your storerooms filled as I have seen with mine own eyes, and other gifts will be brought when the priests tell the people that in this way they find favor before their god.” and Tarzan turned and | signified that he would leave the temple. | As they were leaving the pre cinets devoted to the worship of their deity, the ape-man noticed a small but rather ornate building that stood entirely detached from the others as tho it had been cut from @ tittle pinnacle of limestone | which had stood out from its fel-| |lows. As his interested glance | | passed over it he noticed that its ‘door and windows were barred. “To what purpose is that building dedicated?" he asked of Ludon. Whom do you keep imprisoned! there?* | “It is nothing,” replied the high | priest nervously. “There is no one jthere. The place is?vacant. Once | it was used, but not now for many years,” and he moved on toward the gateway which led back into the palace. Here he and the priests | waited while Tarzan and Ko-tan and | is warriors passed out from the | BY ALLMAN YES, BUT 1 GOT IT BACK - | BOUGHT THE HOUSES ON EITHER SIDE OF ME FoR ALMOST NOTHING! DOINGS OF THE DUFFS A Good Investment ME \T LOOKS AS THOUGH WE'LL & d HAVE TO SPEND THE DAY Five YEARS? THAT MUST HAVE COST YoU A ' LOT OF MONEY I'M NOT MUCH OF A JUDGE ON SINGING BUT THAT GIRL OUGHT To BE~- OH, You Luke tr? 3 THAT'S MY DALGHTER ; SHE HAS STUDIED tion WELL, IF WE DO} SINGING FOR FIVE : HOPE THAT JANE nave , DON KEEP UP a THAT SINGING ome EG Yip i AYN) p VILL, YL, \ Ly, so that In the great — Storeroom and its connecting ers and corridors was an ac ition of wealth that amazed io eyes Of the owner of the of the treasure vaults of FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS WwW ~ ' He Isn't So Hungry Now it ing to and fro thruout the were sieck black Wazdon fruits of the Hodon raids pn the villages of their less civil neighbors. As they passed the entrance to a dim corridor, Saw within a great company Athropi of all ages and of Sexes. Ho-don as well as Was the majority of them squatted the stone floor in attitudes of @ejection, while some paced and forth, their features with the despair of utter ness. “And who are these™ he asked ALudon, dt @as the first ques that he had put to the high since entering the temple, and tly he regretted that he asked Ludon turned upon him 4 } upon which the expression of sion was but thinly veiled. should know better than gon of Jad-benOtho?™ he re GEE* IM So WUNGRY TI COLD IF You CHASE “TUE FLIES AWAY YOULL FIND ATS” | | ~ THE CRAZY QUILT “and it may interest Lu- high priest, to know that @ blood of a false priest upon the of his temple is not leas in the eyes of Jad-BenOtho.” p paled as he answered Tar- tion. “They are the offer- whose blood must refresh the altars as the sun returns to father @t the day's end.” who told you,” asked Tar “that Jad-benOtho 4vas pleased his people were slain upon his! 4 What if you were mis “Then in and thousands have " replied Ludon. and the surrounding war. priests were listening at- to the dialog. Some of the victims behind the barred gate- bad heard, and, rising, pressed to the barrier thru which on conducted just before sacred precincts of the temple grounds, The one question which Tarzan | would have asked be had feared to jask for he knew that in the hearts |of many lay a suspicion as to his | wenuineness, but he determined that before he slept he would put the question to Ko-tan, either directly or indirectly—as to whether there was or bad been recently within the city of Adur a female of the same race as his. As their evening meal was being served to them in the banquet hall of Ko-tan’s palace by @ part of the army of black slaves upon whose | shoulders fell the burden of all the heavy and menial tanks of the city, Tarzan noticed that there came to | the eyes of one of the slaves what jwas apparently an expression of he looked first time Per to another slave and nod hix bead in his direction. The apeman did not recall ever having seen this Wasdon before and he was at a loss to account for an explanation of the fellow's interest in him, and ”| presently the incident was “all but nasil bel i ii 4, and turning to one © priests: “Remove the now all fully aware of miracle that had saved them, o More Gas in | pmach&Bowels to be permanently r of gas in the stomach Baalmann's Gas-Tab- n's Gas-Tablets are pre- led disti: h gas, and particularly for all effects coming from gas mpty, gone and t the pit of your ear; that anxio ng with ish, and you to take # d revented by your heart an limb pitation art p will onee more P the cirou- and sleepy noon be re- for some form of Fr distended stom- will reduce by inches because will not form after using Baa’ Gas-Tableta. full of youth and health may youre if you will keep your in. order by taking 's standard remedy for kidney, and uric acid troubles, the of life and looks. In use since AM druggists, three sizes. ip onhresltaprelliil| tly and expecially for | forgotten. if ae" he Seite were the only conscious creatures in the banquet hall. Rising, the ape-man turned to a tall black who stood behind him. “I would sleep,” he sald, “show me to | my apartment.” As the fellow conducted him from the chamber the slave who had shown surprise earlier in the even ing at sight of him, spoke again at length to one of his fellows. The latter cast @ half-frightened took -in | the direction of the departing ape man. “they should reward us with our liberty, but if you are wrong, O Jad. benOtho, what will be our fate?’ “But I am not wrong!’ cried the other, “Then there ts but one to tell this to, tor I have heard that he looked Try One Bottle On Our Guarantee mnement longer? A few drops of D. D. D. brings &. ty “If you are right,” he said, | | YounG M4n, wHat FLAVOR IS THis SPoon Mo HavG JUST ior Iv ht )1 MEAN CTS SO STICKY jk CAN HARDLY LET Go Gve ME ONG Hat's TEEN WASHSD SINCE CAST SEASON 3}! [brought to the tempfe and that while the jso-called son of Jad-ben Otho was there he gave this one every cause to fear and hate him. { mean Ludon, the high priest.” “You know him?” asked the other slave. “I have worked in the temple,” replied his companion. “Then go to him at once and tell him, but be sure to exact the prom ise of our freedom for the proof. And s0 a black Wazdon came to the temple gate and asked to see Lu-don. the high priest, on a matter of great importance, and tho the # ‘at Ludon saw him, and when he had heard his story he profhised him and his friend not |only their freedom, but many gifts {* they could prove the correctness H of their claims. | ua a8 the slave talked with the Hi high priest in the temple at A-lur the figure of a man groped its way |around the shoulder of Pastar-ul- ved and the moonlight glistened from the shiny barrel of an Enfield that was strapped to the naked back, and brass cartridges shed tiny raya of reflected ight from their polished cases where they hung in the bandoliers across the broad brown shoulders and the lean waist. Tarzan's guide conducted him to a chamber overlooking the biue lake where he found a bed similar to that which he had seen in the villages ot the Waz-don, merely a rained | dais of stoné upon which was piled great quantities of furry pelts. And so he lay down to sleep, the ques- tion that he most wished to put still unasked and unanswered, With the coming of a new day he was awake and wandering about the palace and the palace grounds be fore there was sign of any of the inmates of the palace other than slaves, or at least he saw no others |sour when this Dor-ulOtho was/upon an enclosure which lay almost) |within the center of the palace grounds surrounded by a wall that piqued the ape-man's curiosity, singe he had determined to investi- | gate as fully as powsible every part |of the palace and its environs. This place, whatever it might be, was apparently without doors or | windows, but that It was at least | partially roofless Was evidenced by | the sight of the waving branches of |@ tree which spread over the top of the wall near him. Finding no oth ler method of access, the ape-man uncofled his rope and, throwing it over the branch of the tree where ft projected beyond the wall, waw soon climbing with the ease of a monkey to the summit, There We found that the wall sur- rounded an enclosed garden in which grew trees and shrubs and flowers in riotous profusion, With- lout waiting to ascertain whether the garden was empty or contained Hoon, Waz-don, or wild beasts, {Tarzan dropped lightly to the sward lon tho inside and without further loss of time commenced 4 system: atio investigation of the enclosure. Hig curiosity was aroused by the | very evident fact that the place was |not for generaf use, even by those | who had free access ta other parts of the palace grounds, and so there was added to its natural beauties an absence of mortals which rendered its exploration all the more alluring to Tarzan since it suggested that in such a place might he hope to come upon the object of his long and dif- | ficult search, In the garden were tiny artifi- cial streams and little pools of wa- \ter, flanked by flowering bushes, as tho it all had been designed by the cunning hand of some master gar- dener, #o faithfully did it carry out the uties and contours of nature upon’ miniature He discovered it was Mi Another thing Mr, Moon saw was ‘a peculiar looking object sailing up straight to a bright star nearby. | Looking with all his might he discov. fered that it was Mr. Sprinkle Blow's |magic umbrella, and astride It was |the fairyman, Nancy and Nick, The three of them landed and went straight to a barrel marked “Dense Fog” and filled three bags. Then | they sailed straight to earth again, lunding this time in a Pw, swampy ‘place, not far from the plum tree |where Biddy Bantam was roosting | Pretty soon they saw a sharp nose | poke itself out from the shadows, fol lowed by @ reddish brown body and long bushy tail, It was Fleet Fox nd be mado straight for the plum tree. Next there was a scurrying and a »|soft little brown ball with two long straight ears lopped past, heading | ‘was fashioned to represent the white cliffs of Paluldon, broken occasionally by small replicas of the verdure-filled gorges of the original. Filled with admiration and thoro- ly enjoying each new surprise whieb |the scene offered, Tarzan moved slowly around the gardens, and as always he moved silently, Passing thru a miniature forest he came presently upon a tiny area of flow jerstudded sward and at the same time beheld before him the first Hodon female he had seen since jentering the palace, A young and beautiful woman stood in the center lof the little open space, stroking the head of a bird which she held against her golden breastplate with to the apeman and be saw that by {the standards of any land she would {have been accounted more than | lovely, Seated in the grass at her fect, with her back toward him, was a female Waz-don slave. Seeing that she he sought was not there and apprehensive that an alarm be |raised were he discovered by the | two women, Tarzan moved back to | hide himself in the follage, but be- |fore he had succeeded the Hodon | girl turned quickly toward him as |tho apprised of his presence by that | unnamed sense, the manifestations |of which are more or Jess familiar to us all, At sight of him her eyes regia- tered only her surprise, tho there Was no expression of terror reflect ed in them, nor did she scream or even raise her well-modulated voice as she addressed him. At sound of her mistress’ voice the slave maiden turned quickly, jfising to her feet, “Tarzan-jad-gu- ru!” she exclaimed in tones of . Sprinkle-Blow’s magic umbrella lone hand. Her profile was presented | FOR CAMP MEALS, GO TO EVERY DISCOMFORT 1D GET WDIGESTION FROM FISHY WATER COFFEE, BEANS for ‘the sass-patch garden. “Cutie Cottontail! whispered Nancy. “His Ma sent him because he's 90 tiny he can squeeze thru the holes in the new wire fence,” whispered | back Sprinkle-Blow, “Look! whispered Nick, pointing lat something else. | It was Chris Crow, the old thing! jsnooping after Cutie, Of course | |Cutle should have been at home in| bed, but then how did he know that | Farmer Smith hadn't planted his let: | tuce on purpose for him to eat? It} was certain, anyway, that Chris} knew that Cutie wasn't intended to be a dinner for him and he'd no} |more business to be snooping after him than Fleet Fox had to be snoop. ing after Biddy Bantam: Well, Fleet arrived at the plum | tree Just as Cutie scurried past. “M, | ‘mf exclaimed Fleet, “I see where 1 get two meals instead of one." By standing on his hind legs, he could just touch Biddy’s tail, “Quick!” said Sprinkle-Blow to the Twins, “open all the bags and let out the dense fog.” (0 Be Continued) (Copyright, 1921, by Seattle Star) T * JS Stor ks There never was a Little girl who didn’t like to get a letter, but to get a letter all your own, di- rected to you and everything, and —« letter with a pioneer story in it was most exciting. Mother wasn't at home when the postman brought Peggy hers, and rather hesitatingly, Pegsy had fo let David read it to ther. “Well, it's my very own letter, anyway, isn't it, Davie? she asked, “and you will read It every word just as it is written?” “Aw, Peg, you make me tired, Do you think I'll leave a lot out? Surely I'll read it as it is.” “It's from Margaret Carlson.” This is the letter: “In the 1887, 34 years from now, there were lots of skunks; my daddy thought there were, for this was year anyway, his first experience with one. “Father lived the beach in Decatur (which is now called Mannette). He then lived in a little shack which was not very good or big. “He lived there all alone, “He got along fairly or pretty well. One day he had been work down on ie A's we 2 leland—_ 4] ing hard and when he came home it was getting toward everiing, so he thought he would go to bed. “He went to sleep that night and slept very well till midnight, when he was awakened by the sound of scratching on his door. sill, which wa irritating. “He looked up and in the moon- fight he saw a skunk. “He did not know that if he frightened the skunk it would be all off.with"him. So he thought he would take his gun from the | head of his bed and shoot the skunk. “So he reached for his gun and —bang! it went off, but it missed the skunk and hit an old wash boiler out there by the house, “It was all off then for my father; it was his first experience with the little animal. “He had to go out and sit on* an old stump all night and. build himself a new house the next Ja Pessy asked many questions about that queer animal which David could answer and many that he could not, but they both think Margaret tells a good story: 4 Se tet! 64, That evening Dot was making |plans for spending our $6,000 a yes ‘I think we ought to take a house in the suburbs,” she told me, “It will save ws the expense of going away in the summer, except,..per- haps, for a week or two, and it will be a great deal better for Bobbie than the city. ’ “If we are very economical we may be able to afford a little car, for people say you can't really enjoy the country without one, I remem, ber Mrs. Willis said to me- and) so on until I lost interest in the con- vervation. Dot, however, caught my attention ggain when she began to plain our | house. “And, of course, there must ‘be a guest room,” she asserted, ‘There are so many people whose hospitality | we ought to repay. I expect to have Edith and George often, but, of course, we'll see a great deal of them anyway, because you'll be working for her father.” “That doesn’t necessarfty follow,” I told her, “There are a great many people working for John D. Rocke- Her, but that mean—" (Copyright, 1921, by Seattle Star.) DOT FAILS TO UNDERST ing every little Maw in what your} wife says!" Dot exclaimed in disgust. “It's like going to school all over | again to be married to’ you! | “Well, in all seriousness, then, Is it | absolutely essential to your happi- ness that we see a great deal of Edith and George?” ‘Not ‘absolutely essential,’ per- haps,” returned Dot, “but I like them very much, and I can't imagine what | on earth prompted you to ask such a question. I should think you'd be migh grateful to Edith after the way “That hasn't anything to do with my question.” “But it's got a great deal to do with it. She worked herself sick get ting that job for you, running down to see her father and you and doing all sorts of things Just to help you along, and then you sit down and ask me if it is ‘absolutely essential’ that 1 see her and George. | “I can’t understand you lately at all, You are sorry that you got a good job with a better salary than you ever earned before, and then you aren't grateful to the person who got it for you.” 1 could see how, from Dot's point || Confessions of a Husband AND be said for my argument, so I wisely decided to remain silent. 4 But I was far from pleased with the outlook. Sooner or later I would have to re-establish a basis of frank- ness betweea Dot and me, and I saw that the longer I put it off, the more it would burt, “I suppose you'll be angry when I tell you that I saw Edith this morn. me, “She knew that you had got- ten the job, and she was just tickled ing,” Dot put in as a final shot at to death.” (To Be Continued) i Corere PURE MALTED MILK