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PS Eventig World Daily Magazine, Friday, January 23, 1914 ° THE RETURN OF TARZAN w& By E.R. Burroughs (The Nine Novels to Follow (A COMPLETE NOVEL IN THE EVENING WORLD| “The Lady Doc” |“Joan Thursday” EACH WEEK. Next—“The ‘Trail to Yesterday,” by| Mucins viii fs) i bet ear Tu bom Bo C. A. Seltzer, Author of “The Two-Gun Man,” Etc.) . cowboy-land by a forceful and fascl- &e. & New York gitts (ight finite labor and considerable peril even man's face was averted; the woman's woull occasionally drag a hunk of ‘ 4% 2 nating young woman from the East. my stage fame, and her rise: from poe The Trail to Yesterday”| ny to erestacss ' to the ape-man; but at last he felt bowed in prayer. He ld not dhe meat #ith mi the soft soll of the valley beneath hia features of either, os "When they ‘discovered ‘that’ thelr cap. By C. A. Sellzer, author of “The] oe ” Two-Gun Man,” “The Range Riders,” ‘November Joe feet, and without a backward glance at Already Numa was about to apring. tive had regained conscloumnesm, a piece — us yp ty Lb ure with 8] By Hesketh Pritchard, author of Opar, he turned his face toward the There was not a second to spare. Tar- of this repulsive atew wan tossed to her see beet acne f “Don Q,” fe. A forest Sherloek Guardian cliffs, and at @ rapid trot se: xan saw that it would be. impossible from the foul hand ot a nearty feaster. | “* Maids of Paradise” Holmes who has eff across the ley. fit an arrew in time to send one of hid It rolled close to her sida, but she ped So gentes ‘The sun was just rising as he @ained deadly polsdned shafts into the yellow only closed her eyes as a quaim of nau- | By Robert W. Chambers, author of] for solving crime-mysterles, the summit of the fat mountain at the hide. He waa toe far away tq reach sea surged through her. “The Common La “Lorraine,” 0 valley's western boundary. Far be- the beast In time with his knife, ‘There For many days they travelled through | &c. An exiled American’s exploits in| ‘* The Ship of Coral neath tim he saw smoke arising above was but a single hope—a lone alterna- the dene forest. The girl, footsore and | an out-of-the-way corner of Franc the treetops ofthe forest at the base Of tive, And with the quickness of thought exhausted, wae half-dragged, halt- | and his services to two women of| By H. de Vere Stacpools, suthor of the foothills. the ape-man acted. Pushed through the long, hot, tedious | mp, “The Blue Lagoon,” “Pools of “Man, he murmured. “And there A Ddraway arm flew back—for the daya, Occasionally, when she would ystery. “e were fifty who went forth to track me Selefest fraction ot an Inatant ° huge stumble ond fall, she waa cuffed and | & ‘Balaoo lence,” &c. Another “Treasure . Can It be they?” ar ve the giant's shoulder kicked by the nearest of the frightful ” wits Pelee down, an It De inet tne face of the —and then the mighty arm shot out, men Leng before they reached’ their | By Gaston Leroux, author of “The| ®% the eruption 93 9 dropping into a narrow ra- i switt death tore through the in- Journey's, end her shoes had been dis. Yellow Room,” &¢. A French pro-| climax, hich led down to the far forest, ter ea j—the goles entirely gone. jer fessor captures a “missing link" {iNjastened onward in the direction of ‘heart of the leaping lton. Without A clothes were torn to mere shreds and | Borneo na oreanponee it ite ny ‘A Fool and HisMoney”’ the amoke, Atriking the ferest’s edge sound he rolled aver at the very feet of tatters, and through the pitiful rage her with decidedly startling results, about a quarter of a mile from the yd ig intended thee on 5 i. once wiite end tender akin showed raw “C r D e ” By George Barr McCutcheon, euthor hich the slender column arose rf & moment neither the man not and Bleeding from contact with the ‘heru {he atiil alr, he Took to the treea Cau the woman moved. | Then the latter thousand pitiless thorna and brambles levine of “Graustark,” “Truxten King,” ee: roa - open er eyes wonder through which she hi been . youn, mericam becomes lerd Genty burat upon his view @ rude boma, upon the dead beast behind her com- ‘The last two days of the journey pipe tere dpe ts fends contre of which, squatted about panion. As that beautiful head went found her in auch utter exhauetion that bg ae tf and encounters tions. thelr ting fires, sat his fifty Diack Wa- up Tarzan of the Apes gave @ gasp of no amount of kicking and abuse could wir, He called to them in thelr own incredulous aatonighment. Was he force her to poor, Bleeding fest. tonguet mad? It could not Be the woman he Outraged naturo had reached the limit . “Arise, my children, and greet your loved! But, Indeed, it wa gr th of enduranee, and ih ah - Afd the womas rose, and the man cally powerlens to ra! even to “ Hoe exclamations of surprise and took her in his arms to kiss her, and of her knees. ‘ fn Te tp ey Bh Seton | big? kn pea og were all hairy-faced fear the warriors leaped to thelr feet, @ audden the ape-man saw red through the beasts eurrounded her. chat- Several huge bulla stood erect to get a one,’ he sald, “and that one was @ ae acarcely knowing whether to flee or not. a bloody miat of murder, and the old tering threateningly, the while pound Reais ine eee Cavaeaed Beh Gd ORO than this stranger, upon his forehead burned scarlet goaded her with thelr oudgels and beat {ange and bristling necks they a@vatuel ald be Shue ‘ed @ thumb at Tarsan, it Srxorsis or PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Clayton mastered himself sufficiently. “ . gm i to raise his head and turn toward the {ride of apes end brought up iM the tion An ejaculation of surprise buret rH ‘Then Tarsan di slowly toward with deep-throated, The ape<nan was all attention ia from his lips. At thelr very feet the perhasiag ‘brown hi and kicked het with thelr fists and feet, ae beast lay crumpled in death. A heavy , Svnen they Fi a terrible expression upon she lay with cl ominous growls. inetant. | He asked questions as losed War e@pear protruded from the tawny their chief in the flesh, and no mat: face as he fitted a poisoned the mereif “Kamath, I am Tarsan of the Apes," 4&8 the slow-witted anthropoid -_ ; hide. It had entered the great back At. they went mad with joy. shaft to his bow. An ugly light gleamed could gt aid the ape-man in the vernacular of Ser them. 18 above the right shoulder, and, passing “ee et Goweren, in those gray eyes as he sighted, full but it did not come, and presently the the tribe. ‘You remember me, To- thd the bulls short, with creeked swerouml seiperecs entirely through the body, had pierced cried Basull. ran away and bes at the back of the unsuapecting man any frightful Fred Lye] that ert oe thas anee th Nume hetero eed They were.” under (od wren) the savage heart. As bh tht the nature te your fate; but when our pani victim was no longer jo walk, an rewin: « maroned on the African coast, @ sat speculating on you y hi "Did they wear the shine of Jane Porter had rinen to her feet; as to return and save fo they ploked her up and carried her him trem the safety of high fume eee turer, o8 wpamare, of the other or and uses of this strange passage and ite was over we swor the Journe: ranches.” and Sheeta atout thelr loins, and enrry 1 f { ‘ag med pamenres, Clayton turned back to her she stag- terminal shaft, the moon topped the or at least take revenge upon your “ j ee Digg A ates $74, Mi gered in weaknesn. Ho put out his opening avover letting a food ef soft, wurderers were but now prepat- far back, that the arrow might pi afternoon she eaw the ‘The rute he had eddressed etoppea “tena, md knives? | \ ¥ looming alt ing, dull «Ane? before them; but so weak and sick was Seederesn: ites Ah cette toe, ‘And were there many yellow rings jerers. ree 4 ‘* arms te save her from failing, and then stivery tight into the shadowy place. ing to scale the heights once more and through the heart for which It was w Soot a o him—preasing her inatantly the nature of the ehatt became creep the desolate valley te the terrible aimed. But he did not release the fatal mes- ne fi cay nabitante, Their (rew her close we faintest “= meeontinied Taraan, ad. rot thelr arms and leget” Y in @ subletranean head agaist hii joulder, he stooped agparent to Tarzan, for far below him city,” 1 that It Inspired not the faintes! ‘An@ Magor,” con’ in tha expr rape camp > to kiss her in thankegiving. ee eran aurtace of water. ““Tiave you esen fifty frightful men eenger’ Slowly the point of the arrew enadew of interest. Wherever they dressing another, “de you not retail And the ho cases she senalt eden sae telinacctewcd Gently the girl pushed him away. ‘He had come upon an ancient well, but pass down from the cliffs into this for- drooped; th upon the brown fore- Were bearing her there could be but your Ci whe slew the le eae whiter" and “Please do not do that, William,” what was the purpose of the connec- est, my children?” asked Tarzan. head faded; ‘dowatring relaxed, and one’ end te her captivity among these mighty Kerehak? Look at me! Am I“ very —_—-—— she suld, “I have lived & thousaa@ tion between the well and the dungeom “Yes, Wazir!,” replied Basull. “They Tarzan of the Apes, with bowed head, “erce half@rutes. not the came Tarsan—mighty Bunter Dit she seem to be one of the CHAPTER XIV. yeare in the past brief moments, T in which he had been hidden? passed un late yesterday, as we turned sadly Into the ingle toward the _ At last they passed through two great invincible Aghter—that yeu all knew for o, y' She trite, have learned in the face of death how ay the moon crossed the f about to turn back after village of ‘Wasirl. walls and came to the ruined city many seasonat” Thi ‘ The Castaways. to live. Ido not wish to turt you more ene shaft ite Heht foo ‘whole no woodcraft. We heard them coming within, Into @ crumbling pile they bore -, a hed than ts necessary; but I can no longer interior, and then Tai w directly for a mile before we saw them, and as CHAPTER 1 her, and here she was surrounded by INCE, when Claytom had Bone yu0) to tive out the imposible postion geroms from him another epening in the we had other business in hand we wit Xvi. hundreds more of the same creatures p to thelittle stream for water, Y"have attempted decane of n {alle opposite, wall, Te. wondered Mi tNIS Srew inte the forest and let them PM. THe Furey rightful BM, ee Maange lechen thee Sanctote, and Thuran hed spoken sense of loyalty to an impulsive prom- might not be the mouth of @ pat ‘They were waddling rapidly along upon vy ig (em. were females who looked teas horvible. coarsely tb her, she voided ise I made you. leading to possible escape, It would short legs, and now and then one wouk! OR several long minutes Jane At Sight of them the first faint hope a4, that she had entertained came to miti- Porter and William Cecil gate her misery, But it was short- layton stood aliently took- lived, tor the women offered her no ing at the dead tedy of the sympathy, though, on the other hand, “ > have taught he determined to do. gorilla, They were indeed fifty frightful ‘It Je well for you, Monsteur Thuren, oun to attempt further to doceive my- Quickly returning to the wall he had men, Wasiri.” her thoughts. “The iast worth Investigating, at least, and thie g5 upon ell fours Nike Bolgant, the F self and you, or fo entertain for an In- aemolished to explore what lay beyond when Tarzan had related his adven- the posaibilty of ever be- it, he carried the stones into the P@@- tures, and tokl them of the yell beast whose prey they had neither did they abuse her. 4 sa onete wite, should we regain clV- asgoway and replaced them from that metal, he had found not one demurred #0 narrowly encaped becoming. ‘Atter ahe had been inapected te the “2+ fization.” aide. The deep deposits of dust which wien he outlined a plan to return by The girl was the first to speak again entire satisfaction of the inmates ef the ‘And {t was the next day hat the ne had noticed upon the blocks a8 he nignt and bring away what they could after her outbreak of impulsive avowal. calamity dete. haa'first removed them from the wall carry are evant trensure, and eo it was “Who could {t have Seen?" she whie- ber in the vaulte beneath, and here upon had convinced him that even if the Dres- that as dusk fell across the Ceaolate pered. the Rare floor she was left with a metal ent occupanta of the ancient pile h84 valley of Oper fifty ebon warriors trailed “dod knows!" was the man's only nd another of food. CHAPTER Xv. Pipe peg any Sernebe they at'a smart trot over the dry apd dusty reply. For a week she aaw only some of the ’ q Vaults of O had made no use of it for La ground toward the giant Dowlder that "Ie it Ja friena, why does he fromen, whose Si le ee be tees oe Treasure . lo: joomed defore the elty. + Not ehow * contin lane. food and water:. strength rection The Vents ot Cpe “the all replaced, Tarsan returne@ 7¢ it hea ecemed ® AiMoult tame to “Woukin't it be well to call out to him, was returning—seen she would be in T was quite dart: tefore Ia, to ¢ 5 Atteon gencend the face of the bowider, Tar- and at ieast-thank him?” condition to offer as & the high priestess, returned to feet wide at thie point. To leap across yan goen found that It would be next to. Mechantcally Clayton did her bidding, the Flaming God. Fortunate indeed it the Chamber of the Dead with intervening space was # small mat- inposatble to his fifty warriors ta but there was no response, wan that ahe could not know the fate gitention to him ‘ea tl he bad food and drink for Tarzan, ter to the ape-man, and a moment later the suremit, iy the feat was ac- Jane Potter shuddered. “The myste- for which she was deatined. prs Cann on near De How Bho bore no light, feeling with ‘e Was proceeding along & narrow t8n- complidhed by dint of Beroulean efforts rigue’ jungle," she murmured. ‘The eee e eee te b= pan] fad not ‘al “the crumbling walls "el. ‘moving cautiously for fear of be- upon ¢he part of te ape-man. “en terrible jungle! It renders even th An Tartan ef the de ag berg! ‘bulls who her. bande srytt o : ing precipitated into another shaft @UCR g5earq were fastened if ‘of frlendahip tereit’ ionan ke ne a done Seven wiy ben m2 a enough a remember him ¢ sialed mber. as he had just crossed. ‘with one end of this remarkable chain “We had best return to the shelt spear’ that, oav clarion and Jase fee R. x Tie. pad advanced rome hundred, fest Sttaened. to ‘nia walet Tarzan at 1eet anid Cuayion. “Fou, will be at least Porter from the fangs of Numa ha mind np bared Bio conus 0n6 Or Teema tne when be came to & o = succeeded in réaching the eummiit. Iittle eafer there, I am no her A) olbn ficy pe oie cal y—he ‘Tarean gloom. “Once there he drew up one of od, bittesty. an Alled w the sorro: mediately into hie preper piace. bow! of wat | ! if i = e i iF z i i iy ing downward into the St: whatever,” he add iy. longs to & ¢reahly opened heart wound. ‘Tarsan backed off, growling, the young ‘Theran Some twenty sect below, the level Ao0% stacks, and in this way the entire party “Do not aay thet, be abe has- He was glad that he had stayed hie bull would quite grctatiy ‘have coon Joft: him ‘eaped ov. of the tunnel recommenc: by Wad Gnally ianded in safety upon the tened to urge, scutély worry for the hand im time to prevent the consumme- gatisfed, but always after Tarsan’e \f Sone because I 1 chamber be» Sfterwakd hip progress waa stopped bY bowider'e top. Immediately Farsan let wound her words he@ caused, ‘You tion of the thing that in the first mad station among his fellow apes would wake 18 etel that ne make ra & heavy: wodden door which Was 89 inom te che treasure chamber, Wher® have done the best You Fou wave of jealous wrath he had @ontem- have been beneath that ef the bull Russian, mornii end to each was allotted a load of two have heen noble and self. ieing and plated, Only the fraction ef @ second which had made him etep aside, 4 SESS yetves " jmte one of the severat ave 8 fen Rives in my ater eet ofa the daricheen Terman eeu not see one; : For ton ea Jane Porter laughed. “Yo do not for Se eaice dr clomg 6 wivaing paar ment surely be in ® pamege ingots, for each about sighty pounds. brave, It is no fault of yours that had atood between Clayton and death at Fut Tarsan of the Apen did not back By maléalgnt, the ae Logeeelrres you are not a Cer sie! 4 only the hands of Ce semen In hig sah off. Inatead, he avs ie (ay once more af * one other man ave ever know ‘nO moment that elapeed after it the force of mi mus- {hg to the outer world, for the bolts, 1.1: with their heavy toade it was mid- couia have done more than yor recognized the girl an@ sie a" " if in ner o cles, and, catching the young bull jaxing of the taut muscles side his he & moment imagine that one who has ooo nti at length they came to ® yorring progress from the opposite side. forenoon ere they reached the summit worda were Ill chosen in the exell and the ane \- sent him epra' across known oth, Nenplour pont and Je closed door, Here he heard ate Bivins tended to substantiate this Bypeineris, of the eliffs. Frem there on the home- of the reaction did not wi that held the poleoned shaft directed at the turf. ‘The ape was up yes him could, over ouch bling with a key, and presently obthg woes. It were merely @ prison to w ward journey was slow, as these proud wound you. All that I wi the Englishman's heart, Tefsan had again in a second, and this time they terion whey O14 he travel under an as- the, sound of © meitl Bor win’ Gn tt led. ae A men were unecoustomed to the may both understand once and for aM been qwayed by the ewift and eavase closed with tearing fingers and fending asked Monsicur Thuran, @gainst metal Sie joy vote Along the tope of ¢ pry ‘of porters. Bat they bore thelr nat J can never marry you—that euch impulses ef wrute iife, fange—or at least that had been the in- Ede pot beiteve you!” she orled, but *repine hinges, Soe bere until tommor- layers, off Guet—a | fusther | maw rey iningty, marriage would be wicked.” | He had sean the woman he craved ng bull; but searesly : sed. 3 pre etebir yey Y r ‘goed of peorea Bas we obatacio. & ee y p Me woman— mate-in the arma of had they gone down, growling and enap- another. There had been but one course than the ape-man's fingers Goon to ben, boveréing to the Rerce Seatinrent of hie an lat. jungle code that guided him in this Presently the young dull conae ate Tarzan guided them almost Other existence; but just defore it had struggie and lay quite still. wen! ‘on the morning of the thirty- agirium. They could do nothin, ‘decome too late the softer semtiments gan released his hold wv, third day he bade them break camp a! ‘him, nor was Clayton overanxious of his inherent chivairy had risen above 4iq not wish to kill; only to the return to their own vill lea’ te the girl's ac- the flaming Grea of his passion and young ape, and others who might be ‘out as he heard guia where they had stacked it the pre- od the Russias—in the saved him. A thousand times he hat Tarsan of the Apes was the nearby jungle for deyond the G00r- vious night. art he hoped the man thanks that they had triui missing one, or a the was - eaid. she knew that Hasel @trong TOW Tight” ede @All ine the en anrieked out in neé ‘her forest god only es John it behind her. 3 ‘ef Landon. as . _ A ecant five cniles north of thelr rude ,Wnere Domes hy tral eee th later foe helter, all unknown ¢o them, and prec’ Coiia penetrate the utter bl note which might indie tleally’as remote as though separated Clits tity ne moved forward unt! his usual night noise had by thousands of miles of impenetrable Csiratched hand touched a wall thea mates of the templ jungle, lay the snug ttle cabin of he travelled nothing he advance t his ere, ingtead of eentiouing rd the northwest and their sf mphed tan of the Apes. While farther up the “and you, Wasiri?” they asked. . ‘The thought that something his fingers had released that polished her abductor, But, const, @ few milee beyens. Lg brea "ADP! out twenty feet refully fecting about, he found “1 shall remain here for s few dave, might befall him that woul leave her arrow. - F 2 left by the ity frightful J opeor d crude wat welldantern, eoule—the, occu: SaUnre. of concrete, the nimnelt within a large chamber, along my chiidre replied. “Now hast¢n entirely at the merey of thie beset Ap he contemplated hie return to the in weedcraft aa they Bi cle party of eighteen Rar od Lady Walle of the dry m: is of which, and down the length peck to your wives and children. caused him greater anziety than the waziri the idea became repugnant. He been as pial: dene pants of the three boats from fe ¥ te method of constru f the floor, e ‘piled many tiers of When they had gone Tarzan gath- propadiity that almost death aia the jungie as @ city the 3 Alice, from which round. @mall pieces of gran! metal ingofs of an odd though aniform ered up ¢wo of the ingots and, asprin: ited her should ehe be left entirely Lehman, he crossed Lt rious sizes were ingeniously Ja!d to- ghape, To hin groping hands they felt ing into a tree, ran lightly above the rts of he eruel twenty ‘witheut. ‘ther without mortar to construct these Pe aoe mute Cette tg es sae ig tmapeneteadi le Ronat of Se; forest. a ‘and when he ventured too near anol Sone indication that many men A cfent foundation eo ingots were A dergrowth for a couple of ‘The Bngiishman had extracted th wide mouths and tha: few shert hours ancient foundation’ ing the walle Tar for the enormous number of them Ne Sarde, fo emerge euddenty upon & Cl neavy spear from the body of the lien, Upon ‘him with, wide mouths and Bde, say 9 fom short Roums einen ought he detected # strange phe- would have been positive that they were cular clearing about which the giants 99 that.when he went Into the forest to tan thought he deter'srith no windows gold; but the thought of the fabulous ot tn ‘jungle forest towered like © Runt that corning ne had a feeling of nd but a aingte door. Again he crept wealth these thousands of pounds of guardian ‘host. In the centre of this reater security than at any time tomed hardships tarefully around close to the wall. N®, metal would have represented were they natural amphitheatre was o iittle, flat- since ehey had been cast upon the sav- there was none much the worse for the FATTO CT Dot he mistaken! He paused in reality gold almost convinced him ¢, ‘mound of herd earth. cereece, ‘he rents wan that be experience. Before the centre of the wall opposite that they must be of some Daser ‘metal. lundreds of times before had Tir- trateg garther from the shelter Gould thia wall-organised and com- ‘For'n moment he atoed quite At the far end of the chamber he dis- gan been to this secluded spot, Which ver berare, : paratively secure party of caitaways then fhe moved # few feet covered another barred door, and grein was no densely qurrounded by thorm “io escape as far as peasiMe from the when he 7 reneon have seen the ragged, fear-hunted trio _ then ne sreturned, only tO the bars upon the de renewed the pushes and tangled vines and creepers gre sevabes tar ane tevercatricken Rus. familar sound, Tt wes the passing of © Sera ‘and that his cunping rope & few eniles south of them they would few feot to the other side, hope that he was trave. qnolent of huge girth that not even Sabor, the sien, Jane Porter had descended trom band of great apes through the jungie— toothsome game that they sel- cenreay, bave recognized in them the “once more he made the entire giroult and Corgotten passagews, to J, tiger, could worm his sinuous WSY me ‘shelter to the foot of the tree—ghe he could not mistake it, For several if ever tasted, came again te formerly immaculate members of the oe ing room, feeling carefully@every Beyond the door the passage ranetraight within, nor ‘Tantor, with hie giant aaroq not venture farther, Here, be- minutes he tay ietening, They were Up to iin ea they had in the past i i 3 & ous rears, ekipped out of harm's way, for that also jg @ custem among the apes—only mad Dulle will attack a mother, But after @ while even they became accustomed to him. hunted with them es in days gone He y fale, ou Tense euaon guided ‘hien te the Dest i i Ess iit little company that had laughed and 9449 of the walle. Finally he etopped as a war epear, and it soon ‘became strength, force the barriers which PFO- oi46 the crude ladder Clayton had cem- coming tm the direction of the ampal- me their king. And he yolayed upon the Lady Als fee before the particular section that evident to the ape-man that It Ned tected the council chamber of the ereat Giricted for her, she, eat looking out to eee er Be hea tere Se left the em: My 2 Pa "aroused hia ‘curlosity. ‘There waa already led him beyond the outer walls goog from all but the harmless Genisene Q0s'in‘ing clwaya aurviving hope ahat © \Tarsan arose lasfly and stretched him- hat eter they a wanser. i no doubt of it! A distinct draft of of the tenwle. If he but knew the Gli of the savage jungle. Tease talent be alahted. ww” gif, iis Keon’ cate followed avery Inge they had once more chesen him ao in Sota fresh ait was blowing into the cham- rection It was leading him! If toward “rinty rips Tarsan made defore he “Her back was toward the Jimgin ang movement of the advancing tribe. ‘They py Be / ber through Ae interstices of the ma- the west, then he must also be Beyond nag deposited all’ the ingots within the g gne did not eee the grasses part, or were upwind, and presently he eausht ‘The ape-enan felt quite contented with fellewed Mon ¢ sonry at that partioular point-and no- the ane Leip wee ho Seraad akin Pronsece e ine rycen dy Tae the savage face that peered from be- their scent, though he had x m geeks rT lot. He was not hapoy—that regained hin where else. ‘With increasing hopes he forgs from eo ancient, a |. Little, bleodghet, close- eyes evidence te assure him cout 5 he hi Behind and “raraan tested @everal pleces of the ae rapidly as he dared, until at the lasted tree he produced the freon, id ae orto thie ofted he never could be. Long atnce ehelter while crept TY gcanned her intently, roving trom time he was right. a’ an old and mangy 10m granite which made up the Wall at this.end of half an hour he came to an- epade with which he had uncovered to'time about the open beach for indi: As they rit iar 1. siren up every intention of ret te Go frozen with horror was she that gpot, and finally was rewarded by find- other flight of steps leading upward. the chest of Professor Archimedes Q: cations of the pre ef others than theatre T: a“ of the Apes ry} er see no more his black friends of the ehe could utter no sound, but the fixed ing ‘one which lifted out repdily. It at the bottom this filght was of con- Porter which he had once, apelike, nergeit, sence - oe Paid ging aot the Apso matt nto gee no more is black me terrified gaze of her fear-widened wan about ten inches wide, with @ face crete, but an he ascended hie naked feet buried m this selfeame spot. With this presentiy another head appeared, and arena. There he waited to inspect the fore: ‘He had started Iife an ape— gome three by alx Inches Mowing within felt a muden change in the substance he dug « long trench, inte whtes then another and another. The man in newcomers, Nor had he long to walt. as an ape he would dle, the chamber” One by one te aDe-MAN they were treading. The steps of Con- the fortune that his blacks had carried the gnelter commenced to rave again, Presently a fierce, hairy face @D- He could not, however, erase from * lifted out similarly shaped stanes. The crete had given place to steps of gran- from the forgotten treasure vaults of ong the he Ga aiecuascroa te lente parek | fed Gas, Wal ahainaeyy tee few tack dee waman wall at this point was constructed en- ite, Feeling with hia hands, the ape- the city of Opa and as sudde: they had come, But levee (00% Le loved was winla @ aboot ae It seemed, of these almost perfect man discovered that these latter were That night aot within the ame ONG 8 Suedenly. 68 Drey. nas come, But poute bin The sy H1e eres ook journe In a short time he had removed evidently hewed from rook, for ¢hi hitheatre, and ‘an the girl gave no align of perturbation wage chattered report returned te those reached In to test was no crack to indicate @ joint. Pani SE le I a) chattooed report returned te theve ‘The scout was telling the oth For @ hundred feet the steps wound turning to his Wi aheva, them, he went forth Into “One by one grotesque forms emerged bere of the tribe ti den turning ae ¢ the coast w intending to bring fromm the clear, and that they might enter the the jungle to hun hie the cabin, where he might the unasum amphitheatre in safety. tling of the grasses Firat +) od 5 3 s f 7 il tee! E 8 < + i Ld that might be constantly in dan, ‘That ohe was ily protected he had seen im the brief instant that had witnessed 5 i aise refused to . @ stood mute and rigid, staring wit areas ‘countenance at the living death prise he f creeping to hat Speer of that awtar Sor”, he hag removed, as far ag his Thuran, at could reach. roar, hi to the opening of the of but a few minutes shone the starry sky, H i 32 = the night i ad shelter, and as he saw the tableau below ateep incline replaced steps le o tentic:. She turned, the soft delirium, Iam he hopped up and down, shrieking mit hin body to pass through the terminated at its foot. Up at ite upper For five miles toward the @outh he th a¢ Peer boyy her euered to her thon ‘one by one, nearly @ permitting ‘own u to them ‘in Ruai ture. Directly ahead of him he thought end he came out upon the rough top of @ roamed, toward the banks of a falr- root with a little ahriek of fei f, that he discerned @ faint glow—scarcely huge granite howlder. zed river that flowed into the sea 4 ‘Atte Jeft all alone in this Hat Meanie leor'impenctrabie darkness, A'nile away lay. the ruined city of about el miles from hia cabin. He ahd {rc” uosed upon her with & re ae og Ba Meta and aafety. As the daye passed th ‘and then he broke id Cautiously he moved forward on hands Opar, its domes an@ turrets bathed in gone Inia 4 about half @ mille when gins one of the crestured turned and pecks of their aavage motherm Ching prageg mere an6 More upon, his menced to weep. until at about fifteen fest, or the soft ight of the equatorial moon. there camo suddenly to his trained nos- M her snto the jungle. A Blithy paw a om a es mined to ‘® moment. thi thickness of the foundation ‘Tarzan dropped his eyes to the ingot trila the one scent that sete the whole ered her mouth to atifie her screame. y page FY re re oe te eerie. gracted. the attention of the Ho the floor ended ‘abruptly in a he had brought away with hin, For a savage Jungle a-quiver--Tarean smelled Aided to the weeks of torture «he tad be. Many of on 8 news reached him thal ed al} afted to cast an Inquiring gla! drop, As af out as he could moment he examined It by the moon's man. sintedy underante tha ahook was wore ‘8 } hee howe reached Sica shat siiense all tree, C reach he felt nothing, nor could ‘he find bright rays, then ho raised his head to ‘The wind was dlowing off the ocean, than she could withstand, @hattered bie beyhood. He had frotiched wand toward the east in reckless disregard of the bottom, of ihe bis ee that teak out upon fe bosient Piles of crum- so Tarsan knew as 3, cates of aerves collapsed and abe test played about thi 'y jungle with them accident or death, ability while he lay yaws efore him, ugh, Inging bling grandeur in stance, the ecemt were w UD Mixed goss. a jg their brief childhood. He won- Sefore Tarsan had nies. to the age of She feor, he lowered iS, ‘Opar, re ennsed, “Oper, the on- with the man ecent was the scent ef ‘TWhen whe regained her aennen she dered if they would remember him— tribe a certain youn, sige Ay ws last Clayton Now the Ho body into the darkness to his full length, chanted city of @ dead and forgotten Numa, Man anh Sent “IT had better found hernelf in the thick of the pri the memory of the ape able to mate from among his he was no tenge: ‘Then thropoids followed him. Ther Jealousy te stand bet 3 ’ L Ht f & H ‘i La ring that would epd ¢ Finally it occurred to him to look up, past, the city of the beauties and the hasten,” thought Ape-man, for he va! forest. It was night. A hi and two years | ete if . For f4 Wh irending, yellow fangs. and there above him te saw through 4 boasts, elty of horrors and death; but whites. burned brightly in the little ctearin From the talk which ing oI sank .) bet ‘eriees in prauer, round ops 5) hf Srierd pee as de of ‘gery riohes.” The ingot aes os which she lay, About it squatted fifty learned ghat they had come ts Uke some knight-errant of old, to win ‘o ehut ; ami je trees to frightful men. ‘Their heads and ing—their late kin; ‘ ‘Thyren, weak feom far aahe could reach, ‘The bowlder on which Tarzan found the edge of the Jungle he saw Se onvered ir neade and faces @ new Mng-their late lady from some neighboring com- ‘woman wi hundred feet denea' i an discovered that eo much himself lay well out in the plain be- kneeling in prayer, and before her stood jong arma reated upon the bent knees of to untimely end. i retuned , oould,endure It no longer. 1 as he could. feel converged tween the city and the distant cliffs ho a wild, primitive-looking white man, thelr short, crooked legs. They were ‘Tarsan walked to the end of an over- bride, ana ve darveiing his ee her eyes. Could she be toward the centre of She shaft as it and his black warriors had scaled the hie face buried in his arms. Behind gnawing, like beasts, upon unol foot, hanging limb in plain view of them. quickly before he should forget them, tures, : rose, , This fact prec Possibility of moraing previous. To descend ite rough the man a mangy lion was advancing A pot boiled upon the edge of the fire, ‘The quick eye of » female caught sight Among other thi oooing 2 ings he told of s fe Wbtenbred, “ene” Uecibe incon. nd precipitous face was © task of @owly toward ale ney’ Brey. The and out of it ene et” the creatures of him frst With o barking guttural great ef orange looking apes. Aan E AN Goo oy ‘ covered with mat hair, " _ s+ ” in , . > oem et