The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 25, 1921, Page 9

ONDAY, JULY 25, 1921. " EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS’ GREATEST STORY AARZAN THE TERRIBLE hy _ Begin Reading This Red-Blood Novel Today Coprrtght, 19f1, & C MeGurg & Ca (Continued From Saturday) to his cave Omat the Korultul prisoners to ht Into his presence singty, ¥ gach he questioned as to tho > Tarzan. Without exception teld him the same story-—that had been taken prisoner co five days before but that siain the warrior left to Dim and escaped, carrying bo head of the unfortunate sentry ) the opposite side of Korullu! he had left it suspended hair from the branch of a jut what had become of him they did not know; not one unti! the last prisoner was he whom they had taken unarmed ‘Kor-ultul mak- way from the direction of P of Jad-ben-Otho toward aves of his people. one, when he discovered the of their questioning, bar- with them for the lives and ty of himself and his fellows. [ean tell you much of this terrible im ef whom you ask, Kor-ulJa.” “I saw him yesterday and where he ts, and if you ise to let me and my fei- return in safety to the caves ‘ancestors I will tell you all, ully, that which I know.” will tell us anyway,” replied “or we shall kill you.” ‘will kill me anyway,” re the prisoner, “unless you ‘me this promise; so if I am to : the think I know shall Ys right, Om-at," sald Taden; 2 F die him that they shall have) well,” said Omat. “Speak, and when you have told you and your fellows may unharmed to your tribe.” ‘was thus,” commenced the ~ “Three days since I was wits party of-my fel Near the mouth of Kor-ui-tul. - from where you captured morning, when we were and set upon by a large Hodon, who took ux and carried us to A-lur, @ few were chosen to be and the rest were cast into beneath the temple, altars of the temple at bstit Etat Fegdecresssbat i RE and carried throu, [The result is weakness, beadaches, coated tongue, inactive attacks, loss of energy, poor appetite, impove ood, sallow complexion, pim: skin disease, oftentimes iliness. laxatives, purges and J Tis” calomel and et_a 25c box of NM Remedy ‘ ets) and take one tablet ht for a week. Relief wil the very first dose, bu i elapse before you feel the fullest benefit. When you ott tened out and feel it in you need not take medi- day—an occasional NR Het will then keep your system in condition and you will 4 y best. Remember, ke | pester ‘and cheaper ihan get- r well. . Remedy (NR Tablets) are cu teed and recommended rug: Wirt TM LIAM MN fe TABLET S- Bi n Pills | GET A | sight of Tarzan may have aroused. ), unarmed. Therefore nene of us) reached the village of our people! and only one of us lives, I have spoken.” “That ts af you know concern: ing Tareeanjad-gcurut™ asked Om-at, “That is all I know," reptied the prisoner, “other than that he whom they call Ludon, the high priest at A-lur, was very angry, and that one of the two priests who guided us out of the city said to the} other that the stranger was not) DorulOtho at all; that Lodon had/ sald so am) that he had also sald) that he would expose him and that he should be punished with death for his presumption. That ts all they said within my hearing. “And now, chief of Kor-ul-Ja, let| us depart.” Om-at nodded. “Go your way,” he said, “and Abon, send warriors to guard them until they are) safely within the Kor-ultul “Jordon,” he said, beckoning to the stranger, “come with me,” and rising he led the way toward the summit of the cliff, and when they stood upon the ridge Omat pointed down the valley toward the City of Alur gleaming in thé light of the Western sun “There is Tarmn-jad coru,” sald, and Jordon understood, he CHAPTER XITI ‘The Masquerader As Tarzan dropped to the ground | beyond the temple wall there was in his mind no intention to escape | from the City of A-lur until be had satisfied himself that his mato was not a prisoner there, but how, In this strange city in which every man’s hand must be now against| him, he was to live and prosecute | his search was far from clear to him. There was onty one place of) which he knew that he might find Jeven temporary sanctuary and that |was the Forbidden rden of the| king, There was thick shrubbery in which a man might hide, and | water and fruits. A cunning jungie jereature, if he could reach the spot unsuspected, might remain con- cealed phere for a considerable time, but how he was to traverse the distance between the tempic grounds and the garden unseen was @ question the seriousness of which he fully appreciated. “Mighty is Tarmn,” he solilo quited, “in his native jungie, but in | the cities of man he ts little better than they.” Depending upon his keen obser. vation and sense of location, he felt safe in assuming that he could reach the palace grounds by means der priest, his grotesque headdress concealing whatever emotion the However, Tarzan had one advant- age over the masked votary of Jad- ben-Otho im that the moment he saw the priest he knew bis intention concerning him, and therefore was not compelled to delay action. And so it was that before the priest could determine on any suitable line of conduct in the premises a long, keen knife had been slipped into hie beart. As the body lunged toward the floor Tarsan caught it and snatched the headdress from its shoulders, for the first sight of the creature had suggestéd to his evef-alert mind & bold scheme for deceiving bis enernies. The headdress saved from such Poesible damage as it must have sustained had it fallen to the floor with the body of its owner, Tarzan relingyished hie hold upon the corpse, set the headdress carefully upon the floor and stooping down severed the tail of the Ho-don clone to its root. Nearby at his right REAL PAINLESS DENTISTS ry uth; you ca corm eff th cob; guaranteed 15 yeara " All work guaranteed for 15 Mave impressions taken in the moras et teeth same day. E; advice free. Call and Seo Samples of Our Piate and Bridge Work. We Stand the Test of Time. 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Then he fitted the headdress over his shoulders and stepped from the apartment, to all appearances a priest of the temple of Jad-ben- Otho unless one examined too closely his thumbs and his great toes, He had noticed that among both the Hodon and the Wazdon it was not at all unusual that the end of the tall be carried in one hand, and so he caught his own tall up thus lest the lifeless appearance of it dragging along behind him should arouse suspicion, Passing along the corridor and thru the various chambers he emerged at last into the palace grounds beyond the temple. ‘The purwuit had not yet reached this point tho he was conscious of a commotion not far behind him, He met now both warriors and slaves, but none gave him more than a passing glance, a priest being too cotamon a sight about the palace. And 80, passing the guards un challenged, he came at last to the inper entrance to the Forbidden Garden and there he paused and scanned quickly that portion of the beautiful spot that lay before his eyes. To his relief it seemed unoe- eupied, and, congratulating himself upon the ease with which Re had so far outwitted the h powers of Adur, he moved rapidly to the op- posite end of the enclosure. Here be found # patch of Uowering was @ small oA Buriw Teo ‘Mouse A COUPLA WEEKS ono. = snot: BY CONDO ON, mstGe rite ONG That's COne. (es shrubbery that might safely have | concealed a dozen men. | Crawling well within he removed | the uncomfortable headdress and sat down to await whatever eventual ities fate might have in atore for him while he formulated plans for |the future. The one night that he jhad spent in Adur had kept him |up to @ late hour, apprising him of |the fact that while there were few labroad in the temple grounds at |night, there were yet enough to make it possible for him to fare forth under cover of his disguise without attracting the unpleasant attention of the guards, and, too, he had noticed that the priesthood |constituted « privileged class that | seemed to come and go at will and |unchallenged thryout the palace as | well as the temple. Altogether then, he decided, night furnished the most |propitious hours for his investiga tion—by day he could tie up in the |shrubbery of the Forbidden Garden, reasonably free from detection |From beyond the garden be heard | the voices of men calling to one an- |other both far and near, and he | guessed that diligent was the search that was being prosecuted for him, he idie moments afforded him @n opportunity to evolve a more sat. isfactory scheme for attaching his |stolen caudal appendage. He ar- ranged it in such a. way that it might be quickly assumed or dis carded, and this done he fell to ex- amining the weird mask that had so effectively hidden his features, The thing had been very cunning: ly wrought from a single bleck of wood, very probably a section of a tree, upon which the features had been carved and afterward the tn- terior hollowed opt until only +a com- paratively thin shell remained, Two semi-circular notches had been rounded out from opposite sides of the lower edge, These fitted snugly ngs — iw Cob Coon used to watch Blackie Bass, too, Having better eyes than Marty Mink, he'd climb into the wil- low over the pool and peer down into the water over Blackie's head. He, | too, was puzzled, for, like Marty, he found it impossible to make out whether the long dark object was a | shadow, a stone, or the fish he cov- eted. Cob was hungry. He hadn't had }@ good fill since winter and corn was just being planted. He did love fish, especially bass, and he made up his mind to find out what the object was, so he watched and | watched, same as Marty did, only he | watched moonlight nights, while | Marty watched in the daytime. Blackie saw them both and deanpeeneneeencnanaeenditutiamecteadatenintnsenenntiasat over his shoulders, aprons of wood extending downward a few inches upon his chest and back. « From theve aprons hung long tassels or switches of hair tapering from the outer edges toward the center which reached below the bottom of his torso. It required but the most cursory examination to Indicate to the ape-man that these ornaments consisted of human scalps, taken, doubtless, from the heads of the sacrifices. upon the eastern altars. ‘The headdress itself had — been carved to depict in formal design a hideous face that suggested both man and gryf. There were the three white horns, the yellow face with the blue bands encircling the eyes and the red hood which took the form of the posterior, and ‘an- terior aprons , As Tarzan sat within the conceal ing foliage of the shrubbery medi- tating upon the hideous priest mask which he held in his hands he be came aware that he was not alone in the garden, He sensed another presence and presently his trained ears detectéd the slow approach of naked feet across the sward. At first he suspected that it might be one stealthily searching the Forbid- den Garden for him but a little later the figure came within the limited area of his vision which was cir cumacribed by stems and follage and flowers. He saw then that it was the Princess O-lo-a and that she was alone and walking with bowed head as tho in meditation—sorrow- ful meditation, for there were traces of teary upon her lids, Shortly after his eqrs warned him that others had enteged the garden —men they were and their foot- stepa proclaimed that they walked neither slowly nor meditatively. They came directly toward the prin cess and when Tarzan could see them he discovered that both were priests. (Continued Tomorrow) YOUD BE TAKING AN { AWFUL CHANCE! Your. LIFE. WOvLONT } BE WORTH TEN cenTs! te “I'l wait until tonight,” said Marty softly to himself. chuckled quite solemnly. It was Marty who discovered that the long dark object was a fish, be- cause once when he was watching, Blackie forgot and made a grab for & snake-feeder over his head, and wot hima. That settled it, “I'll wast until tonight,” sald Mar. ty softly to hfmself, turning home “And then I'l! have a fishing party, I'll ask SprinkleBlow to blowgout the moon so Mr. Bass Fish can't see me, then I'l dive un- yt him and the rest will be easy, think I'll have a party it ‘ <= in my relations.” seemed ut Blackie Bass was thinkin; E too, Blackie was thinking, “Now I've wone and done it. I shouldn't have grabbed that snakefeeder. Marty Mink knows all about me and ru have to look out.” While he was thinking he t and wiggted his tail, ‘The wen toe fone down and the moon had conte up and Cob Coon was watching. “"M, hem! he whispered soft “I thought so." Pe me (To Be Continued (Copyright 1921 by Beattie Star) I fangied the teléphone hook again. ‘There was not the sugges tion of any response, “I guess tho girl has gone to sleep!’ 1 said crossly, The thing was not humorous for me. I was expecting the telephone call from Sid that would get me out for the evening and let ofe escape being shut up with Edith while my wife and Geofge went to the violin re cital. “Never mind, don't bother with It now,” Dot told me. “You'll just lose your temper if you keep at it any longer.” Dot was right except in one re spect—-I had already lost my tem- per. I slammed the receiver vicious- ly back on the hook mng threw my- self in a chair to read the evening paper while Dot went to her room to dress... I hoped that the trouble with our line was due merely ,to the, inatten- tion of the operator land that there wouldn't be any interference with |incoming calls, but 1 was worried just the same. “When do you expect to ket home this evening?” I called back to Dot. “That depends on whether George takes me to @ restaurant afterwards BY ALLMAN WELL! WISH | WAS UP “THERE % Zz BY AHERN ~ SKIN, BUMPED MY HEAD, AND Wow T HEAR A RINGING Wi MY EARS! “Enoch felt the nervous tremb- Ming of the horse beneath him and could not quite prevent a lit- tle sense of alarm on his own part. “What did the horse see? “He raised his hand and pushed aside a thick bough which bung tm his way and there just ahead of him, so near that he fancied he felt a cold breath on his face, was a thing which fair. ly froze his blood. It looked hu- man and still not humam, it was tall as a giant, but very thin, and it wore a gauze-like robe which seemed to float in the night wind. “He tried to see its face but the head seemed half turned away; once be thought he saw great hollow gleaming eyes, but he was not sure, for it turned slowly away aguin. daredbrave the poisoned arrows and the treachery of a hundred ff angry mvages, was afraid of this pale thing which stood in his. path. : “Stood? No, for as he watched with fast-beating heart, it slowly marched across the trail and as slowly returned. < “Back and forth, back and forth, making no sound, it moved across his path. Above him the moon shone in all its silver glory, back of him were the dark, still miles of the forest, beneath him was the quivering horse, his only living companion, and ahead—the thing. “This was no imaginary ghost of the Indians’ make. “No silly make-believe of an ig: norant people. “There it was before him, “Enoch was startled; he looked | marching like a stately woman & moment, not believing what he saw; then the dreadful thought came to him: “‘It is a ghostly sentinel, the other ghosts are hiding and this one has been left to guard the entrance to their beautiful prai- rie’ “He was afraid! “He, Enoch Anderson, who had never known fear; he who had across his path, so near that the horse, which had heard no shostly tales, was terror-filled, “Gathering all his courage, Enoch called out: “Who are you and what Is your mission here?’ “Faintly and words came back: “What is -your mission here?” (To Be Continued) hoflowty his BUNGE Confessions of a Husband (Copyright, 1931, by Seattle Star.) 69. BLOCKED or not,” she returned easily, “Don't be misled by false reports,” I told her. “You're coming home right after the recital and don’t fool yourself about thai “Oh, Iam, am I, Mr. Boss? Now I'm going to ask George to take me to a restauravt. That'll teach you not to try to be too dictatorial.” “Look here, I. think I “agreed to enough when I let you go out this evening while I stay home and take care of the baby.” “Well, you didn't want to go any- way, because you ‘don't care for mu- sie. Besides, Edith is a very charm- ing person and the time ought to pass very pleasantly for you." “I don’t expect it %o,” I said sul- lenly, “and I want you to get back home as early as you can,” “All right,”\ said Dot, coming into the room, smiling uy, She was in evening dress id looked beautiful and I suppose she knew it. “Am I a wicked wife to leave you this evening?” kissed me. “You needn't worry about me go ing to a restaurant afterwards,” she added, “I was just teasing you. I've got some things in the house and George and 1 will hurry back from She bent over and) — the recital and then the four of us will have a little party here,” ou have to have your little joke,” I growled, but I was some what appeased. ‘i “I don't suppose you ever teas me, oh, not’ $ @Pbat is a husband’s prerogative” “Well, it's also your prerogative to answer the doorbell: That must be Edith and George.” “Do you know your telephone ts out of order?” was the question with which George greeted me. “IT kept getting the busy signal, so I called: the manager's office.” “Yes, I know it,” I sald bitterty. My last chance to escape was gone, (To Be Continued) Great Britain now has 25 peeress- es in their own right. ee! SCHWAR CHAS. dis Sewena as Ye Main 2551.