The evening world. Newspaper, September 27, 1913, Page 10

. The Evening World Daily Magazine, Saturday. September 27, 1913 +M-M,LeT's SEE. (TIS NOT AT ALE GOOD FORM TO RIDE Wwit4ouT AHA: THE VERY THING Ovetheard in Silhouetteville did you teal Axel Certainly Used Good Headwork This Time. a pn to two-step eo nicely, Mr. Jones?” the terrible beast launched itself full upon him. As the heavy body struck him Waldo went over backward down the oliff, and help. with him went Nagool CHAPTER VI. (Continved.) A Choice, E could not have come upon the great, black panther at a more imopportune time or ce. It was too dark for Waldo’ human eyes, und the cat was above him and Waldo upon a hillside that under the best of con- ditions offered but a precarious foot- held. He tried to shoo the formidable beast away by shouts amd menacing @estioulations, but Nagoola would not teem Instead hi lowly =f @ crept slowly forward, edging his sinuous body inch by inch @leng the rocky trail until it hung above the waiting man a dosen below ‘tm. Bix months before Waldo would long have been shrieking in meteor- fight down the bed uf the ravine bim. That a wonderful trans- had been wrought within him evident from the fact that no cry Nght vacape! him, and that, far ing, he edged inch by inch toward the menacing creature there above him. He carried ‘@pear with the point leveled @ trifle those tileful eyes. had advanced but @ foot or two, -with ap awtul shriek, Clawing, tearing, and agratchin; two rolled and bounded down the hilluide until, near the bottom, they - to a gudden stop against @ large re rd hands were atill. Presently the tropic moon rose ot hill-top to look down upon a litt! led mound of man and bi very quiet bol @ Gark ravine, CHAPTER VII. Thandra, the Seeker. OR a long time there was no eign of life in that strange Pile of flesh and bone and brawn and glossy black fur and lon jow hair and a itt. tle, down near tne bottom of the heap, and @ little later there was a groan, and then all wus atill again for many minutes. Presently it moved again, this time more energetically, and after several efforts « yellow head etreaked and ma’ ted with biood emerged from beneath. It required the better part of an hour for the stunned and lecerated Waldo to extricate himself from the entangling embrace of Nagools. When, finally, he staggeret to his feet he saw that the great cat lay dead before him, the broken shaft of the cesar protruding from the sleek, black resat. It was quite evident that the beast had lived but the barest fraction of an inatant after It had launched itself upon the man; but during that brief interval of time it had wrought sore havoc with ite mighty talons, though fortunately for Waldo the great jaws had not found him. From breast to knees ghastly wounds were furrowed in the man's brown akin where the powerful hind feat of the beast had reked him. That he owed his Ilfe to the chance that had brought about the encounter upon @ steep hillside rather than on level seemed quite egparent, for “Do you believe in gambling “Well, I've been married three tim during their tumble down the declivity Nagoola had been unable to score with any de As of his wounds; mination showed them to be superfic! the only dan, and the wounds them: contemplated the suffering ducks. on There remained of their once stylish glory not of their linen part shirt—only the neckband remained, with a single fragment as large as one's hand depending behind, “Nature a wonderful thought Waldo. artificiality as she does . I shall really need you now,” concluded, looking at the beautiful k coat Nagoola. enpite his suffering, Waldo crawled to Mia lair, where he selected a couple of sharp-edged stones from his collec- tion and returned to the alde of Nagools. Lesving hie tools there he went on down to the bottom of the ravine, where in a little crystal stream he bathed his wounds, Then he returned once more to his kill. After half a day of the mont ardu- ous labor Waldo suceseded in remov- ing @ penther’s hide, which he dragged laboriously to ir, where fell exhausted, unable even to craw! within. The nest day Waldo worked upon the inner surface of the hide, removing every particle of flesh by scraping tt with a sharp stone, eo that there might be no danger of decomposition. He was still very weak and sore, but he could not bear the thought of loping the pelt that had cost him @o much to obtain, When the last vestige of flesh had been scraped away he crawled into his lair, where he remained for 8 week, oaly emerging ter feed at Jeveller,” A Thrilling Romance of YA-A- IVE NOTICED 'T QuITé FREQUENTLY MYSELF. THEY Grow THAT “Look here, Maria, I'm going tu give you a piece of my mind!” “Hold on till | find the microscope,” ik OW GEE , HE BANE BUNG UP DAS HANDS ON MY DOME — Wild Love in the Jungle |——— the end of that time his wounds wel almost healed, and he had entirely covered from his lameneas and ¢! shock of the adventure, so that it was with real pleasure and exultation that girding about his loin he saw himeelf, not through his ow yes, but as imagined that another would see him, pounded the great nm scrape and pound in the t he had watched them ge of the for- the village of Flatfoot. At rewanied with a pelt sut- ble for the purpose of the he contemplated, an inch wide he trimmed off supporting belt. With black skin about his . passed one arm through a hole he had , for that purpose near the upper ed them to seoure the garment from fall- ing from the upper part of the body. It was a very proud Waldo that forth in the finery of hie n but the pride was In the pro had won the thing for him— ‘ous, brutal physical prowess very attribute which he had looked upon with superciiious con- tempt six months before. Next Waldo turned his attention to- ward the fashioning of a sword, a new and @ shield, The first two comparatively easy of accom- @ taking endeavor bringing the fore paws forward had “It im evident that she ghout his chest, he crossed and fa d his scanty, plishment—he had them both com- pleted in half a day, and from a tw inch trip of panther hide he made also & sword belt to pass over his right in oval buckler aome three f two wide, akine of had fallen before his stones, A strip of hide ned upon the back of the shield held it to his left arm, With it Waldo felt more secure the awiftly thrown missiles of he knew hi hould en- on his forthcoming expedition. st came the morning for depar- ture. Rising with the sun, Waldo took his morning “tub” in the cold spring that rose a few yards from his cave, then he got out the razor the sailor ven him, and after scraping off yellow beard, hacked his tawny halr until it no longer fell about his shoulders and in his eyes. Then he gathered up his weapons, rolled the boulders Defore the entrance to his cave, and turning his back upon his rough home set off down the little stream toward the distant valle: {ty wound through the forest alo dace of the cliffs of Fiatfoot and Korth. As he stepped (ghtly along the Mous trail, leaping from ledge to in the descent of the many sheer Gropa over which the stream fell, he might have deen @ reincarnation of HOW I GOT MY FIRST RAISE —————— ‘The Evening World will pay a cash prize of $25 for the best account of “thow 1 Got My First Raise.’ The story must be true tn must give the writer's actual exper! eal ror what service or series caused It? cumetances aggerations or attempts at fine writt Confine your narrative to 250 words or Address “iret Ralee Editor, every Gaul and subject to confirmation. It tn obtaining hts first increase of was the raise swarded? What cire of services Tell the story briefly, simply, natureily, without ex- lees. Write on Evening World. P.O. Bd a primeval hunter from whose e loins had sprung the warriors the strong men of a world. Wwell-muscied, brown body; bright eyes; ¢ i the sword, the speai rere all a far ory from the weak and futile thing that had lain grovelling in the sand upon the beach, eweating and 4@ shrieking in terror six short months Defore, And yet it was the same. What one good but mistaken woman had smothered another had brought out, and the result of the influence of both was @ much finer specimen of manhood than either might have evolved alone. In the efternoon of the third day Waldo came to the forest opposite the cliffe where lay the home of Nadara, Cautiously he stole from tree to tree until fhe could look out unseen upon the honeycombed face of the lofty es- carpment. AN was lifeless and deserted. The cave mouths looked out upon the valley, sad and lonely. There was no sign of life in any direction as far es Waldo could see, Coming from the forest he crossed the clearing and approached the cliffs, His eye, now become alert in wood- craft, detected the young grass growing in what had once been well-beaten trafis, He needed no ¢urther evidence to assure him that the caves were de- serted, and had ‘been for some time, One by one he entered and explored several of the cilff dwellings. All gave the same mute corroboration of whet was everywhere apparent—the village had been evacuated without haste én an iq nis prowess A-S, It CLAIMS ABOUT Did You EVER see Miss? EVERY TIME A GREAT DISCoveRy 1S MADE SOME FELLAH HE KNEW AL! IT LONG “Why do you wisn you were about thri feet taller?” am dying by Inches.” the sadder he became, He tried to con- vince himself that it was purely disap- di pointment in being thwarted 1 to thank her for her kindness to him, and demonstrate that her confidence in not been misplaced; but always he discovered that his thoughts returned to Nedara rather than to the ostensfole object of his ad ure, In hort, he began to realize, rather vaguely it ie true, that he had come be- cause he wanted to see the girl again; but why he wanted to see her he did not know. ‘That night he slept tn one of the Geserted caves, and the next morning set forth upon hie quest for Nedara. For. three days he searched the little valley, but without result. There was no sign of any other village within it, ‘Then he passed over into another valley to the north. For weeks he wandered hither and thither without being rewarded by even a sight of a human being. Barly one afternoon as he was topping @ barrier in search of other valleys he came suddenly face fo face with a great, hairy man. Both stopped—the hairy one glaring with his nasty litte “T can kill you,” growied Waldo had no desire to fi almost emiled at the the man. It was the same that Sag the Killer had accorded him that ‘he had gone down to the sea for the last time. “I have no quarrel with you, plied Waldo, ‘Let us be friends. “You are afraid,” taunted the hairy orderly manner. Everything of value one had been removed—only @ few broken utensils remaining as indication that it had ever constituted human habitation. Waldo was utterly confounded. He had not the remotest idea in which direo- tlon to search, During the balance of the afternoon he wandered along the various ledges, entering first one cave and then enother. He wondered which had been Nadara's. Ho tried to imagine her life among these crude, primitive surroundings—among the beastiike men and women who were her people, She did not seem to tar monise with elther, He was convinced was more out of place here than ren have bem in a Back Ray dra ‘root. Tee more bis ming Gwelt whe ber that she Flatfoot The man look could be no mightier argument for a man’s valor than thi He came a step dioser that he might scrutinise it more carefully. ‘Full-grown and tn perfect health,” he grunted to hi “This is no worn and mangy hide peeled from the rotting carcass of one dead of sickn “How did you may Nagoola?’ asked suddenly, ‘Waldo Indicated his spear, then he érew his garment aside and pointed to the vivid, new-healed scars that striped his body. - tm clifttop, He We met ot Gem oo op. 1 in if. By Ed:ar Rice Burroughs Author of “TARZAN OF THE APES” the bottom of the ravi: But it was notheg Tam Thandra.” Waldo rightly suspe ‘bray: jo would make on the intellect pr mistaken, hat do you here in my country? asked the nan, but his tone was lese truculent than before, “IT em searching dor Korth—and The othe sted that a itde soo! impression al, nor was he Flatfoot and jadara,” sald Waldo, , gyes, narrowed. at would you of them?" he ashe, “Nadara was R00) to me—I would res pay her." “But Flatfoot and Korth-what @@ them?" insisted the ms “My business is with them, When & geo them I shall transact it,” Wald® parried, for he had seen the cunnit look tn the man's eyes and he did Uke It. “Can you lead me to them? "I can tell you where they are, bet T am not hound thither,” replied the man, “Thi days toward the setting sun will bring you to the village @f Flatfoot, There you will find Korth alae and Nadara,” and without further parley the savage turned and trotted toward the east CHAPTER VIII, Nadara Again. ALDO watched him out ef sight, half minded to follow, for he was far from suttfied that the fellow had been ene - tlrely honest with him lowever, Waldo tock up his mearoh toward the west, passing dowa trom the tills into a deem valley, the bettom. y 9 thick ) through thig e when he same of 4 wide, slowame vr Was thick with eedie Band invt 1 streams of south, river. ment—not «1 he Ih Mount pills and valleys furth Valdo travelled along the e rehing for a ford, The steep, muddy ka offered no foothold, so he dared hot venture ® crossinx until he cowd pry) of a safe landing upon the eo $F Be Continues