The evening world. Newspaper, September 22, 1913, Page 15

BETTER THAN TARZAN OF THE APES! a , THE CA VE GIRL 4 Thrilling Story of Wild Love in the Jungle By Edgar Rice Burroughs (Author of “Tarzan of the Apes" (Copsright, 1019, by Frank A. Munsey Co,) CHAPTER I. Floteam. Hi shaduw of the thing was but a Ulur against Oye dim shadows of the wood behind | The young man could disténguish no outline that might mark the presence of either brute or human, iN could see no eyes, yet he knew that somew , that noleeless mass stealthy eyes were fixed upon him. ‘This was tho fourth time that the thing had crept from out the wood an settilng—the fourth thine during those three horrible weeks since he on that lonely shore that he had watched, terror-atricken, while t engulfed the shadowy form that lurked at the forcst's edge It had never attacked him, but to his distorted imagination it seemed to elink closer and closer am night fetl-walting, always walting for the moment that It might find hin unprepared, Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones was not overly courageous. Te had been reared among furroundings of culture plus and ultra-inteliectuallty in the exclusive Back Bay home of his an- vague form, while shriek after ehriek costors. broke from hia krinning lipa, Heo had beep taught to look with con- ty tempt typon all thats savored of MICU tne rat hlood-curdling ery, rad ue thes lar superiority—euch things WET® continued it elunk back’ toward the gross, brutal, primitive. wood. It had bern a giant intellect only With what remained of his ebbing that he had craved—he and @ fond mentality Waldo and seishes had ‘been it were be A Ce eee nae an an the aWful (cars of the black night. He At twenty-one Waldo was ay Would ruch to meet his fate, and thus ted encyclopedit~and ado end this awful arony of suspense. muscular as a real one. With the thought camo action, s0 Now he slunk shivering with fright that, atill shrieking, ho rushed head: at the very edge of the beach, as far long toward the thing at the wood's Mee grim forest us he could get. fim. Aw ho ran it turned und fled into Crates from every pore the forest, and after it went Waldo eet’ Jicctoot-two, body. Emerson, his long, skinny lege carrying # and legs trembled as his emaciated body in great leaps and Ly ee a aaiie, he cooghed bounds through the tearing underbrush, with Palsy. tho cough that had var He emitted shriek after shriek—ear- iahed jim won this Ml-starred nea voy- Blercing abricks that ended in long W E drawn out wail, more wolfish than bus man, And the thing that fled through the night before him was shrieking, too, ‘@ from out of "8. te crouched in the sand, staring with while, eyes into the now, Diack “night, erent teara rolled down "Ot oy pain the young man his thin, white stumbled and fell. Thorns and brambles It wes with diculty that he re tore his clothing and his soft. flesh, strained overpowering desire (9 Blood smeared him from head to feet. ahrtek. Its pain wee Gl 4 With for) Yet on and on he rushed through the at he nol ined ¢¢ eos of the aot tnat he ste, death that sembdarknest of the now moonlight doctor had predicted—a peacef At first impelled by the jenire Bhan ct teastenot the brutal end which At frat impelled by the mad desire te faced him e Pacife Oblivion from its cruel clutch, Waldo ‘The \nzy awell-of the South Pa Emerson had come to. puraue the lapped hie lews, etretched upon the sand, Cy siadow before him from ee he had retreated before that men. ‘ly different motive, Now it was cing shadow as far as the ocean oe comnantonship. He screamed now would permit, As the slow minutes thing would dragged into age-long hours the nervous strain told ao heavily upon the 28k dione i the depth of this weird wood. boy that toward midnight he lapsed Into © cy but surely it was drawing Merciful unconscloushent. a rotlow- AWAY from him, and as Waldo Emer- Th Sun awoke ie re it bur 800 realined the fact he redoubled his ing mornin: ne with | etiorta overtake it. He had stopped @ faint renewal of FO ngs wereaming now, for the atrain of his could not creep to his side ung pitt Mon Physical exertion found his weak lungs but still t c for the *UM Haroly adequate to the needs of his would not jven Now #OMe ea Hing rexpiration vaxe beast might be lurking Jat suddenly the pursuit. emerged from in the fores' the forest tu le <5 The thought unnerved him to such an {1 forest to croas a little moonlit clear: Let rues ht ered a high and rocky cliff, Toward wit that had formediong this the fleeing creature sped, and in an f his sustenani instant 1 was swallowed, apparent- Ks up «a few mouthfuls ly, by o of the cliff, Its disappearance was as mysterious and awesome as its identity had been, and left the youns ian In blank de- day passe 1 the other ter- vile dass which ‘had. preceded tt, in scanning ulternately ocean and the Ea a jig forth which he With the object of purauit gone, the Thomenturlly. ex} reaction came, and Waldo Emerson anata rank trembling and exhausted at the ot the cliff, A paroxyam of him, and thus he lay n which he ve 8 axony of apprehenston, fright and See ele cmoaraitve. ba Misery until” fram. very, Weakness he comfort, but Wald 5 sank into a deop eleop ; tlon had been « i It wax daylight when he awoke—stiff, undiluted intellee lame hungry and miserable—but, Bnowtedge which we withal. and vane, Hin first fummonplace, und commonplaces were consideration was prompted by the SEer. It wax preposterous that a craving of a starved stomach; yot it Binith-Jones should ever have need of wus with the utmost difficulty that he vulgar know urged hit cowardly brain to direct hia For the twont » the steps toward the forest, where hung reat wave had washed b m the fruit In abundane famer's deck and hurled him, chok- At every he halted in tense ina and eputtering. upon thie inhios silence, pe His kne Pitable shore Waldo Emerson aw the bled 70 violently that they kno ewaking rapidly toward the western xether? but at angth he entered the horizon. dim shadows. and presently was gorg: ‘As it deacended the young man’s tere ing himself with ripe fruits, ror increased, and he kept bis eyes To reach some of the more lusclous Klued upon the apot from which tho viands he had picked from the ground do: emerged the previous ever a plece of fallen limb, which tapered ey eee ‘ from a dia:neter of four inches at one he felt that he could not endure an- end to a trifte over an inch at the other, other night of the torture assed It was tho first practical thing that tour. times before. ‘That he Waldo Emerson had aono since he had ko mad he war p heen enst upon the shore of his new enced to tremble and home—in fact, it was, in all likelihood, ‘le daylight remained, the pProximation to @ practts tried turning his back to the cal thing Which he had ever done in alt wat huddled up gar his lif p eun; but the Waldo hod never been allowed to read which rolled down hig cheeks so blurred fiction, nor had he that he saw nothing ‘ Kis time or impoverish his brain, nally he could endure it no longer, and nowhere in the fund of deep erudi- with a sudden gasp of horror he tion which he had accumulated ould he vyheeled toward the Wood. There was recall any condition analogous to those nothing visible. yet he broke down and which now confronted him, sobbed like a child, for loneliness and — Waldo, of course, knew that there were such things as step-ladders, and he waa able to contro his tears had he had one he would have used it at he took the opportunity to ks ameanato reach the trult above hie hadows once more, hand's reach; but that he could knock glance brought @ plercing the deliene Town With a beaker, m his white lips. ranch eecmed indeed a qminhtelciessee bs was th ery—a valuable addition to the sum to- ng inun did not fol grovelling tal of human knowledge. Ariatotle him- ta the sand this Instead, he stood self had never reasoned more logically, staring with protruding eyes at the Waldo had taken the firat atep in his would ver cared to so © The Evening World Daily Magazine: Monday. September 22, 1913 . vy SHE POINTED EXCITEDLY the opposite boundary of the forest pendicuiar heights from one tler Of there wo thickly In all ite hideo ahe would sive a Mttle scream of lite toward} independent mental action heretofore his dei bis thoughts, 5 en borrowed from musty writings of the ancients, or y the tn ulate mind of his mother, And he clung to hi @ child clings to a new t When he emerged from the for ho brourht his etick with him, Ho determined to continue the pur- Rust of the creature that had eluded him the night before, He would, in- deed, be curious to look upon @ thing that feared him, In all his life he had never imagined it possible that any creature could fice from him in fear. A little glow guf> fused the young man as the idea tim- jt swagger in that lor Waldo directed his toward the Verish the Pride in hyst-al prow line nin their graves and rent thelr shrouds at the veriest hint of such ai i ra jong time W t to ue of escape used esternight, A dozen times he paxsed a well-defined trail that led, winding, up the cliffs face, but Waldo knew nothing of tralls—he was looking for @ flight of steps or @ doorwiy. Finding neither, ne stumbled by as- eldent into the trail; and, although the evident signa that marked tt as such Tevealed hothing to him, yet he fol- lowed it upward for the slinple reason that it was the only place upon the cliff side where ‘ould find a footnold, Some als row cleft In the cliff inte. wht trail led. Rocks disiotged from ance up he came to a nare n the As he a JUDDENLY Waldo became conactous from the corner of his eye that something was creeping upon him from behind out of the dark cave before which he had fought. Simultaneously with the realization of it he ewung his cudgel in a wicked blow at this new enemy as he turned to meet it. The creature dodged back and the blow that would have crushed ite skull grazed a hairbreadth from ita face. Waldo struck no second blow and the cold eweat eprang to his forehead when he | realized how nearly he had come to murdering a young girl. She crouched now in the 1 mouth of the cave, eyeing him fearfully. Waldo removed his tattered cap, bowing low. “1 crave your pardon,”’ he said. ‘I had no idea that there was a lady here. Lam very glad that I did not injure you There must have been something either in his tone or manner that reassured her, for she smiled and came out upon the ledge beside him. cause that direction tay etraight away and {t was into the ¢ace of thts appari- his posttion. Tt was then that the gir? from hie pursucra. He had no idea what tion of cowantice that the first of the hurried back into the cave, only to fe ‘he should do when he reached the roaky onve mon looked as he acrambled ebove appear a moment |: carrying come darrier—he was far too frightened te the ledae on which Waldo stood. atone utenstia in her arma, think. And then, of a @udden, there rose ‘There wa hue mortar in which His purmuers were aaining wpon him, within the breast of Waldo Emerson ehe had collected a pestle and asveral their envage yells mingling with his Smth-Jonew a epark that generations amaller pieces of etone, She pushed Piercing cries and epurring him on ¢o of overrefinement and emasculating cle them along the letge to Waldo. Uundreamed<é pinnactes of epeed. ture had al ut extingutshed—the.in- At first he did not grasp the meam- ‘As he ran, his knees came nearty te atinct of selfpreservation by force. ing of her act; but presently ahe pre- fie shoulders at each frantic hound; his TMeretofore it had been purety by Alxht. tended to pick up an imaginary mis left’ hand was extended far ahead, With the frenzy of the fear of death alle and hurl it down upon the crea. r " clutching wildly at the alr as though thon him, he raised hie cudgel, and, tures balow—then she pointed to the he were endeavoring to pul himecif high above his head, brought had brought and to Walde fvery Girection for some indication of ahead, while tin right hand, atti! grasp- UL roe) ean Saereurees ome juman habditation—a fence, a chimney |, denoribe ol q anything that would be man-buile; inf, he Cuaeel, tee te ge mas, . Another took the fatten man's ptace— but his efforte were unrewarded. In action Waldo was an inspiring epeo- ¢. too, went down with @ broken head. At the verge of the forest he halted, jhaic, ered, fearing to enter; but at last, when he “Line gaot of the cliff he came to « saw that the wood was more open than rs momentary halt, wille he glanced hur- . that nearer the ocean and that there was Ta anout for a means of escape; mut but Ittle underbrush, he muster uf. Wctent courage to sien timidiy within, ow he aaw th the enemy hed eprend weapon. Tis nature revolted at the ‘On careful tiptoe he threaded hie Ut toward fie rignt and left, Warne mene of toot, and when he eaw it missiies as fell upon th Way through the parkitke grove, br oo eee eee Tite Up thie ners Mixed with matted hat ‘ahe placed in a pile be- ing every few minutes to Nat if re tealy at the first note of anger to fy row trails led steeply ¢rom ete t@ human hair and human blood, and that Snaeaky the young man would screaming toward t open piain. ledge h Waldo Pmerson SmithJones, hed atwike an enemy Notwithetanding hin fears, he reached In places crude (adders scaled 96F struck the biows that had plastered it He but he was glad. Following her eurgestion, he gath- ered up a couple of the emailer objecte dlooay But on and on they came—Wall havoc he wrought with hie crude was not @ very igeed ahot, The po was busy now gathering auch of the ean i ven to tie next above: but to Wald? a wave of neuen ewapt ever him, ao UWe—clapping her hands and jumping OVERTHE EDGE- Rroules suspicion, and, emerting. from the thing which confronted 1m seemed that ho almost toppled @rem hie aisay ¥2,0"4 7" ses the cool shade, found himrelf @ Little absplutety unecalable, and then another perch, fee ae ¢ tone sfore Waldo was distance from a perpendicular white backward @lance showed him the rapidly For 9 ¢ew minutes there wae @ tut that = ppeinese fell had fallen into it, and, decoming cliff, the face of which was honcy> nearing enemy; and he launched him- tq hostilitien while the eave men come ears. then $ ; com \e that he Dogan to take Detter aim. wedged a few fect from the bottom, combed with the mouths ef many elf at the face of that seemingly im left only a small cavelike hole, into caves. ® Dregnable barrier, clutching 4eeperatel KJ midst HA flashed which Waldo peered. There wan no living creature tn sight, with fingers and toes. ted moth and wiles There was nothing visible, but the nor did the very apparent artificiality Hite progress was impeded by the Genes 8 coterie of interior was dark and forbidding. of the caves sugment to the impractical cudgel to which he ati clung, but he young people with which Waldo felt cold and clammy. He be: Waldo that they might be the habita- aiq not drop it; though why it would phymoal encounter and é ehe ha always gan to tramble. Then he turned 8nd tions of perhaps savage human beings. een diMoult to tell, uniess tt was Ife was ghomked and terri! ‘Waldo felt a gl od of borrer as looked back toward the forest. With the spell of discovery still upon that tia ants were now DUrely @& off to say, berause of the thing be had BO Wied te realise what The thought of another night @pent nim, he cromred the open toward the ohanioal, there being no coom tm Qle Gone, tut rather because they would look epen him now as he within sight of that dismal place al- citts but he had by no means forgot- mind dor aught elne than terror. end unaccountatie glow ef too upon the face ef a towering cliff mort overcame him. No! a thousand ten his chrontc atate of abject fear. “Chose behind him came the feremost brutal supremacy over beside an almest naked girl hurling times no! Any fate were better than Kare and eyes were alert for hidden ‘man; yet, though he had sequired would his mother have voctm down open the heads of hairy that, and so after several futile effort? dangera; every few steps were punctu- CAY® iiity of a monkey through a tife- she have sean her precious bey now? men whe hopped abet, soreaming with he forced his urwilling body through ated by @ timid halt and ao searchirig the MMility of ® NEDO Coes a the Suddenly Waldo became Ls level tim, the small aperture. survey of his surroundings, time of practise. ty which Waldo mer from the corner of tis eye that it was awful! A great MMllew of He found himself on @ path between tt wad during one of these halts, wmcanny speed two rocky wall risking way aloft. Sedton's By oly oe ath chat rove be, when he had cromed half the distance tn CRUE) Ti "ihe aacent, however, @ hind out of the dark cnve before ef 8 i iF of Gieap- fore him at a steap angle. At intervals between the forest and the cliff, that he a4 fought. the blue Ay" wan vinible above IhToukh he digcernod & allent inovemany ta tne reat airy hand cane almost Se Bis The rentteation of tt he swung Ot ewagel td en t been : nkle. Ke scree that had not wood rau SEAL ee ae ae uring the perilous negotiation wicked blow at tile @ew enemy eueh To another it would have been ap- frozen, unabi of ane of the loose ond warty ladders’ ane bedding Sacer sea, are parent that the cleft had been kept onen he had been mistaken or really had little more than email tretmentlculet blow that would have erased tte by human beings—that It was @ thor- geen a creature moving In the forest. Pracartously Ke rhe nearest fonman grancd @ hatrbreadth from #1 oughfare which wan used, if not fr Ho had about decided that he had Phang Gig there} ‘he fugitive; but at the Waldo atruck no second blew, and the quently, at least sufficiently often but imagined a presence when a grat, 1 clove , oold ewent eprang to his dorchesd when Warrant considerable lavor having been ha'ry heute of aman atepped suddenly top dhance intervened to save Waldo, Said : expended upon it to keep It free from from behind the bole of @ tree for a time at feast. It was e, ee Lafitte to okay agad mw neon, Cates po lberee) ‘Then she pet eacttediy ever MO the debris which must be constantly “ment york i. one Me tat ‘Hpping now in the mouth of the cave, eri falling from above. ; Where the path ied, or what he ex: CHAPTER II. eapting. jercg Be ee ee ee great brute of a cave man hed pected to find at the other end, Waldo The Wild P In ha haste he 414 by acciden Myf crave your pardon” he eal@, °T had not the renotest idea. Ha was not e eople. a resourceful man would have done bY | °F crave your pardon” he eal@. “THe pe an imaginative youth, But he kept on HP creature was naked exe intont—in pushing himself onto Sad Tarn vote died thet Tad Oot tasers at the moment that he looked up up the ascent in the hope that at the cont for a bit af hide that Ielge he Kicked the ladder outward. © wm Gropped & Aifty-pound stone mortar full end he would find the creature which hung from a leathern waist for a second it hung toppling in Ga] Tiare. eeunt) Save: eiee aamebane RE hie upturned faoa had escaped him the night before. thong. ‘oatance, and then with a lunge crammed There qnuat n tome == The young woman emitted » fttle ‘As it had fled for a brief instant It Waldo viewed the news down the cilft'a éuce with ite human either in hie tone er manner that reas: ehriek of Joy, and Wuldo across the ring beneath the m comer with wonder, it was burden, in ‘te fall acraping other ol pacha hers 7 Codes poly Smith-Jones, hie face bisected oF @ woft rays, Ido had thought that !t no jess than the wonder which the the pureuing horte with it. _ he aia aantiat Hast etintied Droad grin, tarne@ toward her, bore a remarkable resemblance to ® sight of him inaplred in the breast of A chorus of rage came up from below _ Aa aio ult ao m gcnrien Body Seales, human figure, but of that he could not the hairy one, for what he saw as him, but Waldo had not even turned na py posed curring. “With e ee CHAPTER M1. be positive. truly remarkable to hin eyes ae was his head to tearn of hia temporary good could feo) them murning, With @ Aeron le A At last his path broke suddenly into his appearance to thone of the cultured fortune, Up, ever up he sper, until at cough He the aunlight, “The walla on either ald Bostonian, And Waldo did indeed pre- length ho etood upon the topmost ledge, occupied with the distant acenery, The Little Eden. were but little higher than his head, sent a mont atartling exterior, Hie alz facing an overhanging wall of biank Sakina ‘tim abocwine’ one anda moment later he emerged from feet two wan wocentuated by hie ex- rock that towered another twenty-five @lance Liu ree rend the cleft onto @ broad and beautiful treme wkinninoss; hin gray eyes looked feet above him to the summit of the a =f nervously. plat weak and watery within the Inflaued inf. Time and again he leaped perngoes Before him stretched a wide, gramsy circles which rimmed them and which furtlvely against the @mooth gurface, you’ am « total Plain, and beyond towered a range of had been produced by lose of elesp and tearing at dt with his nails in @ mad hadn't yo TE mortar ended temporarily, at least; the cave men loitered the bane of the cli@ the Dalance of ¢! Cte] 10 cecastonally shouting tewate mighty hilla, Between them and him much weeping. endeavor to climb still higher. Get your oi lay w belt of forest, His yellow hair was tangled an@ At hin right was the tow opening to Tap gd ptt DE dl Dh oA mateo thay ocidn drt pl acl irneay A new emotion welled in the breast matted and streaked with dirt and ® black cave, but he did not see it—hie 2m " SP My Te et glee Mo, thy of Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones, It blood. Blood stained his soiled and mind could cope with but the #ingte Sie, nie dmiine Buk ° Walia “cea nies tna point wan akin to that which Balvos may tattered ducks, His shirt was but @ Idea: to clamber from the horrible crea. | lim he NAl neue seutiinee Unmenioe: ‘erocious signe, have felt when he gazed for the first mane of frayed ribbons held to Bim at tures which pursued him. Hut finally Parrusead tn race anencelse of the horrible timo upon the mighty Pacific from the all only by the neckband. tt was horne tn on bis half-mad brain Was @ distin: slaughter which awaited them at his Sterra de Qua as he contemp! tPul scene of tant forest and serrated hilltops, he As he stood helplessly that thia was the end--he could fly no . hande If they did not go away and nileine even atthe awful Reure glowe fartrer—hara, tm a moment more, death Hie e00%e (0 her agcond time ag leave their betters alone When the ering a would overtate him. youn im real @ significance o fina Bt hs from the Sores pelted ash kded aig ft, and below eaw Which he did not Hecoretare, It bore her pantomime he felt his heart ewell Almont forgot to be afraid, ned ‘About tw collape from heer @ number of the cave men placing Not tho allghtest resemblance to way with an emotion which he feared wae And on the impuixe of the instant he terror, other Iadder in lew of that which had languace, modern 7 dea om with which pride in brutal, primitive, vulgar phye t out acrons the tableland to explore ‘Phen the hideous man crouched and Tn @ moment they were resum- he waa familiar, a aie ne mere sical prowenn, mown which jay beyond the came creeping war! ward him. ing the ascent after him Or lees manter of them specially As the long éay wore on Waldo be- forest. With an agonized scream Walde On the narrow ledge above them the the dead on me both very hungry and very Well 1 was for Waldo Emerson's turned and fled toward the cliff, A young man stood, chattering and grin- Ho tried not to look at her after thirety, In the valley below he eould Peace of mind that no faint eon quick glance over his shoulder brought ning Ike a matinan, Ite pitital erties that, for he realized that he must &>- eco @ tiny brooklet purling, clear and of what lay there entered hia un another series of shrieks from the wera now punctuated with the hollow pear very ridiculow beautiful, toward the south. The it Rative mind. To him a Jund without frightened fugttive, for it revealed not ¢ a his violent exercise had But now hiv attention was required of it drove him nearly mad, as did clvilzation--without elties and townd alone the Got thay the awful man was induced, by moro prowsing affalre—the cave men that of the fruft which he glimpsed peopled by humans w manners and pursuing lm, but that & hind hk ‘arn rolled down his hegrimed face, were returning to the attack, They hanging ripe for eating at the edge of customs similar to those which obtain race? at least a dozen more equally Ing crooked, muddy @treaks in their carried stones this time, and, while the forest, in Boston was beyond bellef, triehttul, wake, His knees smote together rome of them threw the miasiles at alked he strained his eyea in Waldo ran toward the cliffs only be- violently that he could har stand, Waldo, the others attemptet to rush (To Be Continued.) A ON EE MNS EE EE hing Co. (The New York hveing World.) 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