The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 30, 1921, Page 11

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Wi le J te ronted| tn the Thru 1 ie tal a it i a ¥ JAR RICE BURROUGHS’ GREATEST Q th STORY Begin Reading This Red-Blood Novel Today Copyright, 1991, AC MeCturg & Qe. From Yesterday) ¥ ing with rage was the baffled ‘ ‘as he realised how neatly the she had turned his own him. He could of course the Templo of the Gryt m ber quick wit had temporarily him; but during the de. Jadon would the palace where he threatened the priests with violence if they did not permit him to pasa,” replied Pan- sat. “This they told me, but where within the palace she is hidden I know not" ‘ “Ko-tan ordered her to the For. bidden = Garden,” said Ludon, “doubtless we shall find her there, | And now, Pansat, be upon your er rand.” j In a corridor by Lu-don's chamber & hideously masked priest leaned close to the curtained aperture that led within. Were he listening he must bave heard all that passed be- tween Paneat and the high priest, and that he had listened wag evi- denced by his hasty withdrawal to shadows of a nearby passage as the lesser priest moved across the ‘and all the demons of He hated Ko-tan. Secretly the cause of Mo-sar, he would have a willing then, this would give ‘opportunity he had long ; ryor inciting the ay ‘would dethrone Kotan oe Ot pear in power—with Lu the real ruler of Paluldon. He heed lips as he sought the @hich Tarzan bad en- ‘pew Lu-don’s only avenue Cautiously he made his the floor, feeling before if ple of Jad-ben Otho, far palace, to the city be. ii t #8 i rae Hy *f + i | i | He By hi oF Eg ! ik i ff ef il i 3 a z art f i zg q ; Ht it i ! 17 i i | I ae i ui i i Hit itll dig? i af a Bre i te i fra He HE | 4 i i ft i phy i i Hie H fl if i ! i j i f | | 3 sBk FRECKLES AND N OuGEE Tas! NO, YOU'VE HAD TWREE ALREADY — You THE SEA DOINGS OF THE DUFFS “To DAY THERE! TTLE STAR Spoiling a Vacation DANNY, COME OUT OF I'VE BEEN pr CONFOUND “TuSSE & CITY KIDS ANYWAVs \ FOUND Him, BUT Look ATHim! £ COME WITH | PUT THOSE CLloTHES ON HIM CLEAN NOT, A HALF HOUR AGO: PAGE 11 BY ALLMAN WHAT'S THE USE IN MY GETTING You CLEANED uP? BEFORE | CAN TURN AROUND You'RE ALL Dt NOW GET BUSY RTY AGAIN! =, | Say BY BLOSSER | : 3 THEN YOUN PROBABLY GST WHaT I MEGAN WHEN T SAY THE PECPLE IN THE CAR HAVE SEEN AND Hew RD You ‘ ie FS ee i Fi : ; | | i i Suddenly, in the middle of the rings, water spouted up like @ geyser. Nancy, Nick and Sprinkle-Blow; The last word was just a gurgie |watched to see what would happen. |for Cob went splash right down into \sarty Mink was down on the bot-|the creek, the muddy water closing ltom of the pool watching his chance | over the top of his head. | i | i geeas ris ah iy fl il a pill f i ‘ ji ile i ett ill i A mini he called as the under 4 a third, ahd to leave the apartment;|then the hangings were thrust aside pheard you anything of the|and a grimly masked priest of the woman that Ja-don|temple of Jad-benOtho strode into the Temple of the Gryf| the passage. had her impris-| With bold steps he moved along i little distance and then stepping from his place of concealment fol- lowed silently behind. The way led along the corridor very ir. | Which ran parallel with the face of was not the cliff for some little distance and work | then Pansat, taking a cresset from. took \°M¢ of the wall niches, turned abruptly into a small apartmient at his deft. The tracker followed cau- tiously in time to see the rays of the flickering light dimly visible from an aperture in the floor before him. Here he found a series of steps, simi- Jar to those used by the Waz-don in took | scaling the cliff to their caves lead- right. | ing to a lower level. suffered for four or five with | years First satisfying himself that his! to! guide was continuing upon his way | unsuspecting, the other descended y friends and after him and continued his stealthy testi-| stalking. The passageway was now , 813 | both narrow and low, giving but bare headroom to a tall man, and it was broken often by flights of steps leading always downward. The thing steps in each unit seldom numbered less; more than six and sometimes ther | was only one or two but in the ag- gregate the tracker imagined that ey had descended between 60 and feet from the level of the upper corridor when the passageway termi in @ small apartment at one SPS Se We 9 | |to reach up and grab Blackie Bass, % iwhile Cob Coon in the willow-tree riedly to toss the bite of broken/cious and halfsavage enemies he stone aside, presently revealing @/could scarce hope for a successful small aperture at the base of the/ outcome to the one great issue upon wall upon the opposite side of which |which hung the life and happiness there appeared to be a further ac-|of the creature he loved best. For cumulation of rubble. This he also|her sake he must win allies and it removed until he had a hole of suf-|was for this purpose that he had ficient size to permit the passage of his body, and leaving the cresset still burning upon the floor the priest crawled thru the opening he had made and disappeared from the sight of the watcher hiding in the shadows of the narrow passageway behind him. No sooner, however, was he safely gone than the other followed, find- ing hiniself, after passing thru the hole, on a Uttle ledge about halfway between the surface of the lake and the top of the cliff above. The ledge inclined steeply upward, ending at the rear of a building upon the edge of the cliff which the second priest entered just in time to see Pan-sat pass out Into the city beyond. ‘As the latter turned a nearby cor- ner the other emerged fram the doorway and quickly surveyed his surroundings. He was satisfied the nriest who had led him hither had served his purpose in so far as the tracker was concerned. Above him, and perhaps a hundred yards away, the white walls of the |gleamned against the northern sky: ‘The time that it had taken him to nequire definite knowledge concern ing the secret passageway between the temple and the city he did nw count as lost, tho he begrudged every instant that kept him from the prosecution of his main objec. tive, It had seemed to him, however, | necessary to the success of a bold plan that he had formulated upon overhearing the conversation be- atood without the hangings of the palace | sacrificed these precious moments, but now he lost no further time in seeking to regain entrance to the palace grounds that he might search out whatever new prison they had found in which to imcarcerate his lost love. He found no difficulty in passing the guards at the entrance to the palace for, as he had guessed, his priestly disguise disarmed all sus picion. Ae he approached the war- riors he kept his hands behind him and trusted to fate that the sickly light of the single torch which stood beside the doorway would not reveal |his un-Paluldonian feet. As.s mat- ter of fact so accustomed were they priesthood that they paid scant at- tention to him and he passed on into the palace grounds without even a moment's delay, His goal now was the Forbidden Garden and this he had little diffi- culty in reaching tho he elected to iter it over the wall rather than to chance arousing any suspicion on the part of guard at the Inner en- trance, since he would imagine no jfeaeon why a priest should seck en trance there thus late at night. He found the garden deserted, nor has been brought hither he had jlearned from the conversation he 4 overheard between Lu-don and n-sat, and he was sure that there had been no time or opportunity for the high priest to remove her from knew to l@ devoted exclusively to to the comings and goings of the| any sign of her he sought. That she! above. Neither knowing that the oth- jer was there. (Co Coon had one hand in the wa- ter by this time, reaching down ‘gown and down. “This is thie piac he kept whispering to himself. “I ought to know, for I've watched | Blackie for years and he always stays in the same spot, except in winter. Half’ he cried out all at once. “I've got something. I've got him’ But suddenly his «mile faded. “Here you, Blackie, don't bite me jthat way?’ he yelled. “Hey, hold on, don’t pull so hard! I didn't know you could pull so. Oh, I'm slipping! Leggo, Blackie! Help! Help! Oh, he—1—1—p™ he uses of the princess and ed ‘wom: it was only reasonal to <a nenaente, that if Jane had been brought to the garden it could only have been upon an order from Ko-tan. This being the case the natural assumption would fol- low that he would find her in some other portion of O-lo-a's quarters. Just where these lay he could onty conjecture, but it seemed reasonable to believe that they must be adjacent to the garden, so once more he scaled the wall and passing around its end rected his steps toward an entrance-way which he judged must lead to that portion of the palace nearest the Forbidden Garden. To his surprise he found the place | overhead was going to grab him from | his ear from an interior apartment the sound of veices raised in anger and excitement. Guided by the sound he quickly traversed several corridors and chambers until he Istood before the hangings which separated him from the chamber from which issued the sounds of al- tercation. Raising the skins slightly he looked within. There were two women battling with a Ho-don war rior. One was the daughter of Ko- tan and the other Panatlee, the Kor-ul.ja. At the moment that Tarzan lifted the hangings, the warrior threw |O-l0-a victously to the ground and seizing Pan-at-lee by the hair drew his knife and raised it above her head, Casting the encumbering headdress of the dead priest from his shoulders the ape-man leaped across the intervening space and seizing the brute from behind tween Lu-don and Paneat as he|the palace grounds. The garden heletruck him a single terrible blow, (Continued Monday) unguarded and then there fell upon | Juat then there was a huffing and @ puffing up in the sky and West Wind blew the clouds away from Mr. Moon’s round face. Mr. Moon, shut off from his view of the world so long, was more curious than ever to see what was going on and glowed as brightly as he could. This ix one thing he saw: Great | rings were spreading themselves rap- |idly over the top of Willow-Tree | Poot where Blackie Base lived; then |suddenly in the middle of |the water spouted up like |Beyser, splashing the ground for yards around. The next instant two |furry figures appeared. Marty Mink and Cob Coon were pummeling each other, They had grabbed each other by mistake in the muddy water, and they were as cross as two bears, (To Be Continued (Copyright 1921 by Seattle Star) i eee F “I looked ahead and opened up the throttle with all the joy a young man feels in any chance to speed up the engine he's handling. “With a good road ahead, a passenger list of admiring legis lators, the wind whipping my face and the good old engine puffing along steady as a clock at 45 miles an hour, I was about a4 contended as a young chap “The little Indians had the joke could be. on me.” BBEsD, Confessions of a Husband First, Dr, Parkinson, who lived in the neighborhood and whom I had awakened out of @ sound sleep, ar rived, He was hardly inside the apartment before Dot and George opened the door, and I had to tell Dot, without breaking the shock or sparing her in any way, that Bobbie was very sick again. Then Dr. Harris, our regular Physician, ‘Yeached the apartment in @ tremendous hurry. He had qalled up his home after leaving the the atre and had received my message. Dot took the announcement brave- ly. In a moment she had thrown | off her evening wrap and was busy caring for Bobbie, Edith and George, sesing that there was nothing jfurther they could do for us, went | home. Edith's good-night to me was very | cold. | more cordial. My own emotions were conflicting, but the predominant one was that of shame. The two physicians, after a short consultation, told us that Bobbie's condition, tho serious, was not neces- sarily dangerous, We had to get Perhaps mine to her was no! (Copyright, 1981, by Seattle Star.) 74, “IT WAS MY FAULT!” what comfort we could from that. “I should never have gone out to- night; I shouldn't have gone out,” Dot kept repeating. | Her bitter self-condemnation stung me like a lash, for I knew that Bob- bie would never have become il] at all and that there never would have jbeen any danger of a relapse if it jhad not been for that Sunday after. noon in the park when I was-so in- terested in Edith that I did not no- tice how cold it became. “It's all my fault, I was afraid he was sick. It was cruel of me to go out,” Dot repeated, thep said to the child: “You've got a mean, thought- ‘tess mother, Oh, forgive her, Bobbie, please forgive herf* I felt like going down on my knees | to that blessed pair and asking their forgiveness for so much. But surely that was not the time, when Dot |already was facing one possible tragedy. Neither of us got anf sleep that | night. Poor Bobbie was awake al- most all the time, fretful, uncom- To us both he was the most pre. cious thing on earth, and we cared for him that night as tho his very | life hung upon obeying implicitly fortable, feverish. | the minutest detall of the phyw cians’ instructions. Toward morning I persuaded Dot to lie down a few moments and try to snatch a little rest. Bobbie was more comfortable, and the powders we had, very much against his will, compelled him to take, seemed to have had a remarkably good effect. T sat in a corner of the room, and whenever he stirred I would watch him carefully to make sure that he did not get uncovered. Suddenly I heard a voice from our bedchamber—"It was my fault.” Dot was talking in her sleep. But I knew whose fault it had been. (To Be Continued) |] Rey Street at Harvard Avenee iM REPERTORY COMPANY |] OF MAURICE BROWNE AND ELLEN pia pom ae pee IN t eck of “THE PHILANDERER” Saturda: latines, 2:30. Saturda: if Price $2.00, mg aish orate CEES From Aug. 4

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