The evening world. Newspaper, June 10, 1914, Page 17

The Evening World Dail fay: Jans rol rete. j_BY “TARZAN'S” AUTHOR—THE ADVENTURES OF TWO EXPLORERS WHO DISCOVER A'NEW AND ASTONISHING WORLD ‘AT THE EAR 3 (Gopyrieht, 1614, by tie Trank A. Milnsey Co.) y Magazine: Wednes Hh Hn ry Acreamed aloud; WH {s, men—have any means of com. ita whites were as for an exit toward which no i t i] . : mbhiontion, WMT HH Hh i elderdown; its blacks glonsy as tho Were fecing, and at last I found it— my energy was expended ta turning their own saris tense, ae ". "One writer claims that we do not HH y i finest anthracite coal, and its coat f JW, harrow aperture leading into ity Plunt Brow back into the oourse, | emusement, and then aa t Ghenteat cf instiotnve: Whe demic / tong and ahaxgy aaa mountain goat. Without thought of the poasible from shore when ir became evident. Gee, See ng ee " chanical or instinctive, The domi- That it ie a beautiful animal th consequences, I darted into the ahad- Ne nS nant race of Pellucidar, David, have it 1 A that my pursuer must grasp the Now they give us , ed py, brenitorke mondters Hoe yet learned that men converse colors ure Magiihes bare within, Pete Fe ia: feeling my way tern of the skiff within the next half Which we are unable wid and us 4 ; ce 1 e Ld loo} ir gor she pata coil gee ig mong themselves or reason. “Tecause lucidar, eo tn the ferocity of ite die- distance, “The noises of the amphi- {pen trokee, Jn 8 frensy of despede retire for sate" the Fulee? ana beyond ‘them to hnadine that we come position. theatre had grown fainter, until now J verse at all, It 1s thus that we rea- fon in relation to the brutes of our own world. ; “They know that the Sagoths have 3 Lend a spoken language, but yet they can- theta od he frursey ‘Diarra Not comprehend it or how it mani- | others escape, The remaining victims arrive fests itself, since th have no audi- é jueidar, the Mahar capital, tory apparatus, They believe that It in not the oceasional member of all was as silent as the tomb about [8 hopeless effort to escape, {ta species that is a man-hunter—all mi fo Nl tolands. are man-hunters: but they do not raint itght filtered from above Sed and gained, upward fer bag dl Bae fed bog Bg vent (cooastonal ventilating Ce the stern when I saw eek, sinuous that they practise their ‘0! ehting tubes, but it was scarce suf. below. rhea Welucidar that they will pot oat with clent to enable my buman. eyes to qh wen oer tet ast ey; there with relish in the conatant efforts which cope with the darkness, and no l was .oe.™ that overspread his face as- . Durt ey ne tO gtiiotent sustenance to forced to move with extreme care, sured mo thet freee rate ne netes taken the paddle af i —— the motions of the lps alone conv casses with suMfictent sustenance t0 fegling my way along step by. step, bo Pa CHAPTER V. the meaning. That the Sagoths can maintain their mighty thews. with & hand upon the'wall beaide me, Concern as to him, for the fear of okitt wi aged Strokes toward (Continued) * cominunicate with ue is incompre- the thug benowed and advanced, and Presently the light increased, and a Chay" ‘putt was tn Bie look: Shor inelmauntand sy reser mae Slaves ee” Del te ‘conladed: Me upon the other, tarag, the frightful, Moment later, to my delight I came great, slimy folds of a. hideous Which he handled his crude and awk- Would entail murder to carry out your crept toward them with gaping mouth UPoD A fight of steps leading upward, monster of that prehistoric deap-- W&ld craft elicited my dee F Ghak will accompany us, Dini” dak and, QTDPING fae tne epeara, of the Noonday sun akone througuens %,cDIRRtY werpent Of, the wea, with Der glace it bad been fo short a time we may be SS COT el ieemne condemn ee handing one of them to the woman, Pening In the ground, tongue, with bulging eyes, and bony Work of It. suggested. be He got me to go over the plan Perry and I sought him again most carefully, and for some out and put the question reason which was not at the time nap kin, clear to, mo insisted upon avery Ie careful description of the apartments “Gbak,” I said, “we are determined and corridors 1 had just explored, @aeepe from this bondage. Will = “I wonder, David,” he sald at length, eecommpany ust" Cif, aa you are determined to carry out your scheme, if we could not “Ehey will set the thipdars upom Qoccmplish something of very real “" he said, “and then we shall be and lasting benefit for the human 3 but"— he hesitated—"1 would race of Pellucidar at the same time. isten; ave learned much of a most the chance if 1 thougne {nat J aurprising nature from these archives possibly escape @hd return to of the Mahars. That you may appre- imy @wn people.” ciate my plan, I shall briefly outline ‘Could you find your way back to aes of the ee A ‘ “ “Once the males were all powerful; poms own land?’ asked Perry. “ADE ou coos ago the females, litte be could you ald David in his search for jittie, assumed the mastery. For rr other ages no noticeable change took es. place in the race of Mahars. ft con- persisted Perry, “could tinued to progress under the intelli- travel @ strange country without gent and beneficent rule of the bodies or a compass to guide women. ve “Selence took vast strides. This * @ign't know what Perry meant was especially true of the sciences by ly bodies or a compass; but which we know as biology and eu- he aoourea ‘us that you might blindfold gentes. Finally a certain female ect- At the sound of the roaring of the Cautiously I crept up the stairway protuberances upon head and snout ,A® We touched the to the tunnel's end and, peering out, that formed short, stout horns. saw the broad plain of Phutra before As I looked ‘at that. h Te iraced the skit Never in my life had I heard such an me. The numerous lofty, granite struggle my eyes met those et the Up into the bushes that grew be- infernal din aa the two brutes made, towers which mark tho several en- doomed man, and I could have sworn Yond the mand. 2 i and to think {t was all lost upon the trances to the subterranean city were that in hia l saw an exprowslon of tained Fist, hide our canoes.” ex- hideous reptiles for whom the show all in front of me—bohind, the plain hopeless appeal pmined Ja, “for the Mezape of Luana vas beng waged! strotched level and unbroken to the jut whether I did or no, there ewept 47° Slways at war with us and would The thag was charging now from nearby foothills. through me @ sudden compassion for Stet! them if they found them.” one side and the tarag from the other. I had come to the surface, then, be- the fellow. He wns indeed a brother . No sooner had we hidden the cance The two puny things standing be- yond the city, and so my chances for man, and that he might have killed me than Ja plunged into the Fane, tween them seemed already lost, but escay emed much enhanced, with pleasure had he caught me was ently emerging into a narow but at the very moment that the beasts My first impulse was to await forgotten In the extremity of his dan- 4efined trail, which wound hither and seemed upon them the man grasped darknoss before attempting to cross ger thither much after the manner of the his companion by the arm and to- the plain, so deeply implanted are Unconactously I had ceased paddling bighways of all primitive folk. gether they leaped to one side, while habits of thought; but of a sudden as the serpent rose to engage my pur- — After proceeding through the jungle the frenzied creatures came together | recollected the perpetual noonday guer, a now the skiff still drifted close for what must have been wu) of” like locomotives in collision. brilliance which envelops Pelluctdar, beside the two. five miles we emerged suddenly inte There enaued @ battle royal which and with « smile I stepped forth Into ‘The monster meemed to be but play- a large clearing, in the exact sentee | for sustained and frightful ferocity the daylight. tng with his victim, before he closed of which stood aa atrange an transcenda the power of imagination | Hank grass, waist high, grows up- his awful jaws upon him and dragged ing village as one might well i or description, Hower ng tin of Phutla, the gorgeous him down to his dark den beneath the — Large trees had been chopped Time and again the colossal bull flowering grass of the inner world, surface to devour him. fifteen or twenty feet above the tomsed the enormous tiger high inte gach particular biade of which 1 ‘The huge, makellke body cofled and ground, and upon’ the tops of them us air, Bie Eee ee eunh te Varese pga EES tiny. Be pounver — uncolled about Its prey. The hideous, spherical habitations of woven twig, eat touched i 6 stars of varyin, . pred Y -cov to the encounter with apparently un- colors that i a the green Tolle funne gene sal Pag ost dll cael apegl-paclianam der diminished strength and seemingly age to add ati face, Tho forked tongue, lightning- Ja conducted me to @ large howse AS other charm t (rd lane Ege pedis Miscape °° lke, ran in and out upon’ the copper in “the centre of ‘the villege the For a while the man and woman ry ° o But then’ the only aspect which at- “Nobly th i for him ite, hain wrth eight rooms—and | taking yy man of Pellucidar and carry him entist announced the fact that she Jed themselves only with keeping tracted Nobly the giant battled for his life, me up into it gave me food and drink. v. ost corner of the world, had discovered a method whereby busiey , tracted me was the distant hills, in heating with his atone hatchet against There I 4 Ihe would be able tu come directly ean might be fertilized by chermiect EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS- out of the way of the two creatures, Which T hoped to tind sanctuary, and (alts, w mes hls tate « comets covered’ that with trampling the frightful carcass, but for all the dam- "We had cine, aby in her arms. saw them separate and tt e shortest means after they were laid: but finally I saw 80 astened on, own house again by th or mei rf ‘YY were laid; all true ‘done Of myriad beauties beneath my burry- age he infle he mane Wall wave We had eaten and rested, and f had reptiles, you know, are hatched from oth of the detachment that had pur- down, and smote their rocky perches each creep stealthily to: y " r jhe the combatants. The tig ing foot slept, much to Ja's amusement, for ‘He seemed surprised to think that erga. sued and overtaken them. with their mighty tails until 0 Te eet s broad. bask, £ foot with his open palm. ft poomed thet he aeldan irene ar found an; . a ow At the Intelligence heart sprang ground shodk. Then the band:start- upon -) Perry says that the force of gravity At no Perry said 1 must Be pore wort ct jecesuiy tor mesic clmmodiately the io my throut, for 1 was sure that the ed another piece, and all was again to the huge neck with powerful fankH, 14 10mm’ upon the aurtace ot the tate last I could endure it no longer ao, and then the red man proponed ; to ait supinely by while « fellow man homing instinct such as is possessed the rice waa no longer dependent tWo Were of those who escaped in the as silent as the grave. while its long, strong talons ripped worid than upon that of the outer, Ho upinely by that T accompany him to the temple hveds and ibs was dragged down to a horrible of the Mahars, which 1 ’ D0. reat beauty about the heavy hide into 6 explained It all to me once, but I was death b ich lay not certain breeds of earthly pigeons upon them. Mure ages elapeed, until @&rk grotto with Hooja the Sly One, | That waa one grea “ benke ¢ 4 leath by that repulsive reptile. Em- from hia village. ee nee ene ee SSonuby' tachi ie fba?=e* “Gna thousht enya dia ary. tle ace hai'wnn bine Baged Por «moment the bal sond el; Geert anda eit Hai fated the por ofr ak dan, Sire arn suppobad to. valet me an idea. consisting exclusively of females, “Is th ht that we may do to all you had to do was to shut your lowing and quive: caped me. e sald. “But the great ones cannot “Then Dian could have found her “wit here is the point, Thé-pactet footy CRUeor come we mayo ay rage, its cloven hoofs widesprend, iw S48) 3 me by him whom I auddenly desired hear, and if we keep well out of " save her?” I asked Ghak, eyen. ", # I recall It, the difference is due out of way directly to her own people?” I oo ti, chemical formula ia kept by Sear te replied, When the band had exhausted its tall ‘lashing, viciously from ide to 44 1 recall jt. the difference toushye. sight they need never know that w. of. “ a single race of Mahars. It lain the Along the crowded avenue we repertory it took wing and gettied side, and then, in @ mad orgy of of Mime matt te the countor af “Barely.” replied Ghak. “unless some city of Phutra; and unless 1 ed, the mart : I upon rocks above and behind the bucking, it went careening about the of tha iH ; mighty beast of prey Killed,her vefore Greatly in error I Judge from your erucity toward um as thouge wer too, auecn. ‘Then the business of the day Aer tree eae with digi face of Pellucidar at which ono two armm niraight into. the. gaping (Rug’eaine Of the Island think ie ty }¢ com| . description of the vaulis. through had be licated in th der of was on. lations are t maintain the A gi, ae for making the attempted en” Which you passed to-day that it lies thelr fellow’ ‘The oecasion was, to A man and woman were pushed in- culty wae ne ee ered telnet “Bo thut an it mas, Tealwaye seemed 2*WH,of the hydrophidian. °° Smeable relations Which eset Sct PIM cape at once, but both Perry propitious hidden in the cellar of this building. serve as an object leason to all other to the arena by a couple of Sagoth mad Fish ob the wonnded AEMels 40 mo thal 1 On Aiton anvith oy (lod. ies | the crea tween the two races. * FRE Coupselied waiting for somcre us some "For two reasous they hide it away slaves of the danger and futility of guardsmen. ee UL HE GebEOtae GDA ARIES WITKIN’ Pallintior tee Abandoned Its prey to turn upon m®& "“Otherwise I should Ike nothing Be tari oe cocoa 1 dante see 4nd guard it jealously, First, because attempted escape, and the fatal con- a antse: Wealdenaie chapine Realcet tiga te threw iteelf upon the ground, upon the outer surface; there was a prevented it from eviaine oe though bese toa paso ereataven teaiere it depends the very life of the sequences of taking the life of a su- sfrutinize aale—he 1d over. A little of certain airy lightness of step that was jt ang ak What accident could befall a whole Upon kesef ae i et AP Bebe RRA. I imagine the hope that she might prove to be an- rolling: over and over. came near to overturning the terminate them. Pellucidar would be community In, land of perpetual day TB the tose ict wean Aes Srne eee alt antiy jurdaea te ae other than Dian the Beautiful thin so Ainconcerted the tiger, knock: most pleasing, and e feeling of bodtly slat In ite mad efforts to reach me ArDatter place to He were there none G a the Ai oceeds er bi ‘ ! Bree ert et cure that some of the Eaporinasatings with Il Giet iae Gost fortauie end paint tons en pone while, and the sight of the great mass it lost ite hold. and then. quiet #8 & brig eer fer ices prrioadonmns in Tae bates toes vite une oie Wholly concurred in Ja'e bite mt * ny n air piles a G ey ‘4 of - Muhars never’ sleep, while, othera Set, Of overpopulation became very | They jabbed ua with their apearn Cf,t0yin malt piled eh buried thoae mighty horns deep And as I crossed Phutra’s flower-be- nq to hold off the infuriated creature, Dut tt seemed that ft might be a dim 2 intervals, craw! tn‘ Turk rocengs beneath their dwellings ction — With a wrench I tore It loose and; have been ¢ standing upright in the wabbly log, them, and ieee Rayer bor teacteee i h It matter to exterminate ay 1001 rags en, pinning him spangled plain that time I seemed al ¥ cult mat Oe! inate the dom- . 1f we, ean encape, and at at the least provocation, and at no _ Presently a door in one side of the in the tarag’s al ne Pi Blood from the wounded reptile wae inn ie oe {nant race of Pellucidar. Thud con- ah eee in, protracted slumber. the same time take with us this great provocation at all. It was a most un. Tend Phebe Cy ia ey Co e bape chr awed at the shessy paniee Wasiaue to tects crcnee tea. ‘Gon: from te weneening couse Soot ao ee patience Perry says that ifs Mabar stay onan ged foe the Heaian rage With: Berore we pees Rialiy herve Hem ON “A bos.” whispered Perry excitedly, head until eyes and ears were gone tion, and how much to actuality, 1a gios, it became evident that Thad ioe tomate, btaitioy! awake for three years he will make up all his lost sleep in a long year's snooze. ‘That may be all true, but T never saw but three of them asleep; and It upon in « small clearing surrounded “His kind roamed the outer crust and naught but a few strips of ragged, sure I do not know, filcted a death-wound upon It. Pres- with the cave bear and the mammoth bloody fleah remained upon the skull: | T have no idek. of course, how ently ite efforts to reach us' ceased D%,enormous trees similar BA ages and ages ago. We have been Yet through all the agony of that long it took me to reach the Hmit of entirely, and with a few convulsive outer crust during the carboniferous carried back a million years, David, fearful punishment the tha till the plain, but at last I entered the movementa'it turned upon it» becle iad in Pellucidar!” @ low entrance into a huge building, The very thought of it fairly over- the centre of which was given yp to Powered me, Why, we two would be a large arena, Renches surrounded the means of placing the men of the this open space upon three sides, and 4 of a planet.) Is it stood motionless, pinning down hin foothills, following a little canyon up- Guite dead, age. wan the sight of these three that gave inner world jn their rightful place along the fourth were heaped huge pe wonarouaie. oe savormry, and then: the man leaped wand toward the mountains, Hoslde And then therg came to. me a sud- rock but tn the a Peeper ap aie ot sh . “inong created things. * boulders which rose in receding tiers ofa bull would me frolicked a laughing brooklet, hur- \ me @ suggestion for our means of es: Only the Sagoths would then stand tooard the Mobet me 6 Ls But I saw only the raven hair in, seeing that the blind bul den realization of the predicament in oval with rounded roof in which were several large openings. No doors or windows were visible in the sides of " which I had placed myself. I was betw half-naked girl, and my heart stood be the least formidable enemy, and rying upon ite nolay way down to etween them and absolute suprem- — at frst entirely within the power of the sav- 1 couldn't make out the still in dumb misery at the sight of ran his spear through the tarag’s the silent sea, acy, and I was not quite sure but that : ‘s y . let pools ered man Picturesque background for the — But for Perry and Ghak T should coased the bull raised his gory, sight- Weight, I should imagine, In BPpeAT- into his face to find him acrutiniaing fo coma A o1 vere enacted in the have leaped to the floor of the arena jess head and, with a horrid roar, ran ances except as to size and color, nie intently, and thera we stood for ree—aince, but presently, after and shared whatever fate lay in stor® jeadiong across the arena. they were not unlike the whale of some several minuten: each olivatoe 8 hud been ‘pretty for this heauty of the Stone Age. had been searching about far be- Yow the levels that we slaves were supposed to frequent—possibly ony the greater intelligence of the Ma- feet beneath the main floor of the pars: I could not believe that the 8" nial ballding among a network of corti, Korilia-like beasts wece the mental scenes, which | rs and apartments, superiors of the human race of Pellu- ‘ our own seas, the wooden. b With great leaps and bounds he our tendcieuniy tot eee Myon, thret, Mahara curled cuWhy, Perry.’ 1 exclaimed, “you Well filled by slaves and Sagothe, t With the advent of the bos—they came @trignt toward the arena walt Crouching, beside. the brook, I Csr ely prety De poll Tis the butidin H/Ar’aret I thought that they were and T may redial Oclalmed, “YOU Aincovered the purpore of the boul- call the thing a thag within Pellucl, directly beneath where we eat, and walted until one of the diminutive Wotan MERet ebded Sa, here te. ai ‘ but, later, thelr regular breath- Together we can lead the races of “ets: for then the Mahars commenced Jar—two sears ware tossed tote the Hier qemerre, neu eee un ome ce Hee ee aeeeae’ the . WhAt was fn Die mind I do not tratt nent tite ehae te ritent ae winced mn i ce tO file into the enclosure. . his mighty springs, com} know, but in wi ere! bs oa ed, eee taeeat come to en owe ofthe darkness of ignorance "ney marched directly across the seemed to me that a bean-shooter the ‘barrier, into the midat of the water, and then, like the beast of from. but In my own was merely the Mahare know nothing, | Ce 4 of the marvellous opportunity civilization, At one step we may arena Carrera Che rocks oboe hg iis A Taster as" these pitiful RSYOR ADS! Reams Tat 18 Sumy 6 tpon ae viet spreasink a hunger 10% Would recommence hostilities. about the end to & Pile of loose rook % iN offered as a posite side, where, spreading eir 3 us. 5 ————— Patinta CC Sding the watchtainess Of he iN eee ene cl? batlike ‘wites, they. tees abave: the: Weapons. ‘Swinging Me bloody horns from while he yet wriggied to escape. which lay against the foot of of ceremontal entering and leaving the building by means of the aper- the a imal approached the two, ir pool wall. Here he removed « couple om captors ond Mae Sa an Eitan ae Marvellous Jat 10 tin The bouidere aogve these ere Muowine’ nd FREIDE, the. ground Gwaun nett Mim atuighe Gpward guts after 'washine” my" hangs nd gp MP TAR VIL. © ire, octane, "reveai arene ink about tt.’ M 7 4 th of many earthly ., i emple, mn ich led straight within’ > CHAPTER VI. ilove ial Gedreette eee a ihe reserved ‘aseia) the: Boxes of the Dalle, lanother door airecty, beneath PO Re Rents etre ne are a ee Ue Od oe fis beso L 6h amma P building: or so it seemed, though 5 ve that God ge! 8 here for * 4, and from it issue ay The Beginning of Horror. — that purpose. It shaji_ be my life | Here they lolled, blinking their hid- 1" wan ohaned. and trom it Watealien pede to escape the menace o! but in @ tongue which I self in a narrow place of extreme y $ ’ long ridge. Heyond was work ‘to teach them His. word—to eous eyes, and doubtless conversing : creature's death agonies, for such summit of a ASTENING back to Perry Tai nem into the light of His merey With one another in their alxth-sense~ BOR TAY CHESAIEG SAPS tae beast only could that frightful charge have ® steep declivity to the shore of a while we are training their hearts fourth-dimension language. ich emanated this fearsome 2 +. . F and hands in the ways of cultureand Wor the first time I beheld their {om Which emanated this, fetton” bowettul of us, our guards joined surface of which Iny several beaut! the countered a rugged climb to the Pp RESENTLY he spoke to me: 1 entered after Ja, I discovered was unable to translate. where he pored over a musty I shook my hoad in an plle of, to me, meaningless re within the outer wail” “It fe hollow. Follow me ffort to indicate my igno- i its, ful islands by [ae explained Civilization.’ queen, “tof ‘bringing the two victims !n the general rush for the exits, A ory a ee hlerostyhics, ‘ ny sur. _'YOU are tight, Perry,” Tata: “and “she differed from the others in no {ha Guth eidtet start; and then Many of which pierced the ‘wall of An I walked my eyes were bent upon rance of his language,at the same thme | The req ‘man groped aheed @ few prion be wns RoreiRede Rn rauyart Asem them {9 DIAY feature that was appreciable to, my [oma the wits face. ho wan not "™Bampmicheatre behind us. | ie bench ao that It ras not antl addressing nim in the patois tongue paces and then eran to, eesend (s : i zs jl rani ij \- “ Ove Eas oh cane Re lentee Devil" he between un well rake a rane ct tion Rin er bat wecaane ereserne Ten" ie grated Jin the chaos which reigned ered that which shattered ai my ae oe ane eas Hee! meen eee led from the ground to the Upper f. : that will be an honor to us both." arena, after the balance of her female ‘or a few momen: fer the beast beautiful dream of solitude . Ghak had entered the apartment gubjects had found thelr boulders, she CHAPTER VII. cleared the wall of the arena, each and peace and pri vertordahip, To my delight he understood and | We sscended for gome terty ome “Murder to kill a reptilian monster?” nome time before we concluded our was preceded tr ate’ oF Ruse intent upon saving his own life. The thing was a_hollowe anawered me in the same jargon. epEoe ‘ conversation, and now he wanted to i week Ni . T ran to the right, passing several drawn upon the sands, and tn the ~ wwnut do you want of my spearr’ tween the walle commenced to grow ¥ quiet to astonishment 4," know what we were o excited about, Segoths, the largest I had ever seen, Freedom. exits choked with the fear-mad mob hottom of it lay a crude paddle. 7 lighter, and presently we came oppo- "Here they aro not monsters, David.” Porm "thought we had best not teli A240 elther side of her waddied a sD 6 two stood that were battling to escape. One The rude shock of awakening to he asked. site an opening in the “Here they are the dom- our fo ha 6 huge thipdar, while behind came an- ND now, a0 th would have thought that an entire what tight doubtless prove some “Only to keep you from running !t which gave us an ui ' ‘monsters'— {hat Thad a pion for era ined other score of Bagoth guardsmen. fronen in terroMI saw the herd of thags was loose behind them, few’ forme ot dn aa HU tee theccan 1 replied, of the entire interior of the temple, Reet ore ae aes ora evolu- Whe Le “ ‘a outiined it RS him he aot hesring. the Bagoths clam- author of that fearsome rather than a single, blinded, dying My" when I heard s racing ot eae neue aoe Perec ” ne eald, “for ,. 7° lower floor wes an enormows eohal sind g different lines Seemed about as horror-stricken as apelike caility while sind, eat ee sound creeping stealthily beast; but such is the effect of panic ytones from the direction of the bluff, have Just saved my Jife.” tank of cleat rater in which numer- sic. pike aaeneeapee dala Perry had been, put for a different haughty queeon rose upon her wing Into view. It was a huge Upon & crowd, and, turning my eyes In that direc: YOU ; ous hideous Mahare swam lasily wp than upon the outer 5 reason. lairy One only con- b ; Once out of the direct path of the tio) | beheld the author of the dis. With that he released his hold spon and down. terrible convulsions of n&- sidered the horrible fate that would With her two frightful dragons close tiger—such as hunted the great bos animal fear of It left me, but another turbance: a great, copper-colored {t and aquattea down in the bottom . Artificial islands of granite rock j ture time end time again wiped Out he ours were we discovered; but at pe#ide her, and settled down upon the through the jungles primeval when emotion em quickly gripped men hope dotted this artificial sea, and upon » ° n, running rapidly toward me ver. ‘species; but for this fact inst I prevailed upon+him to accept veyfest poulder of them all, in the ex. the world was young. of encape that the demoralized condi. "An, Tunning rapidly toward me. of the aki ntinued, several of them Y saw men and wo- | me montero Ne Cipon eur Dw. fizn thar’ would teke all the remo, iweatre which is reserved for the In contour and markings it was not {Wa ynstant, ence MNse POMMIPIC 9 senich ha came which neomed quite “From what country do you comer” Men Uke mymelt. | ne + \ t Wises tae what might well Bisnis were oe eentanl ere dominant race, unlike the noblest of the Bengals of tion of the guards made poasible for sufficiently menacing, so that I di@ 1, too, sat down, laying fy pd Asay! Ki in our own history a reluctant asaent. Here she squatted, a most repulalve our own world, but as its dimensions hope that I might better encompass not need the added evidence of between us, and tried to explain how i P d rs i 4 scowl! ™ t (° joi ity been what they have Within Pellucidar one time ts a: See aemareeting. Gusaa; though were exaggerated to coloasal propor- Nis release if myself free, I should brandishing spear and scowling faco | came to Pelluctdar and wherefrom: Ja “They are to take a lending have put the thought of freedom to warn me that T was in no safe but it was as impossible for him to part in the ceremonies which will | 4 been here. tena i Leth t Sip ddl Pei po beauty and divine right to rule as the tions, 80, too, were Its colorings exaR- from me at once. A® It was, I hax- porition, but whither to flee was in- grasp or belleve the strange tale told fellow the advent at ti queen. You , Lh “Lite Range Pellucidar is ale ite $9 SEM Gur iit Y Gayllahtee Papndest. monarch of the outer world, gerated, Ite vivid yellows fairly tened on toward the right, searching deed a momentous question, him as I fear it ts for you upon the may be thankful that you are not c nd then the music started—music N The speed of the fellow seemed to outer crust to believe in the exist upon the me side of the wall ea preclude the possibility of eacaping ence of the inner world. they.” him upon the open beach. There was So I gave it up and asked him carcely had he spok but a single alternative the rude about himself. He said he was 4 heard a great flut skiff—end with a celerity which Mezop, and that his n equalled hin I pushed the thing into "Who are the Mezops the aea, and as it floated gave a final “Where do they live?” man hes hed a stage all but the work I had to do in the withot H analogous to the stone age of our apartment beneath the building, Be ROUB A own world's history, but for count- So we determined to put our plan of earthly hands are unknown amone millions of years these reptiles to an immediate tent lest the Mahars them. The “band” conmiste of @ score have been progressin, Possibly it who made it possible should awake or more Mahars. It filed out in the the sixth sense which I before I reached them: but we were centre of the arena, where the crea- that has giv doomed to disappointment, for no tures upon the rocks might seq tt, and The Mahars cannot — a hear, so the drums and fifes and horns Are You Going Away for the Summer ? than we j of wings was Ja = above and a moment later a long pro- " T asked. cession of the frightful reptiles of Pelluctdar winged slowly and ma- * ir you may find It Is} shove and clambered tn over the end He looked at me in surprise. Jestically through the large central id sooner had we reached the main floor thera it . . When out of town for the summe: y i ihe end. He looked sf me in eurprise, f : of the building on our way to the twenty minutes (7 Mt PFT em tt an costly to provide yourself with the right sort of reading A ery of rage rose from the o might Indeed helleve opening in the roof and circled 0 pits beneath than we encountered of the primitive craft, and an instant were from another world,” he ald, stately manner about the temple. later his heavy, stone-tipped spear “for who of Pelluctdar could be 60 There were several Mahars first, Krazed my ahoulder and buried itself ignorant? The Mezopa live upon the and then at least twenty inspiring in the bow of the boat beyond, Then islands of the Pterodactyls—thipdars, they are call- I grasped the paddie, and with fever- “Once, when Pellucidar was young, ed within Pelluctdar. Behind these ish haate urged the awkward, wabbly the Sagoths were wont to capture came the queen flanked by other { thing out upon the surface of the sea. us for slaves, as they do the other thipdare as she had been when she A glance over my shoulder showed men of Pellucidar; It is handed entered the amphi-theatre at Phutra. Their teohnique consisted in way- y look upon us as we look upon hurrying bands of slaves being has- ing their tails and moving their heada the of our fields, and I learn tened under strong Sagoth guard:out in a regular ceasion # fromi their written records that other of the edifice to the avenue beyond. movementa, resulting An at ontenee races of Mahars feed upon men. They Other Sagoths were darting hither which evidently pleased the eye of the them in great droves, as we keep and thither in search of other slaves, Mahar an the cadence of our own In. cattle, They breed them most care- and the moment that we appeared strumental music pleases our ears. fully, and when they are quite fat we were pounced upon and hustled Sometimes the band took measured if. Why send to the city fof fibvels at $1.25 or $1.50 each or buy them at a fancy price in some country store? You can supply yourself with the best, most delightful summer reading for six cents a week. "xii! and eat them. into the line of marching humans. steps in unison to one side ae the By subscribing to The Evening World for the summer months | me that the copper-cotored one had down fiom father, to son GRRE So sus interionee nore eee j ‘shuddered. What the purpose or nature of the other, or backward and again for- | you wit secure 2 complete novel each week. Not some old book a] plunged tn atte piel “esperately and slew. #0 many settle finally upon the damp, cold | “What ls there horrible abont it, general exodus wo did not know, but ward: It all seemed very ity ond dealer has not been able to sell, but the finest up-to-date fiction] '"Iiy mighty, stroken bade fair to Suguths, and those of us that were boulders that tinge the ane: oP the old man asked. ‘They presently through the line of captives: moaningleam to mes but at the ond ng | country: 1 ae y up the distance betwaen ua in captured killed to many Mabare in of the neols ta tee contee of eee aie undetatand us no better than we un- ran the rumor that two escaped the Arst Piece the Mahare upon the | by the foremost living @uthors. See eee At haat Tooult Make Ghar awn citien; that cet leat thee The iareeer reek ae eeeeaae ot A eT uate MA CCE LAL eer eRe eae Can Tonge shower th eee ry Bear this in mind, not only for yourself but for any of your friends | {Ni tiow progress with my unfamiliar learn! that it wera better to leave quean, and here she took hes place i A jo jaye: ubbat 0 \ Yery learned discussions of the marching to witness their punish- by the dominent race of Pelluctany. who expect to spend the summer in the country. arett, which hosed stubborsly tn: ux, sane CO Ba | as to whether gilake—that ment, for the man had killed a 6: (To Be Continued.) apr) ° he tl : They beat their great wings up and every direction but that which T de- y Later came the time that the M ° RANGE STORY OF A SECRET SERVICE MAN WHOM FATE THROWS INTO THE MIDDLE OF A “JUNE WEDDING” COmPECARS. NEXT WEEK’S COMPLETE NOVEL i # The Book on the Stands Will Cost You $1.25 = IN THE EVENING WORLD => |, THE BES T MAN ; You Get It for 6 Cents ===— t H. LU TZ Sseeeensaseess