The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 21, 1921, Page 11

SDAY, JULY 21, 1921. PAGE 11 THE SEATTLE STAR DOINGS OF THE DUFFS Tom Was His First Oustomer BY ALLMAN _ EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS’ GRE TARZAN THE TERRIBLE Begin Reading This Red-Blood Novel Today 2 Copyright, 1921, AC MeCtun 0 From Yesterday) CHAPTER XI ‘The Sentence of Death it was an hour before the Teentered the apartment and Meantime the apeman had himself in examining the upon the walls and the ou- specimens of the handicraft opian artisans which com to impart an atmosphere of and tuxury to the apart: e & Mmestone of the country, and of marble white yet worked with comparative ‘with crude implements, had Wrought by cunning craftemen bowls and urns and vases of grace and beauty. Into designs of many of these had been hammered, pre- 's Vegetable ines me whether you are trou- with | poor complexion, wrin- $ around the eyes, rf lines around mouth, or nes: the face, wind or trou: the am. other Cream can If you cannot obtain, ‘cents silver or stamps for trial package of Cream and Howard Bros. Company, 457 Ly Street, Buffalo, N. Y. . rug Co. can supply you— semen For Three Generations E ieee MOTHER'S FRIEND ett Rooter om Worweencce Bae rae Qa0¥ rece ResuLaToR CO..DEPT.9-D.ATLANTA. Gay ace senting the effect of a rich and mag- nificent clotsonne. A barbarian him- self, the art of barbarians had al ways appealed to the ape-man, whom it represented a natural ex pression of man's love of the beautl ful to even a greater extent than the studied and artificial efforts of elviltzation. Here was the real art of old masters, the other cheap imi- tation of the chromo. Tt was while he was thus pleasur- ably engaged that Kotan returned. Aa Tarsan, attracted by the move ment of the hangings thru which the king entered, turned and faced him he was almost shocked by the remarkable alteration of the kips’s appearance, His face was livid; his hands trembled as with palsy, and PURE MALTED MILK | his eyea were wide as with fright. His appearance was one apparently of a combination of consuming an- ger and withering fear. Tarzan looked at him questioningty. “You have had bad news, Ko- tant” he asked. The king mumbled an wnintelll gible reply. Behind there thronged into the apartment so great a num ber of warriors that they choked the entrance-way. The king looked | apprehensivety to right and left. He cast terrified glances at the ape man and then, raising his face and turning his eyes upward be cried: “JadbenOtho be my witness that I do not this thing of my own ac cord.” There was a moment's st- lence which was again broken by Kotan. “Seize him,” he cried to the warriors about him, “for Ludon, the high priest, ewears that he is an impostor.” To have offered armed resistance to this great concoumse of warriors in the very heart of the palace of thelr king would have been worse than fatal Already Tarzan had come far by his wits and now that within a few hours he had had his hopes and his suspicions partially verifie® by the vague admissions of Oloa he was tmpreased with the Necessity of inviting no mortal risk that he could avoid. “Stop! he cried, raising his patm against them. “What ie the mean ing of this? “Lu-don claims he has proof that you are not the son of Jad-ben- Otho,” replied Kotan. “He de If you are what you claim to be none knows better than you that you need have no fear in acquics- of the situation apparent. To relieve the situation Jadon suggested that all three of them oc. cupy the throne, but this suggestion was repudiated by Ko-tan, who ar sued that no mortal other than a “But who,” said Tarzan, “is my accuser and who is my judge? “Ludon is your accuser,” plained Ko-tan. “And Lu-don ts your judge,” erted the high priest. “I am to be judged by him who accuses me, then,” said Tarzan. “It were better to dispense then with any formalities, and ask Lu-don to sentence me.” His tone was iron- ical and sbis sneering face, looking straight but caused the latter's hatred rise to still greater proportions. It was evident that Kotan and his warriors saw the justice of Tar mn's implied objections to this un- fair method of dixpensing justice. “Only Kotan can fudge in the throneroom of his palace,” said Ja don. “Let him hear La-don’s charges and the testimony of his witnesses, and then let Kotan’s judgment be final.” Ko-tan, however, was not particn- larly enthusiastic over the prospect lof sitting in trial upon one who might after all very possibly be the son of his god, and so he tempor- eking for an avenue of es It is purely a @ligious mat he said, “and it traditional that the kings of Pal-ul-don inter fere not in questions of the church.” “Then let the trial be held in the temple,” cried one of the chiefs, for the warriors were as anxious as their king to be relieved of ali re sponsibility In the matter. This suggestion was more than satisfac tory to the high priest, who inward ly condemned himself for not hav- ing thought of it before. “Tt is true,” he said, “this man's sin is against the temple. Let him iz FOR SORE, TIRED FEET pd-bye, burning feet; swollen, tender, dewaiks with your feet “on fire No more shoe tightness, limping with pain. hot m aching feet, out the poisonous exudatious tired te No more limping No more standing day after Tia that cause puffed-up, burning feet. iy , comfort, rest when foot misery ends. Get a small box of at any drug store, @ few cents Don't suffer, A year's foot comfort guaran- to! to that of the high priest. | badd | WHEN DID You WRIST WATCH ? U EVERETT TRUE Gy AING THe Mrs. SHC'S A Sood $ be dragged thither then for trial” “The son of Jad-ben-Otho will be dragged nowhere,” cried Tarzan. “But when this trial is over it is possible that- the corpse of Lu-don, the high priest, will be dragged from the temple of the god he would desecrate. Think well, then, ladon before you commit this folly.” His words, intended to frighten the high priest from his position, failed utterly in consummating their purpose. Lu-don showed no terror at the suggestion of the ape-man’s words implied, “Here is one,” thought Tarzan, | “who, knowing more of his religion than any of his fellows, realizes fully the falsity of my claim as he does the falsity of the faith he | preaches.” He realized, however, only hope lay in the warriors were still under the spell gf their belief in him and upon this fact must he depend in the final act of the drama that Ludon was staging, for his rescue from the jealous priest whom he knew had already passed sentence upon him in bt, own heart. With a shrug he descended the steps of the pyramid. “It matters not to Dor-ul-Otho,” he said, “where Lu-don enrages his god, for Jad-ben- Otho can reach as easily into the chambers of the temple as into the throneroom of Ko-tan.” Immeasurably relieved by this tasy solution of their problem the king and the warriors thronged from the throneroom toward the temple grounds, their faith in Tar wan increased by his apparent tn- difference to the charges against him. Lu-don led them to the larg: est of the altar courts. ‘Taking his place behind the west- ern altar be motioned Kotan ta & THIS MORNING FIRST MISS YOUR || YOU WOULD GO RIGHT DOWN AND ASK ‘THE CLERK IF ANY ONE TURME UNG R: HAS a TSA ON NARING. EVER MOU HAVENS Sve BT You V wish TURN IN A INSOMNIA "T — VEN NS Do TSMePer oy Sse WGLL, DEAE, wry Dionw’T You Ger SOMETHING OUT OF THe QaROan § or KovR "rT HOSD A Go OVT THERES ANDO Place upon the platform at the left hand of the altar and directed Tar zan to a similar place at the right As Tarzan ascended the platform his eyes’ narrowed ‘angrily at the sight which met them. The basin hollowed in the top of the altarawas filled with water in which floated the naked corpse of @ newborn babe. “What means this?” he cried angrily, turning upon Lar-don. The latter smiled malevctentty. “That you do not know,” he replied, “is but added evidence of the falsity of your claim, He who poses as the von of god did not know that as the last rays of the setting suf flood the eastern altar of the temple the lifeblood of an adult reddens tae white stone for the edification of Jad-ben-Otho, and that when the sun rises again from the body of its maker it looks first upon this west- erp altar and rejoices in the death of a new-born babe each day, the ghost of which accompanies it across the heavens by day as the ghost of the adult returns with it to Jad-ben-Otho at night. “Even the little children of the Ho-don know these things, while he who claims to be the son of Jad-ben- Qtho knows them not; and if this proof be not enough, there is more. Come, Waz-don,” he eried, pointing to a tall elave who stood with a group of other blacks and priests on the temple floor at the left of the altar. The fellow came forward fearful- ly. “Tell us what you know of this creature,” cried Lu-don, pointing to Tarzan. “I have seen him before,” said the Wazdon. “I am of the tribe of Kor-ul-lul, and one day recently a party of which I was one, en- countered a few of the warriors of the Kor-ul-Ja upon the ridge wpich separates our, villages. Among the enemy. was thig strange creature i DiD ANY ONE WRIST WATCH THAT WAS FOUND?) HE'S OUT IN THE \ DON’T Know! You BETTER GO BACK , AND ASK THE CLERK BARN! Fo0-00' = Oe KEEPING THESE cu! HEVRE AS WARM AS A BANJO “THuma! A re) aa HELLO TWERE! SAY, CAM 1 SEE You A DVENTURES INS ae eth ‘Biddy was as completely lost a8 the Babes-in-the-Wood “Well, well, well,” chuckled Fleet Fox to himself when he saw a dark, indistinct figure fly up into the little plum tree again, “Biddy Bantam has come back. I thought that I had lost her for good. Isn't it a good thing this fog came along to hide me just when it did? He never dreamed that Biddy was staggering around in the thick fox yards and yards away, hunting for her nest In the hay stack. Biddy wan as completely lost as were the Babes-in-the-Woods and she bumped into logs and stones this way and that Uke @ crazy person, poor thing. She was getting crosser and croaser about what she thought of fogs; and | whom they called Tarzan-jad-guru; and terrible indeed was he for he fought with the strength of many men so that it required 20 of us to subdue him. But he did not fight as a god fights, and when a club struck him upon the head he sank unconscious as might an ordinary mortal “We carried him with us to ‘eur village as a prisoner but he escaped after cutting off the head of the warrior we left to guard bim and carrying it down into the gorge and tying it to the branch of a tree upon the opposite side.” “The word of @ slave against that of a god!" cried Ja-don, who had shown previously a friendly interest in the pseudo godling. “It is only @ step tn the progress toward truth,” interjected Lu-don. “Possibly the evidence of the only princess of the house of Ko-tan will have greater weight with the great chief from the north, tho the father of a son who fled the holy offer of the priesthood may not receive with willing ears any testimony against another blasphemer.” Jadon's hand leaped to his knife, but the warriors next to him laid de- taining fingers upon his arms. “You are in the temple of Jad-ben-Otho, Ja-don,” they cautioned and the great chief was forced to swallow Ludon’s affront tho it left in his heart bitter hatred of the high priest. And now Kotan turned toward Ludon. “What knoweth my daugh- ter of this matter?” he asked. “You would not bring a princess of my house to testify thus publicly?” “No,” replied La-don, “not in per son, but I have here one who will testify for her.” He beckoned to an under priest. “Fetch the slave of the princess,” he said. His grotesque headdress adding @ touch of the hideous to the scene, the priest stepped forward dragging the reluctant Panatlee by the wrist, what she though of a certain fairy weatherman by the name of Sprin- kle-bow who would permit such things, I'd hate to tell you. It wasn't at all complimentary. She got madder still when she found that she couldn't even find her way back to the plum trea. “Do you suppose I'l) have to sleep on the ground?” she scolded. “Nice tate of affairs, T call it.” Lite did she suspect that that very fog was saving her life That a fierce reddish-brown creature whom she disliked more than any- thing in the world was right under her roosting place waiting for her. That's the way it is. People scold at troubles, or what they think are troubles, when all the time they are blessings in disguise. Up in the plum tree Chris Crow, who had lost his way fn the fog chasing little Cutie Cottontail, never once thought of looking down, He was thinking, “Now which way do you’ s'pose that sass-patch garden is? That's where Cutie’s gone, I know.” Just then something grabbed him. (To Be Continued) hi id SURE, COME * * Page “When one is ignorant,” Daddy How ABUT THiS DOG? Witt HE atid COME RIGHT IN! 1 DON'T KHOW, | JUST GOT HIM TODAY ANDI WANT TO FIMD OUT! , » J kK. leland_ _»% THE GHOST OF THE ENCHANTED PRAIRIE 421 cause he was level-headed and brave in every way. > “He laughed at the fear the In- -| dians had of ghosts and when his “Aw, Peggy! Don't you know what that means? It means be ing afraid to go thru a cemetery at nigh and seeing the new toon over your left shoulder, and wishing on shooting stars, and being afraid to kill spiders because ft will bring .bad luck, and a lot of foolish stuff like that, isn't it, Daday?” And Daddy answered, “Yes, those are some of the more com mon superstitions, and as I was saying, tt is usually people who know ‘very little who are most superstitious, The Indians, of cours, were ignorant savages and were afraid of all manner of things, “But the sturdy pioneers thought they were quite free from any touch of superstition. And espectally did Enoch Anderson think himself free from it, be- Lhd plans were all made to carry the warning of the Indian attack & the Umpqua country, he did not hesitate to choose the shortest possible route, even tho it took him across the Enchanted Prairie, “This prairie, the Indians be eved, was haunted by the un- happy spirits of dead Indians. They said these wailing ghosts came by the hundreds every night, wailing and sobbing eut their woe to each other and that they hated all living men. “So no Indian, however great and brave he might be, would dare to cross the prairie between the hours of sunset and sunrise. “"No,’ Enoch said to some of the old men who tried to caution him against the possible dangers of the ghosts’ country, ‘it is a 60-mile journey at best, and there'll be dangers enough, heav- en knows, with af the Indians on the war path without scaring myself over some silly notion of the savages.’" 5 dade Confessions of a Husband “Guess what!" “I refuse.” “Guess what I'm going to do ‘Wednesday night.” It was the first time tn a long while that I had seen Dot really her self, and I was delighted. So I guessed any number of thirlgs, but, of course, not the right one “I'm going to a violin recital.” “Really? “And with another man.” “It's good of you to warn me.” “And you're going to stay home and take care of Bobbie.” “I'll be glad to do that.” “But you won't be lonesome.” “Is that 60? Have you looked out for me, also?" Dot nodded. “Guess who's going to keep you company?” I began with David and Goliath and was going thru all the heroes of antiquity when Dot interrupted me: “Oh, you're no good at all as a guesser, George ts going to take to hear Strabinoff—-it’s his last cital in a long time—and Edith coming here to ie ¥Qu COMpaDy,’ (Copyright, 1931, by Seattle Star.) 66. A REAL SURPRISE “Whose bright idea is this?’ I demanded. “Partly mine and partly hers. George likes music, but you and she don’t. Anyway, you can't take me to hear Strabinoff because we haven't any girl and we can't leave Bobbie alone. So we've arragged it this way and everybody’s happy.” I was very far from being happy, but I could not say so. Instead, I tried another tack. “But, dear, it will probably be a very hot night, and you won't feel a bit like sitting indoors listening to some foreign fiddler-—~—" “Foreign fiddler! That's a stupid way to talk about——” “All right, I retract the ‘foreign fiddler’ But why should you take a notion to go to a recital now? And why do you want to leave me at home like this?” “You didn't object at first-—why, you didn't say a word against it un- til I said I was going with George. | Honestly, are you silly enough to be jealous of him? Look me in the] eye.” I did so, She went on: “Now if you say you're jealous of | him, 1’) make some excuse to Edith and call the engagement off, tho I haven't been out a night since Bob- bie became sick. If you are one bit jealous of George I won't ever see him again.” ‘The easiest way out of the situa tion would have been to lie and say that I was jealous. It was a fact that at one time it had seemed to me ° . But with Dot looking at me that way I had to tell the truth, and the truth was that I had not the slightest grounds for jealousy and that I knew it, “No, I am not jealous,” I said. “If you want to go to the recital with him, I don’t object.” “> (To Be Continued) Nearly 5,000 silver-dlack foxes are being bred in captivity in the United