The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 23, 1925, Page 10

la ice GHS ) €0Gar BURR taneously th structure burst “L was almost 1 ott the prop of the. mu seized it, and, throv ran into the ja ‘Were now all afia: of the natives w thru the gateway was a section of not yet been s To escape into gateway would hay Into the arms of my fo, somehow, I managed the palisade Jungle, unseen by “I have h culty eluding blacks who part of the ing for the I have had to re I was resting in tree, about halt when I saw the light of fire, and when I car gate I was almost st to discover that I imagined, stumbled upon fan” It was Luvinl's body Mot yours that they bur Tarzan. “Yes,” said Jane, “and Yhis man who just escaped J saw run off into the jun Flora, and not you, as I be Flora Hawkes looked up suddenly and it must have been Esteban swho came with the Waziri the gold from us. He fo men and he must have fooled the Waziri, too.” “He might have fooled he could deceive me,” sald Clayton. “I should have discovered the deception in a few minutes I have no doubt, but in the flickering light of the campfire, and influenced o° 1 was by the great joy of seeing Ined Greystoke again, I ‘lieved quickly that which I wanted to believe. ‘The ape-man ran his fingers thru Ys thick shock of hair in a’ charac teristic gesture of meditation. “I cannot understand how he focied Usula in broad daylight,” he said ‘with a shake of his head. “I can,” said Jane. “Hie told him that he had suffered an injury to Names by me i emmies, and to scale time It Waziri 2 main in hiding. th ar my Tar Jane his head which had caused him to/ lose his memory partially—an ex planation which accounted for snany lapses in the man’s interpretation of your personality.” “He was a clever devil,” mented the ape-man. “He was a devil, all right,” Flora. It was more than an hour later that the grasses at the river bank suddenly parted and Jad-bal-ja emerged silently into their presence. Grasped in his jaws was torn and bloody leopard skin which he brought and laid at the feet of his master. ‘The ape-man picked the thing up and examined it, and then he com said a him after ali,” he said. “He probably resisted,” said Jane Clayton, “in which event Jad-bal-ja could do nothing else in self-defense but slay him.” . “Do you suppose he ate him?" cried Flora Hawkes, drawing fear- fully away from the beast “No,” said Tarzan, “he has not had time. In the morning we will follow the spoor and find his body. I ghould like to have the di again.” And then he told J strange story connected with his ac- quisition of the great wealth rep resented by the little bag of stones The following morning they set out in search ‘The trail led thru dense brush and thorns to the edge of the farther down stream, and there Gisappeared, and tho the the Spaniard. There was slong the tracks that Esteban had! 4 | of of Esteban’s corpse. river ape-man | gearched both sides of the river for fn couple of miles above and below the point at which he had lost the spoor, he found no further sign of| old is not here. blood | moved it, since we buried it.” commented (Copyright Ava y crimes sinc use of ma endly t Histant, f men wh How can It kindness? said. But Atr eystoke, a I would rather remain here in ty G a with you nad I k for you and « deem t regret it,” said om work fingers Nh my off for you The three, and Jad-bal-ja 9 days upon the march ad been ward me when Tarean, who was tn the and, raising his head, jungle Then 1 to them with My he sald, “1 ead, alr ° a smile. are disobedient Wazir them home yet . here the are, cothing from A few minu van of the Wazir toward us, directly away home es later they met the and great was the = the blacks when they ¢ both th alive and un: “And t said Tarzan. were over, and innumerable ) questions i been asked and an Jswered, “tell me what you did with the gold that you took from the camp uropeans.” “We hid it. told us to hide “1 was not with you, Usula,”* the ape-man. ‘‘It was another r master and mistress now we have found you after the greet ings * replied Usula sald who | deceived Lady Greystoke even as he deceived you—a bad man—who tm of the no wonder that personated Tarzan cleverly that it is r| You were imposed upon.’ “Then it was not you who told us that your head had been injured and that you could not remember the lan. guage of the Wazirit’’ demanded Usula “It was not I," said Tarzan, ‘for my head has not been injured, and | 1 remember well the language of my | children."* | “Ab, not our Big Bwana who ran from Buto, the rhinoceros?"* | Tarzan laughed. “Did the othe |run from Buto?* | “That he did,” cried Usula; in great terror."’ I do not know that I blame him," said Tarzan, ‘‘for Buto is no pleas ant playfellow.” “But our Big Bwana would run from him,”" said Usula, proudly ven if another than I hid the | gold it was you who dug the pole. Lead me to the spot, then, Usula | The Waziri constructed rude yet | comfortable litters for the two white jran cried Usula, “then it was| O Bwana, where you Apes so/ | not | | women, tho Jane Clayton laughed at! the idea that it was necessary that she be carried and insisted upon | walking beside her hearers more | often than she rode. | however, weak and exhausted as she | main | was, could not have proceeded far without being carried, and was glad| let none pass who « of the presence of the brawny Wa |ziri who bore her along the jungle |after the trail so easily. It was a happy company that ‘marched in buoyant spirits toward; the three whites were seated about the Waziri for Esteban. |the spot where had | cached the gold | relief and joy of Tarzan and Jane | were too deep for expression. | When at last they came to the | place beside the river where they | had buried the gold, the Waziri, sing- ling and laughing, comemnced to dig for the treasure, but presently their Flora Hawkes, | friendly tribes The | acowled. “I believe Jad-bal-Ja killed | blacks were overflowing with good/examining the | nature because they had found their! the golden lion had retrieved in his master and their mistress, while the| pursuit of the Spaniard, when Tat | singins ceased and their laughter |} | was replaced by expressions of puz | zled concern. For a while Tarzan watched them smile slow ance, in silence and then a l|overspread his counte: |must have buried it [he said. The black scratched his head | "No, not #0 deep as this, Bwana,” he cried. “I cannot understand it We should have found the gold be. fore this.’ “Are you sure you are in the right place?” asked Tarzan. | “This is the exact spot, Bwana,” lthe black assured him, “but “You deep, Usula,” “The Spaniard again,” made and blood upon the grasses| Tarzan, “He was a slick customer.” at the river's brim. At last the ape-man returned to| it alone,” said Usula, “That is the end of the man who would be Tarzan,” the two women. he said. “Do you think he is dead?” asked Fane. ape-man, “But he could not many ingots cf it.” “No," sald Tarzan, “he could not, and yet {t 1s not here.” The carefully about the spot wher: agine that Jad-bal-ja mauled him, but|that he had obliterated even from that he managed to break away and The fact that 1 ean find no indication of his having get into the river, reached ‘the bank within a reason able distance of this spot leads me devoured to believe that he has by ‘by crocodiles.” Again Flora Hawkes shuddered. "He was a wicked man,’ she said, but 1 would not wish even the wick. tions to notify the chiefs of the the keen senses of the apeman every vestige of the spoor that he and the Spaniard had made in car- rying the gold from the oid hiding place to the new “it 0." said “put I shall see that it does not |get out of Africa,”\ and he de- spatched runners in various dirs is the looking the Someone has re- have taken “There were Waziri and Tarzan searched the “Yes, I am sure of it,"" said the| ld had been buried, but so clever “From the blood I am-|had been the woodcraft of Owaza ape-man, | | risking that greatest of all treasures | 8% JOE QUINCE HERE IN MIAMI ONLY ONE WEEK, AN) A HUNDRED BERRICS Have BEEN BLOWN OFF MY BANKROLL! I'M A SPENDTHRIFTS | SEE, LO GING ANYTHING To KN How TH SAVE MY ¢ me ve let ME HOLD YwuR AND ALLOU You So¢ a DAY FoR YouR exrenses!) Ls MONEY Ww WGH! ¢ I'VE AN IDEA,) \ Fe ROLL” 4N REMEMBER, | NO MATTER WHAT I Do/ OR SAY He’ll Ask About It Now! Cosu! 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Swen Le ST OH CLARENCE 1 ‘Youre JuST TRYING TO FLATTER ME S He heard the moving rap toward him, | o bate-! surrounding his do- had come to watch carefully every a fari crossing their territory, and to rried gold. he which he sound of a great body idly thru the thicket and Instant later saw ful of two gleaming. « of flame stifled cry terror the relinquished hix hold skin and, wheeling, into the river | As the black watern closed above | his head Jad-bal-ja came to the edge | of the bank and looked down upon | the widening circles which marked the spot of his quarry's disappear ance, for Esteban, who was a| strong swimmer, struck boldly for| the opposite side of the stream, | keeping himself well submerged. | For a moment the golden tion| scanned the surface of the river, | and then he turned and sniffed at the hide the Spaniard had been} forced to leave behind, and grasp-| ing {t in his jaws, it from | the thorns that held it ahd carried | tery MAP| it back to lay it at the feet of his blood.”* master. the hide and) Forced at last to the anticipation OF) surface for air, the Spaniard arose amid a mass of tangled foliage and branches. & moment he glare spots “That will stop them,’ said runners had departed as they mado their trail toward home, yellow With a Spaniard the! dived That camp night upon the of upon leopard @ small fire with Jad-bal-ja lying Just behind the ape-man, who was leopard skin that zan turned toward his wife “You were right, Jane,” he said “The treasure vaults of Opar are not for me. This time I have lont not only the gold but a fabulous fortune in diamonds as well, beside —yourself,” “Let the gold and the diamonds John,” she said; ‘we have one another, and Korak.” “And a bloody leopard skin,’ he supplemented, “with a m: painted upon it in Jad-bal-ja sniffed licked his chops in retrospection—which? tore to come For | CHAPTER XXI An Escape and a Capture held was he ,by the entangling T SIGHT of the true Tarzan, | boughs, but presently he forced his Esteban Miranda turned and| way upward, and as his head ap: fied blindly into the jungle. His| peared the surface of the heart was cold with terror as he| water amidst the foliage he discoy- rushed on in blind fear. He had| ered that he had arisen directly be- no objective In mind. He did not/neath a fallon trée that was float- know in what direction he was|ing down the center of the stream. going. His only thought—the| After considerable effort he man thought which dominated him--wau| aged to draw himself up to the based solely upon a desire to put| boughs and find a place astride the as much distance as possible be-| creat bole, and thus he floated down tween himself and the ape-man, and|stream in comparative safety. so he blundered on, forcing his! He breathed a deep sigh of reliot way thru dense thickets of thorns/as he realized with what compara- that tore and lacerated his flesh|tive ease he had escaped the just until, at every step he left a trafl| vengeance of the ape-man, It {a of blood behind him: true that he bemoaned the loss of At the river's edge the hide which carried the map to reached out and S|the location of the hidden gold, they h@a several times the} but he still retained in his posses precious leopard skin to ch he} sion a far or treasure, clung with almost the same tenacity | as he thought of it his hands gi as he clung to life itself. But this! ingly fondled the of diamonds time the would not leave | fastened his th. Yor their hold, and ag he struggled to} even tho he possessed this great! tear it away from them his eyes| fortune in diamonds, his avaricious above the od thorns again, before, w thorns to loin ¢ turned back in the direction from mind constantly returned to tho lors, “WELL. 1 THAT AIN'T TW oOUMIT! He NEVER —__—]|_ \& ON Time ~ HG Savexs! rt NEVER GET USED r TiSSE KINDA 21928 ey MEA SERVICE mC. A kiss {thought that he was lost, so tightly | from | interference. PERHAPS HE HAD SOME EXTRA WORK TO DO MEAN fT! YOUR GOWN: A. YOUR EVES- YOUR HAIR - | FLAPPER FANNY says is love being broadcast ¢ station to another without golden ingots by the waterfall. to black ‘Owaza will got it himself. dog, he muttered “Tf never trusted the and when he deserte! T DION By Mino THE RE THAT CLO GAG! ] \ HOLE FARE ! 5 CKET! te ie / we BUT I NEVER\S BREAK AN WK f AGREEMENT “>* <) ) cd in Glass Houses NAH ALWAYS KEEPS ME IN? NEXT CHROGTMAS (M GONNA GIVE WIM A CLOCK THAT | RON SO FAGT IT dt ef \ KNOW ~ HOUR IN TWEYTY i INCTES _— ey SALSG ; J T “LEYS GO FOR A LITTLE WALK AND 4 BY THAT TIME. OH, \ CANT HAVENT GOT TIME. \UR GOTTA ORES - WEAR 5 Gon’ TO A DANCE TONIGHT E MAS A UT TROUBLE, SO DUT Those ON HIN= RUN ALONG WHY DIDN'T YA ET TH WHOOPIN COU6H SO I COULD STAY HOME FROM we 2:23 DoT 1 HAVE To CON! IL-1 LOVE AGIRL aa UKE You- | me I knew well enough what his | § plans were.” (Continued in Our Next Issue) VISIT LONGVIEW MIL! LONGVIEW, bers of Lu spect and mill here, will camp and spend Feb, 23.—Fifty mem. New England Retail association will in the Long-Bell lumber plant Wednesday, They 1 take breakfast in the logging the afternoon the mbermen's the mill | Mrs. Jay ing rangements the MRS. GRAMANN DIES Alice Gramann, 23, died Sun | at her home, in Foster, How. | week's illness, Funeral ar. | are velng made thru Georgetown undertaking par- 4 inj IT 1S RUMORED, BIRDIE “C ¢ Rowe, THE POPULAR MAIN STREET MILLUINER, 1S EXPECTING A NEW DOWN FROM THE O. R. C. Delegate Goes to Washington Lieut. Col, Harry V. Wurdemann, Medical Corps, O, R. C., of Seattle, TRIMMER CITY will leave early D.C, on organization and training of the Organized Reserve. The meetings will be held during the period from in March for Wash ington, to attend a conference BY TAYLOR 2-23-35 March 11 to April sol. Warde mann will represent the Ninth Comps area on the committee of national” defense. In private life he practees,, as a physician, ey