The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 15, 1921, Page 9

4 Md ad ltd ll | From Saturday) cautiously Tarzan and hand over pimself upward, a net the roof Nearer and nearer In a moment his eyes ie above the level of the floor ‘Already his extended arms into the upper chamber something closed suddenly pet his forearms, pinioning and leaving him hang Mm midair unable to advance or ely a ght appeared in t Si26 AF ETE s rKBEY hideous mask of a priest ‘down upon him. In the ands Were leathern thongs he tied about Tarzan’s wrists forearms until they were pound together from his ‘almost to his fingers. Behind : Tarsan presently saw p goon several lay hold of myed pulled him up thru the ; \stantly “his eyes were ca the level of the floor he under. few they bad trapped him, ipecees had Jain encircling the gato the cell below. A ‘pad waited at the end of each bees ropes and at opposite sides te Ss ane 28 ee e: When he had tea sufficient height upon ‘that bad dangled into his and his arms were well the encircling snares the two jad pulled quickly upon their ‘and be had been made an easy without any opportunity of Sneding himecif or inflicting in- py upon his captors. grow they dound his legs from to his knees and picking carried him from the chatn- word did they speak to him ee bere him upward to th —e ‘of battle had risen again had urged his forces to eft ‘Taden bh ar the forces of the ofd chief. revealing in their les thelr Increasing de and then it was that carried Tarzan-jad-guru of the palace and exhib- fm the sight of the warriors factions. . is the false Dor-ul-Otho,” Ludon. hie shattered mentality ever grasped fully the much that was going on tect him, cast a casual glance a and heipless prisoner, and — fell upon-the noble fea. | apeman, they went and fright. and countenance turned a . Once before had he of the Apes, but many dreamed that he had always was the giant the wrongs that gommitted upon him and ruthless hands of the officers who had led troops in the ravishing peaceful home. Haupt Schneider had paid the ay of his needless crueities: Meutenant Yon Goss, too, had Bow Obergatz, the last of stood face to face with the js that had trafled him thru re for long. weary months. the wag bound and helpless les- Bot the German's terror—he i to realize that the man harm him. He but stood and jibbering and Lu-don aM was filled with apprehen- it others might see. and, see ) that this bewhiskered RO god-—that, of the two. iu was the more godly Already the high priest some of the palace war- néar were whispering He stepped goser to “You are Jad-benDtho,” “denounce him!" shook himself. His pons 1 re W. Va.—‘For u and in- ation so was notable ito .do my house- ork. 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And eye specialints pre Met : as « safe home wd Me the treatment of eye i" Sel Strengthen eye ler money refund MU druggiats, Advertisement. seseee Coprrieht. 192%, & C MeCturg & Ca em above him and presently | | ('™ GOING ‘TO TEACH THE SEATTLE STAR NOW, DON’T LOSE YouR TEMPER AND MAKE A SCENE RIG HIM SOMETHING! ! “I am Jad-den-Otho!™ he screamed. | ‘Taraan looked him straight tn the jeye. “You are Lieutenant Obergats | of the German army,” he said in [excellent German, “You are the lant | | Of the three I have sought #o long jand in your putrid heart you know | that God has thot brought us to: gether at last for nothing.* | | The mind of Licutenant Obergats was functioning clearly and rapidly at last, He, too, saw the question. ling looks upon the faces of some of \ those around them. He saw the op. posing warriors of both cities stand. jing by the gate inactive, every eye turned upon him, and the trussed \tigure of the apeman, He realixed | Ghat indecision now meant ruin, and ruin, death. He raised his voice in | the sharp barking tones of a Prus- sian officer, so unlike his former |maniacal soreaming aa to quickly arouse the attention of every car and to cause an expréssion of | pusalament to cross the crafty face jof Lu-don, | “Lt am Jad-ben-Othe,” sna Odergata. “This creature is sage of mine. As a lesson to all blasphem- fers de shall die upon the altar at the hand of the god he has pro- faned. Take him from my sight, and when the sun stands at renith let the| jfalthful congregate in the temple | court and witness the wrath of this| | divine hand,” and he held aloft his| | right palm, | Those whe drought Tarsan took him away then ae Obergatsz had di. | reeted, and the German turned once | }more to the warriors by the gate. | “Throw down your arms, warriors of Jadon,.” he cried, “lest I cal! down my lightnings to biast you! where you stand. Those who do as| I bid shall be forgiven. Come! jaarew down your arms.” | ‘The warriors of Jadon moved un- (easily, casting looks of appeal at! | their leader and of apprehension to- | |ward the figures upon the palace | roof. sprang forward, among his men. “Let the cowards | and knaves throw down their arma | and enter the palace,” he cried, “but | never will Jadon and the warriors of Jalur touch their foreheads to the feet of Lu-don and hia false god. | Make your decision now,” he cried | to his followers, | A few threw down their arme and with sheepish looks passed thru the | gateway into the palace, and with! | the example of these to bolster their | | Courage others joined tn the deser. } fon from the old chieftian of th | Porth, but stanch and true around him stood the majority of bis war-/ riors and when the last weakling had jlett their ranks Jadon voiced the |savage cry with which he led his| followers to the attack, and once | j seein the battle raged about the | palace gate. | | At times Ja-don's forces pushed) jthe defenders far into the palace| [ground and then the wave of com-! [bat would recede and pass out into | the city again. And «till Ta-den and , the reinforcements did not come. It | was drawing close to noon. Ludon bad mustered every available man that was not actually needed for the defense of the gate within the ten. ple, and these he sent, under the |leadership of Pan-sat, out into the j city thru the secret passageway and there fell upon Ja-don’s forces trom the rear while those et the gate hammered them in front. Attacked on two sides by a vastly superior force, the result was inevi |table and finally the last remnants | jot Jadon's little army capitulated and the old chief was taken a pris loner before Ludon. “Take him to cord temple court.” cried the high |priest. “He shall witness the death [of hig accomplice and perhaps Jad. ben(Otho shall pass a similar sen- ltenee upon his as weil.” ‘The inner tempte court was packed with humanity. At either end of the western altar stood Tarzan and his mate, bound and heipiess. The sounds of battle had ceased and } [presently the apeman saw Jadon| being led into the inner court, his| & wrists bound tightly together before him. Tarzan turned his eyes toward Jane and nodded in the direction of “This looks like the end,” ¢ said quietly. “He was our last and only hope. “We have at least found each other, John,” she replied, “and our last days have been spent together. My only prayer now ts that if they ‘take you they do not leave me.” Tarzan made no reply, for tn his heart there was the same bitter thought that her own contained—! not the fear that they would kill) him, but the fear that they would not kill her, The ape-man strained at his bonds, but they were too many | and too strong. A priest near him | saw af with a jeering laugh struck the defenseless ape-man in) AW, ALEK = YER FULL OF PRUNES. + ! EVERETT TRUE ome HIs Face {4 TAKING ADVANTAGE OF BEING AWAY FROM Home SWUCKS! YA MINK I DON'T KNOW WUERE TT AS, HUH? LY CMEQE TAG AN tes THOSS MenBeres or ove IMPROVENOCNT e-—— THEN, WHUE You'Re TALKAWIS WITH A PERSON DON'T HOLD YouR NOSE 3O CLOSE to = the face, “The brute” cried Jane Clayton Tarzan smiled. “I have been struck thus before, Jane,” he said, “The case of the woman Iw “and always has the striker died.” | attend to later,” replied Obergatz. “I “You still have hope?’ she asked. | will talk with her tonight after she “I am still alive.” he sald as tho| hes had a chance to meditate upon |that were sufficient answer, She the consequences of srousing the was a woman and she did mot have| wrath of Jad-benOtho.” jthe courage of this man who knew| He his eyes upwatd at the no fear. In her heart of hearts ghe|sun. “The time approaches,” he w that he would die upon the}eald to Ludon, “Prepare the sacri sitar at high noon for he had told | fice.” her, after he had been brought to| Ludon nodded to the priests who the inner court, of the sentence of |Were gathered about Tarzan, They death that Obergatz had pronounced | s¢ized the ape-man and lifted him upon him, and she knew, too, that|bodily to the altar where they laid Tarzan knew that he would die, but him upon his back with his head at that he was too courageous to admit the south end of the monolith, but it even to himself. j a few feet from where Jane Clayton As she looked upon him standing |*tood. Impulsivety and before they there so straight and wonderful and, could restrain her the woman rushed brave among hi« ravage captors her |forward and bending quickly kiseed heart cried out ogainst the cruelty |her mate upon the forehead. “Good of the fate that had overtaken him, | by, John,” sie whispered. [It seemed a grows and hideous wrong | “Goodby,” he answered, smiling that that wonderful creature, now! ‘The priests seized her and dragged #0 quick with exuberant life and|her away. Ludon handed the sac strength afid purpose, should be |rificial knife to Obergatz “I am the presently naught but a bleeding | Great God," cried the German, “thus lump of clay—and ail 80 uselessly | falleth the divine wrath upon all my and wantonly. Gladly would she | enemies!” He looked up at the sun have offered her life for hia, but she| and then raised the knife high above lknew that it wan a waste of words | hiv head |since their captors would work upon| “Thus die the blasphemers of them whatever it was their will to God!" he screamed, and at the same do~—tor him, death; for her—she|instant a sharp staccato note rang shuddered at the thought. out above the silent, spell-bound And now came Ludon and the muititude. There was a screaming naked Obergatz, and the high priest) whistle in the air and Jad-ben-Otho led the German to his place behind | crumpled forward across the body the altar, himself standing upon the of his intended victim. Again other's left. Ludon whiapered aljaame alarming noise and TLudon word to Obergatz, at the same time |fell, a thifd and Mo-nar crumpled to nodding in the direction of Ja-don.| the ground. And now the warriors The Mun cast a scowling look upon|and the people, locating the direc the old warrior. tion of thig new and unknown sound, “And after the false god,” he | turned toward the western end of cried, “the falxe prophet.” and he|the court. don. kre } pointed an accusing finger at Ja Upon thé summit of the temple don. Then hix eyes wandered to the | wall they saw two figures—a Hodon form of Jane Clayton. warrior and beside Lim an almost ° the} “And the woman, too?” asked Lu-naked creature of the race of Tar ae jad-guru, acrors his shoulders jand about his hips were strange broud belts studded with beautiful jeylinders that glinted in the midday | eun, and in his hands a sbining thing of wood and metal from the end of which rove a thin wreath of blue \grny smoke. And then the voice of the Hodon | Warrior rang clear upon the ears of | |the silent throng. “Thus speaks the true Jad-ben-Otho,” he cried, “thro this his mesvenger of death. Cut |the bonds of the prisoners. Cut the bonds of the Dor-wlOtho and of Ja |don, king of Paluldon, and of the woman who ts the mate of the son of god.” Pan-sat, filed with the frenzy of fanaticixm, saw the power and the glory of the regime he had served crumpled and gone. To one and only one did he attribute the blame for |the disaster that had but just over whelined him, It was the creature [who lay upon the sacrificial altar |who had brought Ludon to his death and toppled the dreams of power that day by day had bei |growing in the brain of the under priest. The sacrificial knife lay upon the ‘dead fingers of Obergatz. Pan-sat lerept clover and then with a sud |den lunge he reached forth to seize |the handle of the blade, and even as \his clutching fingers were poised above it, hands of the strange creature upon |the temple wall cried out its crash: ling word of doom and Pansat, the Junder priest, screaming, fell back |upon the dead body of his master, “Seize all the priests.” cried Ta- den to the warriors, “and let none hesitate lest Jad-ben-Otho's measen- ger send forth still other bolts of | lightning.” (Continued Tomorrow) ae IN THE HOTEL! altar where it bad fallen from the) the strange thing in the| | "Fm so glad—I shall try w please A Feller Isn't Safe at Home THAT'S JUST yt WHY HE wif won" min! | | TOM, NOT SO e Loup! NOW, REME! WT WERE MAN YOU HAVE THIS WHIPPING COMING ‘To You |] “Gi © MBER YOUNG| AND THE FIRST DAY WE'RE HOME YWoURE GET IT! He Always Heard It Associated With Bacon! FEEL, TAG? SUERE Iris “Can you come up Nancy and Nick left the Pollies; must be what you've got, Scramble; at the Zoo and returned at once bye Bens ane eg tite ita wat to Whinpering Forest. ‘They landed | room and pointed to his bed of grass right under the big maple tree and dried moss. “There they are,” where Scramble Squirrel lived. |said he “Are they poll parrots?" They had left Scramble, you know,|, “Goodness, no?” declared Nancy, | hurrying anxiously to his home to no App, thee qpage inehing. see what Whizzy Tornado had done) | izards™ answered Nick, wisely. | to his family. | "Don't you live under the big stone “gay,” he called down to the twins ea Farmer Smith's barn door?” he! asked. sadly ce odie soy por bad | “Yes,” answered one, shooting out | come up? I'm in a fix, his tongue, “and we want to go) Nancy and Nick wished themselves home. There aren't enough flies up| up at once, and crawled into here. We can’t get down because | Scrambig's house at the base of ai/we haven't any wings or any big limb. “What's wrong,” asked | climbers.” Nick. “Did you get some poll par-| “We'll take you back to your! rots to look after like Ben Bunny | mother,” said Nancy kindly, putting | did? We Just took them home.” one in her pocket, while Nick took | “Poll parrots,” exclaimed Scramble. | the other.”* “Why, maybe they are. My family) Scramble Squirrel looked ever so }i# gone and I found some queer crea-;much relieved. “Then,” sald he, tures here when I returned. Whizzy| "I'll be going. Dear only knows Tornado brought them at the same | where I'll find Samantha and the time he took my family away. Are|kiddies, They may be at the South poll parrots green?” Pole for all J know,” ndeed, they are,” nodded (To Be Continued) That| (Copyright, 1921, by Seattle Stard GOING To {| ‘When Pegsy and David saw Mr. Himes, he told them a short- cake story of the early-day kind. “When I was a little boy,” he said, “I went to school in a little log schoolhouse over near Olym- pia. “The school etood on a plece of land three and a half miles from our house, but my little eister Helen and I went every day, walking thru the forest and across the stretches of open prairie all alone. “Sometimes T felt quite a man. T was past 10 years old, and, sometimes when the forest was dripping wet and dark (we didn't get out until 4:30 and that Is near. ly dark on winter days), I felt a very small boy, indeed. And the forest was peopled with hob- goblins for me. “Our teacher bearded around. You don't know what that means? “Well, nobody had room to spare in those little pioneer cab- ing, but everybody wanted a teacher for the children. So they managed by taking turns—two weeks or three weeks, he would be a guest at our house, then for another two or three weeks he} would go to the Chamberlains and so on till it came our turn| again. . Vee ‘PAGED | BY ALLMAN DADDY, | HOPE WE NEVER GO ¥ / "9 COUR “And when the teacher was fn a home tMat was the time for feasting. Every housewife did her best to make the table as fine as she could and the food as good as could possibly be had. “I recall one time when the teacher's time at our house had just ended and I was walking home from school with the boy at whose house he was to be enter tained next. “He was older than I and I felt quite flattered when he said, “George, the teacher is coming to our house tonight; come on over and have supper with us.’ “I don't know whether I can or not,’ I replied. ™ Better come,’ he urged, ‘we're going to have shortcake.’ ‘All right’ I agreed, TN ask mother.’ “'T believe I wouldn't,’ mother said when I asked her. ‘But I like shortcake,’ I urged; ‘please, | mother, it's only three-quarters of a mile and I like shortcake so much.’ “But that shortcake was made for the teacher," mother pro tested. “But, like some little folks of to- day, 1 kept on begging and finally mother said quietly, ‘All right, George, do your chores first and then you may go.’" (To Be Continued) i} uae (Copyright 1021 by Seattle Star) As I walked between the borders “When shall I of flowers toward the Ames home |come?” later th the afternoon, I couldn't}, Mrs. Ames relaxed, swung her |satin.slippered feet to the lounge on help thinking of Philip Ames’ words / which she was sitting, caught her as he left me. ‘. fingers behind her head and looked “I'd like to stay and take you at me intently. home—but it will be better, just now, “I think you'll be someone very if Li doesn't see me flirting with her jnice to have around,” she said at secretary! he said. }length, ignoring my question, ‘I} He told me so much in that one |hope you'll like me—I've never had| sentence. And he set me back alany close woman friends.” little, too, because it isn't comfort:| Her mood suddenly changed, lable to know that some other woman] “I have a notion to let you do has precedence thru either love or|some things for me right now—can Jinfluehee. I know that I haven't the |yout™ least feeling of affection for Philip Ames, but it hurt my pride to know that he didn't want another woman |to see him with me, Perversity! Mrs. Ames was waiting for me and | a trim little maid took me to her immediately you,” I murmured. ‘ertainty,” I said. ist let me see how youl do it.” She was opehing the desk and get- ting out paper, ink and envelopes. “Tl go to this,” handing me an invitation, ‘Tell Marten I'm sorry | but can't mail a check till next |month, My club dues I'll send right “I'm going out for dinner tonight |away. Then there's this letter of and I have to get into my things yet, |condolence. And Edith’s baby—oh, “o we'll make this interview short. | yes, write her that I'm glad, then to- I have decided to give you a trial.” | morrow Tl send you to buy some: jthing for her,” —— WHEN A WOMAN TELLS By RUTH AGNES ABELING CHAPTER IX—I RECEIVE A STAB AND A SHOCK | ready at work, { / Sho was running thru a package of envelopes, and dropping some of them before me. “I'll expect you to use your judg: ment about a lot of things,” she said, and whisked off in the direction of her bath, An hour later she emerged, radi ant. As she stood before her mirror, | putting the last touch of powder on | her lovely skin, a light rap sounded at the door, “Come! Philip Ames stepped tnto the room. I looked up with a smile. He seemed not to see me, “You see, I've taken your advice 1 have a secretary and she is al- Miss Sorensen—let me present my brother-in-law, Philip Ames. You may as well meet, for you'll see each other often.” With the most engaging smile, Philip Ames advanced, took my hand, bowed and murmured, my | name as though he never had seen me before. Stunned, I turned back to the desk and pretended to busy myself with the letters, “You can finish the things you're working on and then’ do as you wish, I'll expect you tomorrow at 10—and to stay then.” Mrs, Ames and Philip were leaving. In the hall below I heard her im struct the maid to inform her bus band that she was dining out and would not be home until late, At 6 o'clock, when I had finished my letters and was leaving, 1 passed a man in the hall. I heard the maid deliver Mrs. Ames’ message, The weary, colorless voice which replied gripped me. I turned and beheld—Mr, John Ames, (To Be Continued See the SAN JUAN ISLANDS Dally trips except Monday Get time card at” Information “olman Dock, phone for one to M. 3 Puget Sound Navigation Company Respond to the Call of LOVELY LAKE CRESCENT in the heart of the Olympic Mountains Steamer Solduc leaves Colman Dock at Mi daily, con- necting with stage at Port An- geles for Stager’e » Take Crescent