The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 12, 1921, Page 13

1] J &; FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1921. EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS’ GREATEST STORY ZAN THE TERRIBLE Bssiissstssestssssstssssety mitted their cruel and abhorrent acts because of the fact that these things had been the custom of the Ho-don of Pubuldion for countless and {rash indeed must have been the man who would have attempted to inter + 2 ttt Coprrtent, 1921, A C MeClurg & Co. (Continued From Yesterday) There arose now the question as Dio what was to be done with the [Styt while Taraan and his compan Mons remained in the city, It was | ith difficulty that Tarsan had pre-|fere with the priests or their cere m . t | monica That Jadon never entered peated the savage beast from at) 11. temple was well known, and that Woking all who came near it When/yiy high priest never entered the they had first entered the camp of | palace, but the people came to the Jadoo in the uninhabited gorge | temple with th votive otterinss i the sacrifices were made n E Mext to the Kor-ul-ja, but during th rh alain ak A lag a Bonnin March to Jalur the creature bad) pie in Paluldon b Seemed to become accustomed to the; The warrior knew these thing» ence of the Hodon. The latter,| knew them better perhaps than a pwever, gave him no cause for an-|*™ple warrior should have known ?: | them And so it was here In the byance since they kept as far from | temple that he looked for the aid Mh ag possible and when he passed /that he sought in the carrying out the ‘streets of the city he was | of whatever design he had | d from the safety of lofty win-| A’ he entered the apartment |where the priests were he greeted fwe ang roots. However tractable them after the manner which was Appeared to have become there | customary in Pal-uldon, but at the wid have been no enthusiastic|/ same time he made a sign with his “@eonding of a suggestion to turn) finger that might have attracted TRim loose within the city, It was little attention or scarcely been no ‘finally suggested that he be turned | ticed at all by one who knew not its into a walled enclosure within the! meaning. That there were those ed grounds and this was done im driving him in after Jane} ‘had dismounted. More meat was) thrown to him and he was left to his | ) Own devices, the awestruck inhab )itants of the palace not even ventur- “ing to climb upon the walls to look at him. | Ya-don led Tarzan and Jane to the Quarters of the Princess O-loa who, | the’ moment that she beheld the ape- Man, threw herself to the ground | And toached her forehead to his feet. | Pan-at-lee was there with ber and 5 Ghe too seemed happy to see Tar. Sman-jadguru again. When they ' found that Jane was his mate they ed with almost equal awe upon er, since even the most skeptical of warriors of Ja<ion were now con- vinced that they were entertaining & god and a goddess within the city of Jalur, and that with the assist of the power of these two, the of Ja<ton would soon be vic Yorious and the old Lion-man set upon the throne of Pal-ul-don From O-lo4 Tarzan learned that | Taden had returned and that they _ ‘Were to be united in marriage with the weird rites of their religion and in accordance with the custom of "their people as soon as Ta-den came! _ home from the battle that was to be fought at A-lur. ‘The recruits were now gathering | | at the city and it was decided that | the next day Jadon and Tarzan! ma return to the main body in| 3 hidden camp and immedigtely | linder cover of night the attack | Should be made in force upon Lu ‘s forces at A-lur. Word of this sent to Taden where he | with his warriors upon the north | corridor. Within the room who noticed it and interpreted it was quickly apparent, thru the fact that two of the priests rose and came close to him as he stood just within the doorway, and each of them, as he came, returned the signal that the warrior had made. The three talked for but a mo-| ment, and then the wartior turned and left the apartment. A little later one of the priests who had talked with bim left also, and shortly after that the other. 1 In the corridor they found the| warrior waiting and led bim to a little chamber which opened upon a | smaller corridor just beyond where it joined Yhe larger. Here the three remained In whispered conversation for some little time and then the warrior returned to the palace and the two priests to their quarters. The apartments of the women of the palace at Ja-lur are all upon the, same side of a long, straight Bach has a single door leading into the corridor and at the opposite end several windows over. looking a garden. It was in one of these rooms that Jane slept alon At each end of the corridor was a single sentinel, the main body of | the guard being stationed in a cham: | ber near the outer entrance to the} women's quarters, The palace slept for they. kept early hours there where Jadon ruled. The paldedonso of the great chieftain of the north knew no such wild orgies as had resound ed thru the palace of the king at! Aur. Jalur was a quiet city by comparison with the capital, yet there was always a guard kept at) THE SEATTLE DOINGS OF THE DUFFS AWW, GEEWIZZ MoM «SuucKSs TWANTA GO SWIMMIN' WITH “MW FELLAS. !/( muMBLE Dr NO WoRDS FROM YoU 3 EVERET? TRUE STAR Tom Has a Nightmare WELL, WELL, IS THIS BABY PAGE 13" BY ALLMAN y yy oy OL, "Ee | Aen BY BLOSSER SURE! va wouonr KETCH ME KAULIN' A STRANGE KID MY, WHAT BROUGHT You HOME SO SOON, LEOPOLD / lay oS oeoagapais only a few miles | every entrance to the chambers of | -lur. Ja-don and his immediate family as | In the carrying out of these plane] en as at the gate leading into the | was necessary to leave Jane be-| temple and that which opened upon | in Ja-don’s palace at Ja-lur, but the city and her women were with her | there were many warrior® to/ d them, so Turzan bid his mate! with no feelings of appre-! as to her safety, and again | upon the gryf made his way | of the city with Jadon and his it the mouth of the gorge the ape- abandoned his huge mount! it had served its purpose and | be of no further value to him r attack upon A-lur, which to be made just before dawn the ng day when, as he could not been seen by the enemy, the %t of his entry to the city upon ryt would have Been totally A couple of sharp blows with spear sent the big animal rumb- and growling fh the direction of Kor-ul-gryf nor was the ape-man to see it depart since he had known at what instant its temper and insatiable appe- for flesh might turn it upon of his companions, tely upon their arrival at gorge the march on Adur was } CHAPTER XXIII Taken Alive | As night fell a warrior from the t of Jalur slipped into the je grounds. He made his way Where the lesser priests were tered. His presence aroused no cion as it was not unusual for ors to have business within the ple. He came at last to a cham- where several priests were con- fated after the evening meal, rites and ceremonies of the sac had been concluded, and there nothing more of a religious na- ure to make call upon their time the rites at sunrise. Now the warrior knew, as in fact y all Pul-uldon knew, that ere was no strong bond between the temple and the palace at Ja-lur, and that Ja-don only suffered the Presence of the priests and per- | -FRECKLE-FACE _ Sun and Wind Bring Out Ugty Spots; ‘ How to Remove Easily Here's a chance, Miss Freckle-face, ) to try a remedy for freckles with the gUarantee of a reliable concern that R$ will not cost you a penny unless it LB removes the freckles, while if it does ([@ cive you a clear complexion, the ex “pense is trifling. 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Such were the condi-| Yons then when two warriors pre-| sented themscives, one at either end of the corridor, to the sentries who watched over the mufety of Jane | Clayton and the Princess ©-lo- and each of the newcomers repeated | the sentinels the stereotyped) words which announced that they were relieved and these others sené to watch in their stead. Never is a warrior loath to be relieved of sen-| try duty, Where, under different circumstances he might ask numer. | ous questions he is now too well satisfied to @cape the monotonies of | that “universally bated duty. And| so these two men accepted their re | [lef without question ‘and hastened away to their pallets. And then @ third warrior entered the corridor and all of the newcom- ers came together before the door | of the ape-man's slumbering mate. | And one was the strange warrior who | had met Ja-don and Tarzan outstde | the city of Jalur ag they had ap. Proached it the previous day; and he | was the same warrior who had en-| tered the temple a short hour before, but the faces of bis fellows were un. familiar, even to one another, since | it is seldom that a priest removes his hideous headdress in the pres- ence even of his associates | Silently they lifted the hangings that hid the interior of the room| from the view of those who passed thru the corridor, and stealthily slunk within, Upon a pile of furs in a far corner lay the sleeping form of Lady Greystoke. The bare feet of the intruders gave forth no sound as they crossed the stone floor toward her. A ray of moonlight en tering thru a window near her couch shone full upon her, revealing | t the beautiful contours of an arm and | k shoulder in cameo - distinctness | against the dark furry pelt beneath | which she slept, and the perfect pr file that was turned toward skuilking three. But her the beauty nor the|t helplesuness of the sleeper aroused | t such sentiments of passion or pity as| t might stir in the breasts of normal | men. To the three priests she was| but a lump of clay, nor could they onceive aught of that passion which had aroused men to intrigue nd to murder for possession of thie | beautiful American girl, and which | even now was influencing the des: tiny of undiscovered Pal-ul-don Upon the floor of the chamber | F were numerous pelts and as the lead-|a er of the trio came close to the|t he stooped and | ic gathered up one of the smaller of | # these, Standing clowe to her head he held the rug outstretched above her fa Now,” he whispered and | simultane he threw the rug|t over the woman's head and his two} # fellows leaped upon her, selaing her | ri arms ard pinioning her body while the o t « F e t or 1 their leader stified her cries with the | A-lur furry pelt. Quickly and silently they | bound her wrists and gagged her |b né during the brief time that their | p your vision is dim or| work required there was no sound |riors | that might have been heard by occu-| darkness into the city of A-lur nts of the adjoining apartments. | p Jerking her roughly to her feet they attempted to force her toward 4 window, but she throwing herself floor. They were very would readily have restorted to cruelties to compel her obedience, | ti but this they dared not do, since the| J wrath of Lu-don might fall heavily | o' upon whoever mutilated his fair | p: prize. ‘ instead upon the angry and | And #0 they were forced to lift/band, moved sealthily thru the wind. Advertisemens. and carry her bodily, Nor was the ing alleys of A-lur, arriving unde) Yrreor NAME WITHOUT might, window where one escaped from Jadur with his captive refused to walk, |Taden thru the secret pass rT IS THAT ‘OU, EVvvic ? Yes, MRS. TRUE, TH'S 13 CITTLS "EVVIE"s BUT YOU'RE OUT OF LUCcK|—13 HAVS NO worse CHANGE WitH MS? SHE OUGHT 0 CALL ian Sy FIDO — THat'’s A 2 PET NAME, AND IT s ==5, LEAD A DOG'S Eo rr VIPS i=] Lamy: OUVUSING STOUR SUSPICIONS th aptive tected at the building which hid ‘the sh otrance passage as ordu: |" ot being best protected by the possible. But finally they jfact that its existence was unknown rd in getting her thru the/t than the priests, was up and into the garden beyond To facilitate the passage of of the two priests f thru the r he Ju-lur temple directed their steps | winding, une tunnel, ‘Tarzan owards a small barred gateway in | lighted torch which had been he south wall of the enclosure, brought for the purpose and preced- Immediately b 4 this a flight |ing his warriors, led the way toward ¢ stone stairs led downward toward | the temple he river and at the foot of the} That he tairs we moored se 1 canoes he reached th Pan-sat he indeed been fortunate in te with hia lettle niisting aid from those who knew warriors, the he temple and the palace well since an r otherwise might ne have bring «inecure since a ask any icked and making ir labor at to the secret us as ucce other guarded mn} his little company en a h inner chambers band of ape-man attack at confusion could omplish mt once of the picked confident, point would jconsternation to the 1 priests, and permit attack the palace foi Jat the same time that Ja-don waged them at the palace while Ta-den and his forces swarmed northern wa Great value had Jadon on the moral Dor-ubot myasteri urance in the art of the he had urged Tarzan to advantage the old t of Lu mple was thi and #0 he ver easily overp mn Tarzan and ‘acing the woman in the bott light canoe Pan-sat entered it up the His compan unfastened moorings and hoved the ‘little craft out into the urrent of the stream. ‘Their t rous work completed they turned nd retraced their steps toward the while Pan-set, paddling with the current, moved down the that would him to the ben-lul ere ees in the rear paddle th 00k en ons he eff ait on placed by app temple, aie take every |chieftain's belief tt |don'’s warriors still legiance between nd the Dor-ulOtho, the former more by he engendered in the breasts of all his followers than by any love or loyalty they might feel toward him There is a Pal-ul-donian setting forth a truth contained in the ithat “The t laid Jand men gang aft |tranelated it might follows the nt lreaches the wrong such apparently was the fate that lay in the footsteps of the great chieftain of the north and his god like ally (Continued Tomorrow) the h H of many emple, trongly apldly rry river e and The moon had set and the eastern orizon still no hint of roaching day as a long file of wa wound stealthily thru the the high being the fear priest held to which gave ap 1d there seemed ir miscdrriage, A dispatched to lay northwest | with a small ° the temple the lo ion of which he knew, whil ‘a-don, with the greater proportion f the warriors, was to attack the alace gates. The ape-man, lans were all laid ¢ 0 likelihood of th nessenger had whe f the city contingent, proverb to that udage mice been forces Tarzan was to ent similar old Scotch be chemes o' read, “He who trail sometimes tination,” and w lone leading hig little ADVENTURES | OF THE TW gates, | wavered in their! Freely | Ben pointed with disgust to something huddled in the far \corner of his front room. |his house in the maple tree as fast bim when Ben Bunny told of the mischief that had done. Nancy followed Ben sort Scramble Squirrel to {for sunflower seeds until I'm dizzy. I can't climb the stalks to get. ‘em, jas his legs could carry and I haven't wings to fly, and the yet to far me ont, enobgh picked. helped seeds fait Bil only are not ripe without being Blackbird Whizay Torny Nick. to io So and however, has eats nine seeds out left. The orns, and 2 turn up turn they home © what family Whizzy bim of a queer had dumped down on and there aren't many erazy thing 1 you won't touch 4 down his stair when I try ‘em with en went into his) nd. beck- | “Imag pine-con under d to the my. feeling “when I ¢ and children gone in their F nted with disgust to some: thing huddled up in a far corner of front room. The twins peered into the darkness curiously. Ben | awfully.” never kept much light in his house| “Why, they'fe polly-parrots?* it was difficult to see jastonished Nancy. “What They're green,” Ben, “and and did yc they have feathers of fur and they won't eat a®thing but flies | and sunflower could see Only pump turn ‘em up.” You didn't try came two voices corner, “And we like crackers, too!” Two green heads popped out from under two green bodies where they'd been folded up. “We like ear wish them their ni their noses © whirl som 1 the these creatures down like me home und I and wind us with suddenly sugar, from the his said your come said names where u instead from?” seeds. I've searched! (Copyright: 1921 > Star) of ten | Grandmother sat with Peggy in her lap and grandmother and Peggy and David were all looking at Pegy's two little feet which stuck straight out, exactly as if Perey were a stiff-legged doll. You sce the matter was that Peggy had on some very special new slippers, little soft white kid bullet slippers with shining white |] satin ribbons crisscrossing up to |] the top of her little pink socks. Grandmother admired them and felt them, and then as usual, they made her think back to some. thing. So she said, “Peggy, you are a! little girl; you have a certain kind of shoes for play, a kind for dress up slippers and skuffers and tennis shoes an@ now these beauties just for danc- ing. Not much like the girls in| the ly days.” “Didn't they have many kinds Peggy asked. David said, “you just had one pair Don’t you remember about And lots of | very fortunate of shoes?” “AW, know apiece rsody-two-Shoes? stories about What trouble they | had getting any at all?" “Yes, grandmother said, “and sometimes there were no shoes at all, Mr any, even for girls almost grown. I know the story of a| girl who hadn't any. Want to hear it?” ' Saal THE FIRST SHOES MADE IN OLD OREGON Of course they did, so she gan: “In the year 1844 the wagon trains of settlers had & gun to bring people to the 0 country. “Starting out with what thought was plenty of eve 1s. people found that they had to throw away much to lighten the load which the oxen drew, “And clothing wore out and constant walking, walking, ing, mile after mile, day after 4 for six or seven months, wore — even the coarsest shoes to tatters, So that sometimes it happened | that when they reached their claims they were barefooted. i “And it was not a fairy coun- try, no shoes could be had, for not & store or a shop was anywhere around, except the Hudson's Bay trading post at Fort Vancouver. “Among those shocless ones was a young girl of about 15, and she was ashamed, and if she saw anybody coming toward her she | would sit down and cover her feet with her full skirts. : “One day a bachelor, who had taken up land near her fathers land, saw her walking along a rough trail and he felt so sorry. for her that he wanted to help her. “So he hurried his steps and came up close behind her." (To Be Continued) zak E eee | WHEN A WOMAN TELLS | By RUTH AGNES ABELING (Copyright 1921 by Seattle Star) CHAPT His suit fitted alinost. | under exclamation fol. short a while f was all attention. I marveled could be so lightly off with and-on with the other. He wa of those Wwomanly-wise heart !breaking men, who make the rl they escorting the girl of their | lives the hour | He ord time,| “But thru | flowers, more firmly | white “it 1 ever go on|as ‘a wotton flower you would have been hurt—your sex pride would f aclubj have been wounded. And I con thie | tend,” he went on Nightly, “that man ‘Tom | un mak no more grevious and |blighting error than to wound femi nine sex pride.” “You are telling me, then, that all women, good, bad and indifferent, find a certain pride in the belief that He was so correct perfectly. 1 could stand Lila Ar lowing his Kiss a Pe? Prints iy | that t one jone who immediate GO ON WITH STORY Philip Ames’ little ¢ cling back toward town getting higher ready to eat | But “the last time, the last |the last time,” kept whirling my brain, I resolved than ever that 1 should tionable adventu car stopped in fro which I had often vest of my erstwhile radford We'll eat her need, With | was out of t ur was cir The sun felt quite wa. and I for dwell talking of cotton ~aned th had classed you across cover. to fone | fiance, Philip Ames an- beautiful speed he car and opening the door for mo, taking me up the stairs, thru the corridor to the din- [they are a lure?" I questioned. ing ‘room; handing my wraps to a] “Pride—yes, or you might say check boy, drawing out my chair. |comfort—insurance.¥ ne R VU—I NEARLY MAKE A SCENE , “Insurance against what?” said 1, ifearing that | was treadin oo thin “Insurance jif you will woman in the black suit at the broke off abruptly | Following the line of his ga wawoman dining alone all table, Success was written| {from the crown of her c&ic hat to the toes of her good-looking pumps. “That Miss Sorensen, is not a cotton flower, And that fact bas been her insurance against liocrity and possible ty, She has become, a figure in the world | certain man found in against circumstances, | Do you see that blonde smart he tremendously window table?” he| at sr woman, struggle, Jabsolute po something because |hor a ie mirage, “Horrors beautiful, w nol. He pretended a I-bred shock as my sur prise at the baldness of his philos- | ophy betrayed itself on my face. She isn’t immoral!” he continued. “But you'll have to agree that every woman who attains any sort of a po- sition of Bote does so because some man was fond of her—sthat"is, she steps up on the shoulders of the men she is fortunate enough or um fortunate engugh to meet.” “It's too belittling,” I said. “Tt: isn't true—you—" Philjp interrupted me, ly dear Miss Sorensen, you are about to accept a position. How — did you get it?” His voice was tantalizingly smooth, 1 looked around wildly, T had a sudden impulse to run away, away where I should never see Philip Ames and his meaningful smile, “Sit still,” he said, divining my impulse, His hand was over mil firm and cool. make a scene. sorry, litte girl." A voice sounded behind me (To Be Continued) mi “Don't rm very “ost Horlick’s The ORIGINAL Malted: Milk ‘The “Food - Drink” for All Ages Quick Lunch at Home, en Fountains. Ask for asrAvoid Imitations & Substitute