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orEKwentense: a” Co ae one iH \ gold—gold that we can away Upon our backs with ease Run on now, out Into the fresh alr where you may breathe easier.” Some of the warriors atarted to obey their objef with alacrity, but Busull and several others hesitated to leave him— hesitated between love and lo y for their king and superstitious fear of the unknown, And then, quite unexpectedly, that occurred which decided the ques- tion without the necessity for further discussion, Out of the ailence of the ruined temple there rang, close to their ears, the same hideous shriek they had heard the previous night, and with horrified cries the black warriors turned and fled through the empty halls of the age-old edifice. Behind them stood Tarzan of the Apen where they had left him, a grim emile upon his lipe—waiting for the enemy he fully expected was about to Pounce upon him. But again silence reigned, except for the faint su ition of the sound of naked feet moving 1 Bain tesane me staan ant stenlthily tn nearby places. po Fp eS ag hen Tarzan wheeled and passed on WOT cn gee into the depthe of the temple, From - th ¥v room to room he went, until he came to one at which a rude, barred door still stood, and as he put his shoulder against it to push it in again the shriek of ‘warning rang out almoat beside him. was evident that he was being warned to refrain trom tl this par- Ucular room. Or could it be that with- fn lay the secret to the treasure stores? At any rate, the very fact that the strange, invisible guardians of this weird place had geome reason for wish- ing him not to enter this particular Bo one glorious tropical morning chamber was sufficient to treble Tar- in, chief of the Waziri, set out zan's desire to do #0, and though tho 4 of fifty clean-limbed ebon shrieking was repeated continuously, lie GTNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERG Terma (who was stolen in infancy by a tribe of Gad brought up im the African jungie) sails Fie eat, Matsa et Beat oriteh Husslan optes. a into the! riors wicked city. Then our war- down from their hill, ana ‘They are wicked peot soit t white like you nor bel Lagetg cove ered with hair as ts gant, the gorilla, tite ete tes, Yeu, they ate very bad people indeed, arte con myacet and Chowami waa giad to get out of ‘ se yea) he little wale, vt © ui . q Gee thelr country. hfe, bad Lanier ‘And are none of these alive who ane throw : warriors in quest of adventure and of kept his Ider to the door until it : i ip wrecked iy collidn.” “Tareas Neve with Chowambl, and @aw these ricney, They followed the course which gave before his giant atrength to awing ‘ TRetellei teat sal clausters shoerdt =” strange people and thelr wonderful Plate, nner, follomen the courte wean, open upon oreaking wooden hin city?” asked Tarzan. jomb. ‘Within all was black aa thi For days they marohed—up one ri bi CHAPTER XI. pte REL eur cmlet, wae there mg acrosa a low divide: down another There was no window to let in the fan then, but he accdinpanied river; up a third, unti! at the end of faintest ray of tight, and as the corrl- (Contianed.) Gel, Whe, WaE the twenty-fifth day they camped upon dor upon which It opened was itself in emi-darkness, even the open door shed no relieving raya within, Feeling be- fore him upon the floor with the butt of his spear, Tarsa: ‘tered the Stygian gloom. Suddenly the door behind him closed, and at the aame time hands clutched him from every direction out @ mountainside, from the summit of which they hoped to catch their fi view of the marvelous city of treasur Early the next morning they wer climbing the almost perpendicular crage which formed the last, but greatest, cr natural barrior between them and thelr to destination. It was nearly noon before of tf darkness. ‘arzan, who headed the thin line o! ‘The ape-man fought with all the sav- reer das rina tharelecs wa bed oreo of climbing warriors, scrambled over the age fury of self-preservation, Backed by the mountsine and passed out of our tp Of the jast cliff and atood upon the the herculean strength that was his. own country we came again to another Uttle flat tabledand of the mountain- But though he felt his blows land, and Sango of mountaing, Up thelr aide we 00 his teeth sink into soft flesh, there follawod the great river, that had now For an four the little expeditign seemed always two new hands to take Gwindied to a tiny rivulet, until we rested upon the mountaintop, and théa the plagy pf those that he fought off. came to a.tittie cave near the mountain- Tarsan Jed them down inte the valley at last ornened him down, and top. In this cave was the mother of the below. There was no lowly, they overcame him ‘te @ iittle, landlocked harbor. weight of thelr number wepded point to the north was "y they bound him—his hands back and his feet trussed So that nij about it, and Wazirl, who was now an old m ft was a long march but that the way was not diMoult to fol “For ten days we followed this river which rung beside our village up ti Back to the Primitive. PRUE: aca was quiet so that k had only a gently was soothing to the swin- mer, who had had no sleep twenty-four hours. Tarzan of the ‘was soon asleep. he.heat of the sum awoke him early the: forenoon. he came close enough to distin- ‘on land, or to make out ‘of the shore line, Before that curled up upon the slimy timbers ‘It was late in the afternoon by the What appeared to be the en+ ~ qa re member that we camped there familiar, Could it be possible fate had thrown hint up atthe very a eae ere otrens Nias. See weet TaD, bo Ghat tt wan atll ight wheat we ea him ti of own beloved jungle! they hated befote the towering ad ey rom the ma'the bow of bis boat entered the Say, We, cocked to apoend to the top Of O°°T, ancient elty. floor ang, halt dragging, halt pushing the mountain: upon the other side looked if it aeemed no be! than thi we had so far t ed we would re- turn to our village and ‘tell them thi they had ready fowhH the best place 11 the world to live. nd so we clambered up the dace of rocky cliffs until we reached the surm- ‘mit, and there from @ flat mountain- top we saw, not far beneath us, a shal- 4 fiftesn minutes.'they marcheduhim, ught him out of the black along the face of the wall before they ether through another doorway into discovered a means of ingress, Then.an. courtyard of the temple, Here they came to @ narrow cleft about &@ saw his captors, There must have twenty Inches wide, Within, a fight of been @ huadred of them—ehort, atocky worn hollow by centuries mén, with great beards that covered efore m, to disappear thelr facey and fell upon thelr hairy arp turning the passage a breasts. A few yards ahead. The thick, matted hair upon thelr Into this narrow alley Tarsan made heads grew low over their recedinz of the harbor the last shred of wes cleared away, for there be- him the farther shore, un- the shadows of his primeval for- his own cabin—bullt before by the hand of his long-dead , Joun Clayton, Lord Greystoke. long sweeps of his giant mus- 3 p sent the little craft apecd~ towand the beach. Its prow had touched when the ape-man ; nis way, turning his giam shoulders brows, and hung about thelr shoulders Se arom at ihege of sideways that they might enter at all. and thelr backs, | Their crooked lers night he ftene tnuch of ‘which ‘had fallen and Behind htm trailed his black warriors. were short and heavy,. their arms ‘ong securely wedged crumbled Into decay. At the turn in the cleft the stairs ended and muscular. About their-lotns they ‘of @ giant tree, swaying a hun- “ye taiance of Wasirl's story was and the path was level; but it wound wore skins leopards and of lions, and great neck: of the claws of these same anim: lepended upon their and twisted in a serpentine fashion, un- til suddenly at a sharp angie it de- ‘ouched upon a narrow court, across eq which loomed an inner wall equally as high as the outer. This inner wall was feat above the ground. He had heartily again—this time from the Bara, the deer, who had fallen Zn Next day he practically the same as that which Bu- aul had told. like to go there and aoe weapons they cargied heavy, knotted . Seen tad me of tielt le made fhe peace sign and Fee yiat eet with ttle round towers alternating bludg tn the belte that con- ved Siong its entire summit with pointed fined their single garments each had a they led him back to thelr vil- they brought him gifts of ‘goats and cooked food. When pointed to thelr weapons the war- hastened to fetch spear, shield, and « bow. ' first night with the eavag devoted to a wild orgy in his honor, was feasting, for the hunters had in an antelope and a zebra as of their skill, and gallons of the native beer was consumed. As wes again impressed by the of their figures and the regu- ity of their features—the flat noses thick lips of the trpical West Coast jage were entirely missing. the faces of the men wo! 4 and dignified, those of the women sessing. Was during this dance that the ap: Great noticed that some of ti many of the women wo of gold—principally anki of great weight. apparently ‘out of the solid metal, When he a wish to examine one of the owner removed it from her and insisted through the me- replied Wasiri, but if you will wait until the rainy season ds over and the rivers have gone down I will take gome of my warriors end go ‘with you.’ But before the rainy season was over Arabs attacked the village. Under Tar- zan's gencralship, the intrudera were beaten off.. Waziri dying, Tarzan was chosen chief in his stead. And #0 Tarzan of the Apes came into kingship among men—slowly but as Te following the evolution cestora, for had he not started at the very bottom? Tong, wicked-looking knife. But the feature of them that made the most startling impression upon their prisoner was thelr white ekins—neither in color nor feature was there « trace of the nogroid about them. Yet, with their receding foreheads, wicked ttle close-set eyes and yellow fangs, they were far from preposseasing In appear- ance. During the fight within the dark chamber, and while they had been drag- ging Tarzan to the inner court, no word had been spoken, but now several of them exchanged gruntin; conversation in @ lan, to the ape-man, and presently they left Mm lying upon the cone: they trooped off on their short lege | another part of the temple beyond the court. As Tarzan lay there upon his back he #aw that the temple entiraly surrounded ‘the little inclosure, and that on all sides its lofty walls rose high above him, At the top a little patch of blue aky waa visible, and, in one direction, through an embrasure, he could ace foliage, but whether it waa beyond or within the monolitha, In places these had fallen and the wall was ruined, but it was in @ much better state of preservation than narrow passage led through and at its end Tarzan and his found themselves in a broad which granite warrior! Avenue, on the opposite aide crumbling edifices of loomed dark and forbiddi: Upon the crumbling debris along the face of the buildings trees had grown and vines wound {n and out of the hollow, star- ing window it the building directly opposite them seemed less overgrown than the others and in a much better e of preservation. It was a massive pile, surmounted by an enormous dome. At elther aide of its great entrance etood rows of tall pillars, each capped by a huge, grotesque bird carved from the solid rook of the monoliths. “Come!” he sald to his Wasirl ‘Let ‘us have a look at what lies behind those ruined walls.” ‘His men were loth to follow him, ‘but when they eaw that he wae bravely entering the frowning portal they tralied in cramped positions in the a few paces behind In a huddled group CHAPTER Xil. The 1875 Piece. ANE PORTER had een the first of those in the lifeboat to awaken the morning after the Wreck of the Lady Alice, The other members of the Party were asleep upon the thwarts or huddled of aigns that Tarsan accept it as ifeatl of ‘aid not ki A close ecrutiny of the bauble bottom of the boat. that seemed the personification temple he not know. 4 ; hriek auch as About the court, fi ground ¢ 4 the ape-sman that the article When the girl realized that they hag Nervous terror, & Pee wasa the to oC tne Gaein Ware tarien of ¢ virgin gold, and he waa sur- a eh wos. the firat time that he "ever meen golden ornaments among nd@ then the of bright eyes no’ open galleries, become separated from the other boats ‘captiv ua she was Miled with alarm. The sense all racing h the great walls to ming from beneath masses of tum- gavages of Africa, other than the of utter loneliness and helplessness {at led throug! © u' th ter world, Diing halr, peeriag down upon him from baubles those near the coast had which the vust expanse of deserted WS ONS TOT en toreg the bullding he above, ‘or stolen from European tried to ask them from whence the came, but he could not mal ‘understand. weeka Tarzan lived with hi @xlends, hunting buff sebra for m nd elephi ocean aroused in her was so depressing that, from the first, contemplation of the future held not the slightest ray of Promise for her. She was confident that they were lost. With thé full knowledge that there or water on board, t hunger and thirst became immediately aggravated, and #0 on the firat day of their tragic adventure real suffering commenced in grim earnest, and the full horrors of shipwreck were upon them, Aw the days passed conditions became horrible. Aching eyes zon day and night until the weak and weary watchers would sink exhausted to the bottom of the boat, and there wrest in dream-disturbed slumb: respite from the horrors reality. feak and hopel: He had iain within the court for @everal hours before the firet rays of gunlight penetrated the vertical shaft; almost simultaneously he heard the pat- tering of bare feet in the corridors f@bout him, and a moment later saw the Galleries above fill with crafty faces as & score or more entered the courtyard ‘with him. For @ moment every eye was bent upon the noonday sun, and then in uni- @on the people in the galleries and those in the court below. took up the refrain of a low, weird chant. Presontly those about Tarsan began to dance to the cadence of thi solemn gong. They circled him slo resembling in their manner of dancing a number of clumsy, ehuffilng beara; but as yet they look at him, keeping their little fixed upon the aun. For ten minutes or more they kept was distinctly aware of many eyes upon him, ‘There was a rustling in the shad- ows of # nearby corridor, and he could have sworn that he saw @ human hand withdrawn from an embrasure that opened above him into the @omelike rovunda in which he found himself. ‘The floor of the chamber wag of con- crete, the walle of emooth granite, upon which atrange figures of men and beas's en tablets of yel- in the solid Quickly he learned thelr thelr savage customs and the of their wild, primitive, tribal Be found that they were not ca that they looked with loathing Bd contempt upon men who ate meat. Maul, one of the warriors, told him | legends. How many years Ms people had come many long hea from the north; how once they been t and powerful tribe, how the raiders had wrought f favoo among them with thelr dealing guns that they had been to a mere remnant of thelr for- tal masonry of the ‘When he appr these tablets he saw thi and bore many this first chamber there were others, and back of th the bullding branched out into enormous wings. Tarzan passed through several of these chambers, find- ing many evidences of fabulous wealth of the original buliders. In one hed closer to one of dt was of gold, hice. Beyond the entire party fumbers and power, lay beneath the pitiless tropic with m were seven pillars of eolid gold, thelr monotonous chant and steps, whence came the yellow metal, parched lips and swollen tongues, walt- and in another the floor itself waa of tas then suddenly, and in portent unte he asked, Ing for the death they were beginning the precious metal. And all the while gon, they tarned toward their victim to crave. At last only Thuran, Clayton and Jane oe ee ight that Tarzan of the Apes became chief of the Wazirl the woman he loved lay dying in a tiny boat two hundred miles wext of him upon the Atlantic, As he danced among his naked fellow savages, the firellzh wainst his great, rollin personification of physical and strength, the woman who loved him lay Orin und emaciated in the last coma that precedes death by thirst and starvation, that he explored, his blacks huddled close together at his back, and atrange shapes hovered upon either hand and before them and behind, yet never close enough that any might say that thoy were not alone, ‘They are watohing us, O King,” whispered Buaull, “They are waiting until they have Jed us into the inner- moat recesses of their stronghold, and then they will fall poo us and War us a to pleces with their teeth. at is the . way Irita, My mother's uncle, CHAPTER Xiill. who is a great witch doctor, has tokl me all about It many times,’ la. with upraised biudgeons and emitting fearful howls, the while they contorted their features into the most diabolical expressions, they rushed upon him, At the game instant a female figure dashed into the midst of the blood- and, with @ bludgeon Own, except that It was wrought from gold, beat back the ad- vanclng men, black pointed toward the @outh- moon's march away—maybe more,” ‘ replied. ve you been there?" asked Tarzan, jo, but some of our people were Their were their ka were tipped with It, jwe, And they cooked In Almost immediately Tarzan began Tarzan laughed. ‘Run back wey i for leading an expedi- sunlight, my children,” he said. OR @ moment Tarsan thought Brent wall. ‘They wore very ferce, tion In search of the ruined city of gold join you when I have searched this oll that by some atran of fate @ miracle had saved ing out and falling upon our war- him, but when he realised fore ever they learned that thelr Was & peaceful one, Our men which old Wasigi had described to him, He selected fifty of the sturdiest war- riora of his tribe, choosing only men Tuln from top to bottom, and found the gold, or found that there is none, At least we may take the tablets froin ‘tow im number, but they held thelr who anzious to accompany him the walls, the are too handed, beaten off . ‘the tep ef & litle rocky hill, un» on the arduous march, share the heavy: 4 gortilauke r back at eunset dangers.of @ new and omen sacle be greae os le wi ur ' i ( “Bventeag World Daily Magazine, E RETURN OF TARZAN »& By E.R. Burrou ra, wld monosyllabic id: dance about him while she addrensed them in a aing-song monotone, which bore every evidence of rote, he came to the conchision that ft was al! but « of the ceremony of which he wi fAgure. After a moment or two the girl drew & knife from her girdle, over Tarza lege, Then, dance and approached, she motioned to him to rise. Placing the rope that had been about his legs around she led him across the courtyard, the men following in twos, Through winding corridora ehe led, farther and farther into the remoter Precints of the temple, until they came to a great chamber, in the centre of which stood an altar; Then it waa that Tarzan translated the strange ceremony that had preceded his introduction into this holy of holies. He had fallen into the hands of de- scendants of the ancient sun worship. pers. His seeming reacue by a votareas of the high priestess of had the sun been but @ part of imicry of their heathen ceremony—th sun looking down upon ugh the opening the top of the court had claimed him as his own, and the tess had flaming ‘deity. And had he needed further aasuran: as to the correctness of his theory he hed only to cast his eyes upon the brownish-red staing that caked the stone altar and covered the floor in its im- mediate vicinity, or to the human skuils which grinned from countless niches In the towering walls, The priestens led the victim to the altar stops, Again the galleries above An with watohers, while from arched doorway at the east end of tl chamber a procession slowly {nto the room. They wore, like the men, only #kins of wild antmals caught about their waists with rawhide belts or chains of gold; but the binck ‘Ty masses of thelr halr were incrusted with golden headr composed of many clreular and oval pieces of gold ingeniously held together to form a metal cap, from which depended at each @ide of the head long atrings of oval pieces falling to the waist, ‘The females were more symmetrically proportioned than the males, thelr fea- turea were mich more perfect, the vhapes of their heads and their large, soft, black eyes denoting far greater Dintelligence and humanity than was pos- scaned by their lorgp’ind masters, Each priestess bore two golden cups, and as they formed @ line on elther side of the altar the men formed oppo- site them, advancing and taking each & cup from the femalg @ppoeite. = Then the chant began’ onee more, ently from a dark passageway beyond the altar another female emerged from the cavernous depths beneath the chani- ber. ‘The high priestess, thought Tarzan. She was @ young woman with a rather Intelligent and shapely face. Her orna- ments were gimilar to those worn by her votaries, but much more elaborate, many being eet with diamonds, Hor bare arms and legs were almost con- cealed by the massive, bejewelled orna- ments which covered them, while her aingle leopard skin was supported by & eclose-fitting girdle of golden rings set in strange designs with innumerable @mall diamonds, In the girdle she car- ried a long, jewelled kn! hand a slender wand bludgeon. ‘As she advanced Bo the opposite side of the altar she ha! a the chanting ceased. § Thi jt knelt before her tended above them she recited long and tiresome prayer. Her volce was @oft and musical—-Targan could scarce realise that its possessor in a moment more would be transformed by the fanatical ecstasy of religious zeal into a wild-eyed and bloodthiraty executioner, who, with dripping knife, would be the first to drink her victim's red, warm dlood from the little golden cup that @tood upon the altar. As ahe finished her prayer e) ind prea- let her eyes rest for the first time upon Tarsan. With every indication of con- able curiosity she examined him from head to foot. Then she addressed him, and when she had finished stood ‘wait as though ahe expected a reply. “I do not understand your language,” eaid Tarzan, “Poselbly we may speak together In another tongue?” But a could not understand him, though he ¢; tried French, Englleh, Arab, Wasir! and, a6 a last resort, the mongrel tongue of the Weat Const. he shook her head, and it seemed that there was a note of weariness in her voloe as she motioned to the priests to continue with the rites. These now circled in a repetition of their iMlotie dance, which was terminated finally at @ command from the priestess, who had tood throughout, atill looking intently upon Tarzan. ‘At her signal the priesls rushed’ upon the ape<nan, and, fting him bodily, Jaid him upon his Dace across the altar, his head hanging over one edge, his legs over the opposite, Then they and the priestesses formed in two lines, with their little golden cups in readi- ness to capture a share of the victiin's Uife-blood after the sacifiolal knife had accomplished its work, In the Mne of priesta an altercation fafoue an to who should have first piace. A burly brute with all the refined int Ugence of a gorilla stamped upon his beatial face was attempting to push a emailer man to second place, but the emailer one appealed to the high prie eas, who in a cold, peremptory voice Sent the larger to the extreme end of Tarzan could hear him grow!l- while she slow- rp knife aloft, It to the ape-man before her ceased {ite upward progress and the knife halted Nigh above hie unpro- tected breast. Then {& started downward, slowly at first, but, us the incantation increased in rapidity, with greater speed. At the end of the line Tarzan could atill hear the grumbling of the diagruntled priest. an’ voice rose louder and loud tena near him spoke in sha: of rebuke, Tho knife was quite breast now, but it raise leawure at th « isp! rilegious interruption. There was a sudden commotion tn the direction of the disputants, and Tarsan rolled his head in their dires- tion tn time to see the burly brute of & priest upon the woman opposite hy f females filed gh (A COMPLETE NOVEL IN THE EVENING WORLD EACH WEEK. Next—“The Trail to Yesterday,” by C. A. Seltzer, Author of “The Two-Gun Man,” Etc.) the wild denizens of his own savaze jungie, He had een the thing fall upon Kerchak, and Tublat, and Ter- kon; upon a a of the other mighty bull apes of ribe; and upon Tan- tor, the elephant; there was scarce any he males of the forest that did not at times fah prey to it, The pricat ad, and with his heavy bludgeon Fan amok among his fello * lis screams of rage were frightful the dashed hither and thither, deals Ing terrific blows with his giant weapon, or sinking hin yellow fanga into the flesh of some luckiess victim. And during it the priestess stood with poised knife above Tarzan, her eyes fixed in horror upon the maniacal thing that waa deal. ing out death and destruction to her votaries, 1 Presently the room was emptied ex- cept for the dead and dying on the floor, the vittim upon the altar, the thigh priestess and the madman. As the cunning eyes of the latter fell upon the ey lighted with a new and it. Slowly he crept toward Dut this the ‘a surprised eare @ language he could understand; the leet one that he would ever ha thought of empoying in attempting converse with human beinge—the low, guttural barking of the tribe of great anthropoide—hia own mother tongue. And @ié woman answered the man in the same language. ‘He was threatening— she attempting to reason with him, for ft was quite evi- dent that ahe saw that he was past her authority. The brute was quite close now—creeping with clawiike hands ex- tended toward her around the end of the altar. ‘Tarsan strained at the bonds which held his arms pinioned behind him. The not ece—ahe had forgotten in the horror of the danger As the brute aide from ti atood; but as he aprang to his feet the thongs dropped from his freed arms, and at the same time he realised that fi he was alone in the inner temple—tho high priestess and the mad priest had disappeared, ‘And then a nvuffied scream came from the cavernous mouth of the dark hole beyond sacrificial altar through whieh the jean had entered the tem- ple, Withsyt' even a thought for hie own ,7@r the possibility for escape which Pepld serien of fortuitous circumstances had thrust upon him, ‘Taksan of: the Apes anawered the call of the wom~n in ‘With @ Sithe bor he was by tell ranean chamber, moment later was running down @ flight of age-old concrete steps that led he lonew not-where. ‘The faint light that filtered in from above showed him a ‘se, low: vault, from which several doorways led off inte inky darkness, but th was no need to thread an unknown way, for there before him lay the objecta of bis search—the mad brute hed the sir upon the floor, and gorilla-like fingers were clutching frantically at her throat as she struggied to escape the fury of fell upon hie shou! 1 priest dropped his vic- and turned upon her would-be res- cuer, With foam-feoked lips and bared fange the mad sun-worshipper battled h the ten-fold power of thi ac, In the blood-lat of his tury ture had undergone & sudden reversion to type, which left him a forgetful of the dager, from his belt—thinking weapons with which bis’ had battled, But if he could hands to advantage, Rio veath found one even better versed in @ohool of ace wartare to which he had rev for Tarsan of the Apés closed. wittt ie, and they fell to the floor rending at one another like apes; while the primi flattened against the wall, w: fear-fuscinated ey h At last ahe saw one mighty hand upon the throat of his antagoniat, and as he forced the brute man’a head far is rain bdlow after upturned face. A meo- ment later ha threw the atill thing frou im, and, arising, shook himself lke at lion, He placed a foot upon the carcass before him and raleed his bead to give the victory cry of his kind, but as his eyes fell upon the opening above him leading into the temple of human eacrifice he thought better of his in- , who had deen half paralyzed by fear as the two men fought, had just commenced to give thought to her proba! fate now that, though re- leased from the clutches of @ madman, ahe had fallen into the hands of one moment he had point of killing. — 5 looked about for som s of eacal The black mouth of @ diverging oo! dor wae near at hand, but as to dart Into it the ape-man'a eye fell upon her, and a restraining hand was laid mn her arm. “Walt!” sald Tarsan of the Apes, in the language of the tribe of Kerchak. ‘The girl looked at hum in astonish- ment. “Who are you,” she whispered, “who speaks the language of the first man?” 1 am Tarzan of the Apes,” he an- ed in the vernacular of the anthro- g' pol “What do you want of me?" she con- tinued. “For what purpose did you @ me from T! ‘I could not see & woman murdered?" It was a half question that answered rr. “But what do you Intend to do with continued, he replied, “but you can @o something with me—you ean lend me out of this place to freedor He made the suggestion without the slight- eet thought that she would accede, He felt quite sure that the sacrifice would 0 on from the point where it had been Interrupted if the high priestess had her way, though he waa equally positive that they would find Tarzan of the Ape: unbound and with a long dagger in his han@ a much less tractable victim thag Tarzan disarmed and bound ‘The giri stood looking at be | moment before she ay Yo. him for @ : 1 wae a littie girl, You are such @ man as I imagine the forbeurs of my people must have deen—the great race of peop- ple who bullt this mighty city in the heart of @ savage world that they might trom the bowels of the earth the for whieh led ages borne thelr ancient ct IT came to a amall_chan areur oo “The Lady Doc”’ By Caroline Lockhart, author of “Me, Smith,” &c. The invasion of cowbey-land by a forcetul and fasck nating young woman from the East. “The Trail to Yesterday By C. A. Seltzer, author “The Two-Gun Ma he Range-Riders,” &e, A real girl's adventure with a real man in a real country. “Maids of Paradise”’ By Robert W. Chansbers, author off “The .Common Law," “Lorraine, c. An exiled American's exploits in an. out-of-the-way corner_of France, and his services to two women of mystery. ‘*Balaoo”’ By: Gaston Leroux, author of “The Yellow Room,” &c. A French pro- fessor captures a “missing link” in Borneo and transposes it into a man with decidedly startling results, Cherub Devine By Sewell Ford, author of “Shorty,” “The Torchy Stories,” &c. A selfs meade millionaire Quys 9 strange house and finds he has gained more than he bargained for. * A rich young Americam becemes lord of a German castle ong a series’ of “Graustark” bir ory to iy reeque in the first place, and now thé Dead, venetian (6 Tohe-dlad efiy of 1 cannot understand why, having me Oper. . <miaa Sih abet within your power, you do not to ! z be upon’ me for having ea. - Cl nals tenced you to death—for having almost ‘i Dut you U6 death with my, own hand.” The Castaways. + he presume," re eo ape-man, “that you but followed the p tenantnge of pce bere at Bowes - your Feligion, I canngt 1 you for, ip 1 ikat, to matter what’ t may. think of Gaiightfan cee your —— . A. is) are pemraraat inset With ‘a bth: be re- ple haye I fallen arhong?” ana FT ee i rerscteae “st tho Tem’ Nimbelt sen tareuoh by eoprenns Ue feae ple of the Sun, in the city of Opar. are descendants of % people id rnd — to hie savage woud more than ar was beating :gewn thousand years fetin search of gold. He opened his mont on outy be mad 80° a ae ened that he was fait upon hie handat pees Jay Monsieur Thuran. Jane Porter was Uttle heap i@-the Bottom phe waa quite ati Clayton Their cities stretched from a gfeat under the naing pun to a great sen into which the @un descends at night to cool his flaming brow, They were very rich and very powerful, but they lived only ® few montha of the year in theig magnificent palaces the reat of the time they apent in their native lard, , far to the north, Many ships went back and forth be- n this new world and the old, Bure ing the rainy season there were but few of the Inhatitanta remained here, only those who superintended the worki of the mines by the black slaves, a the merchanta who had stay to swp- ply thelr wants, and the sokiiers who guarded the cities and the nvineg. tn “It wae at one of these times that @reat calamity occurred, When the time came for the teeming thousands to return none came, For weeks the people walted. Then they sent out & great galley to learn why no one came from the mother country, but though they sailed about for many montns, they were unable to find any trace of the mighty land that had for countless tll ai mi cs vbinperel,, A Raver, tay ft the north ana the bine acta he 6 lack hordes of the no: “i te ‘ne we hordes of the south. One by one ¢ Teast drink = cities were denerted of ov sory The bat both,” fh, bee jast remnant was finally force take “Moneteu: Laat ert thie, ahty mOUNISIN Qialtor ih yee te bo oese me fortress, Slowly we have dwindied in in civilisation, in intellect, in Go, Sot | hoon, ® \siaee, i SIC ne Mves and this rain ovirep bins “Land. '° aymest be” pid" Sracked pe: Piny: =r first men—we speak quite as muoh aa we in the rituala of the our progenitors may have sprung. “But why are you more human than the others?” asked the man. “or some reason) the women bar mot reverted to savagery ao rapidly BD the men. It may be because only the Jower types of men remained here at the time of the great catastrophe, while the temples Were filled with the noblest Gaughtera of the race. My strain has femained clearer than the rest because for countless agea my foremothers were ne sacred office de- , Our husbands are chosen for us from tl noblest in the land. The most perfect man, mentally and physically, is selected to be the husband of the high priestess.’ “From whet | eaw of the emen above,” sald Tarsan, with a » “there whould be little trouble in choosing from emong them. The girl looked et tim quissieally for ®& moment. “Do not be sacrilegious,” ehe sald. “They are very holy mea—they ere ter to look upon?" he asked, “The others ate all more ugiy than the priests," ehe replied. ‘arsan shuddered at her fate, for vault he wan impressed by her beauty. erougt) | ‘But hos he asked, ‘themearenares we middenly. “Are you going to lead me dark, to liberty?” “You have been chosen by The Flam- ing God as his own,” she answered, gol- emnly. it even I have the power to save you~should they find you again. But I do not intend that they shall find you, You risked your life to save wine, 1 may do no lems for yyu. It will 4 trapped no easy matter—It may require days; ee lag, cows but In the end J think that I oan lead anol % you beyond the walls, C they wil! look here for me presently For a month they Itved deach in comparative: structed othe anal of 8 tree, high foty to insure saf of prey. 1 had proved false to my “You must not take ¢ he sald, quickly. "I will return to the ¢ temple, and if I can fight my way to freedom there will be no suspicion thrown upon you." Hut she would not have it so, and finally persuaded hin to follow ter, gaying that they had already remained fn the vault tou long to prevent suspl- clon from falling upon her even sf they returned tu the témple “LT will hide you, and then return eho said, “teling them that I 8 jong unconscious after you killed Tha, and that J dy not know whither rooms—one fér wad Pegg peerage yom the drat tha, Rawstaas ‘seine, “fi obsish tes led him through winding corridors of gloom, until finally th er, Into whio! Arde light fitered through a stene @ ing in the coiling, “This 9 the Chamber of the Dead, ahe said, “None will think of searai tng here for you-they would not dare. 1 will revurn after it ie dark. time I may have founda plan alias Jane Porter's thoughts revertes to her other pana, te t} shore, Ab! 1¢ the tw ror of that dead past were> but with: now, No longer to fear from prowling ae the, Daatiot asians ‘Bho "bonke i a