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‘f N of men. Now his trained senses catch the rhinoceros, directly in his path, this day. eave? Oo, for Nat-ul, wondrous daughter mightiest of hunters, of moon, the two had walked hand in and beside the restless sea, ahe had made it quite plain to Nu, the son of Nu, that not even he, son of tt chief of chiefs, could claim her un- less’ there hung at the thong of his join-eloth the fangs of Oo. jat-ul,” she had sald to h “wishes her man to be greater than other men. She loves Nu now better thap her life; but if love is to walk at Ber side during life, pride and re- spect must walk with it.” “f am proud of Nu, “Among the young men of the tribe she continued, there is no greater hunter, or no mightier fighter than Nu, the son of Nu. Should you, single-handed, slay ‘Oo before a grown-man's beard ha» darkened your cheek, none will be - greater in all the world than Nat-ul's mate, Nu, tlie son of Nu.” The young man was atill sensible to ‘the, sound of her soft voice and the caress of her gentle touch upon his brow. Even as these things had sent him speeding forth into the jungle in search of Oo while the day was still @o young that the night-prowling beasts were yet abroad, so they urged him forward deeper and deeper into the dark and trackless mazes of the tangled forest. As be forged on the acent of Ta be- came stronger, until at last the huge, ungainly beast loomed large before No’é eyes. He was standing in a little clearing, in deep, rank jungle grasses, and had be not been head on toward Nu he would met have econ him, since even his hearing was far too dull to appre- hen& the hoiseless tread of the cave man moving lightly up wind. Aa the tiny, bloodshot eyes of the primordial beast discovered the man, the great bead went down and Ta, ill- natured and bellicose progenitor of the equally ill-natured and bellicose rhinoceros of the twentieth century, charged the little giant who had dis- turbed his antediluvian meditation. @be creature's great bulk and awk- ‘ward, ‘uncouth lines belied his speed, for be tore cyclonically down upon Nu, and had not the brain and mus- cle of the troglodyte been fitted by heritage and training to the success- ful meeting of such emergencies there uld be no tale to tell to-day of Nu, he son of Nu. But the young man was prepared, ‘ Jand, tarning, he ran with the swift- ‘ pess of a hare toward the nearcet tree, a huge, arboreal fern, towering upon the verge of the little clearing. Like a cat, the man ran up the per- pendicular pole, his hands and feet seeming barely to touch the project- ing knobs marking the remains of former fronds which converted the towering stem into an easy stairway for euch as h About Nu's neck bis stone-tipped spear hung by its rawhide thong down his back, while stone hatchet and stono knife dangled from his gee- string, giving him free use of his bands for climbing. You or I, having once gained the seeming safety of the lowest fronds of the great tree, fifty feet above the ground, might have heaved a great sigh of relief that wo had thus easily escaped the hideous monster beneath but not so Nu, who was wise to the ways of the creatures of his remote Not one whit did he abaté his speed he neared the lowest branch, nor did he even waste a precious sec- >, ond in a downward glance at his en- y. What need, indeed? Did he not w precisely what Ta would do? Instead, he swung, monkey-like, to a broad leaf, and though the chances he took would have paled the face of a brave man to-day they did not ‘ause Nu even to hesitate as he ran tly and swiftly along the bending, swaying frond, leaping just at the right instant toward the hole of a nearby jungle giant. Nor was he an instant too soon, The frond from which he had sprung had scarcely whipped up from be- neath his weight when Ta, with all the force and momentum of a runa- way locomotive, struck the base of the tree head on. The jar of that terrific collision hook the earth; there was the sound of the splintering of wood, and the mighty tree toppled to the ground LJ” with @ deafening crash. Na, from an adjoining tree, down and grinned, Me was not bunting Ta that day, and eo he‘sprang from tree to tree, looked but Nu, “No, to-day Nu bunts the gigantic “Only @o recently as the last darkness the delicate hunter was high held, familiar odor of ‘Ta, the the son of Nu, dos great woolly not hunt Ta Does not the hide of Ta’s brother already hang before the entrance to the flercve, sabre-toothed tiger, Tha, will mate with none but the beneath the equate more, continued his way to- the distant lava cliffs, where Oo, the man hunter, made his grim luir great, ward From among through which the man wormed his sinuous way ugly little -eyea peered down upon him from beneath shaggy, beetling brows and great fighting tusks were bared as the hairy ones growled und threatened from above: but Nu i not the slightest atten- tion to the huge, ferocious creatures that menaced him upon every hand. From earliest childhood he had been accustom’d to the jabberings and the tang! creepers scoldings of the ape-people, and so he knew that if he went his way in peace, harming them not, they would offer him no harm. One of lesser experience might have attempted to drive them away with menacing spear or Well-aimed hat- chet, and thus have drawn upon him @ half-dozen or more ferocious bulls, against which no single warrior, how- ever doughty, might have lived long enough to count his antagonists. Threatening and unfriendly as the apes seemed, the cave man really looked upon them as friends and allies, since between them and his own people there existed a species of friendly alliance, due, no doubt, to the similarity of their form and structure. In that long-gone age when the world was young and ita broad bosom teemed with countless thousands of carnivorous beasts and reptiles, and other myriads blackened the bosoms! of its inland seas and filled its warm, moist air with the flutter of their mighty batlike wings, man’s battle for survival stretched from sun to sun—there was no respite. Hia semiarboreal habits took him often into the domains of the great and lesser apes, and from this contact had risen what might best be termed an armed truce, for they alone of all the other inhabitants of the earth had spoken languages, both meager, tt is true, yet sufficient to their primitive wants, and as both languages had been born of the same needs to deal with identical conditions, there were many words and phrases identical to both. Thus the troglodyte and the primor- dial ape could converse when neces- sity demanded, and as Nu traversed their country he understood their grumbling and chattering merely as warnings to him against the perform- ance of any overt act. Had danger lurked in his path the hairy ones would have warned him of that, too, for of such was their service to man, who, in urn, hunt- ed the more remorseless of their ene- mies, driving them from the land of the anthropolds, On and on went Nu, occasionally questioning the hairy ones he encoun- tered for word of Oo, and always the replies confirmed him in his belief that he should come upon the man-eater before the sun crawled ine to its dark cave for the night And 80 he did, He had passed out of the heavier Vegetation, and was ascending a gen- tle rise that terminated in low vol- cante cliffs when there came down upon the breeze to his alert nostrils the strong scent of Oo. There was little or no cover now, other than the rank jungle-grass that overgrew the slope, and an occasional lofty fern, rearing its tufted pinnacle © hundred feet above the ground; but Nu was in no way desirous of cover. Cover that would protect him from the view of Oo would hide Oo from him He was not a id that th toothed tiger would run away him--that was not Oo's way but he did not wish to come unexpectedly upon the animal in the thick grass, He had approached to within a bun- dred yards of the cliffs now, and the sabre. from jot let you go! scent of Oo had become as a stench in the sensitive nostrils of the cave man. Just ahead he could sed the open- ings to several caves in the face of the rocky barrier, and in one of these he knew must He the lair of his quarry. Fifty yards from the cliff the Brasses ceased except for scattered tufts that had found foothold among the broken rocks that strewed the ground, and as Nu emerged into this clear space he breathed a sigh of re- lief, for during the fifty yards # considerable portion of the way had been through a matted jungle that rose above his head. To have met Oo there would have meant almost certain death. Now, as he bent his eyes toward the nearby cave-mouths, he discovered one before which was strewn such an array of gigantic bones that he need- ed no other evidence as to the iden- tity of its occupant, Here indeed lair- ed no lesser creature than the awe- some Oo, the gigantic, sabre-toothed tiger of antiquity. Even as Nu looked there came a low and ominous growl from the dark mouth of the foul cavern, and then tm the blackness beyond the entrance Nu saw two flaming blotches of yellow glaring out upon him, A moment later the mighty beast itself sauntered majestically into the sunlight, There it stood, lashing its long tail from side to side, glaring with unblinking eyes straight at the rash man-thing who dared venture thus near its abode of death. The huge body, fully as large as that of a full-grown bull, was beau- tifully marked with black stripes up- on @ vivid yellow ground, while the belly and breast were of the purest white As Nu advanced the great upper lip curled back, revealing in all their ter- rible ferocity the elghteen-inch curv- ed fangs that armed elther side of the upper jaw, and from the cavern- ous throat came u fearsome scream of rage that brought frightened si- © upon the jungle for miles round, he hunter loosened the stone knife at his waist and transferred it to his mouth, where he held it firmly, ready for instant use, between white teeth In joft hand sStone-tipped sped the heavy stone effective both at close range, was creeping upon him grinning jaws dripped yellow-green eyes gleamed bluod- thirstity, Id it be possible that this f pygmy dreamed of meeting in hand combat the terror of a world, the scourge of the jungle, the hunter of men and of mammoths? “Bor Nat-ul,” murmurred Nu, for Oo was about to spring Ax the mighty hurtling muss of bone and musele, claws and fans shot through the air, the man swunk his ting stone hatchet with ail the power behind his giant muscles, tim Ing its release nicely that it caught Qo in mid leap squarely bes tween the eyes with the territle force of a powder-sped projectile. Then Nu, catlike as Oo himself leaped agilely to one side as the bis strong, he earried » and in his right atehet that was so a distance and at now saliva, He onde 1 love you!” his ¢ huge bulk of the beast dashed, sprawling, to the ground at the spot where the man had stood. Scarce had the beast struck the earth than the cave man, knowing that his puny weapon could at best but momentarily stun the monster, drove his heavy spear deep into the Blossy side just behind the giant shoulder. Already Oo regained his feet, roar- ing and screaming in pain and rage. The air vibrated und the earth trem- bled to his hideous shrieks, For miles around the suvage deni- zens of the savago jungle bristled in terror, slinking further into the depths of thelr dank and gloomy haunts, casting affrighted glances rearward in the direction of that awesome sound, With gaping jaws and widespread talons the tiger lunged toward tts rash tormentor, who stood gripping the haft of his primitive weapon. As the beast turned the spear turn. ed also, and Nu was whipped about as a leaf at the extremity of @ gule- tossed branch, Striking and cavorting futilely, the colossal feline leaped hither and thither in prodigious bounds as he strove to reach the taunting figure that remained just beyond the zone of those destroying talons. Hut presently Oo went more slowly, and then he stopped and crouched flat upon his belly Slowly and cautiously he reached outward and backward with one huxe baw until the torturing spear was within his grasp. Meanwhile, the man screamed taunts and insults into the face of his enemy, at the same time forcing the spear further and further into the Vitals of the tiger, for he knew that once that paw encircled the s haft his chances for survival would be of tho slenderest. He had seen that Oo was weakening from loss of blood, but there were many fighting minutes left in the buy carcass unless a happy twist of the spear sent its point through the wall of the great heart But at length the beast suce The paw closed upon the spear. The tough wood bent beneath the weight of those stecl thews, then snapped short a foot from the tiger's body, At the same instant Ov and threw himself upon the youth, whe hod enatehed his stone hunting-knife m betwee his teeth and crouched, ready for the impact Down they went, the man entirely buried beneath the great body of his antagonist, Again and again the crude knife was buried in the snowy breast of the tiger, even while Nu fell beneath the screaming, tearing incarnation of bestial rage. At the instant it struck the man as strange that not ones had the snap- ping Jaws or frightful talons touched him, ond then he was crushed to earth t of Oo 4 tita struggle, and was still With diMeulty Nu wriggled from beneath the carcass of his kil At the last moment the tiger itself had forced the spear's point inte its own heart aa it bent and broke the haft The man leaped to his feet and cut the great throat Then, as the blood flowed, ( be The Eternal Lower & ANOTHER TARZAN STORY (Copyright, 1914, by Frank A, Munsey Co,) CHAPTER I. A Hundred Thousand Years Ago. U, the son of Nu, his mighty muscles rolling beneath his smooth, bronzed skin, moved silently through the jungle primeval. His handsome head, with its shock of black hair, roughly crop- ped between sharpened stones, nostrils questioning each vagrant breeze for word of Oo, danced about the dead body of his vanquished foe, brandishing his knife and recovered hatchet, and emitting now sbrill shrieks in mim- lery of Oo, and now deep-toned roars =the call of the victorious cave man From the surrounding cliffs and Jungle came answering challenges from a hundred savage throats—the rumbling thunder of the cave bear's growl; the roar of Zor, the lion; the wail of the hyena; the trumpeting of the mammoth; the deep-toned bellow- ing of the bull bos, and from distant swamp and sea came the hissing and whistling of saurian and amphibian, His victory dance completed, Nu busied himself in the removal of the broken spear from the carcass of his kill At the same time he removed sev- eral strong tendons from Oo'n fore- arm, with which he roughly spliced the broken haft, for there was never an instant in the danger-fraught ex- Istence of his kind when it was well to be without the service of 4 stone- tipped spear. ‘This precaution taken, he busied himself with the task of cutting off Oo's head, that he might bear it in triumph to the cave of his love. With stone hatchet and knife he hacked and hewed for the better part of @ half hour, until at last he ratsed the dripping trophy above his head, as leaping high in air, ho screamed once re the gloating challenge of the victor, that all the world might know that there was no greater hunter than Nu, the son of Nu. Even as the last note of his flerce cry rolled through the heavy, humid, superheated air of the Neocene there came a sudden hush upon the face of the world. A strange darkness obscured the swollen sun. The ground trembled and shook. Deop rumblings muttered upward from the bowels of the young earth, and answering grumblings thundered down from the firmament above. The startled = troglodyte looked quickly in every direction, searching for the great beast who could thus cause the whole land to tremble and cry out in fear, and the heavens above to moan, and the sun to hide himself in terror. In every direction he saw fright- ened beasts and birds and flying rep- tiles scurrying in panic-stricken ter- ror in search of hiding places, and, moved by the same primitive Instinct, the young giant grabbed up his weapon and his trophy and ran like an antelope for the sheltering dark- n of the cave of Oo, Searcely had he reached the fancied eafety of the interior when the cart! crust crumpled and rocked--there was a sickening sensation of sudden sinking, and amid the awful roar and thunder of rending rock the cave- mouth closed, and In the impenet ble darkness of his living tomb Nu, the son of Nu-—-Nu of the Neocene— lost consciousness. ‘That was a hundred thousand years ago. | Heatrice, Neb. at all the sort of girl she really was, Her large, dreamy eyes and the graceful lines of her slender figure gave one an impression of that tim- idity which we have grown to take for granted as an inherent character- istic of the truly womanly woman Yet I dare say there were only two things on God's green earth that Vic- toria Custer feared, or beneath it oF above it, for that matter—mice and earthquakes. She readily admitted the deadly terror which the former roused within her, but of earthquakes she seldom if ever would speak. ‘To her brother Barney, her chum and confidant, she had on one or two vecasions unburdened her soul. The two were guests now of Lord CHAPTER II. To-Day. \O HAVE looked at her mere- ly you would never have thought Victoria Custer of eystoke «("Tarzan") and Lady Greystoke upon the former ape-man's » in equatorial Africa, In the country of the Waatrl, to which Barney Custer had come to hunt big game—and forge But all that has nothing to do with this story. John Clayton Lord Grey- stoke, who was, once upon a# time, 1 uf the Apes, was iy host at the same time as he was host of the Custers, making tt possible for me to give you a story that other- wise mixht never have t told. South of Uairi, the country of the Waziri, lies a chain of rugged moun tains, ut the foot of which stretches & broad plain where antelope, zebra, giraffe, rhinos and elephants abound, and there are lion and leopard ar hyena preying, each after his o fashion, upon the sleek, fat herds of “pe, zebra and giraffe Here, are buffalo. irritable, age beasts, more formidable than the lion bimself, Clayton says It is ind da hunter's paradise, and scarce n day passed that did not find & party absent from the low, bling bungalow of the Greystokes in search of gume abd adventure, and seldom was it that Victoria Custer failed to be of the party, Already she had bagged two leop- ards, in addition to numerous antelope and sebra, and on foot had faced a ton, sa ane bull buffalo charge, bringing him down with a perfect shot within ten paces of where she atood. At first she had kept her brother in @ state bordering on nervous collaps for the risks she took were such few men would care to undertake. After he had discovered, however, that she possessed perfect coolness in the face of danger, and that the ac- curacy of her aim was @o0 almost un- canny as to wring unstinted praine from the oldest hunters among them, he commenced to lean a trifle too far in the other direction, so that Vic- toria was often in positions where she found herself entirely separated m the other members of the party —a compliment to her prowess which whe greatly prized, since women and beginners were usually surrounded by precautions and guards, through which it was diMcult to get within firing distance of any aort of game. As they were riding homeward one evening after a hunt in the foothills Harney noticed that his sister waa unusually quiet and apparently de- pressed. What's the matter, Vic?" he asked, “Dead tired, eh?” The girl looked up with a bright amile, which was immediately fol- lowed by an expression of puzzled be- wilderment. “Barn e raid, after a moment of silence, ‘here is something about those hills back there that fills mo with the strangest sensation of terror imaginable. “To-day I passed an outcropping of volcanic rock that gave evidence of « frightful convulsion of nature in some bygone age. At sight of it [I dom- menced to tremble from head to foot, * &@ cold perspiration breaking out all over re. “But that part is not so strange— you know I have always been subject to these samo ailly attacks of un- reasoning terror at sight of any evi- dence of the mighty forces@that have wrought changes in the earth's crust, or of the slightest tremor of an earth- quake; but to-day the feeling of un- utterable personal loss which over- whelmed me was almost unbearable, Tt was as though one whom I loved above all others had been taken from me. “And yet," she continued, “through all my Inexplicable sorrow there shone a ray of brilliant hope as remarkable and unfathomable as the deeper depressing emotion which still stirred me.” For some time neither spoke, but rode silontly, stirrup to stirrup, as thelr ponies picked their way through the knee-high grass, The girl was thinking, trying to pusale out an ex- planation of the rather weird sensa- tions which had so recently claimed her. Barney Custer was one of thi unusual and delightful people who do not scoff at whatever they cannot un- derstand; the reason, doubtiess, that his Fr as well as others chose him as the recipient of their confidences, Not understanding her emotion, he had nothing to offer, and so remained silent. He was, however, not a@ little puz- zied, as he had always been, at each new manifestation of Victoria's un- canny reaction to every indication of the great upheaval which marked the physical changes in the conformation of the earth's crust, He recalled former occasions upon which his sister bad confided in him something of similar terrors, Once in the Garden of the Gods, and again during a trip through the Grand Canyon in Ariéonia, and very vivid indeed was the recollection of Victoria's nervous collapse following the reading of the press despate describing the Sea Francisco earth. quake. In all other respects his sis- ter was an exceptionally normal, well- balanced young American woiman— which fact, doubtless, rendered her one weakness the more apparent. But Victoria Custer’s terror of earth- quakes was not her only peculiarity. The other was her strange contempt for the men who had sued for her hand--and of these there had been many. Her brother had thought sey- eral of them the salt of the earth, and Victoria herself had iked them, too; but as for loving them! Perish tho thought! Oddly enough, recollection of this other phase of her character obtruded itself upon Barney's memory as the de on toward the Clayton bun- , and with it he recalled a per- ont dream which Victoria had suid recurred after each reminder of @ Kreat convulsion of nature. At the thought he broke the silence. “Has your-ah!~-avatar made his appearance?" he asked two 1 iw! customary smiling The girl extended her hand toward her brother and laid }t on his, where it rested upon his thigh as he rode, looking up at him with half-fright- d, half-longing eyes, “Oh, Barne whe cried, “you are such a dear, never to have laughed at my willy dreams! I'm eure t should go quite mad did [ not have you in whom to confide; but lately hesiiated to speak of it even he has been coming so often! ry night since we first hunted the vicinity of the bills 1 have walked hand in hand with him be- neath a great equatorial moon beside © resticas eee, and more clearly than Author ch UE ads OFr TH thd, Etc, ever in the past have I aeen his formh and features, “He is very handsome, Barney, aad very tall and strong and clean-lmbed. 1 wish that I might meet such a man in life, 1 know it i# a ridculous thing to say, but I can never love any of the pusillanimous weaklings who are forever falling in love with me—not after having walked hand in hand with euch as he and read the love in hia clear eyes. “And yet, Barney, | am afraid of him. Is it not odd?” At this juneture they were Joined by other members of the party, ro that no further reference to the sub- ject wan made by either, At the Claytons’ they found that an addition had been madg to the number of guests by the unheralded advent of two khaki-olad young men, one of whom rose and came forward to meet the returning hunters while they were yet a hundred yards away. He was a tall, athletic-appearing man. As Victoria Custer recognized his features she did not know whether to be pleased or angry. Here was the one man she had ever mot who came nearest to the realization of her dream-man, and this one of all the others had never spoken a word of love to her, His companion, whe had now risen from the cool shade of the low veranda, was also coming for- ward, but more slowly, the set of his shoulders and the swing of his stride betokening his military vocation, ir. Curtina!” exclaimed Victoria, looking past him. “And Lieut. But- sow! Where in the worid did you come from “The wi left us," replied the om- ‘and we have followed » smiling, * her to the wilds of equatorial Afric: “We found Nebraska a very tame place vfter you and Barney left,” ex- plained Mr, Curtiss, “and when | discovered that Butzow would ac- company me we lost no time in fol- lowing you, and here we are throwing ourselves upon the mercy and hos- pitality of Lady Greyatoke.” “I have been trying to convince them," sald that lady, who had now Joined the party at the foot of the veranda steps, “that the obligation ts. all upon our side, It taxes our In- genuity and the generosity of our friends to keep the house even half full of congenial companions. It was not until after. dinner that night that Mr. William Curtiss had An opportunity to draw Miss Victoria Custer away from the others upon some more or less hazy pretext that he might explain for her ears alone just why he had idenly found Beatrice, Neb. such a denolate place and had realized that it was impera- tive to the salvation of his life and happiness that he travel half-way round the world in search of a cer- tain slender bit of femininity. This usually self-posscased young man stammered and hesitated like a bashful achoolboy speaking his Friday afternoon plece; but finally he man- od to expel from his system, more or less coherently, the fact that he was very much in love with Victoria Custer, and that he should never aguin eat or sleep until she had prom- ined to be his wife. There was a strong appeal to the girl in the masterful thing the man had done in searching her out in the wilds of Africa to tell her of his love: for it seemed that he and Butzow had forced their way with but # handful of carriers through # very savage sec- tlon of the jungle becaune it was the shortest route from the coast to the Greystoke ranch. Then there was that about him which appealed to the same attribute of her nature to which the young jant of her dreams appealed—a prim- itive strength and masterfulness that left her both frightened and happily helpless in the presence of both these strong loves; for the love of her dream man was to Victoria Custer @ real and living love. Curtiss saw assent in the silence which followed his outbreak, and, taking advantage of this tacit en- couragement, he seized her hands in bis and drew her toward him "Oh, Victoria,” he whispered, “tell me that thing I wish to hear, from your dear lips, Tell me that even a tenth part of my love is returned, and 1 shall be happy.” Hho looked up into his eyes, shining down upon her in the moonlight, and on her lips trembled an avowal of the love she honestly betieved she could at last bestow upon the man of her cholce. In the past few momenta she had thrashed out the question of that other unreal and intangible love that hud held her chained to a dream for THE FULL OF THE MOON By Caroline Lockhart WILL BEGIN IN ‘NE XT: Monday's Evening World OSG years, and in the gold light of twem- Heth -century American rationality she had found It possibie to put her hallucinations from her and find hap- pines in the love of this very réat and very earnest young man. “Billy,” she said, “1° — * But she got no farther! ei Even as the words that would have és bound her to him were forming upon her tongue, there came a low, sullen 3° rumbling from the bowels of thé earth—the ground rose and fell be heath them as the swell of the sea rises and falls. ‘Then there came @ violent trams, bling and shaking and a final deaf. ening crash in the distance that might have accompanied the birth of mot tain ranges, With @ little moan of terror the girl drew away from Curtiss, and then, before he could restrain she bad turned and fled toward the bungalow. At the veranua ‘Steps she was mat by the other members of the house- party, and by the Greystokes and aus merous servants, who had rushed gut ¥t the first premonition of the coming rock, Barney Custer saw his sister tun. ning toward the house, and, knaw- ing her terror of such phenomena, ran to meet her. ; oon behind her came Curtion, just In 9 to seo the girl swoon ip her priate arms. Barney carried her to her room, where Lady Greystoke, abandoning: ” the youthful “Jack” to his black mammy, Esmeraida, ministered to her. CHAPTER II}. ° The Young Hunter. T HE shock that had been felt #0 plainiy in the valley had been much more ee- vere in the mountains to the south. In one place an dver- hanging cliff had split and fallen’ away from the face of the mountain tumbling with a mighty roar inte the valley below. , As it hurtled down the mountain- aide the moonlight, shining upon the fresh soar that it had left behind tt apen the hill's face, revealed the «- mouth of a gloomy cave, from which. there tumbled the inert figure of an animal, which rolled down the steep declivity inthe wake of the mass of rock that had preceded it—the teag- ing away of which had opened up the eavern in which it had lain, For a hundred feet, perhaps, the body rolled, coming to a stop upon @ broad ledge. For some time it lay Perfectly motionless, but at last j@ 4’ feeble movement of the limbs wie! discernible, Then for another long period it was quiet. Minutes dragged into hours, and atill the lonely thing lay upen the lonely mountainside, while upon the plain below it hungry lions moaned and roared and all the teeming life of the savage wilds took up their Rearch for food, thelr sleeping and their love-making where they hea dropped them in the fright of the earthquake. At last the stare paled and the eantern horizon glowed to a new day, and then the thing upon the weer nat vu It was a man. Still partly dened, | he drew his hand across hin eyes and looked about him in bewtiderment. t Then, staggering a little, he roge to hin feet; and as he came erect, the new sun shining on his bronzed limbe and shock of black hair, roughly cropped between sharpened stones, his youth and beauty became start- ingly apparent. He looked about him upon the ground, and not finding that which he sought, turned his eyes upward 4 toward the mountain until they fell upon the cave mouth he had just quitted so procipitately. Quickly he clambered back to the cavern, his stone hatchet and knife beating against his bare hips as he climbed. For a moment he was lost to view within the cave, but presently he emerged, in one hand @ stone-tipped spear, which seemed recently to have been broken and roughly spliced with raw tendons, and In the other the severed head of an enormous beast, which more nearly resembled thd royal tiger of Asia than it did any other beast, though that resemblance was little closer than the resemblance of thé Royal Bengal to a house kitten, The young man was Nu, the son of Nu. “we (To Be Continued.) An outdoor tale the big West (by the author of ‘Me, Smith,”) and of a) New York girl strange adventures | in the lawless ranch |}