The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 9, 1921, Page 9

EDGAR RICE BURROUG iHS' GREATEST STORY TARZAN THE TERRIBLE = Coprrtadt, 1971, A. Frem Yesterday) CeeOHAPTER XX1 ee Sees 4s make th bar that would ° pass ad been peerd the warrio ‘the stone door ee had the rope of remaining bar that he ~e this purpose was the = 2 whil 4 @ moment, and while eel whispered without, the of the ape-man slipped Mi aperture and disap removed as 8 whisper his oer of from the cell left Nein tie walled area that the palace and temple snd duildings. He had re best he might from ‘after he had removed Rare to permit him to pars thru the opening, so that it lay immediately be winding and usually de feading in the direc the outer gate that opened ton ot ‘palace grounds into the we ' would facilitate his | He might even pass out of ‘and the city without de Tf he could elude the guard ; gate the rest would be strode along confidently ipo fear of detection, for that thus would he dis m In the darkness he asily could for a Hodon and pwr toe be paced several after “the deserind alley, no one or detained him, and thus ‘at last to the guard of a warriors before the palace he attempted to pasa in unconcerned fashion and have succeeded had It not one who came running rap the direction of the tem ing: “Let no one pars the ‘The prisoner has escaped abjal” ad re barred bis way y the fellow recog “Xot tor? he exclaimed: me be ie now, Fall upon bim! pgpen him! Back! Back befors yeu.” came forward. It pannot that they rushed forward was their wish to fall upon was a noticeable lack of ther than that which | their efforts to persuade Se elze to fall upon bim. His pana fighter had been too long ‘ef conversation for the good ‘Portle of Mo-war , to stand at a distance beri their clubs and thia they the apeman had learned ough to permit his | © MoCture @ Oo. Sepseetessargsseesssrees dexterously, Weapon after-weapon he warded off and always he moved | with a’ single idea in mind—to place himself within reach of one of his antagonists, But they were wary for they feared this strange creature to whom the superrtitious fears of many of the attributed the mirac slous powers of deity, They man aged to keep between Marsan and (the gateway and all the time they bowled lustily for reinforcements, Should these come before he had mado his escape the apeman re alised that the odds against him would be unsurmountable, and so [he redoubled his efforts to carry }out his design. | Followtfig thelr usual tactios, two jor three of the warriors were al | ways circling behind him collecting jthe thrown clubs when Tarsan's jattention was directed elsewhere. | He himself retrieved several of }them which he hurled with such deadly effect as to dispose of two of his antagonists, but now he heard the approach of hurrying | warriors, the patter ef their bare feet upon the stone pavement and then the savage cries which were to bolster the cougage of thelr foi lows and fill the enemy with fear There was no time-to lose. Tar mon held a clud in either hand and, swinging one be hurled it at a | warrior before him and as the man dodged he rushed in and seized dim, at the same time Tasting his see ond club at another of his op ponents, The Hodon with whom he grappled reached instantly for his knife, but the apeman grasped | bis wrist, There was a sudden twist, the snapping of a bone and &n agonixed scream, then the war rior was lifted bodily from his feet and held ag a shield between his fellows and the fugitive as thylat \ter backed thru the gateway. Be (side Tarsan stood the single torch jthat Lighted the entrance to the }Palace grounds. The warriore were jadvancing to the succor of their fellow when the apeman raised his captive high above hi» head and jflung him full in the face of ‘the foremost attacker. The fellow went down and two directly behind him ;sprawled headlong over their coro. panion es the apeman seized the torem and cast it back inte the pal ace grounds to be extinguished as |i struck the bodies of those whe led | the charging reinforcements. | Im the ensuing darkness Tarzan disappeared in the streets of Tulur beyond the palace gate. For a time | but the fact that they trailed away | and died in the direction of Jad-in-lul informed him that they were search| warriors. | he was aware of sounds of pursuit, | | | ‘ef the use of this weapon ing in the wrong direction, for he! e had arrived in Pul-ul-don. most primitive) .; which lay Adur. Uniess you see the 0m package or on tab- hot getting genuine oy phomeiane tor o Le proved saf re le : Aspirin only as Frat beckare tor Colds, AL naraiery * cl umbago and Handy tin boxes of Tablets of Aspirin cost also sell larger Aspirin is the trade Manufacture of Mo Of Salicylicacia, "PRAT Is the name to iw it |had turned south out of Tu-iur pw | Beyond the outskirts of the city he jturned directly toward the north. west, in which ‘direction lay A-lur. In bis path he know lay Jad-bal- lul, the shore of which he was com. pelied to skirt, apd there would & river to cross at the lower end of the great lake upon the shores of What other ob. stacies lay in his way he did not know, but he believed that he could make better time foot than by attempting to steal a cance and force his way up atream with a! eee. rent. “hos was his intention muel stance as possible between himself and Tu-lar before he slept, for he was sure that Mo- would not lightly accept his that with the coming of possibly even before, he the city he here at last he felt such & measure of safety as he open spaces or in rest and the jungle As myrrh and frankincense were the dank odors Tarmangant. squared his broad shoulders and lift. sognted life of the jungle went to his head with a pleasurable intoxi- cation far more potent than aught contained in the oldest vintages of civ ization. He took to the trees now, not from Necessity but from pure love of the wild freedom that had been denied him so long. Tho {it was dark and| forest strange yet he moved with | yurety and ease that bespoke more a etrange, uncanny sense than won. drous skill. He heard ja moaning somewhere ahead and an ow! hooted mourntully to the right of hft—long familiar sounds that imparted him no sense of loneliness as théy might to you or to me, but on the| contrary one of companionship, for they betokened the presence of his fellows of the jungle. and whether friend or foe it was all the same to the ape-man. He cgme at last to a little stream at @ spot where tit trees did not meet above jt so he was forced to déscend to the ground and wade thru the water,’.and upon the opposite shore he stopped as tho suddenly his godlike figure had been trans. muted from flesh to marble. Only bis dilating nostrils bespoke his pulsing vitality. For a long moment he stood there thus and then swift ly, but with a caution and silence that were inherent in him he moved forward again, but now his whale attitude bespoke a new urge. There was a definite and masterful pur. pose in every movement of those steel muscles rolling softly. beneath the smooth brown hide. He moved now toward a certain goal that quite evidently filled him.with far greater enthusiasm than had the possible event of his return to A-lur And #© be came at last to the foot of a great tree and there he stopped and looked up above him among the foliage where the dim outlines of a roughly .rectangular bulk loomed darkly. choking sensation in Tarzan's throat as he raised himself gently into t branches, It was as tho his heart were swelling cither to a great happiness or a great fear. Before the rude ahelter built among the branches he paused Metening. From within there came to his sensitive nostrils the same Aeclicate aroma that had arrested hin teager attention at the fittle stream a@ mile away. Me crouched upon the a - earned great had grown | Posely to throw them off his track. | to | heart, There was «| him. 4 ya HELEN, THIS HAS BEEN A PRETTY GooD VACATION! YES, EVERY THING WORKED, OWT ALLRIGHT WE SHOULD CONGRATULATE OURSELVES! OU, FRECKLES, “WERE COMES YER. PoP HOME. EVERETT TRUE ° It'S TiIMGe FoR A (er ™ “IMS WO'VE HAD To SHowDown t TROVaALG, ent e Take A SLANT art It! MME HOOD TILL SOMETHING GOES WRONS THERE'S SO MUCH DIRT AND PETRIFIED ITS ENGING TROUBLE, BUT THE EXCITING CAUSE 13 BIRAIN TRoumce |}! branch close to the little door. “Jane,” he called, “heart of my it is 1.” The only answer from within was as the sudden indrawing of a breath that was half gasp and half sigh, and the sound of a body falling to the floor. Hurriedly Tarzan sought |toerelease the thongs which held the but they Were fastende from the inside, and at last, impatient with further delay, he seized the frail barrier in one giant hand and with a single effort tore it complete ly aw And then he entered to find the seemingly lifeless body of his mate stretched upon the floor. He gathered her in his arms; ber heart beat; she still breathed, and presently he realized that she had but swooned, When Jane Clayton regained con sciousness it was to find herself door, Lneld tightly in two strong arms, her head pillowed upon the broad shout der where so often before Ner fears had been soothed and her sorrows comforted. At first she was not eure but that it was all a dream. Timidly her hand stole to his cheek “John,” she murmured, “tell me is it really you?” In reply he drew her more closely tochim “It is 1,” he replied. “But there is something in my throat,” he said haltingly, “that makes it hard for me to speak.” She smiled and snuggled closer to “God has been good to us, Tar zan of the Apos,” she said, For some time peither poke, It was enough that they were reunited and that each knew that the other was alive and safe. But at last they found their voices and when the sun rowe they were still talking, #0 much had each to tell the other; so many questions there were to be asked and answered. ' “And Jack,” he?” she asked, “where ae “{ dp not know,” replied Tarzan. “The laet I heard of him he was on the Argonne front.” “Ah, them our happiness is not |quite complete,” she said, a little |note of sadness creeping into her |, | voice. | “No,” he replied, “but the same ts true in countless other English homes today, and pride “is learning |to take thg¢ place of happiness in theae,” ; She shook her head. “I want my | boy,” she said, “And I, too we may ha and unwounded th And now,” he sai /upon our return. Would you like to |rebulid the bungalow and gather to- gether the remnants of our Wazirt jor would you rather return to Lon don?” “Only to find Jack," she sald: “I dream always of the bungalow and j never of the city, bue John, we can jonly dream, for Obergatz told te |that he had circled this whole coun try and found 5 might cross the morass. “IT am not Obergatz, minded her, smiling. “We will rest today, and tomorrow we will set out toward the north, It is a savage country, but we have crogsed it onee and We can cross it again.” And so, upon the following morn: jing the Tarmangani and his mate went forth upon their journey across the Valley- of Jad-ben-Otho, and ahead of them were fierce men-and |savage beasts, and the lofty moun. |tains of Paluldon; and beyond the |mountains the reptiles and the mo- rass, and beyond that the arid, thorn covered eteppe, and gthet savage beasts and men and weary, hostile miles of untracked wilderness be tween them and the charred ruling of thelr home, (Continued Tomorrow) * replied Tarzan, “and him yet. He last word I had. a safe | “we must plan | STAR Things Were Goiny Along Too Well — THIS LETTER JUST CAME FOR MR DuFF! A re) Scramble Squirrel’s senses were as scrambled up as his name, as he went spinning thru the sky. The great, black funnel-shaped object that had grabbed him and sent him whirl ing, went on its way over the learth, tossing things here and there with its mighty arma. But Scramble had no time to see anything or to think of anything ex- cept himself. “LI won—wonder where I'm go- ing,” he said breathlessly. ‘I won der if I'm going to the moon, or the sun, or wh-—where.” But he was soon to know. He landed on something with a considerable bump. Indeed It knock ed the breath quite out of him, so that if he still wondered what had happened, he was unable to say so, He staggered to his feet dizztly. |he"heard a familiar voice say, “Why, it's Scramble Squirrel! How did he r get up here?” é “You, how did he, do you s'pose?* PVENTURES eSrnE LW “Why, it’s Scramble Squirrel! How did he get here?” Then | POOH, ITS FROM OUR LANDLORD~- HE SAYS OUR LEASE EXPIRES ToDAY! HE HAS, A NEW ONE READY WITH AN INCREASE OF ‘TEN DOLLARS~ BE SIGNED BY WEDNESD, YW CU Oe papes ize WILY, CERTAINLY, FRECKLES * WHY ? GE ME A DIME IF I SANED You INS came the answer. Then Scramble found his voice. "Oh, ts it you, Nancy? And Nick, too! And Mr. Sprinkle-Blow! \ Per. | haps you can tellime how I got here | better than I can tell you," he panted, “and what was that great ‘Mack thing that grabbed me out.of my grapevine swing when I was fuving such a good time?” “Tell us all about {t,” asked | Sprinkle-Blow. “I'm not trying to! save any daylight, and West Wind | and Kast Wind promised fiot to/ send any more black clouds until 1| told them to. Mr. Sun is in a good) humor and I'm sure he'd shine if he| got a chance. Let me think! | “Oh! he cried out After a minute. “Sure as anything, Whizzy Tornado has got loose!, We'll have to* lasso |him before he gets the whole world in a mixup, the old scamp!* (Copyright, 1921, by Seattle Star) (To Be Continued) 1 IT MusT” PAGE 9 WELL, CA ‘You BEAT, THAT F WELL, You SE, You PROMIBED ME A QUARTER. IF TD MOW TH! LAWN, AN' T DIDN'T! * Page THE Tt was all hot and red and rather dark in the Indians’ coun- try inside the earth. And no dweller of that land had ever been outside of the thick shell of the earth. So it Is no wonder, no wonder at all, that as she climbed, the fat old equaw (and she was very fat, indeed) should feel some sense of fear ax she felt herself climbing up and up the great cornstalk. But no Indian can refuse to obey the call of the Great Spirit, so the fat old squaw Glimbed on. Far past the teepees of her tribe, past the’ strange dark clouds which are on the inside of the earth, past the tops of every- thing, on and on, up and up. And presently far above her she saw that thé great cornstalk had pushed its tall head thru the out- ermost shell of the earth and thru the crack the fat old squaw saw a strange white light After a whjle she reached the crack which the cornstalk had made and she crawled thru. Standing up, she beheld all about her green grass and beau- ful green trees and flowers Pook: _ By Mabel Cleland 4 437 ‘ STORY blooming, and over afl the strange white light of the day as it is on the outside of the earth « Not long had sbe stood so, wondering, when she heard @ sound behind her, and looking back she saw many .of her tribe coming up the stalk. Curtosity, as you know, is very strong in the heart of the Indian, so when they saw the fat old squaw/go climbing up the corn- stalk, they just climbed right up after her to see what it was all about. They walked or the green grass and tasted the berries, and as they ate a deer came leaping out of the woods and they said, “It is a wolf,” because they had never seen a deer before, And the Indians came and came till one old squaw, older and fat- ter than the first one, came up and she was so fat she couldn't get out or in and no other red men could follow. She stopped UB the hola And that ts the story of the ‘Wolf Indians*and the beginning of corn growing in the land of the Setting Sun. OO | BEGIN HERE TODAY Fielga Sorenson breaks her en with her wealthy fiance, whom pursued for his honey. But she accepts | his offer to help her to @ position as the laocial secretary of the Fob Mrs. n | Amen, tho myatified as to how he hap pens to know so much of ber, GO ON WITH STORY My self-confidence ebbed, as 1 walked up the flower-lined path to the Ames home, It is a wonderful jold house set on a gentle slope with |dark pines in back and # riotous mass of color in front. A fow times, when a little girt, 1 had gone in the wide front door land sat stiffly on the brocaded-tur- | niture while my mother visited with the elder Mrs. Ames, who has now \been dead many years. It waa hard to go into a house |where T had once been taken as an Jequal and ask for employment— |tho, of course, a different mistress presided then, A trig little maid carried my card with message to Mrs, Ames. Re turning, she told me Mrs. Ames would see mo CHAPTER IV—I ED (Copyright 1921 by Seattle Star) “Ah, my dear, won't you sit over here?" | Lila Ames’ voice was light as this? Uedown, She was a ravishing thing The afternoon sun, playing on her hair, spun a web of gold. Against a maize of black and orange cushions the lineg of her silk-clad body were beautifully slim. Tho she spoke to me, Mrs. Ames was smiling at a good-looking, rather youthful man, who stood, hat in hi , beside her chaise lounge. "Goodby—Li,” he was saying. Then his lips brushed her hair and found an answer on her petulantly curved lips. Passing me in leaving, he bowed a rather elaborate acknowledgement of my presence. “Isn't he just heavenly?" Mrs, was pulling aside her robe, A foot of her lounge. “My bother-in law, you know, and oh, he has such a fascinating way! I'm almost jeal- ous of his wife! She's quite fetch- ing® too, but-—" she stopped speak jing, reatjusted a hairpin or two and WHEN A WOMAN TELLS By RUTH AGNES ABELING — * ER A NEW SPHERE then said: “But you came on business, didn't you, and your name, let me see—" she was toying with my card, “Helga Sorenson. How interesting! You ‘should be out preaching legislation for women or trying to reform the world, instead of at such trifling work! “But T do need someone for my letters,” she pointed to a stack of small and variously colored en |velopes on a table near by, “and to keep my cals straight and my hus: band happy! Now that last is cat Jous, isn’t it! she laughed, “but he's such @ worm for. business: The play of Lila Ames’ changing moods upon her features was some: thing wondrous to watch, She was startlingly, revealingly beautiful, “You're really quite nice-looking,” mes making place for me to sit near the pher cyes were Critically going over my face and figure, “and I want someone good looking. Oh, I'm not like so many women—fearful of the effects of a good-looking woman on the integrity of my household. In the fst place, John is immune,” her | tovery face drew in lines of mock | Seriousness, “then I'm just not afraid of'my own sex, and last but | most Mmportant, I want someone who can be an extra hand at bridge, an extra partner for ah impromptu ;dancing or supper party, We're a ilively folk here—that is my half of jthe family is! John isn’t so keen |about parties, “I should expect you, of course, to live right here, you'd have that room,” she indicated a door off of her own room. “And I think you'd be quite happy in’it. “Just what I'd pay you I'm sure I don't know-—John would settle jthat, depending on the quality of your service. I—" her voice trailed inte silence. “Yes?” it was almost the first word I had spoken. “You have a lovely voice,” en- | thusiastically; “suppose you come hack tomorrow—say at 4 o'clock, and | tell you whether or not I want you.” : . ‘The dispatch of her dismissal was amazing. I started slowly down the stairs. | Near the door, fastening a light | motor coat, stood the man who had short while before kissed Mrs. mos. He looked up as I approached, and |with the most engaging smile, | started to speak to me, - Helga Sorenson continues her ad- venture—bat yrith a certain fear within her, a fear of the debonair Philip Ames, See tomorrow's Star, \ a | Ai