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f} «= (Continued From Yesterday | CHAPTER XVII } I ij ~ The Lion Pit of TreLur Tho Tarsan searched the outskirts the city until nearly dawn he dix nowhere the spoor of his ‘The breeze coming down from Mountains brought to his nos @ diversity of scents but there Rot among them the slightest on of her whom he sought Ratural deduction was therefore @he had been taken in some direction. In his search he had Rimes crossed the fresh tracks MAny men leading toward the bke and these he concluded had ly been made by Jane Clay Ys abductors. It had only been ‘Minimize the chances of error by Process of elimination that be earefully reconnoitered every avenue leading from A.lur Wd the southeast where lay Mo of Tu-lur, and now he fol the trail to the shores of Jad where the party bad em upon the quict waters in mturdy canoes. | He found many other craft of the description mooret along the and one of these he comman for the purpose of pursuit. It @aylight when he passed thru lake which lies next below Jad- and paddling strongly passed sight of the very tree in his lost mate lay sleeping. the gentle wind that caressed Desom of the lake been blowing A southerly direction he giant and Jane Clayton would been reunited then, but an un- fate had willed otherwise and opportunity passed with the ‘of his cance which presently #trokes carried out of into the stream at the lower) of the lake. the winding river which @ considerable distance to the before doubling back to empty the Jad-in-lul, the ape-man & portage that would have him hours of paddling. ‘was at the upper end of this where Mo-sar and his war. had debarked that the chief the absence of his cap- Mosar had been asleep shortly after their departure Atur, and as none of the war Feealled when she had last was impossible to con- a] with lake next below it, which is Jadbablul, which freely n Means the lake of gold wear had been very wroth and a ving himself been the only one at _ ANE TRIM NOW)“ aston Says He Will Al- ‘Tanlac Handy Since It Restored Health Meise’ ave I nasece to old stand-by, and I expect to ‘keep a bottle handy,” said 3. Johnston, 221 Farallone | Francisco, recently. Mr. has been a member of the 7. ” co fire department, Sta 23, for twenty-three years, and iy one of the most effi- ‘Bnd popular men in the service. nearly six years I was both “with chronic indigestion,” he “and at times would have se attacks, A peculiar thing about attacks—they got to coming same hour every afternoon, EI just lived in dread of them ail/ time. When they came on, my ch would turn sour and gas form, and I would be bothered with water brash, I quit & bite for breakfast and lunch e if that would help. but these ame on just the same, and I alarmed at the way I was down hill. tried everything I knew of and about a year ago, I ran Taniac, Weil, I hadn't taken m dozen doses before my stom peemed to be soothed, and I be- to cat better, Those spells stop- i, and by the time I had finished fourth bottle I was forling fine could eat anything put on the ta- Since then I have made it a rule take a bottle of Tanlac now and ‘and it keeps me in fine trim. T t speak too well of Tanlac, and if will be of help to oth Tam giad to pass it along.” c is sold in Seattle by Bar 3 Drug Stores and by leading rm everywhere, ~— Advertise ‘For French Pastry look up Boidt's. Advertisement. bilshed DAR RICE BURROUGHS' GREATEST STORY TARZAN THE TERRIBLE Begin Reading This Red-Blood Novel Today Copyright, 1921, AC MeClurg & Ce. MR. DUFF, THERE'S A You uP AT MY DESK! OFFice! Traut he naturally sought with great diligence to fix the blame upon an other | | He would have returned tn search | of hor had he not feared to meet a pursuing company dispatohed either by Jadon or the high priest, both of whom, he koew, had just eriey jances against him, He would not even spare a boatload of bis war riors from his own protection to re turn in quest of the fugitive, but hastened onward with as little delay | &s possible across the portage and out upon the waters of Jadintul ‘The morning sun was just touch ing the white domes of Tu-lur when Mosar's paddlers brought their ca hoes agninat the shore at the city's edge, Safe once more behind his own walls and protected by many warriors, the courage of the chief returned sufficiently at least to per: | mit him to dispatch three canoes In| search of Jane Clayton, and also to #0 as far as Adur if possible to learn what had delayed Bu-lot, whore fall: ure to reach the canoes with the balance of the party at the time of | | the flight from the northern city had in no way delayed Mo-sar's de parture, his own safety being of tar greater moment than that of his son As the three canoes reached the portage on thelr return journey the warriors who were dragging them | from the water were suddenty rtled by the appearance of two | priests, carrying a Maeht canoe in the direction of Jad-imiul. At first! they thought them the advance guard of ® larger force of Ludon's! followers, altho the correctness of such a theory was belied by their knowledge that priests never accept: | e4 the risks or perils of a warrior's| Vocation, nor even fought until! driven into a corner and forced to! do so, Secretly the warriors of Pal-| uldon held the emasculated priest: hood In contempt and so instead of | | immediately taking up the offensive, as would have been the case had the two men been warriors from | A-lur instead of priests, they waited to question them. At sight of the warriors the priests made the sign of peace and upon be |inmg asked if they were alone they | answered in the affirmative. The leader of Mowr's warriors permitted them to approach. “What do you here,” he asked, “in the country of Mo-war, so far from your own city?” “We carry a message from Lu-don the high ‘priest, to Mosar” ex plained one. “Is it @ message of Peace or of wart” asked the warrior. “It t an offer of pence,” replied j the priest. | “And Ludon is sending no war \riors behind you?” queried the fight jing man. Ww . \ Vou COME IN OUT OF THE SUN Wit ME Ni POG bes Cory oy RY Paso r THE CRAZY QUILT « o: SKY ¥ THAVE A ‘RUN’ MY STOCKING AND EVERETT TRUE WELL, EVERETT, (S the priest assured him. “None in Alur save Ludon knows that we have come upon this “Who te that?” asked one of the Priests suddenly, pointing toward the upper end of the lake at the point where the river from Jad-bel ul entered it. All eyes turned tn the direction that he had thdicated to see a lone warrior paddling rapidly into Jad.in tul, the prow of his canoe pointing toward Tudur, The warriors and the priests drew into the conceal | ment of the bushes on either side of the portage. “It in the terrible man who called | himeeit the Dor-ulOtho,” whispered lone of the priests, “I would know that figure as far a I could see it.” “You are right, priest.” cried one | Of the warriors who had seen Tarzan |the day that he had first entered Ko-tan'’s palace. “It in indeed he who has been rightly called Tarzan jad-guru.” “Hasten, priests,” cried the leader of the party. “You are two paddies in a light canoe. Easily can you reach Tu-lur ahead of bim and warn Mo-sar of his coming. for he has but only entered the lake.” For a moment the priests dermur red for they had no stomach for an lencounter with this terrible man |but the warrior insisted and even went so far as to threaten them Their canoe was tuken from them and pushed into the lake and they were all but lifted bodily from their | feet and put aboard it. SUll pro testing, they were shoved out upon | | the water, where they were immedi lately in full view of the lone pad \dler above them. Now there was) no alternative. The city of Tu-lur| offered the only safety and bending to their paddies the two priests sent their craft swiftly in the direction of the city. The warriors withdrew again to) the concealment of the foliage. If| Tarmn had seen them and should come hither to investigate there | were 20 of them against one, and sar naturally they had no fear of the| That is the message he sent.” re |outcome, but they did mot consider | piieq the warrior, “and indeed he is jit necessary to go out upon the lake] not ag are the people of Pal-ul-don. |to meet him since they had been| tie is, we think, the same of whom | sent to took for the escaped prisoner. | ihe warriors that returned »from and not to intercept the strang¢| q.jur today told us and whom some | warrior, the stories of whose ferocity | cali Tarzan-jad-guru and some Dor and prowess doubtless helped them | y otho. But indeed only the son of to arrive at their decision to pro-| (oq would dare come thus alone to voke no uncalled-for quarrel with! strange city, so it must be that him. he speaks the truth.” If he had seen them he gave no) Mo-sar, his heart filled with terror sign, but continued paddling steadily | and indecision, turned questioningly and strongly toward the city, nor | toward the pricata. “The Dor-ulOtho?” exclaimed Mo and Beidge Werk. gia did he increase his speed as the two priests shot out in full view. The moment the priests’ canoe touched the shore by the city its occupants | leaped out and hurried swiftly to ward the palace gate, casting af- frighted glances behind them.) They sought immediate audience with Mosar, after warning the war riors on guard that Tarzan was ap-| | proaching. , They were conducted at once to the chief, whose court was a smaller | | replica of that of the king at A-lur. | ork ; We come from Lu-don, the high Ameigam Fillies - . $1 | priest,” explained the spokesman. | All work guaranteed for 15 years.| “He wishes the friendship of Mo- on and advice free. and See Samples of Our Plate e Stand the Test of Time. not cover the ith; you can bite corn off the 3; guaranteed 15 year ne |Jadon is gathering warriors to make himself king. Thruout the} village of the Ho-don are thousands don's assistance can Mo-sar become of our present patr king, and the message from Ludon ymended by our ear! o hose. is giving: satisfaction. Ask our cus- ers, who bave tested our ‘coming to our off! fre in the right pla with you. friendship of Lu-don he must return |immediately the woman he took| from the quarters of the Princess Olea.” | At this juncture a warrior en-| tered. Hin excitement was evident “The Dor-ulfitho has come to Tur| jur and demands to see Moar at lonce,” be said. | “Receive him graciously, Mo-sar,” LONG DISTANCE CALL FOR THEY SAID IT WAS YouR aa (FF iv HOT @ FOR XOU lof their journey.” counseled he who had spoken before, | his advice prompted by the petty shrewdness of hiw “lefective brain. which, under the added influence of Lu-don’s tutorage, leaned always toward duplicity, “Receive him gra ciously and when he is quite con | vinced of your friendship he will be off bis guard, and then you may do with him as you will, But if possi ble, Mowsar, and you would win the undying gratitude of Lu-don, the high priest, save him alive for my master.” Mo-sar and turning nodded to the, warrior to him “We must not be seen by the crea. | of vetand I come to Tu-lur for the woman|from the palace of Ko-tan to save ture,” said one of the priests. enters.” “Tell Ludon.” replied lost to him entirely had it not been for me. T sought to bring ‘her to Tu-lur that I might save her for the night but during SEATTLE STAR cnn NOW, IF THEY WANT You TO BREAK YP YouR VACATION DON'T YoU DoTT THAT OF FICE CAN GET ALONG WITH OUT You FOR ONCE! p= SOME THING MUST HAVE , GONE. WRONG . FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS GOODNESS ME' WuAT OC You WANT To PILE AU “THAT WOOD UP IN MIS HOT SUN FoR ? GEG, TM AFRAID FRECKLES WON'T LIVE 'T IF I DON'T MOVE \ C/ a. Og) y) BLE LAW a REQUIRING ISINGLASS UNDRESSED!/ BEACH UMBRELLAS — Caan eee BY CONDO A re) When Old Sizsly Dry Weather got out of the house of the Nuisance Fairies and meandered down to the jearth, SprinkleBlow and the Twins were not the only people who were worried. Farmer Smith was worried, jtoo, Day after day he watched the sky for clouds, but nary @ one 4p. peared. If they ever so much as | poked their noses over the edge of the world, Old Stazly blew his roast ing-hot breath on them and away they skedaddied. Farmer Smith | watched Old Sizzty marching thru his fields and garden day after day, blowing his hot breath on everything and drying things up dreadfully. The leaves were as brown as tobacco | ces, and the grass. so lovely lof warriors, arrogantly demand an ‘aecounting? No, it was beyond rea son. Mo-sar was faltering in his de they told us nothing of the purpose cision to betray the stranger by | seeming friendliness. He even paled It is as 1 have told you,” sald tm a sudden thought—Jad-benOtho Mo-ur, “and if they find her, assure knew everything, even our inmost your master that she will be kept thoughts. Was it not therefore pow unharmed in Tu-lur for him. Al#0 | «pie that this creature, if after all tell him that 1 will send my war-|it should prove true that he was riors to join with his against Ja-don | tne Dor-ulOtho, might even now be whenever he sends word that” he reading the wicked design that the wants them. Now 0, for Tarzan-| priests had implanted in the brain Jad-guru will soon be here.” of Mo-sar and which he had enter. He signaled to a slave. “Lead the|tained so favorably? The chief priests fo the temple,” he command: |«qyirmed and fidgeted upon the ed, “anid ask the high priest of PU-/ bench of hewn rock that was his lur to see that they are fed and per- | throne. mitted to return to Alur when they| “Quick,” snapped the ape-man, DVENTURE Poe iets will,” The two priests were conducted from the apartment by the slave thru a doorway other than that at which they had entered, and a mo ment later Turzan-jad-guru strode linto the presence of Mo-sar, ahead |heart at @ight of the giant figure) q @udden threatening step understandingly | 4nd the scowling face. | com: | sar, who has always been his friend.| panded that be conduct the visitor) ape-man in level tones that carried | who will obey the commands of Lu-|y, your answer to Lydon, Mo-sar, | don, the high priest. Only with Lu-| ana we will go our way before he |O-lon, the princess the chief, | try is that if Mosar would retain the| that the woman would have been, Tell Lu-don that TI have sent 20 war. | riors to search for her, It is st you did not wee them as you nge | warrior of the warrior whose duty It had been to conduct and announce him, The apeman made no sign of greet ing or of peace but strode directly toward the chief, who only by the exertion of his utmost powers of will, hid the terror that was in his “Tam the Dor-ul-Otho,” said the to the mind of Mo-sur a suggestion cold steel; “I am Dor-ul-Otho, stole from th vu apartments of The very boldness of ‘Tarzan’s en into this hostile eity had had effect of giving him a great ivantage over Mosar and ge warriors who stood upon Truly it the moral the sav either side of the chief so heroic an act act thus Would any mortal boldly and alone me.” |enter the presence of a powerful “We did,” replied the priests, “but!chief and, in the midst of a score “Where is she?” | he is not here,” cried Mo-sar. | “You lie,” replied Tarzan, | “As Jad-ben-Otho Is my witness, |she is not in Tu-lur,” insisted the |chief. “You may ‘search the palace jand the temple and the entire city but you will not find her, for she is not here.” “Where is she, then? demanded |the apeman. “You took her from \the palace at Adur, If she is not | here, where is she? Tell me not that harm has befallen her,” and he took toward rinking |Mo-sar, that sent the chief \back in terror, “Wait,” he cried; “if you are in- |deed the Dor-ulOtho you will know that I speak the truth. I took her |her for Lu-don, the high priest, lest | with Ko-tan dead Ja-don seize her. |put during the night she escaped from me between here and A-lur, \and I have but just sent three canoes fullrmanned in search of her.” | Something in the chief's tone and him from the clutches of Ja-don,|aeemed to them that no other than|manner assured the apeman that she escaped. |the son of Jadben-Otho would dare jhe spoke, in part the truth, And that once again he had braved incaleu lable dangers and suffered loss of time futilely, (Continued Tomorrow) HE HASN'T MISSED A DAY AY THAT OFFICE ALLYEAR! e OFFICE BOY, TALKIN’~ SAY, YOU LEFT YOUR SEASON BASEBALL TICKET IN DESK LOCKED UP! WiLL You ML ME THE KEN, PLEASE? WHERE IS ue, ANYHOw ? YOULL HAVE To WAIT “TLL I GET SOME WOMAN To SAVE s WINS _ By Mabel Cleland Page 432 FROM 1847 TO 1920 “So {t's a Chinaman’s name!’ Peggy exclaimed. “And I do want to know some more of the story. Did you be a little boy when the tree did be named?" “Yes,” said Mr, Himes. “That tree and I grew along about the same time. “Now I shall have to go back to the story of my own coming to Farmer Smith was worried, too. and green in the spring, had turned as yellow as clay and curled up like | watch springs. The sass-patch garden | looked so forlorn and droopy I can't | tell you about it, and the stalks of | wheat and rye end oats were as red) as wrapping strings, The only place | that did look as though it was really enjoying the hot, dry weather was the corn field, and it waved its long! leaves of green in cool mockery at | the rest of the world. It seemed to | Why not take the weather as it comes? Folks who make such a} {fuss about things usually get the worst of it. As long as Mr. Scare crow stays near to protect me from | my enemies, 1 am happy.” ' The corn field forgot that the min ute the weather got a bit chilly and cool it began to shiver and com- |plain. That's the way it is with | people—as long as things are going | to suit them they begin to criticise others who are not so fortunate. Farmer Smith Was worried, but lots of people were more worried | |than he was, Phil Frog was at his | wits’ end. { say, (To Be Continued) b IT had hanily gotten to my desk j the next morning when I was sum- ‘moned to the chief's sanctum. The call did not surprise me, for |T had had to confer frequently with | him of Inte about matters thag I was | |winding up preparatory to leaving. | But now I did not want to leave, | ‘since it was tmpossible for me to take that position with Edith's| father, and 1 was busy trying to) think of a way to ask permission to |keep my present job without humili- ating myself too much. “Tom,” begun the chief, and T was | | somewhat surprised, for T had been |"Mr. Howard” ever since the slump in business came, “have you definite- old Oregon, You've heard all that story of crossing the Cascades; how we came to ‘the jumping off place’ and killed some of the oxen and cut their hides into strips and let the wagons down over the curr?’ “Oh, yest Pegsy eagerly, “and you were almost starved and I do only know that when you reached the prairie some settlers did bring you some food and it was all right.” “That,” said Mr. Himes, “is a chapter in itself. The man who met my father was Chambers, and he was one kind man. “He told us of a cabin on his land which we could use as long as we liked, rent free, could build. “We. had had practically no food for 24 hours, but that night only a little could ge secured. Father took me aside and said, ‘gon, there is no food for you to- night, no food for Uncle Joel, no food for me, only enough for mother and the babies.’ ‘wl right, sir,’ I answered, and drawing hard on my 10-year. answered | Mr. David | | bad placed a huge mound of © ull we) old pride, I slipped into the bushes and ate a few scattering salal berries, which were Jeft on the | bushes (it was September}, “The next day we went to promised cabin and were told tl there were plenty of potatoes be dug there and we could eat we wanted, “Welll Mr. - Himes “mother set me to digging away and I was hard at it my little sister Helen came ning out crying, ‘George! G come see what we've got in the | house! Come in the house and see the s'prise! bee “Helen was only 5, and T used to her ‘s’ had dug a while I went in, —talk about fairies! I went and rubbed my eyes to make 1 was awake. “There in the cabin was a long | old table covered with a white | cloth. On this Mrs, Chambers 9 | mashed potatoes with butter run — ning in little yellow rivers down its sides. Plates of hot rs boiled meats, wild blackberry pie and a bowl of cherry preserves, cherries from that same Bing” tree.” Peggy's eyes filed with tears. “Oh, Mr. Himes, did you ery? she asked, “No,” he replied, “T ate.” “And last year I ate cherries from that same tree, which is still doing business in Olympia.” nd dndndindind (Copyright, 1921, by Seattle Star.) A $6,000 BLUFF “1 hflve asked you that because -if you have not signed a contract with your new company I should like to talk the matter over with you.” “No, I haven't signed any con, tract,” I told him, and now I had sense enotigh not to say any more. “As you know,” said the chief, rd i “we were very sorry to be compelled | to reduce your salary; we were simply forced to do so by business conditions, which made !t necessary | to cut expenses in every direction. “The outlook !s more promising now, however, and 1 think that if you care to stay with us we can manage to restore your salary to the former figure--$5,000 a year.” “But I'm to receive $6,000 in my new position.” lly decided to leave us your mind?’ ‘That was a startling question, for, had determined not to leave the} | 1 don't know what 1 would have I firm if 1 could possibly help it I was about to reply, and 1 prob | had done so. Very luckily for the chief Went right on talking: T mean is) there any chance of your changing | | jheld my breath waiting to see what I haven't the least idea where T got the nerve to say that. It was sheer bluff, for the other job was as dead as a dodo-—-for me. I almost the chief would have to say “Well, done if he had simply said, ably would have spoiled everything | we can't mect that figure,” and’ thus ended the interview. But he didn't. He studied for a Confessions of a Husband while, and then smiled. “If you're — worth that much to them, T guess = you're worth that much to us, % “Let's call it an understanding. Six thousand dollars a year and a three-year contract, I'l! have it ready for you to sign this afternoon.” “Only a one-year contract,” T ob jected, “I expect to be worth more after another year,” ei “We'll split the difference and make it for two years,” the chief said. I pretended to consent reluctantly, but it was hard to walk out of the chief's office without dancigg. AS soon as possible T made some excuse to leave the building so as to be able to call up Dot from an outside booth and tell her the good news, (Te Be Continued) Tick Tock Clock Shop Repairing done right Call for and deliver Without extra charge. 432 Walker Bldg. Cor, tdand University Main 3378