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THE RETURN OF TARZAN =~» By. R. Burroughs (7). Nine Novels to: Follo cial = eee oe ca T, ” o ” (A COMPLETE NOVEL IN THE EVENING WORLD| ,!*e Lady Doc” | |“Joan Thursday” EACH WEEK. Next—“The Trail to Yesterday,” by | costs &5 mnact| “The Black Bag,” “The B ry ke. A New York C. At eltzer “ ” hating young woman from the Bast. oy fWeltzer, Author of “Thé Two-Gun Man,” Etc.) — | «The Trull te Yesterday” =the ston id cau very mige. ou in ° a tha hi i hi rail rope, In moment his head was the cliffs rfully of the things that Mon- &e. A real girl's adventure with a] By Hesketh Pritchard, author the edge of the ehaft, The court reach the sum: wuran had told her~of the wo man s empty. ‘The Inhabitants of Opar pon them. And so it was that he was in Piva He Masetid abare dite Tat real in a real country, “Don Q,” &c. A forest Sherlock were viewing the sacrifice, Tarzan coud half a mile down the mountaln-side ore vith , ol it we 2” Weare vee ofa ftom the heat the rsa ile mon cate Daag to ino ve, 'R We ohana eke hs | Maids of Paradise’’ | | toimes wo bus an uncanny graies sacrifivtal cour ance had ceased. edge. hantt’ alwaye, hed. teen true toh ly Robert W. Cham author for solving crime-myster! to fall; but eve th as he thought these they ranged along the cliff nes he was running rapidly toward their cudgel and at her, ae though waiting for her Judg- &c. An exiled American's exploits in “The Ship of Coral’’ ancing Up and down ment and his sentence. an out-of-the-way corner of France, ie xo priestess’ val ve, , ‘ " t Pie aRtel HUMTtn re tie decent) ina para t pesston one Rete ue cane, tt he was Rot speaking the and his services to two women of | By H. de Vere Stacpoole, author of, of the great rootless chamber, Between boundary of their own country. Whether creature he ta! j ; mystery. “The Blue Lagoon,” “Pools of St hin and the altar was the long row of jt wan because they recalled the futility “You ara not angry with me, thent |“ Balaoo’”’ lence,” &c. Another “Treasure Isl} priests and priestesses, awaiting with of thelr former long and irksome search, he asked, J alaoo ts their golden cups the spilling Of the or, after witnessing the ease With which And her reply, though apparently most By Gaston Leroux, author of “The and,” with the Pelee eruption as Ly i! ard - eae penain " TE eee eae ty ceed Tig eateey ruevan wan truly feminine, Yellow Room,” &. A French pro-| climax. wa hand was deacending slowly to- and the last burst of speed, they realized “Is Olga de Coude very beautiful™ | fessor captures a “missing link” in ward the bosom of the frall, qui - the utter hopelessness of further pur- # cy Ld Ure IAAL. Jay HOEStGHER GHOR iis: Bad. Butt, Ie We Gimoate to eea7 kul ee Caran, eee seaes eas teurgned and Borneo and transposes It into a man] “A Fool and HisMoney eA her with decidedly startling results, stone. Tarzan @ave a reached the woods that began at the “ \ almost a sob ae he rec base of the foothills which skirted th Pet One Tata ee SreRUT ESL SE Tey ” By George Barr McCutcheon, author tures of the girl he loved. And then barrier cliffe they turned their faces once *'\) oe erated tiie, MW and erubd Levine of “Graustark,” “Truxtom King,” &e, . eve SAR the sear upon hia forehead turned to a more toward Opar. let her head reat againat hin shoulder, | By Sewell Ford, author of “Shorty,"! 4 rich young American becomes tong pas tidbit" flaming band of scarlet, a red mist Just within the forest's edge, where jie knew that he was forgiven, “The Torchy Stories,” &c. A self- Fores floated vefore hi exes, and. with the he could yet watch the clift-tops, Tal- That night ‘Tarzan bullt a snug tittle | made millionalre Buys & strange tae Creee Rercelonr + ata ‘« ie i“ ’ bo 1 hh ‘bra bh Sore sprang We @ huge lion into theaaidst golog to the nearby rivulet, brournt orn wk eree aad there the tired: Kirt house and finds he has gained more complies of wm giant tree, and there the tired girl than he bargained for. tions. of the votaries, water with which he bathed her faco p Oy eroteh b eath bh the : Seising a cudgel from the nearest and hands; but even this did not revive Oe Lan muriodn canays Ven Th Vines U - ea i of “ priest, he laid about him like a veritable her, and, greatly worried, he gathered protect her, STN Y “ ‘ a s he forged his rapid way to- the girl into his etrong arms once more os me without you, dear, over to Captain Dufri and let a, EA A Se OAT tate ia Tenninston. You yourself have sét us Want the altar “hte hand of La, had and hurried on toward the went ah age ME Bd die FAY And if Thad taken them away law Its course—the ‘beset to ong Journey to Sun hs nay LOY walked RAHA TA hana ” him f ahould have been er worth risking our happiness for,’ Vher ho th jained conaciousn: She djd not open a ely : woman | love-don't you understnd, He aaw the wisdom of Wien ane oamiter cane had’ rover. been: her ayee at once-ehe wae trying to re- ee ee ctr ice, wae iene pent Rave te Ht was we though he attempted and promised. A half hour later able to fathom the secret of the strange the scenes that she Tad 108, we eee ae een nen eare. Where tOexcuse @ fault. and Tennington emerged from White man's escape from the dungeon nessed. Ah, ahe remembered now! The (yuliked their primesal fortnee peor rlvage> Py ree Pt fa er gap gel ge to witch the had locked him. Sheehad alter, the ‘terrible priestess, the de- the underbrush was tangled he took across the body of the dead man und ‘Tonnington was the by 8 " her In hin great arma and bore her 4 ints Tennington did not show the surprise not.intended that he should ever leave acending knife. She gave a little shut- lightly UHRUGW tha troek und. the dave toon io! hada te the presence of strangers in the camp © © on : Cyan and nokott rade gtr cablowreck. he felt. That was not at all what he Opir, for she had looked upon his giant der, for she thought that either thin was (E00 VAN Oe po ey, each a splendid example of’ bravery, for in ® way your loss hae een’ the ‘Late in the afternoon Jane Porter re- paused at the first noise of interruptio him, re he tacurs (he she replied, “I could have i Aigirp he loved Jane Porter no more had she bees ‘tolen Us slikoll, my own. siate thrown away ® He eaw the black warriors y Ky t ed on the Atri a meant, He had been much with this positive the wor @ loved lay either ad handsome face with the eyes hor that the knife had buried it- f , ¥ hove lke that!" she ald, with the saflors from the cruiser, oe 12k tntwaregf Gesiners fair daughter of | Maryland wince tho a prigoner or dead, aN ; Sta'woman and not those of e prigsteas, seit in her heart and she was experi. Nappy. Had it not been for thes anslety esteanicantnttin then he enw a Itthe, brown giant thle. Siesta “rarian ba tiingh the ere ami ina Wreck, of the Lady Alice. and it nat In & day and a.night he covered the tn her clever mind she had concocted encing the brief delirium preceding Uh SIC IT Uda ih CHAPTER XIV. Ing with Lieutenant D'Arset and trea trie whieh eanen him tha TOWN same distance that tho fifty frightful a story of wonderful revelation from death. Ab Abt hth dclahahlt taeshs : \ fate i mt saitgereteey, (2.8 Much more fond of her than ‘would men had taken the better part of a Weex the lips of the flaming xod himself, in And when fnally she mustered cour- that wonderfull Journey inden cnet The Passing of the Ape-Man, | ‘Who is that, t wonder” axe Tene tured bythe ‘city's apelike inhabitanta, Imut re. Prove good for the peace of his mind, 1, traverse, for Tarzan of the Apes which she had been ordered to receive age to open her eyes, the aight that met : 7 tight the scent of ‘ nington to Rokoff, and as the Seg igttuion tat his former “envtors ave for he recalled almost constantly OW travelled along the middle terrace high this wiilte stranger as a mesenger from them confirmed her fears, for she wav [ie Ces Rereee te wr tL or nial HE next morning they set out rained his eyes and met these of igre he clagton rafts‘? MS aud’ radmea te confidence which Mongleur ‘Thuran anove the tangled obstacies that Im- hint to his people on earth. That would that ahe was being borne through a Ten MON a ties and cautioned her upon the short journey to ape-man full upon him he had imparted to him that he and Mtns pede progress upon the ground. satisfy the people of Opar, she knew. leafy paradise in the arma of her dead men He tnd the ete eee tow Tarsan's cabin, Four Wazirl and went white. Strong were engaged. He wondered |! “rhe story the young bull ape had tod The man would be satisfied, she felt love, “If this be death,” she mur- 1% eSniNl, My Pee ke. bore the body of the dead “‘Sapristi!” he cried, and defore CHAPTER XVII. after all, Thuran had yy? og wevkg Made It-clear to him that the girl cap- quite sure, to remain and be her hus- mured, ‘thank God that I am dead’ Ait My It had been the nington realised what he in { plat id : rate tn his statement. He ha@ never tive had been Jane Porter, for thore band rather than to return to the sa You spoke, Jane!” cried Taran, Oty ine atenithily ape=rma hed thrown his fun t0 Nie chewnnae \ ‘outinued,) teen the lightest indication vO was not another small, white “ehe" {n ficial altar. You are regaining consciousness! eee ity ot luk wartlore UNFied Dealde the former Lord ¢ alming point-blank at. Tarean, stoke, near th walnat the ¢ edge of the jungle, the trigger. But the Englishman was | How Tarzan Came Again to #!:\'s part of more than ordinary frlend- ai the jungle. ‘The bin that the older man clone to him—so close that his “y pulls” he had But when she had gone to explain her “Yes, Tarzan of the Apes," ale re- Att A the weet, As Tarzan eaw ship. vognized from the ape's crude descrip- 1 ted, and for the first time in months Miing towar: : , a ten . < plan tohim he had disappeared, though piled, ani thee he t cey of dallahtait wie & © \ Opar. nd then in Monsieur Thuran’s !038. tion ay the grotesque parodies upon hu- the door had been tight locked as he # Of peace and happiness lighted {hen he Baye ey ee vaaull was Nad built ERE is water," he said. ‘f they ar Pi deta manity who Inhabit the ruins of Opar. had left it. id now he had returned her face. w ho had acc led ne Porter w “fl 2 a et ate ae But finally, after what seemed long —materialized from thin alrrand was “Thank God" cried the ape-man, com- Bin vie Oper: Ar opt fot RIM they reached the levelled barrel a fraction @f jad that it was to @ gecond before the hammer fell the cartridge and the bullet that Intended for, Tarzan’s heart. waves who, harmlessly above his head, La tim they @ #0, and th her heart of i you that you maligned She looked up at him quickly. “Mon- ages to the impatient ape-man, he ner prieste as though they had ing to the ground in a little grassy clear- : ‘ wondered ht the marvellous fi ay batore the girl—that cur Thuran tmd become a very doa" topped the barrier cliffs that hemmed ‘ahi Wh Poe | Moment she forgot ing bealde the stream. "I was In tine, pie gl gh yh aera tee character of this wondrous ma you kept her to your fiend." ahe said. | "T iked him very the deaolate valley, and below him ‘ey her vietim, and before she could gather after all.” " Bins they cold. him, Self, and would’ not Much, though L have known him bUt A the grim and awfil rulns of the now Ver wits together again the huge whit Oe ec cle ean tiie share her with mi Shore Sees 0a" , Wideous city of Opar. At a rapid trot tan was standing before her, the i Clayton interrupted hin, “Stop! he , “Then you were not engaged'to marty ye started across the dry and dusty, woran wao had lain upon the altar in “In time to he blurted out. bowl’er-strewn ground toward the goal his arms. the altar, dev though raised by brutes and among Before the Russian could fire ie brutes, had the true chivalry and ten- the apé-man was upon him an@ he@e 1 one only aasoctaten with wrested the firearm from hie Captain Dufranne, Lieutenant D’. What do you me The blacks exhibited considerable won- ence of the white n they found that derness whi the refinements of the highest civil you from death upon @erment at the pre he replied. "Do you girl with him, and wi and @ dosen sailors had rushed erled. “Stop! What manner of cur fy os “ o hit woman they vied with Hon. are you that you traduce the charac Heavens, no! she cried. “I did not of nis desires. ide, Lat” he cried, “You saved not remembei Oe wad ee be tie Womat , They had proceeded aome three miles the eound of the shot, and now 4 of & good woman Nynain we ubnere care for him at all tn that way.” Would be In time to rescue? He me anc aoe ene er mot harm vou, "Save me from death!” she asked, In ong another to do her honor. o aeteing of the ave that hat wepatated them turned the Russian over to them dead! God! 1 wan n fool ever to let There was something that Umesh Ten- hoped against hope. At least he could put do not Interfere or attempt to fol- a puzzled tone, ‘Are we not both dead, happy Waste! taunt Aint ManCINE From Tarzana own. beach when the Out® word. He had explained thd de | you live—you are not fit to live even in ington wanted to say to Hazel Strong ed, and in his wrath it seemed jow, or T shall have to kill you also.” my Tarsan about them, they « , Wazirl who were ahead stopped sud- ter to the French commander betes thia vile lanc —he wanted very badly to say !t, and at he was equal to the task of 0 toe Jaced her upon the graaa by shelter by the #hore, denly, pointing in amazement at & Rokoff arrived, and the offiver gave i is your water," sald the Ras. to say It at once: but somehow the wining out the entire ‘population of that wand Maa ansa te ine RArueas son ie fac ting againat the sfein ‘There was no ‘ign bf life, and no re: | se Tetire yeni ‘hing them along mediate ordere to place the Russian Mf / All you will get.” and he raised Words stuck tn his throat. He started sorrinie city. It was already noon when yaults. of a hure tre At her question he ae to thelr «Alls, oTargan clambered ()'Alke DENG? Sheree ian with « ehity irons and confine him on. beard: Qe in to his lips and drank; what lamety a couple of times, cleared Hl¥ he reached tho great howlder at the iop — “Wio is she?” asked the high priest- stepped back where he could the better ly to the tutemer’ of Mttle tree lik ‘hat, who watked slowly with bent crutper, wel waa left he threw out upon tie ground throat, became red in the fact antl of which terminated the secret passage css, pointing al the unconactous woman. gee her face. hut, only to em later Wit Neag aud hands clasped behind him Just before the guant escorted the, below. Then’ he turizd and left the Anatly ended by remarking that he hoped to the pits heneath the city. Like a cat She is mine," sald Tarzan of the he repented, and then he an empty Mt nm to inderneath the talle of his long, Black prisoner into the emall boat that , aick man, the cabins would be finished Before U1 he wealed the precipitous sides of Ure apes laughed. "You are not, Jane: ad if Rusutl, he y water, and Soe to transport him to his temporary Clayton rolled over, and, burying his Tainy aeasdn commenced. ) frowning granite kopje. A moment later “for a moment the «itl of Opar stood you will return to the city of Opar and then he by ter to COMO “At aight of him Jane Porter uttered Tarzan aaked permission to search ca fame in hin arma, gave up the battle. But, though he did not know tf. Ne he was running through the darkness ‘wide-cved und staring, Then a look ef ask them who dwell there they will te! up. a little cry of nd Joy, and ran and to Ale delight found the até The next day Thuran determined td had conveyed to the Kir! the very imen- oF the jong, straight tunne? that led to hopeless misery suffused her eyer—tears you that | wan nol dead a few short Together " qutehty ahead him. At ve papers concealed upon his persem - net out toward the north along the coast, #age he intended. and it left her HADES the treasure vault, Through thie "6 welled into them and, with a iittle cry. hoursyago. No, dear, we are both elated thin < round of her vo old man looked The shot had brought Jane Partess for he knew that eventually he must —bappler than she had ever before beet passed, then on and on until at last he ghe sank to the cold floor, just ax a much'allve Mah nobleme) * ‘ip, and when he saw Who it wae con- and the others from the cabin, and @ im come to the habitations of civilized men in_all her life came to the well-like shaft upon th® aarm of frightful men dashed past her “fut both Hazel and Monsieur Thuran eves ashe sa fronting him he, too, cried out in rellet moment after the excitement had ie t least he could be no worse off than Just then further conversation 98 onposite side of which lay the dungeon 4, upon. th e-man. mn that you had fallen into the and hollow ever 1 the lines - and) happiness. As Professor Archi- down ahe greeted the surprii _ Re War here, and, fu more, the ray- Interrupted by the sight of @ etrank® with tho false wa vot Tarsan of the Apes wae pot there fold me iindrad mites from tand.” she fering upoh the once young + inedes GQ. Porter folded his daughter Tantiogten Parson Joined neas ter ings of the dying Englishman were get- and terribie looking fgure | whic As he paused a moment upon the when they reached gut to seize lilin. urged, ax though trying to convince gome face re hi teara atreamed down hia ‘he had taken the papers from Rol ting on his nerves. emerged from the Jungle pust south of neink of the well a Mint sound came to With a light bound he had disappearéd jim that he must Indeed be dead. “Thy Ute still lives.” sald Tarzan, "We tl peumed olé face, and. it was weveral and, as he approached Jane Porter Bo he stole Clayton's spear and set the camp. Tennington and oe Lia eats him through the opening above. His into the passaxe leading to the pit® aald that there wae no question bit do all that ¢ one for him, but F iAinutex before he could control himasif troduced him to Tennington. if off wpon his journey. He would have !t at the same time. he Englishman quick ears caught and translated it—it pelow, and when his pursuers came more that it muat have beer vou, and les8 foar that we are too late suMmelently to «peak, John erin Lord Greystoke, ty after they found the ghamber {hat vou could have survived or Det When Busuli had brought he wal*r “Wien, « moment later, he recognized lord,” she killed the siok man before he left hai reached for his revolver, but when tiv was the dance of death that preceded a cautious! ft not occurred to him that It would half-naked, bearded creature called bis qaorifice, and the ain ¢ ritual of the y laughed and Jabbered picked * ‘Tarzan forced a few drape between the a, , ; Th % really have been a kindness to do so. name aloud and came running toward ich priestess, He could even recognize nae a Uiaentoe ney knew that there Lat ree NS, nT conv you that Tam cracked and awollen lips. te wetted Keira Whines mia inet his dorset Bad ment. in aeoe eyed c t That same day he came to a little them he dropped his hand and advanced tha giri'e voive was no exit from the pits other than no spirit?” he asked, with a laugh. "Tt the hot forehead and bathed the pltitul unbalanced mind, for, with the @fforts to appear courteous, aad it 9 cabin by the beach, and his heart filled to meet It he. Could it be that the ceremony marked the one through which he had entered. wan 1 whom the delightful Monsleur timba, Other nembere of the party, he wad been Qtired man: ‘of the 7 with renewed hope as he saw this evi- None would have recognized in the the very thing he had so hastened co Tf he came out at al! he muat come Thuran pushed overboard, but T did net Preaentiy ¢ ton opened his eve" A xo thoroughly convinced that the ape- story of t! ‘ told by hi dence of the proximity of ecivilizat! emaciated creature, covered PY prevent! A wave of horror swept over this way, and they would walt amd @rown—1 will tell you all about it after faint, ahadowy simile man was dead it was & problem to Jana Porter and Lieutenant &, for he thought it but the outpost of 4 garment of amall akins. (98 hin Wan he, after all, to be fuat a watch for him above. a while-and here tam, vers much the Cenance ae he saw the girl leaning ¢ ‘ reconcile the conviclon. with the very to convince Lord Tennington that the expression jitelike appearance of Jane's “forest Were not all quite mad. erin god.” The old man was deeply touched At sunset they buried William Nearby settlement. Had he known to Immacuiate Monsieur Thuran the pa foment too late? Like a frightened — And ao Tarzan of the Apes, carryii® game wild man jou first knew, dale him, At aight of whom it belonged, and that its owner had last seen upon the deck of the LAMY aay ne leaped acrosm the narrow chasm en an onscious Jane Porter, came changed to one of 96 was et that very moment but a few Allce. seere £9. the continuation of the passage be- the pita of Opar beneath the wowiy th her'fest. and "hie all vient, old fellow - Mn A Gass, i . miles inland, Nikolas Rokoff would have Before the other members of the littie yond, At the falae wall he tore like ono a dy Ylaming God withont be pe fit Te unacaau th a che nae: ain Opa hy ‘dae nor ‘ in ene the jun: ves fled the place as he w community were apprised of the pres- pogseaned to demolish the barrier that purault, But when the men of Opar «7 cannot even yet beileve ft." sie Everything will be all right now, ‘Maerinines GMRPON aneure tie that, CAFS and Lear Gi Bag ew But he did not kno ence Tennington and Miss Strong 4%8- gonfrontea him-—with glant muscler he had talked further about the matter murmured, f mained for a few days to enjoy the se- tloned ‘him regarding the other oceu- forced the opening, thrusting his head they recalled to mind that this Vers) happiness can be true after all the fore you know It” curity and comparative comforts of tae pants of the missing boa| And shoulders through the first small man had eacaped once before into the hideous things that | have passed — ‘The Ehglishnan eiiook his head weak~ cabin. Then he took up his northward ‘They ere all dead,” repited Thuran. hole he made, and carrying the balanca pits, and though they had watched the tnpough these awful montis since the ly, "It's too late,” he whispered. | 'P t cannot be that such We'll have you on your feet again De- io) cased away many days ago.” Tarsan's request that three volleys Thuran ie with you?’ asked Tarsan. fired over the last resting place of : he but recently found ue and brave man, who met his death to your cabin, We were camped | Professor Porter, who in hie Journey once more. “The three sailors died before we made of the wall with him to clatter re- entrance he had not come forth: and ‘Lady Alice went down it's just aa well, Ud rather die + ft daye been 0 \ a Lord Tenninaton's cam grepare oe Prpglidgeldiel Aaa el milpta goundingly upon the cement floor of the vet to-day he liad come upon them fron he came close “Where is Monsieur Thuran?” asked fie i alte: wit be Oud ta basivau pretty iS osrvions ter tha SS tions were going forward to bulld p he ju Y dungeon he outel , 1d again sen fi cei ibe 4 ne, eet. Inaniont uaftere, and then to'mend ont waa Tsing delirious with fever. Clayton “With "a. single tean he cleared. the Atty me out into. the. valier to AN4 Me noge Ne thal Tam’ dreaming, wl cries left me atten the fever got bad. Ny guenriggd.* commented Tarsan, Captain Dufranne. te delay” the sella Br exrenicne at a few men @ che nue tee a sea sae toot all, cris Gaye lensth of the chamber and threw hin- and capture this desecrator of thelr that 1 shall awaken in a moment ty wey He in a devil, When I begged for tie 4 ghort time Inter the strane party of the cruleer a couple ef dave wate degen gry ed withiout Eringe We Rave Neen. seperated. be butya Cow Ste eenoet theancient door, Hut here temple, that awful knife descending toward my Water that fT was too weak to met he came to the clearing in which etood the Went inland @ few miles te } ry ae t he mighty: ha on fter Targan reachemghe shaft be- heart—kine ime, dear, juat olce before drank before me, threw the rest ot goe-man' ; "i 10. Bene ae ee eee aE none tine Gleneacnronly a 4 chy at te Oe akePpeds, he mniehy snare nee ie: Ate r ghe whatt De heart—kine ine, dear, j © before drank bet tH t pe-man's cabin, It wan filled with “belongings,” and the officer Ing the longed-for succor, ope that miles—erarcely @ day's march Other side were proof even against euch yona the hroken wall herfelt #0-HOAl- I tone my dream forever." and tuuehed. tn’ my. facet? At the QpecmiAn'® \CRDID, Te ee i ee granted he taper. ¢ dane Porter, Clayton and Monsieur terribie ek kw Muscles as hin. Tt needed bit amor iene Je? she wuccemsful iasue Of TN crarasr’ ot the Apew meeded no necond thought of It the man was auddenty an: beohl™, comied and Sung, ale eines wie the name afterncen Tasman! ewan. had been rescued bess en ay. Ment’s effort to convince hin of the aight that he stepped to replace h® invitation. He took the girl he loved Cot vitality, Me raised ph of hin Waairl returned with the fet Bietcsor Porter, and he was ao ime He one ter ay atte darks futility of endeavoring to foree that im tumbled stones, for he was sat anstous in hig trong arin and kissed her nt ane elber, | Saas! he “Pout! he cried. ‘fn the name of Of “belongings,” and when the Professor Porter, and he was @o im- ness. of the vault benea tem rape te hi BAR ata: iscnes, swan ) ms and Kissed laa Bae el out!” he ot was not aware of the Iapse of time, know. For a time she was delirious the tong tunnels to the bowlder a nile Wyn rs + and through i thera panting for bre when i Anaiane A avtoe Af@ We ail Insane?® 3 4 “ io tor \e n eu! pon the treasure chamber. Fina eta: . fout his neck But the brief effort left him weal MB thousand questions: bi within a few days they should certalnly ghe commenced slowly to regain her gerosm the open am he had come to tho Led bert away a still greneer, forthna ae eT apes Coen YaeeT Tae many other” seemingly etrange !nsly, obdu ; se@ steamer drop anchor off their strength. Every day the woman who 6iy fest with his Waziri Me cein'the amphi, more Pe tate had’ teen the bed of Jano ike. D'Arnot’s ship had heen crule- @hore, and that then they shouid all he brought her food beckoned to her ty ; than he had already burie - "Am T alive and @ reallty, or am f old ulster, had ing along tha conat, an patrol duty, {2,the source of his immense ti Feunited happily. Rometimes he apoke arise, but for many days the girl cod , Tie realized that to retrace his eters tieaire of the apes Dut dreaming?” he asked. * Porter. y about Thuran* said Whe, at the Heutonant'n suggestion, » Ther & thousand that I lett 8 Of {tas a train, and wondered if it were only ahake her head to indicate that she 4M onier the ets from above grounl | cn through the nassngews: # he trot- if you are not alive, my man,” rhe n't worry about ‘Thuran’ maid they had anchored off the tittle land: tind” he explained, ‘for every eae deing delayed by mowstorms. was too weak, would mean that he would be too late ted, past the first door and through "T pray that LT imay aie this Tarzan of the Apes laying @ reassuring | )00 Nay Dotioter Oe Ae took at 1 brought , and when these ‘Te 1 didn't know the dear old fellow But eventually: ahe was able to gain {0 Save the girl If it were indeed sho the treasure vault: past the second door Awaken to the terrible realities tand on Clayton's forehead. “He be- (oer eee oe ee ein which spent I may wish to return for iby now,” Tennington remarked her feet, and then to stagger a few stens "MO lav upon the sacrificial altar above and into the long, Atraight tunnel that of my last waking moments.” longs to-mecand Tahal get him in tha the cabin and the Jungle in which many “Trve nexe day he returned te woe rene Tshould be quite cers te mapporting herself with one, hand MN Aut there seemed no other war. ind to the lofts hidden exit beyond the "ror a while both were allent—gaxing ¢l, never fear” In axciing adventures two sears before, with the balance of his ingots, Hig’ that he twas-eronot auite: tight, cponithe wally Her captors now watoned Fable amulet ed and ran swiftly back city, dane Porter was atill unconscious. tthert ayer na thougie ris For a tong tine Clayton tay very attil, (9, Orci at iad found Lord Ton. Nien they were stored on Boas@ don’t you know.” her with Increasing Interest. ‘The day eH the Paneer peony tie neokan At the creat of the great bowider he lonad the reality of the won. Several times pat hi hington's Harts, and arrangements wera cruiser Captain Dufranne eal@ “Ete it ot so pathetle tt would was approaching, and the victim was Wall At thy fre heard again the halted to cast a backward glance to- dertui happiness that had come to then, Aulte close to th being made to take them all board lke the commander of an be ridic aid the girl, sadly, "T. ga In atrength. SHOROLORONS Verse OF te nigh BIR. ward the city, Coming aviobs DID Phe past, with ali ite hideous dh the faint beating of th ing morning and ¢ thom SPantsh galleon returning trem h known him all my life, know _ P; tly the das came, anda young ®%4 as he glanced nioft the opening he saw a band of the hideous men c aintmentsa and horror: forgotten ard evening he w treasure cities of the Astecs. "“E ie he worships Jane; but to others It woman whom Jane Porter nad not eeen fWeNtY feet above keemed ao hear that par ra moment ne hesitated. tne future did not belong to them, Ulef moment Tie ond her mother, Ha. KOW what minute my crew will owt Pet vacen that he in perfectly callous horore came with several others to her NAA tempted to leap for it in a wal should he descend and make a race for put the presenta’ that was theire! | “dane.” he whispered. The gil bent neat and Me NAMUEl T Philander (reat and take over the ship.” to her fate. It is only that he is % a%- dungeon. Here some sort of ceremony rae o reach the liner courtyard the diatant cliffs, or should he hide here pone could take that from them, It er head clover to catel the faint mes- wore alinoat overcome by happiness at politely impractical that he cannot con- way performed—that it was of a re ‘hit iny wo neat unt{i night? And then a glance at the was the girl who firet broke the sweet SARS Ot have wronged sou. and th peat ov ersong by ay if next morning, as they were, utels > If he could but get one end of hin 7 oe determined him, He He nodded weakly toward 1 6 Seek S8CRD ing to emb celve of so real a thing as death unless ligious nature the girl was sure, and s9 | seu ene ° f girl's white face detormined ) Torah TTA RRO MECGE Gatrmntee = mbark upon the . nedrly certain proof of it la thrust upon ghe took new heart, and rejoiced that Brass rone cau spon some projection could not keep her here and permit her are we going, dear?” she "L loved vou no it is @ poor excume U9 fue and it. w SHAGhEUL AP rzan ventured a suggestion to sy ‘ she@had fallen among people upon Mt the top of that tantaliging aperture! enemios to get hetweem them and lib tare we going to do?” offer for lnjuring yous but t co could have been achieved wth “Wou'd never guess what he was about whom the fefining and softening infhi- He ibe oatens Marre ee though an erty. For aught he knew they might Id you like beat t Baar t6 think of giving you Sen DAE aLCRH AOA ‘Wild beasts are supposed to be yesterday," continued Tennington. "I ences of religion evidently had fallen. oon te Nao hot fi Fite have been followed through the tun- What would you ti Hed al chert fo evens eet eal mnded the uucomfortable ape-man YOld OF sentiment,” t id, “but ve was coming In alone from a little hunt ‘They would treat her humanely, of that) . M+ nels, and to have foes before and be to do” » do now the thing Ould have done areeaines pect ene tasty theless T should like to be married Sime: when [ met him waking rapidly aloug she was now quite sure. Bled Wail. We selves one) OF sre Mere “ind would reault in almost certain cap. ‘To go where you go, my mani to do Ver uw year ago” Te fumbled In the erat lath ie thee tinphe {ie cabin Where | wax born, beslde sigs ‘ me trail that 1 was following , when they led her from her 4 compos: 5 'Y ture, since he could not feht Min way whatever seeme best to you," she an- Pocket o ulster beneath hin. for LU nother and my thar, \ pee ee the camp, His hands were through long, dark corridors, ™ Me one end of his rope fast to the through the enemy burdened as he WF gwered romething that he had discovered thera * aavade rrounded by the savage ¥ { viaeped beneath the talle of his 1 up a fight of concrete steps to a Sha aaa selling ie. balanog ot the with the unconsclous xirl - Hat Clayton?” he asked. Tor a moe Mille lie lay between paroxyama 0 eee ie ite tee Mat always hax been my hom \ ‘plack coat, and his top hat was brilliant courtyard, she went willingly sere Te ree heir’ ie Li ore descend the steep face of th ment ho had forgotten that there vx. ° , Hreqentl Foun ee bebe man pocelvad: thor: tesa: ¢rlante Would it be quite regular, } firmly down upon hie head, as with eyes —even gladiy, for was she not among ys in h hands powiger with Jane er WAS NO ANY fated upon the earth other than tray Bled bit of yellow paper handed k she asked if it would I knows f bent upon the ground he hastened on. the servants of (iod? It might be, of And. swinging it several times to met the toe, but by binding acrows hhi® two “We hava formotton your hue, It tO.the girl, and am she took Ht hin wr (ir Kime wut when they learied no other place in which T should me ( @ probably’ to some sudden death had { course, that their interpretation of the Halaner and the duvection fixed, be lek shoulders with the @rans rope lie 4° yand,’* ; fell Hmply ‘eronn nia cheat. nie hea 0, Kt call away, won then bw married to my" forest Rod. them ‘not intercepted him. supreme being differed from her own, , 80 ceeded in reaching the ground in sa t ite raid) Ub ot the Topped back, mid with a littl Dh SDI RPRNS OF eet Ae he shade of his primeval \ “Why, where in the world are you but that they owned a god sufficient mati inatend of falling straight before the Oparians arrived at the « Apew, ae cree K ram to the wiiMfened and wan ati, ‘Ther Bes mort a Bee Shey be ane Vers) (nad wien they spoke of it to ound, professor” I asked him. ‘Iam evidence to her that they were kind and te shaft again, it grazed the rock, As the descent had been made promised tn marriage fo day betura (he Abes drew a fulst He MINCE ee ey vo “they were askured that It ii . tumbling over into the court heya » away from the city, the P acroma the upturned fire lie of Lord Tennington 7 would” going into town, Lord Tennington,’ he good. Tr ‘4 Fic upon the side away fr . those awful creatures ture 1 Thuran, They had gone tr and a moat i sald, as seriously porsible, ‘to But when she saw @ atone altar in the ‘arsan dragged for a momen searching party saw nothing of i MOF yooke to Mr. «clayton ¢ Tove toe AM thes rose and xtood on cither wid termination of rkable ron as plain to the postmaster avout.the cents OF the courtyard, and dark-brown thé slack end of the rope until he felt gid they dream that thelr prey was ao SDOK® to MF vlaston of iny love fur oF ihe now peaceful form, tear vainn Went early in the day and not yet Not was t est man and Mase free delivery service we are suffering stains upon it and the nearby con- ‘hat the stone was lodged with fair close before tiem. rene ere ee Ao A to the tnan‘a for through tia returned, free eae whe, air, T haven't had & crete of the floor, wie began to wonder Security at the ahaft's top, then he “By keeping the kople between them {had made. it was after we nat at hin own hea 1 How eurprised this man, whose from Mares ie 'aecks, “There should srato oust, and ae-tney stooped and "UNE OUL Over the black depths tee and thelt pursuers, Tarean of the Apes 1 hed made It was after we liad a 1 ned compassion if NAME YOU AY IK HowolTy will he Lo see Piece teal iettern for me from Jane. pound her ankles and secured her writs neath, The moment hie full welxht managed to cover nearly a milo before [inn kus pause) auddeule and lonkel fathers He carte oeoee ng it agreeable? Metvatter must be reported to Wash: behind ner, ner doubts were turned to Came Upon the rope he felt It allp from tho men of COpar rounded the granite yor at him, me nueaionin ng jooked: throu ee own tears the girl read.) /{8 RMPEIMe WH) De whort-lived,” re wail, taking dridesmaid’s | hang ington at once.’ fear. A moment later lifted above, He waited there In awful sur sentinel and the fugitives before ayes ‘Tarzan nf the Apes,” whe eried, (20 se upon the ala am that lithiated that tide tare: Hazel and { think it would Be ‘And, would you be! it, Miss and placed prone acrosa the altar's top, Pense as tt dropped in little Jerks, Inch them. With loud cries of savage delixht +j+ was you who did t thing? 1¢ [OW Paper: and aa she read ber Pree SG) Te tone the> Sale hee Wak: Bi it a double wedding, Strong,” continued Tennington, “I had hope left her entirely, and she trembled by Inch. The stone war being dragged they broke into a mad run, thinking enyid have heen no othe n Tale she read ty pl ie ne ace tn aren Re Hat ge The next day they salled, and, the very deuce of a job to convince the in an agony of fright. bd bid outaide of the masonry surround- doubtless that they would s00n over He dropped. lis eyes, for he waa oud Ton aenere exidently confirmed her Tears. cruiser steamed slowly g old fellow that there was not only 10 During the grotescue dance of the Inf ihe top of the shatt—would it atch haul the burdened runner; but they asiamed c end th Peat Aut er Nand upon hls win and man, Immaculate in wh rural free delivery, but no town, and yotaries which foHowed, she lay frosen rt t te edge, or would his weight both underestimated the powers of the hue saeid vou bava gona.eWay and ANN. Malunore, Md pee ae on 0 wave the Kageien coful girl leaped he was not even on the same con- in horror, nor did ehe require the sight (fas it over to fall upon him as he ape-man and overestimated the po tn * ied chfally. F oN REL eh Olathe RORPC Gn the ine shore ling i Wesnington, nor i the same of the thin blade i the hand of the Aurtled into the unknown depths below? bilities of thelr own short, crooked legs, “pony. ‘yn hg naa ter Naddanaiit : . 1 the Neart of the jungle, deaf.” which danced twenty naked, bl ‘Slowly above he ee B, ‘ Don't, | leader Jenre anded the paper ty ‘Varaan, she said, “with no other form of viwit flops af the Waairl, waving # sphere. high priestess as {t rose y maintaining an eaay trot, Tarzan don't? You cannot know how 1 have ne has known it all this the.” or Justlee ¢o appeal to ather than your ne ee > | “When he did realise he commenced to ten her further ae to her doom. CHAPTER XVIII. kept the distance between them alw. affero’ since for the cruelty of that lie maid, “and did not tell yout inighty. musetos, yor ldn't pari cear ened ay ¥ ‘ te werry about his daughter— I think Ag hand began ite descent Jane the same. Occasionally he would act, or how I suffered then, firat in feai- ot kiew it first, J vapiled Abe dommentehace F moulanyt be won shouting ferewelia t4 Fp) ii ithe fiat ime that he really has Porter closed her, ree and sent une Through the Forest Primeval, st tne iace oo, near Ne own, Had it ous rage, and’tien In vitier renentient man “tail aot know tat he Krew It aestence hea a ween TE RAS, WIR oss nace tk RR recat our sition here, or et yer to Ly perp the a hed e + hould hat o fen that Min Porter may not have soon to fase-then he succumbed te the = Rae iat siekoning. maocyent pd UA a rag WG AEG AE all, Tat TANe Sronpes Ane meas Strang grmn.ot & dlvillaed: government st” 1oikinE "Won tial Tileeegam ' rescued.” upon her tired nérves and mo Tarsan @ slipping of the 12° would not have known that ehe was Me he walting your ¢ + it wou! murder to time, dear.” he sal are it _ SD nate. fo" think about tt.” ald, the ‘ repe to which he clung, 24 glive, so white and drawn was the poor, He tad Wer tuen ef hig lite (shed Caviarrard. You Gaia" up EAS Rate ke Aue Teno g ee aeTeM Tog. | naw. thes Tam, eaiaie te 4 is, wand yet T con think ‘of nothing Le beard the scraping of the tired’ tace, ince’ he hed returned 1o\the junglenof your mother was a she-ape ana thal resisted it yeu. woud pluses ie all tate ‘Cenmine mea pacen ‘ I a ys jun im oun Seeepere et Os 5 ‘againet the mw And thus they came to the fat-topped how he had dropped like ® plummet you had never known your father?” she misery and unhappivien fovea ip twate ope ‘nage Gar the Deak” sealed : fe, tre rope was anid ing tne lash elo Barman had lot aimogld Wasts! wervior, and frou there Vash ty "fae this and whe not bear to teve : pena a MR ye 2 ¢ f - ‘e Om ¢ ithe and the estates meant moth-