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duinie ids * FRAME GR GME Reda kAbaTeSAEAR MRE >: \ feah with her nated ned teeth Wild aniiaat would cause a rentinents toward my surprise FE found that as daintily as the most ivihzed woman of My acquaintance, ni finally found nmivself gazing in foolish rupture at the beauttes of her strong, white teeth, Such ts love. After our repast we went down to the river together and bathed our handa and faces, and then after drink- : Ing our fll went back to the cave Without a word I crawled into the ; furthest corner and curling up was soon asleep. When | awoke I found Dian sitting ij in the doorway looking out across the cry in Mabars anil leas CHAPTER XIV. (Contiaurd.) The Garden of Eden. ‘T happened on the occasion of his fourth charge, when, in- stead of striking at me with his knife, he dropped that weapon, and seizing my swordbiade in both his hands wrenched the weapon from my grasp as easily though I had been a babe, HMinging it far to one side, he stood rotionless for just an instant, glaring ito my face with such a horrid leer of malignant triumph as to almost un- Merve me; then he sprang for me with “his bare hands, Mt Jubal's day te learn ne’ » methods of warfare. For the frst time he had seen a bow and arrows; never before that duel had he beheld a sword, ‘and now he learned what @ man who knows may do with his bare fists. As he came for me, like a great bear, 1 ducked again beneath his out- Stretched arm, and as I came up ited as clean a blow upon his jaw as you have seen, Down went that great mountain of flesh, sprawling upon the ground. He ‘waa so surprised and dazed that be . lay there for several seconds before ie made any attempt to rise, and I ‘stood over him with another dose reaéy when he should gain his knees. Up he came at last, almost roaring in his rage and mortification, but he didn'Wstay up. I let him have a left fair on the point of the jaw that sent “him tumbling over on his back. By this time I think Jubal had gone mad with hate, for no sane man would have come back for more as many times as he did. Time after time 1 bowled him over as fast as he could stagger up, until toward the last he lay longer on the ground be- tween blows, and each time came up weaker than before. He was bleeding very profusely now from the wound in his lungs, and y a terrible blow over the heart sent him reeling heavily to the ~ ground, where he lay very still, and ®@omehow I knew at once the Ugly One would never get up again. "mut even as I looked upon that inassive body lying there so grim and terrible in death 1 could not believe that I, single handed, had bested this slayer of fearful beasts—this gigantic ogre of the atone age. Picking up my sword I leaned upon * It, looking down on the dead body of and 1 thought of the te reat idea was born in my brain—the outcome of this and the suggestion } that Perry had made within the citv of Phutra, If skill and science could render a comparative pyamy the master of thi: mighty brute, what could not the brute’s fellows accomplish with the game skill and science? Why, all Pel- lveldar would be at their feet—and I should be their king and Dian their queen. Dian A little wave of doubt swept over m it was quite within the posal- bilities of Dian to look down upon me even were | king. She was quite the most superior person I had ever met—with the most convincing way of letting you know that she was superior. ‘Well, I would go to the cave and tell her that 1 had killed Jubal and then she might feel more kindly to- ward me since I had freed her of her tormentor. I hoped that she had found the cave easily. It would be terrible had I lost her again and | turned to gather up my shield and bow to hurry after her, when te my astonishment I found her standing not ten paces behind me. “Girl!” 1 cried. “What are you doing hero? I thourht that you had gone to the cave, as I told you to do.” Up went her head and the look that she gave me took all the majesty out of me and ‘eft me feeling more Itke the palace faniter—if palaces have Janito “Am you told me to do!” she cried, amping her little foot. do ast Please. Iam the daughter of » king, and, furthermore, T hate you.” T was dumfounded—this was my thanks for saving her from Jubal! I turnad and looked at the corpse. “Maybe | saved you from a worse fate, old man,” I sald, but T guess it was lost on Dian, for she did not seem otice it at all. “Let us go to my cave,” T said. “I am tired and hungry.” She followed along a pace behind me, neither of us speaking. t angry, and she evidently didn't care to converse with the lower orders, ‘Pwas mad all the way through, as 1 bad certainly felt that at least word of thanks should have rewarded me, for I knew that even by her own standards | must have done a very wonderful thing to have killed the r Jubal in a hand-to-band In MWe had no difficulty in finding my Ivf, ond then 1 went down into the valley and bowled over a small ante lope, which I dragged up the steep ascent to the ledge before the door, Here we ate in silence Occasionally T glanced at her, think- tne that the sight of her tearing at hat Jubal T valley, no word for me. I wanted to hate her, but I couldn't. Every time I looked at her something came up in my throat, eo that I nearly choked. I had never been in love be- fore, but I did not need any aid in diagnosing my case. After we had eaten again I asked Dian if she intended returning to her tribe now that Jubal was 5 she shook her head sadly and said that she did not care, for there was still Jubal’s brother to be considered —his oldest brother. “What has he to do with it? 1 asked, “Does he, too, want you, or has the option on you become a fam- ily heirloom, to be passed on down from generation to generation?” She was not quite sure as to what I meant. “It is probable,” she said, “that they all will want revenge for the death of Jubal—there are seven of them—seven terrible men. Some one may have to kill them all if I am to return to my people. It commenced to look as though I had assumed a contract much too large for me—about seven sizes, in t. “Had Jubal any cousine?” I asked. It was just as well to know the Worst at once, “Yes,” replied Dian, “but they don't peunt iglere all have mates. Jubal's rothers have no mates because Ju- bai could get none for himself. He so ugly that women ran away Some have even thrown themselves from the cliffs of Amoz ‘nto the Darel Az rather than mate a “ER the Ugly One.” “But what had that to do with his brothers?" I asked. “I forgot that you are not a Pel- Ivetdar,” satd Dian, with a look of pity mixed with contempt, and thi contempt seemed to be laid on a little thicker than the circumstanies war- ranted—aa though to make quite cer- tein that I shouldn't overlook it. “You see," she continued, “a younger brother may not take a mate ‘until all his older brothers have dot 80, unless the older brother waives h rerogative, which Jubal would not do, nowing that as long as he kept them single they would be the keener in alding him to secure a mate.” Noticing that Dian was becothing more communicative I began to en- tertain hopes that she might be warming up toward me a bit, though upon what slender thread I hung my hopes TI soon discovered. ' “As you dare not return to Amor,” ventured, “what is to become of you, since you cannot be happy here with me, hating me as you do!” “T shall have to put up with you,” she replied coldly, “until you see fit to go elsewhere and leave me in peace, then I shall get along very well alone.” T looked at her in utter amazement. It seemed incredible that even a pre- Metoric woman could be so cold and heartlese and ungrateful. Ther { rose. “I shall leave you now,” I said haughtily. “I have had quite enough of your ingratitude and your insults. Then I turned and strode majesti ally down toward the valley. I had taken a hundred steps in absolute silence, and then Dian spoke. ate you,” she shouted, and her voice broke—in rage, I thought. 1 was absolutely miserable, but [ hadn't gone far when I began to real- ize that I couldn't leave her alone there without protection, to hunt her ¥! own food amid the dangers of the savage world. She might hate me and revile me and heap indignity after indignity upon me, as sbe already had, until I should have but the pitiful fact remained that I loved her, and I could not leave her there alone. The more I thought about it the madder I got, so that by the time I reached the valley I was furlous, and the result of it was that I turned right round and went up that cliff again twice as fast as I had come 4 down, T saw that Dian had left the ledge and had gone within the cave, but I bolted right in after her. She was lying upon her face on the pile of grasses | had gathered for her bed, When she heard me enter she sprang to her feet like 4 tigress “I hate she cried. ming from the brilliant light of the noonday sun into the semt-dark- ness of the cave | could not see her features, and | was rather glad, for I distiked to think of the hate that ( should have read there. I did not say a word to her at first. I just strode across the cave and i #0 as to pinion her hands to her sides, She fought like a tigress, but I took and and pushed her head back. T imagine that I had suddenly turned brute—that I had gone back a thousand million years, and was again a veritable cave man, taking my mate by force. And then I kissed that beautiful mouth again and again, “Dian,” eried, shaking her rough- Tlove you. Can't you understand t Tlove you? That I love you bet - ter than all else in this world or my own? That I am going to have you? That love like mine cannot be de- niea?” I noticed that si lay very still in my arms now, and as my eyes became accustomed to the light [ saw that she was smiling—a very ccntented, happy smile, T was thunderstruck, Then 1 real- ized that, very gently, she was try- ing to disengage her arms, and I loosened my grip upon them’ vo that she could do so, Slowly they came ly As I came out she moved to, ; one side to let me pass, but she had ~ =a }_BY “TARZAN’S” AUTHOR—THE ADVENTURES HE FAR EDGAR RIC Up and stole about my neck, and then she drew my lips down to hers time. At last sho spoke. hy didn’t you do this at first, ? have been waiting so long. “What!" I cried. “You said that e You hated me!" “Did you expect me to run into your arms and say that 1 loved you before I knew that you loved me? she asked. “But I have told you that I love you," I said ” she replied. your mouth say what you wished It to say, but just now when you came and took me in your arms your heart spoke to mine in the language that a woman's heart understands. What a‘silly man you are, David.’ “Then you haven't hated me at all, Dian?" I asked. “I have loved right along you always,” she whispered. “from the. first moment that I saw you, though I did not know tt until that time you struck down Hooja the Sly One, and then spurned me.” “But I didn't spurn you, dear! cried. “I didn't know your wa: doubt if I do now. It seems Incredible that you could have reviled me so, and yet have cared for me all the time.” “You might have known,” she said, “when I did not run away from you that it was not hate which chained me to you. While jou were battling with Jubal I could have run to the edge of the fore: nd when I had learned the outcome of the combat it would have been a simple thing to have elude you and returned to my own people.” “But Jubal's brothers—and cous- ins,” I reminded her, “how about them?” She smiled and hid her face on my shoulder, “I had to tell you something, Da- vid ‘hispered. “I must needs 01 ‘You little sinner!” I exclaimed. nd you have caused me all this anguish for nothing!” have suffered even more,” she answered simply, “for I thought that ‘ou did not love me, and I was help- jess. I couldn't come to you and de- mand that my love be returned, as you have just come to m “Just now when you went away hope went with vou. I was wretched, terrified, miserable, and my heart was breaking. I wept, and I have not that before ‘since my mother There was the moisture of tears about her eves. It was near to ma! ing me cry myself when I thought of all that poor child had been through. Mctherless and unprotaeted; hunted across a savage, primeval world by that hideous brute of a man; exposed to the attacks of the countless fear- some denizens of its mountains, its plains, and {ts jungles—tt was a mir. acle that she hid survived at all. To me it was a revelution of the things my early forbears must have endured that the human race of the outer crust might survive. It made me very proud to think that ! had won the love of such a woman. Of course she couldn't read or write; there was nothing cultured or refined about her as you judge cul- ture and refinement; but she was the essence of all that is best in woman, for she was goo! and brave and noblo and virtuous. And she was all these things in spite of the fact that their observance entatled suffering and danger and possible death. Hiow much easier It would have been to have gone to Jubal in the first place! She would have been his law- ful mate. She would have been queen in her own land--and 1 meant just as much to the cava woman to be a queen in the stone age as it does to the woman of to-day to be a queen now. It is all comparative glory any way you look ut it, If there were only half-naked savages on the outer crust to-day you'd find that it would be conalderable glory to be the wife of a Dahomey chief. I couldn't help but compare Dian's action with that of a splendid young woman I had known in New York—1 a BURROUGHS- mean splendid to look at and to talk to. She had been head over heels in love with a chum of inine—a clean, manly chap; but sho had married a broken-down, disreputable old de- bauchee because he was a Count ip some dinky little European principal- ity that was not even accorded a dis- tinetive color by the atlas-make: Yes, I was mighty proud of Di After a time we decided to set out for Sarl, as I was anxious to see Perry and to know that all wi ig! with him. I had told Dian about our plan of emancipating the human race of Pellucidar, and she wae fairly wild over it. She said that if Dacor, her brother, would only return he could easily be King of Amoz, and that then he and Ghak could form an alliance, That would give us a flying start, for the Sarians and the Amositee were both very powerful tribes. Once they had been armed with swords and bows and arrows and trained in their use we were confi- dent that they could overcome any tribe that seemed disinclined to join the great army of federated states with which we were planuing to march upon the Mahars. 1 explained the various destructive engines of war which Perry and could construct after a little experi- mentation—gunpowder, rifles, cannon and the like, and Dian would clap her hands and throw ber arms abeut my neck and tell me what a wonder- ful thing I was. She was beginning to think that I was omnipotent, though I really hadn't done anything but talk—but that is the way with women when they love. Perry used to say that if a fellow was one-tenth as remarkabl as his wife or mother thought him he would have the world by the tall with ® downhill pull. CHAPTER XV. Back to Earth. HE first time we started for Sari I stepped into a nest } of poisonous vipera before we reached the valle: A little fellow stung me on the ankle, and Dian made me come back to the cave. She said that I mustn't exercise or it might prove fatal; if it had been a full-grown snake that struck me, she said, I wouldn't have moved a single from the nest—I'd have died in my tracks, #o virulent is the poison. As it was I must have been laid up for quite a while, though Dian's poul- Uces of herbs and leaves finally re- duced the swelling and drew out the poison. Tho episode proved most fortunate, however, as it gave me an idea which added a thousundfold to the value of my arrows as missiles of offense and defense. As soon as I was able to be about vgain I sought out some adult vipers of the species which had stung me, and, having killed them, I ex- tracted thelr v smearing it upon ening World Daily Magazine, Saturday: J SERINE NOPE NOL DONTE OF TWO EXPLORERS WHO D TH’S CORE zy -A Complete Novel Each Week in The Evening World the tips of several arrows. Later I shot @ hynenoden with one of these, and, though my arrow in- ficted but « superficial flesh-wound, tho beast crumpled tn death almost immediately he was hit We now set out once more for the ‘and of the Sarians, and it was with feelings of sincere regret that we bade good-bye to our beautiful Ga: den of Eden, in the comparative peace and harmony of which we had lived the bappleat moments of our lives. How long we had been there I did not know, for, as I have told you, time had ceased to oxist for me be- neath that eternal noonday sun. It may have been an hour or a month of earthly time; I do not know, We crossed the river and passed through the mountains beyond, and finally we came out upon a great level plain which stretched away as ft the eye could reach. cannot tell you in what direction it stretched even if you would care to know, for all the while that | was within Pellucidar I never discovered any but local methods of indicating direction—there is no north, no south, no east, no west. Up is about the only direction which is well defined, and that, of course, down to you of the outer crust. Since the sun neither rises nor sets there in no method of ind ing direction beyond visible objects such as high mountains, forests, lakes and eas. ‘The plain which lies beyond the white cliffs which flank the Darel Az, upon the shore nearest the Mountains of the Clouds, ts about as near to di- rection as any Pellucidarian can come, If you happen not to have heard of the Darel Az of the white cliffs or the Mountains of the Clouds, you feel that there is something lacking and long for the good old northeast or south- west of the outer world. Wve had barely entered the great plain when we discovered two enur- mous animals approaching us from a great distance. So far were they that ‘we could not distinguish what manner of beasts they might be, but as they came closer I saw that they were enor- mous quadrupeds, eighty or a hundred feet long, with tiny heads perched st the top of very long necks. Their heads must have been quite forty feet from the ground. The beasts moved very slowly—that is, thelr arc- tion was slow—but their strides cov- ered such a great distance that in real- {ty they travelled considerably faster t than a man walks. hey drew still nearer we dis- on red that upon the back of each sat a human being. Then Dian knew what they were, though she never had seen one. oetthey are lidis from the land of the Thoriana!” she cried. “Thoria lies at the outer verge of the Land of Awful Shadow. pe ene, ene. cen ellucidar, Sal ee aoe ine hy beside the ‘k country are they foun: aarahat Hi the pe of Awful dow?” I asked. bach the land which lies beneath the Dead World.” replied Dian, “the Dead World which hangs forever be- tween the sun and Pellucidar above the Land of Awful Shadow, It ts the Dead World which makes the { great shadow upon this portion of Pellucidar. T did not fully understand what she or my friend Ja meant. nor am I sure that I do yet, for I have never been to that part of Pellucidar from which the Dead World is visible; but Perry says that it ts the moon of Pellucidar —a tiny planet within a planet—and it revolves about the earth's with the earth, and above the same spot within Pellucidar. I remember that Perry was very much excited when I told him about this Dead World, for he seemed to think that it explained the hitherto inexplicable phenomenon of nutation and the precession of the equinoxes. “When the two upon the lidis had come quite close to us we saw that one was a man and the other a wom- an. The former had held up his two hands, palms toward us, in sign of peace, and T had answered him in kind, when he suddenly gave a cry of astonishment and pleasure, and slip- ping from his enormous mount ran forward toward Dian, throwing his arms about her, In an instant I was white with jeal- ousy, but only for an instant: since Dian quickly drew the man toward me, telling him that I was David, her mate. ‘And this is my brother, Dacor the Strong One, David," she said to me. It appeared that the woman was Dacor's mate. He had found none to liking among the Bari, nor further on until he had come to the land of the Thoria, and there he had found and fourht for this very lovely Thortan maiden whom he was bringing back to his own people. When they had heard our story and our plans they decided to accompany us to Sari, that Dacor and Ghak might come to an agreement relative to an alliance, as Dacor was quite as enthu- slastic about the proposed annihilation of the Mahars and Sagoths as either Dian or 1 After urney which was, for Pel luctdar, quite uneventful, we camo to When Are You ee Away i the Summer? out of town for the summer you may find it is difficult and costly to provide yourself with the right sort of reading ter. Why send to the city for novels 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. you wnt subscribing to The Evening World for the summer months secure a complete novel each week. Not some old book a country dealer has not been able to sell, bi:t the finest up-to-date fiction by the foremost living authors. Bear this in mind, not only for yourself but for any of your friends who expect to spend the summer in the country. THE *TRAN GE STORY OF * NEXT WEERK’S COMPLETE NOVEL == IN THE EVENING WORLD = A_SECRET SERVICE MAN WHOM FATE THROWS IN THE BEST MA = BY GRACE L. H. LUTZ ne the first of the Sarian villages, which consists of between and two hun- dred artificial caves cut into the face of a great Nk cliff. Here, to our immense delight, we found both Perry and Ghak. The old man was quite overcome at sight of me, for he had long since given me up as dead, Whon T introduced Dian as my wife he didn’t quite know what to say, but he afterward remarked that with the pick of two worlds 1 could not ha’ dono better. Ghak and Dacor reached a very amicable arrangement, and it was at & council of the head men of the various tribes of the Sari that the eventual form of government was tentatively agreed upon. Roughly, the various kingdoms were to remain virtually independent, but there was to be one grent overlord, or emperor, It was decided that I should be the first of the dynasty of the emperors of Pellucidar. We set about teaching the women how to make bows and arrows and poison pouches, young men hunted the vipers which provided ¢ virus, and it was they who mined the iron ore and fashioned the swords under Perry's direction, Rapldly tho fever spread from one tribe to another until representatives from nations so far distant that the Sarians had never even heard of them came in to take the required oath of allegiance and to learn the art of making the new weapons and using them. ‘We sent our young men out as in- structors to every nation of the fed- eration, and the movement had reached colossal proportions before the Mahars discovered it, Tho first intimation they had wi when three of their great slave car: vans were annihilated in rapid suc- cession. ‘They could not comprehend that the lower orders had suddenly developed a power which rendered them really formidable. In one of the skirmishes with slave caravans some of our Sarlans took a number of Sagoths prisoners and among thom were two who had been members of the guards within the butlding where we had been confined at Phutra, They told us that the Mahars were frantic with rage when they discov- ered what had taken place in the cel- lars of the building. The Sagoths knew that something very terrible had befallen their masters, but the Mahars had been most careful to eee | that no inkling of the true nature of their vital affliction reached beyond their own rar How long tt would take for the race to become extinct it was impossible even to guess; but that this must eventually happen seemed inevitable. The Mahars had offered fabulous rewards for the capture of any one of us alive, and at the same time had threatened to inflict the direst punish- ment upon whoever should harm us. The Sagoths could not understand these seemingly paradoxical instruc- tions, though their purpose was quite evident to ine. The Muhars wanted the Greut Secret, and they knew that we alone could deliver it to them. Perry's experiments In the manu- facture of gun powder and the fash- toning of rifles had not progreused as rapidly as we had hoped. There was a whole lot about these two arts which Perry didn’t know, We were both assured that the solution of these problems would advance the cause of civilization within Pelluctdar thousands of years at a single stroke, Then there were various other arts and sciences which we wished to in- troduce, but our combined knowledge of them did not embrace the mechan- ieal details which alone could render them of commercial or practical value, “David,” said Perry, immediately after his latest failure to produce gunpowder that would even burn, “one of us must return to the outer world and bring back the information we lack. Here we have all the labor and materials for reproducing any- thing that ever has been produced above. What we lack is knowledge. Let us go back and get that know!l- edge tn the shape of books. Then this world will indeed be at our feet.” And so it was decided that I should return in the prospector, which still lay upon the edge of the forest at the point where we had first penetrated to the surface of the inner world, Dian would not listen to any ar- rangement for my going which did not Include her, and I was not sorry that she wished to accompany me. for I wanted her to see my world, and I wanted my world to see her. With a large force of men we marched to the great iron mole, which Perry soon had hoisted into position with its nose pointed back toward the outer crust. He went over all the machinery carefully He replenished the air tanks, and manufactured oil for the engine, At last everything was ready, and we were about to set out when our pick- ets, a long, thin ine of which had surrounded our camp at. all times, reported that a great hody of what appeared to be Sagoths and Muahars were approaching from the direction of Phutra, Dian and T were ready to embark but T was anxious to witness the first clash betwen two fair-sized armios of the opposing races of Pellucidar. 1 realized that this was to mark the his- toric beginning of a mighty struggle for possession of a world, and as the first emperor of Pellucidar | felt that it was not alone my duty but my right to be in the thick of that momentous strugele, Aa the opposing army approached we saw that there were many Mahars with the Bagoth troops—an indica of the vast Importance which dominant race placed upon the out- cone of this campaign, for it was not customary with them to take active part in the sorties which their crea- tures made for slaves” the only form vf warfare which they waged upon the lower order Ghak and Dacor were both with us, having come primarily to view the prospector I placed Ghak with sone of his S#- rians on the right of our battle ine. Dacor took the left, while 1 command ed the contre, Behind us T stationed a suffcient reserve under one of Ghak’s head men The Sagoths advanced steadily with menacing spears, and f let them come. TO THE MIDDLE OF A “JUNE 18: 1914 BIE ARDS SARIS, until they were within bow shot before I gave the word to fre. At the first volley of Car ae wae the or Ben ae! the gorilla- men crump! to the ground; but those behind charged over the ‘pros- trate forms of their comrades in a wild, mad rush to be upon us with their spears. A second volley stopped them for an instant, and then my reserve sprang through the openings in the fring line to engage them with sword and shield. The clumsy spears of the Sagoths were no match for the swords of the Sarians and An ) who turned the © thrusts aside with their shields id leaped to close quarters with their lighter, handier weapons. Ghak took his archers along the enemy's flank, and while the swords- men engaged them poured volley after volley into their Unprotected left. The Mahars did little real fighting, and were more in the way than otherwi though occasionally one of them would fasten its powerful @ Jaws upon the arm or leg of a Sarian. Tho battle did not last a for when Dacor and I led our men in Upon the Sagotha’ right with naked swords they were already so demoral- ized that they turned and fled before We pursued them for some time, taking many prisoner: recovering nearly a hundred siav mong whom Was Hooja the @y One. He told me that he had been cap- tured while on his way to his own land, but that his life had been spared in hope that through him the Mahars would learn the whereabouts of their Great Secret. Ghak and I wero inclined to think that the Sly One had been guiding this expedition to the land of Sari, where he thought that the book might be found in Perry's possession; but we had no proof of this and ao we took him in and treated him as one of us, though none of us liked him. And how he rewarded my generosity you shall presently learn, There were «a number of Mahare among our prisoners, and #o fearful were our own people of them that they would not approach them unless com- pletely covered ft reptiles by a plece™of akin, Even Dian shared the opopular horror regarding the evil effecta of exposure to the eyes of angry Ma- ha and, though | pretended to ja at her fears I remembered what [ had ween in the Mahar temple and was willing to humor her {f {t would relieve her apprehension in any degree. So she sat apart from the prospector, near which the Ma- hare had been chained, while Perry and I again inspected ewery portion of the mechanism. As last I took my place tn the driv- Ing meat and called to one of the men without to fetch Dian. great while, It happened that Hooja etood quite ™! clone to the doorway of the pros- pector, so that it was he who, with- out my knowledge, went to bring her, but how he succeeded in ac- complishing the fiendish thing he did T cannot gues unless there were others in the plot to ald him. Nor can I belleve that, since all my peo- ple were loyal to me and would have made short work of Hooja had he suggested the heartless had he had time to acquaint another with it. Tt was all done ao quickly that T may only believe that It wan the re- sult of sudden impulse, aided by a number of, to Hooja, fortuitous cir- right moment All T know ts that It was Hooja who brought Dian to the prospector, still wrapped from head to toe tn the akin of enormous cave lion which had covered her since the Mahar prisoners had been brought into camp. He di Postted his burden in the seat beside me. T was all ready to get under way. Goodby had been said. Perry had grasped my hand tn the last long farewell. I closed and barred the outer and inner doors, took my seat again at the driving mechanism, rting lever, as I had ys As before on that far-gone night that had witnessed our first trial of the iron monster, there was a fright- ful roaring beneath = w he giant frame trembled and vibrated— wana rush of sound as the loose parred up through the bollow space between the inner and outer jackets to be deposited im our wake. Once more the thing was off. But on the instant of departure I wis nearly thrown from my seat by the sudden lurching of the prospector. At first T did not realize what had happened, hut presently it dawned upon me that just before entering the crust the towering body had fallen through its supportin scaffold- ing, and that instead of entering the ground vertically we were plunging into it ata different angle. Where it would bring us out upon the upper crust [T could not even conjecture. Then [ turned to note the effect of this strange experience upon Dian, She still sat shrouded in the great skin. ome, come,” I cried, ‘come out of your shell. eyex can reach you here. ' leaned over and snatched the lion skin from her. And then [ shrank back upon my seat in utter horror at the sight that met my gaze, The thing ath the skin was not Dian—it w hideous Mahar. In- stantly T realized the trick that Hooja had played upon me, and the purpose of it Rid of me forever, as he doubtless thought, Dian would be at his merey Frantieally I tore at the steering wheel in an effort to turn the pros- tor back toward Pellucidar, but, anon that othe nasion, | could not budge the thing a hair, It is needless to recount the horrors or the monot of that journey, It varied but little from the former one which had brought us from the outer tothe inner world Recause of the angle at which we round the trip re quired day longer, and brought me out here upon the sands of the Sahara instead of tn the United States as 1 had hoped. For months [ have been watting here for a white man to come. I dared not leave the prospector for fear 1 should never be able to find tt again— laughing; No Mahar in front he yn the sight of the ipieanpinipinininle niainininlninininininnininigtininoinint nn ane eect ee eee ISCOVER A NEW AND ASTONISHING WORLD By Edgar Rice Burrou ———= Author of “TARZAN 01 hs ye ————— ay RRPRE BRIN,» the shifting sands of the desert would oon cover it, and then my only hope of returning to my Dian and her Pelluctdar would be gone forever. Lgl ‘a ever ae Bed seems but remotely possible, for may [ know upon what part of Pellu- A cidar my return journey may ter- minate? And how, without @ north, or south, or an east, or a west, may | hope ever to find my Dian across that vast world to the tiny spot where my lost love lies grieving for me? « CHAPTER |XVI. Doubt. - HAT te the story as David Innes told it to me in the goatskin tent upon the :.m of the Great Sahara, The next day he took me out to see the prospector. It was pre- cisely as he had described it. So huge was it that it could have beon brought to this inaccessible part of the world by no means of transportation that existed there, It could only have come in the way that David Innes said it came—up through the crust of the earth from the inner world of Pellucidar—that realm of wonder, T spent a week with him, and then, @bandoning my lion hunt, returned directly to the coast and hurried to London, where I purchased a great quantity of stuff which he wished to take to Pelluctdar with him, There were books, rifles, revolvers, ammunition, cameras, chemicals, tel Phones, telegraph instruments, wire, tools and more bocks—books uron every subject under the sun. He said he wanted a library with which they could reproduce the wonders of the twentieth century in the stone age, and {f quantity counts for anything I got it for bim. I took the things back to Algeria myself, and accompanied them to the end of the railroad; but from here I was recalled to America upon impor- tant business, However, | was able to employ a very trustworthy man to take charge of the caravan—the same guide in fact who had accompanied me on the Previous trip into the ‘a—and writing @ long letter to Innes in which I gave hi 5 Grose 7 kaye, him my American ad the south, leave for very fine @ special is his idea that ee ot UA here Eee Ing it out through end pector lay a telegraph the two worlds. In my letter 1 to mark told him to be sure the terminus of the i plainly with a high cairn, in cane t heme, even W&@ not able to reach him before he set out, @o that 1 might easily find ind communicate with him should be so fortunate as to reach Pellu- Dian. from him he cldar and again find hi zt seat . ie Logg Peter! returned to America—in fact, cumstances occurring at precisely the %@ took advantage of every north- ward passing caravan to wort preys gort, iad letter was before he intended it te: “ie ‘mor 1 han Morrow eet out in Queat of Pellucidar Dian. . That ty if the Arab de me T o drop me written the day to depart. Here bs don't get have been very heaey don't know the cause, ho aad they have y me to-night. It nate of that sort. evel to depart. am so nearly ready However, maybe I well off, for the ceare| the bone the slend chances for success ‘appear, ~ Here in the friendly Arab who is to take this letter north i me, #0 goodby, and God bless you for your kindness to me. The Arab.telis me to hurry, for he sees a Cloud of sand to’ the south—he thinks it im the party coming to murder me, and he doesn’t want to be found with me. Goodby again. Yours, DAVID INNES. A yeur later found me at the end of the railr once more, headed for the spot ire I had left Innes. My fi disappointment was when T discovered that my old guide had died within two weeks of my returi, nor could I find any member of my former party who could lead me te the same spot. For months I searched that scorch- ing land, interviewing countiess des- ert wheiks in the hope that at last 1 might find one who had heard of Innes and his wonderful tron mole Constantly my eyes scanned the blinding waste of sand for the rocky cairn beneath which [ was to find the wires leading to lucidar, But al- ways T was unsuccessful, And always do these awful ques- tions harass me when I think «i David Innes and his strange adve. tures. Did the Arabs murder him after al), just on the eve of his jsparture. did he again turn the nose of his [ron monster toward Pellucidar of the inner world? Tid he reach it, or lies he some- where buried in the heart of the great erust? And if he did come again to Pel- Jucidar was it to break through inte the bottom of one of her great inland * eas, OF AMONK OMe Savage race far, far from the land of his heart's de sire? Doos tho answer lie somewhere &pon the bosom of the broad Saharn at the end of two tiny wires, hidden beneath a lost cairn? T wonder (THE END) WED DING” COMPLICATI The Book on the Stands Will Cost You $1.25 You Get It for 6 Cents ON BY)