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

EDGAR RICE BURROUG HS’ GREATEST STORY Hy TARZAN THE. TERRIBLE | Stitt Conyrtcht, 1921, A {Continued From Yesterday) What is itt" whispered Jane = | A gryf.” replied tie apeman, | We have met him in the worst | o@ that We could possibly have There ts not a large tree thin a quarter of a yile, other | those among which he stands. | we shall have to go back, | I mot risk it with you; fe best we can do is to pray | he doos not discover us." | “And if he doost™ “Then I shall have to risk it* “Risk what?" “The chance that I can subdue as I subdued one of his fellows,” ied Tarzan. “I told you—-you re) “ihe Yes, but I did not ploturd #0 huge | ‘ wire. Why, John, he is as vig) battleship.” ape-man laughed. “Not quite, TU admit he looks quite aa for as one when he charges.” were moving away slowly so mot tO attract the attention of Fy 91 believe we're going to make it,” lf Whispered the woman, her vaice with suppressed excitement. he low rumble rolled like distant i from the wood. Tarmn his head. ‘The big show ts about to com im the main tent." he quoted, He caught the woman nly to his breast and kiseed “One can never tell, Jano,” he “We'll do our best—that is all can do. Give me your spear, and fn that little brain more than in If I can control it—well, let us | The beast had emerged from the t and was looking about thru Weak eyes, evidently in search @ them. Tarzan raised his voice in Weird note of the Torodon's fy: “Whee-oo! Whee-oo! Wheeoo™ @ moment the great beast stood Honless, his attention riveted by call. The apeman advanced ht toward him, Jane Clayton his elbow. “Whee-ool” he cried in peremptorily. A low rumble : from the eryf's cavernous and the Deast moved slowly d them. * exclaimed Tarzan, “The} are in our favor now. You can) your nerve?—but I do not need | ask.” | “I know’no fear when I am with! Parszan of the Apes," she replied | ly. and he felt the pressure of soft fingers on his arm. thus the two approached the monster of a forgotten epoch they stood close in the shadow mighty shoulder. “Wheeoo! Tarzan and struck the hid- gnout with the shaft of the - The vicious side snap that fot reach its mark-—that evi- ‘was not intended to reach tts the hoped-for answer. ne,” said Tarzan, and taking by the hand he led her around the monster and up the bread i to the great, horned back. “Now we ride in the state that our and tawdry insignificance. ‘would you like to canter thra by our riding habits, John,” B cried, laughingly. n guided the gryf in the dl- that they wished to £06. embankments a rivers no slightest cle to the creature. prehistoric tank, this.” Jane him, and laughing and talk- f they continued on their way. they came unexpectedly upon mn Hodion warriors as the gryt suddenty into @ small clear- ‘The fellows were tying about) the shade of a single tree that Pw alone. h they saw the beast they 4 to their feet in consternation at their shouts the gryf issued | Bideous chaNenging bellow and) d them. The warriors fed in ections while Tarzan Velabored beast across the snout with his wy in an effort to control him, at last he succeeded, just as the @ MeCturg & Co, out for its special prey, With an/ angry grunt the gryt stopped and | the man, with a single backward glance that showed a face white with terror, disappeared tn the jungle he had been seeking to reach, | The apeman was elated. He had doubted that he could contro! the | beast should it take it into its head | to charge a victim and had tn. tended abandoning it before they | reached the Kor-ulja. Now he al tered his plane—they would ride to) the very village of Omat upon the gryt, and the Kor-ulja would have food for conversation for many gen erations to come, Nor was it the theatric Instinct of the ape-ma: alone that gave favor to this plan. The element of Jane's safety entered tuto the matter, for he knew that she would be safe from man and Doast alike so long as she rode upon the back of Paluldon's most for | midable creature, As they proceeded slowly tn the direction of the Kor-ulja, for the Batural gait of the gryf is tar from rapid, a handful of terrified \ war riors came panting into A-tur, Spreading a weird story of the Dor-| ul-Otho, only none dared call him | the Dor-ulOtho aloud. Instead they | spoke of him aa Tarsan-Jad-guru | 4nd they told of meeting him mount- ¢d upon a mighty gryf beside the | beautiful strange woman whom Ko-tan would have made queen of Pal-uldon, This story was brought to Lidon, who caused the warriors | to be haled to his presence, when he questioned them closely until! finally he was convinced that they | ¢ the truth and when they had told him the direction in which the two were traveling, Ludon guessed | that they were on their way to Ja-| tur to join Jadon, a contingency | that he felt must be prevented at| any cost. As was his wont in the stress of emergency, he called Pan: | ®t Into consultation and for long | the two sat in close conference. | When they arase a plan bad been | developed. Pansat went immed ately to his own quarters where he removed the headdress and trap- pings of a priest to don in their stead the harness and weapons of a warrior, Then he returned to Lu- don, “Goodm cried the latter, when he| saw him. “Not even your fellow. | priests or the slaves that wait upon | you dally would know you now.| Lose no time, Pansat, for all ae. | pends upon the speed with which | you strike and—remember! Kill the man if you can; but in any event bring the woman to me here, alive. | You understand?” “Yea, master,” reptied the pricat, and so it Was that a lone warrior | set out from A-lur and made his way northwest in the direction of Ja-tur. The gorge next above Kor-ul.ja is uninhabited and here the wily Ja- don had chosen to mobilize his army for its descent Atur, Two con. siderations inf! him—one be. ing the fact that if could he keep his Plans a secret from the enemy he would have the advantage of de Uvering a surprise attack upon the forces of Ludion from a direction that they Would not expect attack, and in the meantime he would be able to keep his men from the gos. sip of the cities where strange tales were already circulating relative to the coming of Jad-bentho in per- son to ald the high priest tn his war against Jadon. It took stout hearts and loyal onew to tgnore the im plied threats of divine vengeance that these tales suggested. Already there had been desertions and the cause of Jadon seemed tottering to dettruction. Such was the state of affairs when & sentry posted on the knoll in the mouth of the gorge sent word that, he had observed in the vallfy below ‘hat appeared at a distance to be nothing leas than two people mounted upon the back of a gry. He said that he had caught glimpses of them, as they passed open «paces, and they seemed to be traveling up the river in the direction of the Kor- ul-ja. At first Jadon was inclined to doubt the veracity of his Informant: but, like all good generals, he could not permit even palpably talsp in formation to go uninvestigated and #90 he determined to visit the knoll was almost upon one poor i that@lt seemer to have singled himself and learn precisely what it was that the sentry had observed thru the distorting spectacies of fear He had scarcely taken his place be- side the man ere the fellow touched WELL You YESS'R=©™ GOING To BE IN TH FIFTH GRADE = THE EQUATOR. THE SEATTLE STAR Danny f " TOM,SEE IF YOU CAN FIND DANNY = T WONDER |} KNOW WAT SOLDIER'S EQUIPMENT CONSISTS OF A LAMP-POST, BRASS-RAIL, AND Thee THe WELL, SGNIOY Nove Set r —— ws ey TO WIND eco AND PUX THE CAT OUTIL THS PACS DIDN'T Moe THIS CVeNtN I'VE CALLED AND CALLED WM = SOMETHING MUST HAVE HAPPENED TO Him! RUN peer Ph SURE= AN IMAGINARY LINE RUNNING AROUND “TH! Minne ‘ft se a Goes a-Courting DID You SEE SON, DANNY P ADVENTURES: OF Tt Nancy ahd Nick started with Scramble Squirrel toward his home in the maple-tres down on the earth (you know old Whizty Tornado had picked him up and tossed him thru the sky to Sprinkle Blow’s star.) Their Uttle Green Shoes set them down softly on a mossy place in Whispering Forest, not 10 feet from the place Scramble lived; Scramble thanked them and said that they Reed not come farther, as he knew the rest of the way knew how to walk up their own front well as they | INS “Find his family well!” exclaimed a voice nearby. sometimes) and wiped his brow. As he maid to a friend of his, one al- ways looked more worried when he wiped his brow, and got more sym pathy. “Why? said Nick. “Can't you find | your family, Mr. Benjamin?” “Not again for | all he was somebody's. I've got t bunch of creatures on my hands you jever saw, Whizzy Tornado has not rth, “but ' mine,” matt Ben mopping | aneerest | oP. gr oppEs, 1 SAW HIM GOING DOWN PAGE 11 BY ALLMAN SEE, DADDY, I'M TAKING MILDERD BOAT RIDING! YOUR WATER! = (TS, ~""" BY AHERN LEAKING OUT “THE BACK OF THE WAGON! “Did she walk up a standing-up- straight tree?” Peggy asked, “just ke a little ant om the porch pillar?” , “Just that way,” Mra Bartlett replied. “Poteupine gave ber a megsage from the Great Spirit and, being not only very beauti- ful, but wholly good, she didn't stop a minute to think whether or not she could walk up a standing tree or that she might fall, she simply did exactly as she was told. * “On and on up the tall tree went Porcupine, and after him came the maiden, till they reach- @1 the thick branches far up at the tree's very top, there Porcu- Pine paused for a moment and pointed bis sharp nose at a great nest. | “That,’ he sald, ‘is Thunder Bird's nest. Thrust your wand LEGEND OF THE BEAUTIFUL MAID Page 439 came“down and swafloped up Por cupine, and the maiden atso | climbed after him until she, too, fF was lost to their sight. “Now before evening of that day, Porcupine was seen again E among the bushes, but the maiden returned not to her home and the people of her tribe thought of her as of one dead. ‘ “Three drys passed, and on the evening of the third, down out of the white clouds came the beauth ful maiden who was wholly good anid in her arms she bore a little son, the giftof the Great Spirit. “And they went about ever after, the beautiful mother and the son, doing kind deeds, helping those who were in trouble, giving food to the hungry and caring for the sick and helpless. f cnly taken away half the people whip | staira Uved in Whispering Forest and the} “And,” said Mra. Bartlett, his arm and pointed. “ : over twenty pol “They are “when I asked her ‘where are into it and follow me.’ nei years Leading int my article rday's St | AINA ©: EQLGER'S Y 2 it EA |but soon he realized that the crea- closer now,” he whispered, “you | can eee them plainly.” And sure! enough, not a quarter of a mile| away Jadon saw that which in his! long experience tn Pal-ul-don be had | hever before seen—two humans rid. | ing upon the broad back of a gryf.| At first he could scarce credit even this testimony of his own eyes, | tures below could be naught else than they appeared, and then he recognized the man and rose to his| feet with a loud cry. “It ls het” he shouted to those about him. “It 1s the Dor-ul-Otho himself.” The eryf and his riders heard the shout tho not the words. The form- er bellowed ferrifically and started in the direction of the knoll, and Ja} don, followed by @ few of his more intrepid warriors, ran to meet him. | Tarzan, loath to enter an unneces. wary quarrel, tried to tusn the ani mal, but as the beast was far from tractable it always took a few min. utes to force the will of ite master upon it; and so the two parties were quite close before the ape-man succeeded in stopping the mad} charge of his furious mount. ‘Ja-don and his warriors, however, had come fo the realization that this | bellowing | creature was bearing | down upon them with evil intent and they had assumed the better part of valor and taken to trees, ac ordingly. It was beneath these | trees that Tarzan finally stopped| the gryf. Ja-don called down to him. “We are friends,” he cried. “I am Ja-fion, chief of Jatur. 1 and my | warriors lay our foreheads upon the j feet of Dor-ulOtho and pray that he will aid us in our righteous fight | with Ludon, the high priest.” | | “You have not defeated him yét? |asked Tarzan, “Why, I thought you j would be king of Pal-ul-don long be- fore this.” "No," replied ‘Jadon. “The ple fear the high priest and now that he has in the temple one whom he claims to be Jad-ben-Otho, many of my warriors are afraid. If they but iknew that the Dor-ul-Otho bad re turned and that he had blessed the cause of Jadon I am sure that vie tory would be ours.” Tarzan thought for a long minute! and then he spoke. “Jalon,” he said, “was one of the few who be lieved in me and who wished to ac- cord me fair treatment. I have a debt to pay to Jadon and an ac- count to settle with Ludon, not alone on my own behalf, but princl- pally upon that of my mate. I will go with you, Jadon, to mete to Lu- don the punishment he deserves. | Teli me, chief, how may the Dor-ul Otho best serve his father’s people?" “By coming with me to Ja-lur and the villages between,” replied Ja-don quickly, “that the people may see that it is indeed the Dor-ulOtho and that he smiles upon the cause of Ja don.” “You think that they will believe in me more now than before?” asked the ape-man, “Who will dare doubt that he who! rides upon the great gryf 1s leas than a god?” returned the old chief. “And it I go with you to the bat. tle at A-lur,” asked Tarzan, “can you assure the safety of my mate while I am gone from her?” “She shall refnain in Ja-lur with the Princess O-lo-a and my own women,” replied Jadon, “There she will be safe for there I shull leave trusted warriors to protect them, Say bunt.” “Good,” exclaimed Tarzan. “Have them brought at_once."* And when the meat was brought and laid at @ distance the ape-man alipped from the back of his fierce charger and fed him with his own |hand. “See that there ts always plenty of flesh for him,” he said to Jadon,-for he guessed that his mastery might be short-lived should |the #icious beast become over. hungry. It was morning before they could |leave for Ja-lur, but Tarzan | the eryf lying where he had left him | the night before beside the carcasses of two antelope and a lion; but now there was nothing but the gryf. “The paleontologists eay that he was herbivorous,” said Tarzan as he Jand Jane approached the-beasty The journey to Jalur was made thru the scattered villages where Ja- don hoped to arouse a keener én- thusiasm for his cause. A party of warriors preceded Tarzan that the people might properly be prepared, not only for the sight of the gryf, but to recetve the Dor-ulOtho as be- came his high station, The results were all that Ja-don could have hoped and in no village thru which they passed was there one who doubted the deity of the ape-man. As they approached Ja-dlur found | “I do hope that you'll find your [him goodbye. "We're serry you had such an unpleasant trip and we hope |that old Whizxy will let you alone after this.” “Find his family well™ exclatmed & voice nearby. “If he finds his fam fly at all, he'll be a hundred and |ninety-nine times luckier than the rest of ust’ It was Ben Bunny, and as he hopped up close to the Twins and Scramble Squirrel, he took his little red hanky out of his waistcoat pocket (he only wore the waistcoat | family well,” said Nancy as she Bade | shborhood, | Meane: trick stitl. He's dumped down some of the oddest creatures you jean imagine. and such a mixup! Come alorig und I'll show you.” (Copyright 1921, by Seattie Star (Le Be Continued) Thore are more than a dozen Inter. | pretations put on the term “F. 0. B.” | by different nations,” | Industrial and life insurance com, | antes in this country had 63,000,000 policies out In 1920, but he's played a | “And no sooner was the wind stuck in the Thunder Bird's nest than it began to grow tall and the Porcupine climbed that as before | he had climbed the trunk of the freat tree. “Now, those who saw it, who | had seen the maiden as she fol. lowed Porcupine, stood on the far- ther bank of the stream and watched. “And as they watched, clouds eee they now, this mother and son?’ she shrugged her shoulders and spread out her hands and said, *‘Konaway Kah! (meaning every- where.) “So she thought her religion was quite like ours,” Mrs. Bart: lett concluded, “and mother had to teach her like a little child so she could get the truth.” Sa CHAPTER BEGIN HERE TODAY Helga 8 on, after casting off the flance she pursued for his wealth, seeks & position a rich Mrg. John Amen. muithr difected her to thin she meets the married idl who immediately tnterests attains. GO ON WITH STORY ‘The world as I looked out upon it from my bedroom window this morn- |tng was a mass of soft green leaves, flecked with heavy sunshine, and quivering in a light spring breeze. ‘The branches were a-thrill with the love calls of countless birds stirring into consciousness, I lay for a long time dreaming— the world stretched so temptingty that you will come, O Dur-ulOtho, and my cup of happiness will be full, for even now Ta-den, my son, marches toward A-lur with a force| from the northwest and if we can attack, with the DorulOtho at our| head, from the northeast our arms should be victorious,” “It shall be aq you wish, Ja-don,” replied the ape-man; “but first you must have meat fetched for my strange warrior joined them, one whom none of Jadon’s following know. He said he came from one of the villages to the south and that he had been treated unfairly by one |before me, and beckoned. I was of Lu-don'd chiefs, For this reason |eager—with that eagerness which he had deserted the cause of the|comes with perfeet health and men- high priest and come north in the |tal equilibrium—so I scrambled hap- hope of finding a home in Ja-tur, As|pily out of bed when my telephone every addition to hin forces was wel-| rang. come to the old chief he permitted, “Good morning, Miss Soclal Secre- gryt.” the stranger to accompany them, | tary!” “There are many carcasses in the|and so he came into Jalur with} Philip Ames almost camp above,” replied Ja-don, “for | them. words. my men have little else to do than “Oh—I see you like these beauti- sang the * (Cpntinued Tomorrow) WHEN A WOMAN TELLS By RUTH AGNES ABELING (Copyright 1921 by Seattle Star) VII LISTEN TO TALK ful mornings, too! And are you really TW cay that I'nt a social secre. tary?” With the sun streaming, in moving the laces at my throat and ; |arms, I couldn't keep the lure out of my voice. “Surest thing I know! And IT was going to wish luck on this venture |by suggesting that you eat with me in—shonld I give you an hour to dress?” I hesitated. Here was the very thing that I thought I had turned my back on. It was evident that Philip Ames held in his hands the possibility of my success or failure jin securing the position as his sis- ter-in-law’s secretary, I wanted the place. Would re. fusal be disastrous to my ambition? And it was such a wonderful sun shining outdoors—so doubting the wisdom of my own way, 1 told him to come in an hour and promised myself that this was positively the last of such things. It was just 10 o'clock when, with a@ certain vague foreboding, I slid my window and the soft air gently | OF LOVE into the low seat beside Philip Ames. I was conscious of the eyes of my landlady peering from behind the lace curtains as the car pulled away, jand somehow she seemed to typify the world. I wasn't at all comfort able, “A you little early for think? lunch, don't Suppose we drive out jthe river road—past some romantic: looking little log houses you may not have seen, dove cotes, you know, with vines and flowers hugging their rough sides —- honeymoon huts!" ‘There was a trace of irony in the last Speeding along the" little car swung from the main road to the} winding, lane-like highway known as the River drive. “Lucky thing, your coming in yes: terday.” “Why?” I asked. “I needed diversity—oh, don't be offended!’ His amusement was too genuine to be comfortable; “I meant —er, a balancer, don’t you know! Frankfy, it's like thts=-too much of @ woman like Lila isn’t good for a jthem you don't | about. man who has a wife. “There are just two kinds of Women from my point of view— those you love and those you don't. | Now those you don't are like a bunch of cotton flowers—unless you see realize they are you leve—why, they're like a mirage in which you see everything you want, never quite near enough and fully possess anything. And, weil—mirages, you know, have driven men out of their senses.” He finished with a disturbing, hard Ht tle laugh. “Because when they fade they are so hopelessly gone?” I asked. “And there's nothing but an arid space left to mark the place they were?” “I think you're wrong.” He had been mulling over my bit of philoso phy. “Anyway, if I were a woman I'd rather, any day, be the mirage.”* “And I would rather be the bunch of cotton flowers.” “Well — you'll find, aren't!" But those and are to grasp that — you In tomorrow's Star Helga Soren- son tells of a fateful chat over a tuncheon table with Philip Ames. a Supreme Blend Coffee—the very «| dest that grows—I Ib, 40c; £ Ibs, 3 Ibs, $1.10, ‘ Lunch with me—Best for” ¢ Quick Service,“ M. A, HANSEN—40 Eq ‘Wore