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aE sve din'g’ im “TARZAN'S” AUTHOR—THE ADVENTURES OF TWO EXPLORERS WHO DISCOVER A NEW AND ASTONISHING WOK Dt AT THE LARTH’S CORE IRRIAIR NTR RRA, (Omri, 1014, by the Freak A. Musow Ov.) At last 1 was forced to rise for alr, forms @ and as [ cast a terrified glanve in the oes BRL TRT RAK sithic. Ja did his best to dissuade me contined with Perry and Ghak before room, Several Mahars stood about #0 doing, and #0 we were not hin- from returning to Phutra, but when my escape. At the doorway 1 was the poor creature, hokling him down dered as we entered the corridor he saw that | had determined to Vo turted over to the guards there, #0 that he could not move Another, which led below. fo he consented to guide me to “He will doubtless be called before ping a sharp knife with her thres. Wrapped in a skin, I carried three point from which [ could see the the investigate: shortly,” said he forefoot, was laying open the swords and the two bows, with the platy of Phutra, who had beought mo back, “so have Victim's chest and abdomen. arrows which Perry and I had fash- 1 was sorry to part with him, for [ bim in readiness, This indeed was vivisection with @ joned. As many slaves bore skin- Wr, Mm direction of the Mahars and the thip- a se pa J dare I was almost stunned to ace that et Bot a single one remained: upon the gt we foe! where I had last seen them, nor and as I searched tho temple with my ©: chaining C ” o : eh . vengeance, Cold sweat broke out wraj iT Sher oer b momen esa euseo deeds With His hidden «ity upon (ho ‘ upon me ae 1 realiged that eoon my attracted no comment, ey Mt ; A, For a moment I was puszied to ac- deed. : ! bE CHAPTER XI. turn would come. ' hoe count for the thing, until I realized island of Anoroc as a base, and his The MAH GPS Tat patd not the alights _ Where I tof Ghak and Perry there ieee that the reptiles, being doaf, could not savage Warriors as escort, Perry Four Dead Mahars. t attention ta ine as f had been Were no other creatures in aight, and have been disturbed by the noise my body made when it hit the water, and that as there ts no such thing as time within Pellucidar there was no telling hd long I had been beneath the sur- ace. Several times I called to Ja, but he must have left after I tumbled into the tank, for I received no response to and I could have accomplished much in the Hine of exploration, and E hoped that were we successful in our effort to escape we might return to Anvroe later. q front G are cap. and sre chitee ine hem a caliel " Th ~ so I withdrew one sword from the HE guard in whoas hand ¢ ProUsht Into the room, Bo deeply Im> package, and, leaving the balance of mersed were they in thelr work that 0 ‘ how found myself, upon Tam sure they did fot even KNOW gion tiwatd tie lomee nerted on : ‘cutee ; Bbc owird the lower levels for pagtit tnt T had rutttnéd that the Ragotas had entered with fiy dangerous chtsrpeine, There was, howe one great J of my own volition to Phu My ; vould Having come to the apartments in thing to be’ accomplished frst at «tra, evidently felt that it , The door was clone by. Would that wrich the threa Mahars septs 1 et least it was the great thing to me wound be safe to give me my Hberty precluded any such possibility, tered: asllently on tiptos, forgetting the finding of Dian the Beautiful ket about for some means of ess that the creatures were without the iy oft 1 wanted to m nds for the Within the building, as had been the ry t ‘ senso of hearing, y cries, : 1 stom befor Al exeaped dixo C8be from my bonds. dhe } CHAPTER VIII. Doubtless he had felt as certain of affront [had put up: rin my ie custom before 1 had escaped, and so SA TOn ty Ok a and the’ With a quick thrust through the my doom when he saw me topple norance, and | wanted to Well, 1 was told to return to whatever duty sianary lay a tiny surgical instru. a¢art I disposed of the first, but my The Mahar T i fast be toe shetih be diatoversd bead T wanted to seo her again, and (1 69 nay poon ming formerly. fient Which one of them must have #econd thrust was not s0'fortunate, 16 lahar Temple. the too shou! covered had her. hastened fr the temple and back LL lay quiet for several min- to his village, Z a AN utes after settling to their I know that there must be some My first act was to hunt up Perry, dropped. Lt looked not unlike a Bate ty Wietiiae (eens eu the next of fg ound porthe, al , over tonhook, but was much smaller, and cl ad hurled itself against to the gorgeous fleld ‘of flowers, whom I found poring, as usual, Over ott wae sharpened. A hundred the third, who aprang quickly up, face then across the rolling land the great tomes that he was supposed tings in my boyhood days had I Ime me with wide, distended jaws, the jee dea ere yg (Be ba to bo merely dusting and rearranging picked locks with a buttonhook, Hut fighting Is not the cecupation aster mile from the nearest en. 'Pon new shelves, Could 1 but reach that little bit of be at Kon ets Mahars loves, and trance L was discovered by the Sagoth AS I entered the room he glanced ed steel I might yet effect at yi deny shen two oe tk I already guard, and jn an instant four of the up and nodded pleasantly to me, only at A temporary escape, iope and that Tey. pbc wat pea ‘Nas " dashing toward me . Crawling to the limit of my chain, 1) a red yw Oe they Wantsaned to resume his work as though E bad y found that by reaching one hand, thelr blood, It made a dash to escape sees end yelled tke wild Con never been away at all, as far out ax Lcould my fingers stil BY me into the corridor which led to T paid not the slightest attention t “Why, Perry,” I exclaimed, “have fell an inch short of the coveted In- nf et Ons Bove. 1 uletly toward them " f . strument, It was tantalizing! Stretch | But T was too quick for it, and so, them, Missy HLA ot their Saunton not you a word for me after my longs sry fibre of my br as L would I Dalf hopping, half ying, it scurried awa nxintes 4 oo . i Shy manner had the effect upon them absence? . vuld not quite make it, down another corridor, with mo close that I had hoped, and as we came “Long absence!” he repeated inevi- At just f turned about and extended “HIE Ut tel ne tne utter ruin of quite near together they ceased their nt astonishment. “What do you one foot toward the object out bitte REA is ua ores 1 bali yee wnouNR nt Slowly ai itiously T mado the stant death. ‘This thought lent wings ‘What do you here?! snowed iat “L must have been away for months, Stork: My toon dropped ubon the cold to my ‘feet; but even at my. beat t Tein the slave who claims to be from Perry, and now you barely look up mo until 1 felt that it was within ine Ez eee ten noe my own another world—he who escaped when from your work when I return and In- reach of my hand and a moment later “it ‘n° Auten. VEN geeare, me. the thag ran amuck within the amphl- sist that we have been separated but 1 had turned about and the precious tment on the right of the cor. theatre. But why do you return, Rave ont, Ie that any way to treat a “MIN was in my gras and oan Instant tates i Ing once made Rood your exeane sed at_you, Perry, Asstduously 1 fell to work upon the i 7 ras K a : Hed, et friend? Tim sur I : i rushed In T found myself facing two Soren wae: teavold tho ee. aid and if Pa thought for a moment that Mahar lock that held my chain, It of the Mahars = A, thers, and coming into a long pas- You cared no more for me than this L Was pitifully simple. A ehild might — apy, Hi Shue I became confused and lost my should HI rl say in the foothills beyond Phutra. al ot have returned to chance 2&Ve picked it, and @ moment later I " Gniy now have I found my way Down the hillside I made my way places, One might have entrance to the building beside the doorways in the roof, for It did not imagined them in ailent peem reasonable to believe that the prayer, The poor slaves thousands of slaves which were upon the diminutive islands watched brought here to feed the Mahars the the horrid creatures with wide eyes, Uman flesh they craved would all be carried through the air, and so I con- The men, for the most part, stood tinued my search until at last it erect and stately with folded arms, was rewarded by the discovery of awaiting their doom; but the women S¢Veral loose granite blocks in the ot oO ol 6 ti a and children clung to one another, ™A*ITy at one end ot tn ee to hiding behind the males. istodge enough of these stones to Now the queen moved. She raised Lee eS, to A gh Pape ms bed clearing beyond, and a moment later her ugly head, looking about; ten Yhag scurried across the intervening very slowly she crawled to the edge space to the dense jungle beyond. of her throne and slid nojselessly into mate sank Leger d ae trembling the water, Up and down the long Upon the matted grasses beneath the ‘ sag Biant trees, for I felt that I had us- tank she swarn, turning at the ends Canad from the grinning fangs of As you have sven captive seals turn death out of the depths of my own upon their backs and dive below the grave, ourface. I must have fallen asleep from ex- i haustion. When I awoke I was very Nearer and nearer to the islands pungry, and after, busying myself she came, until at last she remained searching for fruit for a while I set at rest before the largest, which lay off through the jungle to find the f one that had been there when we entered had been occupled with a ‘ number of metal vessels, into which! s were now evidently had been put powders and liquids, a: he hands of the Mah for Wis free ie The May m sid man looked at me for a long completing ir work at the table. T jud; from the array of flask: i directly opposite her throne. Raising beach, back. ur free will time before he spoke. There was a One already had turned away and standing about upon the bench where her hideous hend from the water, ah@ 1 Knew that the Island was not #0 EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS peed, eH come of your free wilt puaged expression upon bis wrinkled Was examining other victims, evi it had been worklte, 2 Dawes rents Teun eyes upon ie fene'ie'T did but move in & straight of all thres 1 te form that I the spear. He can rear up and reach guardsmen, Lae ee ee The OexE SUB ISG nee geumblod sper IL van the Coty Oe en, jut mov nm astral al ree in concrete for . a ” Ae. 18 he: ject. nbled upon t ie very They were fat and sleek, for they jing, but there came the difficulty ae bebeld advancing upon me. you with ease anywhere below where | “Where elso might T got! f asked eyts. pon. It was the very room id been brought from a distant there was no way in which I could A huge, op am @ stranger. W tinued the old man, “we . Those at the table had thelr backs for the finding of which Perry had har city where human beings were direct my course and hold it, the sun, with toadil body and the mighty Well, Ja should know his own busi- and know no otherwhere than are both right. ‘To me, bent over my me. Hut for the creature given me minute directions It was and KWhy should I not desire to be in book here, there has been no lapse of Walking toward ux T might have es- the buried chamber in which was in droves and bred and fattened of course, being always directly above jaws of the alligator. Its Immense ness, I thought, and so I grasped the Uhitra? Am I not well fed and well tine, 1 have done little or nothing to cand that moment, hidden the Great Secretvot this hor. e breed and fatten beef-cattle, my head and the trees so thickly set carcass must have weighed tons, and spear and clambered up toward tho (fitag, Am I not happy? What bet- waste my energies and so have re- wly the thing approached mo, rible race of Mahars, The queen fixed her gaze upon & that I could see no distant object yet it moved swiftly and silently to- red man as rapidly as I could—being (er 4oe could man desire?” Quired neither food nor sleep. its attention was attracted by And on the bench beside the flasks plump young maiden. which might serve to guide me in a ward me. 80 far removed from my simian an- “ie gagotha scratched their heads, = "Surely there can be no time here & huge slive chained a fow yards to Iay the skin-bound book which held Her victim tried to turn away, hid- straight line, Upon one hand was the bluff that cestors as { am, I imagine the slow- pig wan a new one on them, and 80, within Pellucidar, where there are no MY right. Here th ptile stopped the only copy of the thing T was. ? ing her face in her hands and kneel- aw it was I must have walked for a ran from the canyon to the sea, on wited sithic, as Ja called him, sud- boing stupid brutes they took me to means for uring or recording 4nd commenced to go over the poor have sought, after despatching the : ing behind a woman, but the reptile great distance, since I ate four times the other the fearsome swamp from denly realized our intentions and that their masters who they felt would time, Why, AEAreins Champalven fully, and as it did ao, its three Mahara in thelr sleep, * with unblinking eyes stared on with gnd slept twice before I reached the which the creature had sneaked upon he was quite likely to lose all his jo better fitted to solve the riddle of take no account of such a thing as kK turned toward me for an’ in- ‘aa, no exit from the room such fixity that I’ could have sworn sea; but at last I did so, and my me, behind lay the mighty untracked meal instead of having it doubled a8 1,y return, for riddle they still con- time. I find here in ail their literary Stant and in that Instant f gave two the doorway In which T her vision penetrated the woman and pjeasure at the sight of It was greatly sea, and before me in the centre of ho had hoped. sidered it. works but a single tense, the present, Mghty leaps that carried me out of now stood facing the two frightful the girl's hands to reach at last the enhanced by the chance discovery of the narrow way that led to safety limy amphibian it was, I stand.” When he saw me clambering up fo they led mo before the slimy ‘1p, seems to be neither past nor the chamber into the corridor beyond, reptiles, very contre of her brain. a hidden canoe aiong the bushes stood this hue mountain of terrible that spear he let out a hiss that falre Mahar, who clung to a slimy rock future with them, Of course it Is im- down which I raced with all the speed — Cornered, 1 knew that they woul Slowly the reptile'’s head commenced through which I had stumbled just and menacing flesh. ly shook the ground and came charg- within the large room that was the possity earthly minda I could commanc to move to and fro, but the eyes never prior to coming upon the beach. A single glance at the thing was fight like demons, and they were well ceased to bore toward the frightened ing after me at a territic rate. thing's office. te equipped.to fight 4f t f I can tell you that it did not take Sufficient to assure me that I was f iad reached the top of the spear ‘With cold, reptilian eyes the creature rec m to demon. Tknew not. My only thought was to (a neht. wht if they were forced girl, and then the victim responded. 46 jong to pull that awkward craft facine one of those long-extinct, pre- by this time, or almost—another six seemed to bore through the thin veneer strate Its existe place ax much distance as possible ner they taunch She turned wide, fear-baunted ¢: down to the water and shove it far historic creatures whose fossilized re- inches would give me a hold on Ja’s of my deceit and read my inmost It was too big a subject for me, between me and that frightful cham- apon me sua dhoueh A themselv. toward the Mahar queen, slowly she Colton shore. My experience with Mains are found within the outer hand, when I felt a sudden wrench thoughts, It heeded the story which and 1 sald so, but Perry seemed to ber of torture pon me, and though 1 ran one of jzomes to ee fet Feeds dlond though Ja had taught me that if I were to crust as far back as the Triassic for- from’ below and, glancing fearfully the Sagoths told of my return to enjoy nothing better than speculating | Uresently 1 reduced my apeed to, a gh the heart ‘on the in-, ragged by some " on, but our | Where | was or whither I was going . < stant, the other fastened ite gleamin, ) ust uick Mation, a gigantic labyrinthodon. downward, saw the mighty jaws of Phutra, watching the goriila-men's lips after listening with in- brisk walk, and later) realizing the 4 P fas aming sone in a trance straight toward Stoai another cance & tnuse Pedi the And ‘ther I was, unarmed, and, tha monster close on the Rate HORE SUSUR Ie AUPIAR The raciial Thea tt my account of the adven- danger of ‘running Ito some new fankN abe it my sword arm above the ee Axed Upon Owner's reach as soon as possible, — With the exception of a loin cloth, a8 of the weapon. ’ Questioned me through one of the tures through which I had passed he predicament were T not careful 1 ti co teneed to rake me niin joae of her OF. ‘Baked 48 T Ras come: into the: world, frantic effort to reach Sagoths. returned once m to the subje oyed more a 01 tre hod dor "To the watera edge ahe came, nor I must have come out upon the op- T could imagine how my first ances. , 1, made-a frantic oF A youreturned to Phutra which he was enlarging upon with still hody, evidently intent upon di h Ald mtn oven pause, but atepped Into poaite side of the island from that at tor felt that distant’ prenistorie mann J#® hand, the sithic gave a tremen- — “You say that you returned to which he was ‘ beside the little island. which Ja and I had entered It, for the a ane woven toward the Mahar, mainland was nowhere in sight. For who now slowly retreated as thougb a long tine I paddled ‘round the emboweling me. i ear to jerking of your own free will because you think considerable fluency when he was in- After « time T came to a prssage Secchi te {i hold on. the durfuce Yourself better off here than elsewhere. terrupted by the entrance of a Sa- that seemed in some mysterious way ghey tral twas Useleas to hope of the rock, the spear slipped from bis Do you not know that you may be the goth. familiar to me, and presently, chance» {fat T might relenwe my arm from fingers, and, still clinging to it, I next chosen to give up your life in the “Come,” comman the intruder, ing to glance within a chamber which Do ul, visellke grip which that he encountered for the first time the terrifying progenitor of the thing that had me cornered now beside the i lead! on, shore, though well out, before I 8aW restiews, my: No, ‘te > heekor 9 estigators led ft he corrido! seemed to be severing my arm. from ‘ \ nding er vicee to the girl's knees, the mainland in the distance, T There secmed: nothing to do but BIUBKed feet foremost toward my SE CT ORT er AEC Meat gut RA ena ey Sissel tac Me ae tod Wi th stutter arenes my body. ‘The pain I wuffered was and etill she advanced chained by At the sight of it I lost no time in stand supinely and awalt my end. ravenous executioner, veatimat Fg ot mt vith? it Perry, 1 said, clasping bed of skins, intense, but it only served to spur n ' that clammy eye. directing my course toward It, for {~The labyrinthodon was coming mora At the instant that he felt the spear continually Hunplne Ni oe saat the old man's hand. “There may be 1 could have shouted aloud in joy t Kreater efforts to overcome my Now the water was at her waist. had long aince made up my mind to glowly now. He seemed to renting that © away from Ja’a hand the crea- _ 1 hadn't heard of anything of that the old mania hand, | there may te ta vollet. it was the aun corridor, entaqoniat, Now to her armpits. return to’ Phutra and give myself Up escape for me wan impoumible nnd Tf must have opened his huge jaws nature, but I thought best not to ad~ nothing but the present and no such and soit Wau the sane sorridor, TNC nd forth aaroas the. fooe we Her fellows upon tho island looked that I might be once more with could have sworn that his. huge, t2 catch me, for when I came down, mit it. heute to take a te to the here. E had intefded to have lead so. im- Sttumxled—the Mahar dealing me on in horror, helpless to avert her Perry and Ghak the Hairy One. fanged jaws grinned in pleasurable Still clinging to the butt-end of the _ “I could be in no more danger he Mtoe from Which Teshall fever re. portant a rolo In our-escape from terrific, cutting blows with her fores doom in which they saw a forecast Had Perry been dead I should appreciation of my predicament, or Weepon, the point yet rested In his 7 said, “than naked and unarmed in t tue au hutra, Providence had indeed been feet. while L attempted to protect of their own. gladly have pitted my strength and waw it In_anticipation of the Juicy Mouth, and the result was that the savage Junsles or upon the lonely tin slgtay anand te pees Mtilew mill slope, my body with my left hand,-at the The Mahar had sunk now till only wit against the savage and primor.ial morsel which would so soon be pent sharp end tranafixed his lower jaw. plains of Pellucidar, 1 was fortunate, | RAL th WE BAO: MONARO! Say now lay In #ame time watching for an oppor P4 the Jong upper bill and eyes were ex- world in which I found myself, I between those formidable teeth? P With the pain he snapped his T think, to return to Phutra at all, As to escape T want you to promise me lovela in tunity to transfer my blade from my — + \ posed above the surface of the water, could have lived in seclusion within — He was about fifty feet from me Mouth closed. fell upon his snout, (t was, T ba scaped death within that you will find Dian the Beautiful, and Ghak, but there OW useless sword hand to its rapidly ” Rha'the «irl had advanced until the some rocky cave until I had found when T heard a voice calling to me lost my hold upon the spear, rolled fe sithic. and tell her that with my last words hothing else to be done, so TF Weakening mate, dof that frightful beak was but the moans to outfit inyself with the from the direction of the bluff at my te length of his face and head ‘i that: an a T asked her forgiveness for the unin. as Roun el g in inch or two from her face. her crude weapons of the Stone Age, and left. across his short neck onto his bre @ the hands of intelligent creatures » tentional aff When [came to the frequented pors med to me my lost ounce of horror-filled eyes riveted upon thos® then set out in search of her whose — I looked and could have shouted in D&GK and from there to the ground. gy rule Phutra. At least, such would my one , tlone of the building I found a large strength Tran the blade through the fof the repulsive reptile. Image had now become the constant delight at the sight that met my eyes, , Scares had t touched the earth thin he the case in my own world, where enough to right the wrong that fonten of skins in a corner, and Ugly body of my foe, Now the water passed above the companion of my waking hours, and — There, waving frantically to me, J, Was upon my feet, dashing madly human beings like myself rule supreme, Thad done he i Pura, of aielng. ine SOernars Re Masucalens: an te an: colin taee ee girl's mouth and noge—her eyes and the central and beloved figure of my stood Ja, uri me to run for it to, fof. the path by which I had enter “Phere the higher races of man ex- ura came to Perry's eyes them In such a way that ends and and though wenk trom, pais and lone @f j forehead were all that showed, Yet groams, the cliff's base. © this horrible valley Ider showed «fend and hospitality to the Feannot believe but that you Will corners fell down about my shoul- blood, it was with an emotion of trie still she walked on after the retrea But, to the best of my knowledge, Fy ae wing at stranger within their gates. Being a return, Havid.” he suid. “lt would ders, completely hiding my face, winphant pride that [stepped acrom ‘ ing Mahar. Perry’ still lived and it was my duty CH. ~ ne the aithte engaxed in PAwink At Stranger here, 1 naturally assunied be wful to think of Hving out the ‘ihuy divcuised, E tound verry and its convulaively stiffening corime to : ‘The queen's head slowly disap? ang my wish to be again with him. "HAPTER X. Foe aoe ee ually engaged did he tat a Vike courtesy would be ace Palance of my iife among these hate. Ghak together in the chamber where snatch up the most potent secret of { mee, benene La cher victim, that we Flghvatats the dangers and Phutra Again. Jom nin this occupation that I had sored ie. ei) at me in alto ful and ropulaive er baturen’ without we had bean wont to ent and Bleep STUNG EE alan hee n ee Df ie t » strang ny ‘J O The Mahar looke¢ ein silence ou are eon tt in i" ry to me, A » glance told me ne t Only a slow ripple widened toward Mg he ae vee ae HAD no idea that T should pained. the aetery. or the one my He ae eonta tin never escape, fort feol that fam as dlaga to ay; though cf course Usd (Oia nicuky with Parry’ aeesoten ? fithe shores to mark where the two "vance carcied me. to the very escape the monster that }urwuit. e mae and the Sagoth well off here ag L should be anywh y had known nothing of the fate tion as he had read m the ancient 3 vanished. ‘each upon which I had discovered had marked me for his "When he did not discover me in words to his mereature Within this burind world by, t had been meted out to me after records of the Maha pl i ‘a canoe, and a short time later I breakfast, but at least 1 sight within the valley dashed, seemed deep in th Iny. boys oodbs my trial by the Judges And as 1 {it did T think of i CHAPTER IX. was scrambling up the steep bank to sain . hissing, into the rank vegetation of xently she c ed some, Then his old voles faltered and Tf was decided that no time should what it meant to the human race of < retrace my steps from the plain of should not die alone. Hu- she swamp, and that was the last that age to the $ heh r breke, and as he hid his face in his now be lost before attempting to put) Pellueidar— did there Maah through myt 3 The Face of Death. Phutra. man eyes would watch my end. It f'saw of him. turned and, motioning ine to follow hands the Sagoth guardsman grasped our plan of escape to the test, at To mind the thought that countless gene . But my troubles came when I en- ence of the reptile, Me roughly by the ah OR a time all war silence was cold comfort, I presume, yet [ [hastened to the cliff edge above him, left the pr der and hus- hope to remain hidden from erations of wh kind yet unborn i " : hind and ors ine Ued me from the ehamt could Efe 1 i rah » for tered the canyon beyond the summit, 4 Jacand helped hige tow secure footing. Behind and ther sid 1 number Sagoth nor cou Would have reason to hip me for within the temple. for here 1 found that several of then derived some slight peace of mind ha and Delued hige iis sual the balance of the suard. pd moment later | was standing bes ever carry that bale of sking about the think tht T had accomplished for The slaves were motion- centred at the point where I crossed from the contemplation of it, “TL wish that you would come and are they koing to de with) fore dozen Mahars the offleial in m omy head without arousing sug- them? pid Py ft did not jess in terror. The Mahara the divide, and which one T had tra run seemed ridiculous, especially jive with me. You shall become a me?" Lasked the fellow at my right. Vestieators of Phucra, ‘They asks 1 Pied the surface of the water for ered fo reach the pass I could not watches ea ce 0! : ore you are to appe the Me MANS question ou Sa- Sonine lite of phen toward that steep and unsealable member of my tribe, Among us ther You are to appear 1 v ns through a Sa for the life of me remember. the reappearance best of hunting and fishing, learned ones, who will question you t their queen, and" fty ‘the tima I had eaten eight cliff, and yet Tdid so, and as Tran th 0V iy "shall have, to choose a mate rexarding this str oice world from 1 anwwered them all truthfully presently ut ono end of the tank her meals and slept twleo I was con- saw Ja, agile as a me Key, crawl from, the most beautiful girls of Pel- which you say you con ‘Vhey ser picion However, It s¢ would carry m through the ero nd particularly interested chambers of the I thoifeht of a beautiful, oval taco, Mkely that It yan ont of limpld eyes, through @ 5 nee more safely waving mass of jet black hatr, led passages and Por an instant P stood there thi upper levels, and 80° ing of Dian the E utiful, and then, Naw vinced that T was upon the wrong down ecipitous fuce of the lucidar. Will you come?" After a moment's silence he turned nN thy account of Me outer earth and Txet out with Perry and Ghak, the with a sich, | tucked the book In the head rose slowly into view, trail, for between Phutra and the a sn he te mall projections, 1 told him about Perry then and to me ayaln, . the stra hicte which had stench of the Mly-cured pelts falrly thong Stare orted my loin cloth eee ee ie injand sea T had not slept at all and “OCK* clinging to small p * dian the Beaugiful, and how my duty © you happen to know,” he asked, brought erry and me to Pelluctdar. choking me. and turnteterteave the apartment, By the time the thipdars had ¢ls- had eaten but once. and the tough ereepers that had WAN thom first, Afterward Exhould “what the Mahars do to slaves who lie Ethougnt that) had convinced them, ther we repatred to the first” At the bottom of the corridor whieh posed of the last of the slaves the Ma- ‘fo retrace my steps to the summit found roothold here and the: return and visit him—if I could ever to them? and after th hars were all asicep upon their rocks, of the divide and explore another ‘The —labyrinthodon evidently find his Island And a moment later the great ptero- Canyon seemed the only solution of MY thought that Ja was coming to dou ny that is y had sat in silence for LT replied; “nor does it inter- a long time following amy examin ast have no datention of lying tion expected to be orde Mf corridors beneath the main fe: floor of the building, and here Perry whistled tn dre and Ghak halted te awalt tm chambers L with the pre- inged signal which was to an- cordan friend," he ost ‘ anak eitent sald. “YOU ni ime to to the Mahars. turned to my quarters The buidings are cit out of the pounce to Perry and Ghak that Thad dactyla swung buck to thelr ports be- Provlem, but a sunoen Sete Ane iio his portion of human flesh, 8» he the foot af the f thes ven hw careful that you During thin apparent silence they wulid Mmestone formation. ‘There iv been suc A nt later they side the Queen and themselves dropped seemed to suggest that ft was about was in no h to pursue me to the Mountains of the Clow fa, There you peak ase im nesaunte ere ps me v Laie atin rt F the medium nothing at all remarkable about thelr atuodl bexide and to my surprise I into slumber, I turned to Ja. to open into a level country, and, cliff and frighten away this other th a ine a river whieh flows Into th NE REA KIER Weinice P A bere sb i ss lie uae riay st architecture ‘iiaa Saati au Tah Ht ne Sly One accom= ‘ vic: ‘6 of discov sly sd alo’ ara . deed, whore hu velniga 1 weommerite of mn ly as i” ‘The rooms are sometimes rectan- panied thet | “f wonder if they left a single vie» With the jure of discovery strong bit. Instead, he merely trotted along Pt it oa we had been walking canciuded In fine scorn hool-of the tribunal communicated gular, sometimes. clrenlar, and again “He joined uss" exclaimed Perry, tim?” 1 remarked, leaning far out of upon me, 7 dec tt tne het 4 behind me, f the up the canyon down which Thad To my surprise they returned me to + result of their cc renee to the oval in shape. The corridors which “and would not nied, fellow the opening in the rocky wall to in- short distance further before Aa I approuched the foot of the UP tne caren et ocean and the the same building In which Chad been ofticer in charge of the Sagoth gard, connect them are harrow and net aly twa fox, He scents excape, and rather spect the temple better. turned back cliff | saw what intended doing, Come. he sald tome, “you are wave xtraleht. ‘The chambers are than be thwarted of cur chance now Directly below me the water lapped — The next turn of the canyon brought but I doubted {f the toing would —_--—— eae ae an eee erenaeR Sema: as tenved ta it experimental pits [achted by diffused sunlight reflected told him that I would bring him to the ‘very aide of the wall, thats Les me to its mouth, aod Ketots mat prove llsoaaatol re bee is ne Cowan A ? having dared to insult the intel- through tubes similar to thosa by you and let you decide whether he break in the boulders at this point, saw a narrow plain leading dowa to to within twenty feet of the bottom, G A f | S of the milk ves WIT the which the avenues are lighted, Might accompany us om fe there was at several other places an ocean, At my right the side of and there, clinging with one hand to re ou ong way or the ummer: | | TOU) THIGT VU Mave had Ale vceieh Thee rie tines sare, Vibe noi a for Hoota and no ebae . about the side of the temple, the canyon continued to the water's @ smell ledge, and with We t ists terity to untold to them," the darker. Mt af the corridors aré fidence in him. | was sure that tf ha My hands were resting upon a rmall edge, tho valley Tying to my left and ing prec wrlously upon tiny utah tha as Ven neanetns EhOy Ly LOHLENTOA. Mie: RIRATA CAD |ThOGeht te woul DPORE witn. be wane : f granite which formed @ part the foot of It running gradually into gre 6 BO ace Oo} ry c 1 1 ne se quite well in semi-d ay us; but [saw no y ol i pr the wall dull my weight upon it the sea, where it formed a broad, he lowered the point of his long spear When you go out of town for the summer you may fin 1 It Is vB ' see quite weil in sem{-d betray: us butt saw no way out of Mg proved too much for It, It slipped, jevel beach, until it hung some six feet above the T difficult and costly to provide yourself with the night sort of reading Gulikve: You Neto Manatee four Mahire Instead of Only the th aed 1 lusned Seat grasp to save 1 reanty } Hay ate oe fenaiy Le ae r up that sliin anaft with- | matter. i mean aluve sontioh whe Thao on ‘ares it poasible to “ ree and 1 plunged headforemost ge, across whose forbidding boson out dragging Ja down ani preeipl- Why send to the city for novels at $1.25 or $1.50 each or buy |"), ny it become a part Inetn follow in our achome into the water below, human being had yet ventured to tating both to the saine doom from T them at a fancy price in some country store? Le ngyeléna, aid eo LORAIKEA TT eae. ale LE APs. wuith’y eats: Seok anise ‘ tely the tank was deep at discover what strange and mysterious which the copper-colored one was at- : 4 * rs Fe y uurd down through bape EVaniia’ ADE J eithoda: Fibs sie ae Y thie guint, aad 1 suffered no injury funds lay beyond or what Its invisi- tempting to save me xeemed utterly You can supply yourself with the best, most delightful summer net ny eure down throes trom thy place t Avene, and with ut Hota: butat the teat inthe from the tall, but as T was rising to. bio islands held of riches, wonders or impossible and as 1 came near the 1 reading for six cents a week. 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Not some old book a ti oite various uecupations, TO posed to enter the r ecorridot nie later we had removea © "> the moment the eyes of the rep- could Perry and put escape the ax doing and was in no danger a 1 to-date fictio Fee ye uhara the musTdeee ERC anartmenth OxceDe on apacinl ore the wkine from tho four Mahe tiles fell upon the creature that had Mahara, when something—a slight himself, country dealer has not been able to sell, brit the finest up-to-date fiction f Be ee eee eee ee eee ae a ete cay (A nureline Rea disturbed their slumber. noixe, T imagine-drew my attention The danger is still yours,” he | by the foremost living authors. ; Soe ade wall Vaan in ware eonninernd thom ourssiveas that thers AMarnaniee As long T could [ remained be- behind me. called, “for unless you move much Bear this in mind, not only for yourself but for any of your friends re wore othor D wer without Intelligence excellent chance for us to pass unnos neath the surface, swimming rapidly As T turned, adventure, more rapidly than you are now the nd th in'ibe eeurt oe et nape 4 little reason to fear that ticed from Phutra in the direction of the islands that I and discovery tract took sithic will be upon you and drag you | who expect to spe e summer in the country. ohal Pd LB meal eect Parity eenen Rk ell (To Re Continued.) might prolong my life to the utmost. wing before the terrible embodiment back before ever you are halt-way up iin even @ THE STRANGE STORY OF A SECRET SERVICE MAN WHOM FATE THROWS INTO THE MIDDLE OF A “JUNE WEDDING” COMPLICATION + NEXT WEEK’S COMPLETE NOVEL al ad : The Book on the Stands Will Cost You $1.25 * === IN THE EVENING WORLD = _; T H E B E Ss T MA N You Get It for 6 Cents ====— | . ee BY GRACE L. 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