The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 6, 1921, Page 11

SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1921. f. EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS’ GREATEST STORY S TARZAN THE TERRIBLE Begin Reading This Red-Blood Novel Today Coprrtedt, 1921, AC. MeClure & Co, | (Continued From Yesterday) Obergats talked, Jane had re ber spear from the carcass )the antelope and commenced ing herself with the removal of hide. The man made no attempt assist her, but stood by talking Patching her, the while he con ran hia filthy fingers thru Matted hair and beard. His face Dody were caked with dirt and m@ Was naked except for a torn and Lrasy hide about his loins, His consisted of a club and of Wasdon pattern, that he Stolen from the city of Bulur; What more greatly concerned Woman than his filth or his t were his cackling laugh- the strange expression in f t ity Went on with ber work, how- Femoving those parts of the she wanted, taking only as Meat as she might consume it apoiled, as she was not suf: ly @ true jungle creature to it beyond that stage, and then 9 straightened up and faced the Obergats,” she said, of accident we have Certainly you would not Bought the meeting any more 1. We have nothing in common than those sentiments which | have been engendered by my it @ialike and suspicion of you, ot authors of all the misery that I had endured for tha. This little corner of ‘world ta mine by right of dis. occupation, Go away to enjoy here what Tt is the least that to amend the wrong have done me and mine.” stared at her thru his & moment in ailence, broke from his lips a less, uncanny laughter. away! Leave you alone!” he ‘I have found you. We are ‘There ts No may. do that imitated laughter. your promise,” she taught the world that * and Louvain. No, no! 1 I mot go away. 1 shall stay and you.” ; do not need your protection. | insisted. “You have alresdy Brew made a lot of at the Merchants’ Exposition. \ Seattle's Water are three things | which g sreeatte, It ie water, enerny sie teibitities. Ac ps me mn e petits. Extracted from the people * by Seattle's water syete iy owned and o Mace not for profit. It is fal and necessary monopoly ‘as power and light are natural eamary to each every br ‘ivat indi id no private = reves handsome, should empowered to put an air exer, cur mouth oi, he, slot nicke! ug reen have @ breath Y* ken we wake up in the air when we Y water system were owned Graton corporation or if a Bos- forporation were competing er system, we woul ‘same trouble with the jatem that we are now bav- it our munici- $34 Gene system. Just as mn corporation can attle’s Heht and that corporation mus ag Gesssary to ‘survive and per- wate it# exploitation of dividends ‘the people. Mirst, eonaideration of @ pri- nervice corpo: a et io the whed pu ‘of| With Lu-don’s enmity toward him, seen that T can use a spear.~ “Yes,” he said; “but {t would not be right to leave you here alone— you are but a woman, No, no} I am! an officer of the kaiser and I cannot | abandon you.” | Once more he laughed, “We could be very happy here together,” he added | The woman could not repress a! shudder, nor, in fact, did she at-| tempt to hide her aversion. | “You do not like me? he asked “Ah, well; it ts too sad, But some day you will love me,” and again the hideous laughter. | The woman had wrapped the! pieces of the buck in the hide and thia she now raised and threw across her shoulder, In her other hand she held her spear and faced the Ger man. | “Gol she commanded. “We have wasted enough words, This is my country and I shall defend it. If I see you about a gain I ahall kill you. | De, you understand?" An expression of rage contorted Obergata’s features, He raived his club and started toward her. top! she commanded, throwing | her spear-hand backward for a cast. “You saw me kill this buck and you | have said truthfully that no one! will ever know what we do here. Put these two facts together, Ger- jman, and draw your own conclu sions before you take another step jt my direction.” The man halted and bis club hand jdropped to his side. “Come,” he/| [begged in what he intended as a conciliatory tone. “Let ua be friends, | Lady Greystoke. We can be of) gow assistance to each other and romise not to harm you.” | “Remember Liege and Louvalit, she reminded him with a sneer, “I) am going now-—be sure that you do | not follow me. As far aa you can , Walk tm a day from this spot in any direction you may consider the lim. | its of my domain. If ever again I) see you within these limits I shall | kill you.” | There could be no question that she meant what she said and the | man seemed convineed for he but | stood sullenly eyeing her as she | bucked from sight beyond a turn in the game trail that cfossed the ford had met, and disap- | Peared in the forest. CHAPTER XX Stiently in the Night In Alur the fortunes of the city had been tossed from hand to hand, The party of Ko-tan’s loyal warriors that Tarzan had led to the rendes vous at the entrance of the secret Passage below the palace gates had Met with disaster. Their first rush had been met with soft words from the priests, They had been exhort- ed to defend the faith of thetr| fathers from blasphemere. Jadon! was painted to them as a defiler of temples, and the wrath of Jad-ben; ‘Otho was prophesied for thors wha j } the former to fall upon the latter with the result that many were killed and only a handful suc The pricats ied their own forces thru the secret passageway into the temple, while some of the loyal ones aide and Lu-don on the other. The former had been told of all had occurred in the apartments whose safety he had first opportunity, ing his men to the gath- }ion's warriors. had naturally in creased the old warriors former in elinations of friendliness toward the » and now he regretted that the other had departed from the city. The testimony of O-loa and Pan- atlee was such as to strengthen whatever belief in the godliness of the stranger Jadon and others of had previously enter. until presently there ap |peared a strong tendency upon the part of this palace faction to make the Dor-ulOtho an issue of their or- iginal quarrel with Lu-don. Wheth- er this occurred as the natural se quence to repeated narrations of the apeman’s exploita, which lost noth: inge by repetition, in conjunction Or it was the shrewd design of some | wily old warrior of Ja-don, who re- alized the value of adding a reli- gious cause to their temporal one, it were difficult to determine; but the fact remained that Ja-don’s fol- lowers developed bitter hatred for the followers of Lu-don because of the high priest’s antagoniam of Tar- man. Unfortunat . however, Tarzan wag not there to inspire the follow. ers of Ja-don with the holy zeal that might have quickly settled the dis pute in the old chieftain's favor. In. stead, he was miles away and be- | cause their repeated prayers for his use the public nd their divi- er at the low- t on our water. ttle owns its power ond and the octopus w! SUPP eas left already) s into. Boston harbor, whe of 1178 is lite tions and ri etter til} causiny ples, the tie will be, for then we will| with greater pride to the so- own: ip Of our power and ply aan AUppIY- we do today to ‘e ‘economical water, power, light, ortation and port storage in geattle will get such con- tion from enterprises as it it. eri. been some noise, made waste Jn bull akes there but next been shall te! 3 z Fate nad or otherwise, t eripics of tibagit are makings presence were unanswered, the weaker spirits among them com-| menced to suspect that their cause | | did not have divine favor. There was | also another and a potent cause for| detection from the ranks of Ja-don. | it emanated from the city where the | friends and relatives of the palace warriors, who were largely also the | ifriends and relatives of Lu-don’s| forces, found the means, urged on | by the priesthood, to circulate pernt |cious propaganda thruout the pal- a ‘The result was that Lu-don's pow- er inereased while that of Ja-don waned. Then followed a sortie from | the temple which resulted in the de | fent of the palace forces, and tho} they were able to withdraw in de | cent order, withdraw they did, leav ting the palace to Ludon, who was now virtually ruler of Pal-ul-don. dJadon, taking with him the prin- | north, TOM weve BE cLosep! You'D BETTER HURRY! ALL HAD OUR DINNER THE DINING ROOM Whi FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS WELL ~ TLL BETCHA CANT NOW, WHADDVA SAY? a | Ses Nii aR =. VERETT TRUE cess, her women and their slaves, tacles from a gold meshbag to an atlee, as well as the | attic, women and children of her faithful | and choice feathers for arrows, some followers, retreated not only from | pieces of flint and a couple of stecy the palace, but from the city of |4 old knife, a heavy bone needle, Alur as well, and fell back upon /@nd strips of dried gut. Here he re-| Very useful to you or me, perhaps, forees from|but nothing useless to the savage the | life of the ape-man. including Pa his own city of Jadlur. mained, recruiting his the surrounding villages which, being far from the influence of ot removed chieftain espoused since for years he had been revered as their friend and protector. And while these events were tran- aspiring in the north, Tarzan-Jad-gu- ru lay in the lion pit at Tu-lur while messengers passed back and forth between Mowar and Ludon the two dickered for the throne of Pal- uldon, Mo-sar was”cunning enough to guess that should an open breach occur between himself and the high priest he might use his prisoner to his own advantage, for he had heard whisperings among even his people that suggested that there were those who were more than a trifle inclined to belief in the divin. ity of the stranger and that he might indeed be the Dor-ul-Otho wanted to sacrifice him upon eastern altar with his own hands before a multitude of people, since he was not without evidence that hig own standing and authority had been lessened by the claims of the bold and heroic figure of the stranger. The method that the high priest of Tu-lur had employed to trap Tar. zan had left the ape-man in poses. sion of his weapons, tho there seemed little Hkelihood of wee be. ing any service to him, He Also had his pouch, in which were the vari ous odds and ends which are the natural accumulalion of all recep- own | } the priest-| that had been so neatly played upon hood of A-lur, were enthusiastic par-|/ him he had awaited expectantly the tisans in any cause that the old| coming of the lion, for tho the scent |farther shore, and beyond that the Lu-don wanted Tarzan himself, He! the | wa) a a a — heed —a ii There were bits of obsidian Nothing When Tarzan realized the trick of ja was old, he was sure that soon er or later they would let one of the beasts in upon him, His first con- sideration was a thoro exploration of his prison, He had noticed the hide-covered windows and these he immediately uncovered, letting in the light, and revealing the fact that tho the chamber, was far below the level of the temple courts, it was yet many feet above the base of the| hill from which the temple was hewn. The windows were #0 clonely | barred that he could not see over the edge of the thick wall in which they werd cut to determine what lay close in below him. At a little dis- tance were the blue waters of Jad-in- jul and beyond, the verdure-clad mountains, It was a beautiful pie: ture upon which he looked—a pic: ture of ,peace and harmony and quiet. Nor anywhere a slightest | suggestion of the savage men and| beasts that claimed this lovely land: scape as their own, What a@ para- dixet And some day civilized man | would come and—spoil it! Ruthless | axes would raze that age-old wood; | black, sticky smoke would rise from ugly chimneys against that agure| sky; grimy little boats with wheels behind or upon either side would | churn the mud from the bottom of Jad-in-lul, turning its blue waters THE SEATTLE laltered the fair face of Nature, STAR I WAS JUST CLOSING THE DOORS BUT I'LL LET You ww! wy ps OSC Mkt ey ~ Scramble Squirrel was swinging himself on a wild grapevine-—swing- ing and singing. He was very happy because Old Stazly Dry Weather had gone South; pine cones were becom ing thick and plentiful, acorna, too, and beechnuts, chestnuts, hickory nuts and hazel nuts were coming along finely. Besides Scamper and the other children were growing fast and learning to tumble and jump like circus clowns, Really, it kept Mrs. Squirrel at her sewing machine moat of the time between dish wash- ing and mealgetting, letting out elothe# for the family. Scramble was singing this song: glad it's summer, 1 am, Oh, glad that it's summer am I, I am, | With roses and bluebells and lilies 80 sweet, And orchards chuck fulf of such good things to eat, And fluffy white clouds in ‘the sky. “Oh, I'm glad winter's over, I am, Ob, glad winter's over am 1, With its ills and its chills and its I am, GUESS ('M A LITTLE! LATE - WHAT CAN 1 GET NOW? DIDNT I GIVE You TEN CENTS ‘To TURN "THE FREEZER 7 THEN WHY IS TAS He was very happy hard frozen rills, And the snow Inches deep over val- leys and hills, Chat Sprinkle-Blow. sends from the aky. ‘Oh, I'm glad that fall's coming, I am, [ am, Bo glad that fall's coming am I, whew Jack Frost with hie tmmmer hits each bur a smack, nuts come a'tumbling down with a crack, hajlstones right out of the sky.” And Like Scramble went on a'singing and a’singing, making up verses as he/| went along, when all at once the sky got as black as night. Scramble could scarcely see the tip of his own nose. “Goodness!” he exclaimed in amazement, “I wonder why Sprinkle- Blow sent night so soon! Do you w#pose it's what you call ‘daylight saving? He's certainly saving the daylight. I can’t see a thing (Copyright, 1921, by Seattle Star) (To Be Continued) squalid buildings of gorrugated tron, | doybtless, for of such are the pio-| neer cities bf the world. | But would civilized man come? | Tarzan hoped not. For countless | generations civilization had ramped | about the globe, it had dispatched { its emissaries to the north pole and | the south; it had circled Pal-ul-don } once, perhaps many times, but it| had never touched her, God grant that it never, would, Perhaps He was saving this little spot to be al ways just as He had made it, for the scratching of the Ho-don and the Waz-don upon His rocks had not ‘Thru the windows came sufficient light to reveal the whole interior to Tarzan, The room was fairly large and there was @ door at each end—a large door for men and a amaller one for lions, Both were closed with heavy masses of stone that had been lowered in grooves running to the floor. The two win-| dows were small and closely barred with the first iron that Tarzan had seen in Paluldon, The bara were Jet into holes in the casing, and the whole so strongly and neatly con- trived that escape seemed impos: | sible. Yet within a few minutes of his inearceration Tarzan had com. | menced to undertake his escape, The | old knife in his pouch was brought into requisition and slowly the ape- | man began to scrape and chip away | the stone from about the bars of one of the windows. It was slow work, | but Tarzan had the patience of ab to a dirty brown; hideous piers would project into the lake from solute health (Continued Monday) WELL, THEN | BOTH You AND 1 ARE THROUGH: BY BLOSSER Ou, BET HIM A NICKEL HE COULDNT TVRN IT €! HALF Mrs. Bartlett was really grand- mother’s guest, but she knew and David and Peggy knew that the children themselyes had taken her the invitation to come to Seat- Ue the day of the pioneer picnic in Tacoma. Also they had seen Mrs. Bart- lett's wonderful collection of In- dian costumes and beads and war bonnets and had her promise to tell them some things about the early Indians which they had never heard before. You see, Mrs. Bartlett was an- other one of those children who crossed the plains in 1853 and she was a beautiful little girl whom the Indians loved very dearly. They taught her their language and looked quite grouchy when she failed to know one of their Chinook or Siwash words. The big braves would come stalking solemnly into her father’s store and little Belle (Mrs. Bartlett) would come danc- ing out to see them and perch herself daintily on the counter to listen to their funny talk. And if she wasn’t in sight they would say: “Tenas clootchman™ (the little woman) where is she? And Belle would have to be § HL i So she learned the language and 80 she made friends of the big braves who came to trade. her, her little white and so little aniong the big Indian men. “Belle,” she said softly in Eng- lsh, “you must be careful, dear. You talk so chummily with these big braves, some day one of them will carry you off.” Then one of the men grinned and said in Chinook: “MIKA mama kwass (your mama is afraid). Wah-wah kope mika-mama, wake .chaco kwass Konaway wesika - kwanisum Klosh, nanitch kopa mika” (tell your mother not to fear, because we shall all keep close watch over: you always). (To Be Continued) PUREED WHEN A WOMAN TELLS By RUTH AGNES ABELING (Copyright 1921 by Seattle Star) CHAPTER II—I'M A VICTIM OF SUSPICION BEGIN HERE TODAY Helga Sorenson is telling her own story—Holwa, who has just broken her efigagemont on the eve of marringe with & man she pursued for his money. She has decided to make her own way, t her fling She in stopping in which she ts ture. ting her new adven- GO ON WITH THE STORY I am out considerable carfare and shoe leather, but othefwise just where I began this mornitig, Perhaps the humor that I find in that situation should be of a grim, disturbing sort—but it isn't. I'm smiling from the inside out because, | tho tired and. disappointed, I am as clean spiritually as the fresh night- gown I shall slip into in @ second and as the dreams I hope to have. There is such wonderful inspira- tion in just being honest with one's self! The little deceits and the lit- tle trickeries cheat us of a world of joy—and self respect. And self re- spect-—what we think of ourselves— counts so much, It doesn't matter so much what the world thinks because eventually, anyhow, the world is going to have to think well of us if we can think well of ourselves. It is like my almost unwilling landlady—she considers me dubious- ly. She can't quite associate my good clothing with her slightly shabby apartment house and she was | frank in voicing her doubts. I might have ‘told her that I went to bed last night a bride-elect and that tonight, by my own will, I am —nothing. But I didn't tell her because she probably would haves put love at naught and called me a fool for hay- ing turned down a man who could support me well, and in the rashness of a lonely moment I might have agreed with her. So I have let her believe that T am one of those fair, frail para- sites, What people think has suddenly come to have a very small place in my scheme of existence. As I look back over my life, which seemed quite decent while I was liv- ing it, I am shocked at the implied immorality of it. I have flirted and |tempted and because I played safo | for myself I thought I was getting away with it stainlessly! Playing upon the feelings of men has been an innocent and highly }amusing game to me, just as it-has been to all thoughtless girls of my set, But I have learned sex debts are always collected somehow, sometime. That is inexorable, Strangely enough, T am not fear. ful tonight as I look toward my,ex- tremely uncertain future—I feel a . sort of confidence that tomorrow will mean my opportunity. Monday Helga has a talk with Tom, the fiance she cast off. Is it her last one? Supreme Blend Coffee—the very best that grows——1 Ib, 40¢; 2 Ibs, 75e; 3 Ibs, $1.10, Lunch. with me—Best for Less. Quick Service, M. A. HANSEN—40 Economy Mkt,