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ning, V Eve # 4 (The Sequel to “TARZAN OF THE APES") A Story of the Ape-Man’s Return to the Jungle LY BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS (Capetight ty Fresh A, Munsey Oo.) GIWOFEES OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. ly had he touched the eleck {ig hide of the deer with a T was but a return to the old existence of constant blood- ghed and danger—to the hunting and the being hunted, Grim beasts would etalk: him, as they had stalked him in the past, and never would there be a moment, by savage day or by cruel night, that he might not have instant need of euch crude weapons as he build fashion from the materials at Wand. Upon the shore he found an out- cropping of brittle, igneous rock. By @mt of much labor he managed to chip off « narrow sliver some twelve nehes Jong by @ quarter of an inch One edge was ouite thin fora few inches near the tip. It was the qudiment of a knif th it he went into the jungle, efarching until he found a fallen tree @ certain species of hardwood with he was familiar. From this he eet @ email, straight branch, which we ted at one end. Then he scooped a small, round hGle in the surface of the pro: frusk. Into this be crumbled a few bits of dry bark, minutely shredded, r which he inserted the tip of his ted stick, and, sitting astride the 7” of the tree, spun the slender rod a ialy between his paims. f° “SAfter a time a thin smoke rose fom the little mass of timber, and a Moment later the whole broke into Heaping some larger twigs Be Suc ‘upon the tiny fire, Tarzan mon had qui respectable blaze in the enlarging cavity of t! tree. ito this he thrust the biade of his 9 knife, and as it became super- Heated he would Megicrpe tty CA apot near the thin edgo w! ray moisture. Beneath the tted ‘area a little flake of the glassy terial would crack and scale away. us, very slowly, the ape-man tedious operation of upon his primitive N hunting-knife. He did not attempt to accomplish the feat all in one sitting. At first he content to achieve a cutting edco ‘¢ouple of inches, with which he t.a long, pilable bow, a handlo for Sha fat, stout cudgel, and a goodly ly of arrows. ese he cached in a tall tree beside tream, and here also he con- latform with a roof of vatm leaves above it. ‘When all these things had been fin- ighed it was growing dusk, and Tar- n felt a strong desire to eat. had noted during tne brief in- cursion he had made into the forest ttat a short distance up-stream from his*tree there was a much used wa- tering place, where, from the mud of either bank, it was evident beasts of all sorts and in numbers came to drink. To this the hungry ape-man made his si- 3] l@pt way. hrough the upper terrace of the thee-tops he swung with ‘the gra d ease of a monkey. But for the heavy burden upon his heart he uld have been huppy in this return to the old tree life of his boyhood. Yet even with that burden he fell into thé little habits and manners of Me early life that were in reality moré @ part of him than the thin venéer' of civilization that the past tires years of his association with the outer world had spread lightly “adver him—a veneer that only hid vrudities of the beast that Tarzs of the Apes had been. *Could bis fellow peers of the House o® Lords have seen him then they would have held up their noble hands ig holy horror. <Bilently he crouched In the lower inches of a great forest giant that yee ing the trail, his keen eyes and ve ears strained in the distant ee .from which he knew his pa would: presently emerge. Nor had he long to wait Bearce had he settled himself to a gomfortable position, his lithe, mus- jar lege drawn well up beneath aa the panther draws his hind- ters in preparation for the ‘ing, than Bara, the deer, came intily down to drink, t more than Bara was coming. graceful buck camo other which the deer could neither nor scent, but whose movements apparent to Tarzan of the Apes ause of the elevated position of Ape-man’s ambush. He knew not yot exactly the nature ‘the thing that moved so stealthily rough the jungle a few hundred yefds behind the deer, but he was convinced that it was some great Beast of prey stalking Bara for the selfsame purpose as that which prompted him to await the fleet ani- tial, Numa, perhaps, or Sheeta, the Santher. “In any event, Tarzan could see his repast slipping from his grasp unless Bara moved more rapidly toward the ford than at present. Even ay these thoughts passed through his mind some noise of the stalker in his rear must have come to the buck, for with a sudden start he used for an instant, trembling, in js tracks, and then’ with a swift bound dashed straight for tho river end Tarzan. It was evidently his in- fention to flee through the shallow ford and escape upon the opposite side of the river. ether 8 hundred yards behind him Numa. man could see him quite plainly Below the ape-man Bara was bout to pass. Could he do it? But mas he asked himself the ques- the hungry man launched him- m his meron Full upon the back instant Numa would be ‘won doth, so if the ape-man ha ‘© that sent the animal to its knees he had Freenes a horn in eit and with a single quick twist. ed the animal's neck completely round sed he felt, the vertebrae enap be- grip. 6 lion was ta behind him Oa 4 << across bis shoulder Grasping o foreleg « teeth, Jeaped for the nearest of lower branches that swung With both hands he the limb and, at the instant that Nauma sprang, drew himeelf and his keg out of reach of the ons. There was a thud below him as the baffled cat fell back to eart! Tarzan of the Apes, draw! ner further up to the ofa higher limb, looked down with grin- ning face into the gleamti rellow eyes of the other wild that glared up at him from beneath, and with taunting insults flaunt the tender carcass of his kill in the face of him whom he had cheated of it. With his crude stone knife he cut a juicy steak from the hin and while the great lion growl. ing, back and forth below him, Lord Greystoke filled his savage belly, nor ever in the choicest of his exclusive London clubs had a meal tasted more palatable. The warm blood of his kill ameared his bands and face and filled his nos- trils with the scent that the savage carnivora love best. And when he had finished he left the balance of the carcass in a high fork of the tree where he had dined, and with Numa trailing below hi still keen for revenge, made hi way back to bis tree-top shelter, where he slept until the eun was high the following mornin, CHAPTER IV. Sheeta. HE next few days were oc- cupled by Tarzan in com- pleting his weapons and ex- ss ploring the jungle. He strung his bow with ten-, dons from the buck upon which he had dined his first evening upon the new shore, and though he would have preferred the gut of Sheeta for the purpose, he was content to wait until opportunity permitted him to kill one of the great cats. He also braided a long grass rope— such @ rope as he had used so many years before to tantalize the ill- natured Tublat, and which later had developed into a wondrous effective woapon in the practised hand of tho little ape-boy. A sheath and handle for his bunt- ing knife he fashioned and a quiver for arrows, and from the hide of Bara a belt and loin-cloth, Then he set out to learn something of the strange land in which he found him- self, That it was not his old famillar west coast of the African Continent he knew from the fact that it faced east—the rising sun came up out of the sea before t threshold of the jungle. j But that it was not the east coast of Africa he was equally positive, for he felt satisfied that the Kincatd pot passed through the Mediterrs nean, the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, nor had she had time to round tho Cape of Good Hope. So he was quite at a loss to know where he might be. Sometimes he wondered if the ship had crossed the broad Atlantic to de- posit him upon some wild South American shore, but the presence of Numa, the lion, decided him that such could not be the case. »As Tarzan made his lone!y way through the jungle paralleling the shore he felt strong upon him a de- sire for companionship, so that grad- ually he commenced to regret thi he had not cast his lot with tho apes. Ho had seen nothing of tham sinc that first day, when the influences of civilization were strong within im, Now he was more nearly returned to the Tarzan of old, and though ho appreciated the fact that there could be little in common between himself and the great anthropoids, still they were better than no company at ull. Moving leisurely, sometimes upon the ground and again among the lower branches of trees, gathering an occasional fruit or turning over a fallen log in search of the larger bugs, which he still found as palatable as of old n had covered a mile or more when his attention was at- tracted by the scent of Sheeta up- wind ahead of him, Now Sheeta, the panther, was one whom Tarzan was exceptionally glad to fall in with, for he had it in mind not only to use the great cat's atrong his bow, but also to fashion a uiver and Join-cloth from pieces of his hide, So, whereas the ape-man had gone carelessly before, he now became the personification of nolse- less stealth, Swiftly and silently he glided through tho forest in the wal the savage cat, nor was the pursuer, for all his noble birth, one whit less sav. age than the wild, fierce thing he stalked, As ho came closer to Sheeta he be- came aware that the panther on his Part was stalking game of his own, and even as he realized this fact there came to his nostrils, wafted from his right by @ vagrant breeze, the strong odor of great apes, The panther had taken to a great tree as ‘Tarzan came within sight of him, and beyond and below him Tar- 7 uw the tribe of Akut tolling ina little, natural clearing. Some of them were dozing against the boles of trees, while others roamed about turning over bits of bark from beneath which they transferred the luscious grubs and beetles to their mouths. Akut was the closest to Sheeta. The great cat lay crouched upon a thick limb, hidden from the ap view by dense foliage, waiting pa: ently until the anthro} should come within range of his Lid oat ance ek enc uabe ae Magazine, ec Cit bes Soph a 4 St hi Tue iat ve “The Most Senseless War” x2ttttha, By Robert Minor He would have preferred to uso his noose, but the foliage surrounding the huge cat precluded the possibility of an accurate throw with the rope. Akut bad now wandered quite clo: beneath the tree wherein lay the wa! ing deat! Sheeta slowly edged his hind paws along the branch aitill further beneath him, and then with a hideous shriek he launched himself toward the great ape. The barest fraction of a second before his spring another beast of prey above him leaped, its weird and savage cry mingling with his, As the startled Akut looked up he gaw the panther almost above him, and already upon the panther’s back the great white ape that had bested him that day near the great water, The teeth of the ape-man were buried in the back of Sheeta’s neck and his right arm was round the flerce throat, while the left hand, grasping a slender piece of stone, rose and fell in mighty blows upon the panther'a side behind the left shoulder, Akut had just timo to leap to one side to avoid being pinioned beneath these battling monsters of the jungle. With a crash they came to earth at his feet. Sheeta was screaming, snarl- ing and roaring horribly, but the white ape clung tenaciously ‘and in silence to the threshing body of his quarry. Steadily and remorsely the stone knife was driven home through the glossy hide—time and again it drank deep, until with a final agonized lunge and ahrick the great feline rolled over upon its side and, save for the spasmodic jerking of its muscles, lay quiet and still in death, Then tne ape-man raised his head as he stood over tho carcass of the Kill and once again through the jun- gle rang hia wild and savage victory challenge, Akut and the apes of Akut stood looking in startled wonder at the dead body of Sheeta and the lithe, straight figure of the man who had slain him, ‘Tarzan was the first te speak. He had saved Akut's life for a pur- pose, and knowing the limitations of the ape intellect he also knew that he must inake this plain to the anthro- poid if it were to serve him in the way he hoped. “Lam Taraan of the Apes,” he said, “Mighty hunter, Mighty fighter, By the great water I spared Akut's life when | might have taken it and ba- come king of the tribe of Akut, Now I have saved Akut from death be- neath the rending fangs of Sheeta, “When Akut or the tribe of Akut is in danger, let them call to ‘Tarzan thus’-and the ape-man raised the hideous cry with which the tribe of Kerchal had been wont to summon Its absent members in times of peril. “And,” le continued, “when they hear Tarzan call to them, let them re- member what he has done for Akut and come to him with great speed. Shall it as Tarzan says?" “Huh!” assented Akut, and from the members of his tribe there rose a unanimous “Huh,” "Then, presently, they went to feed- ing again as though nothing had hap- pened, and with them fed John Clay- ton, Lord Greystoke. He noticed, however, that Akut kept always close to him, and was often looking at him with a strange wonder in his little bloodshot eyes, and once he did a thing that Tarzan during all his long years among the apes had never before seen an ape do he found a particularly tender mor- sel and handed it to Tarzan, An tho tribe hunted, the glistening body of the ape-man mingled with the brown, shaggy hides of his compan- lons. Oftentimes they brushed to- gether in passing, but the apes had already taken his presence for granted, so that he was as much one of them as Akut himaelf, Tf he came too close to a she with > a young baby, the former would bare her great fighting fangs and growl ominously, and occasionally a trucu- lent young bull would snarl a warn- ing it P ile the was eating. But in these left former Diade. things the treatment was no different ry from that which they accorded any other member of the tribe. ‘farzan on his part felt very much at home with these flerce hairy pro- genitors of primitive man. He skip- ped nimbly out ofr of each threatening female—for such is the way of apes, if they be not in one of their occasional fits of bestial rage— and he growled back at the truculent young bulls, baring his canine teeth even as they. Thus easily he feli back into the way of his early life, nor did it seem that he had ever tasted association with creatures of his own kind. For the better part of a week he roumed the jungle with his new friends, partly because of a desire for companionship and partially through a well laid plan to impress himself indelibly upon their memories, which at best are none too long; for Tarzan from past experience knew that it might serve him in good stead to have a tribe of these powerful and terrible beasts at his call. ‘When he was convinced that he had succeeded to some extent in fixing his identity upon them he decided to take up again his exploration. To this end he set out toward the north early one day, and keeping parallel with the ape traveled rapidly until night- fall. When the sun rose the next morning he saw that it lay almost directly to his right as he stood upon the beach instead of straight out across the water as heretofore, and 80 he reagoned that the shore line had trended toward the west. All the second day he continued his rapid course, and when Tarzan of the Apes sought speed, he passed through the middle terrace of the forest with the rapidity of a squirrel. That night the sun set straight out across the water opposite the land, nd then the ape-man guessed at last the truth that he had been sus- pleioning. Nokoff an island, He might have know was any plan that ld render his position more harrowing he should have known that such would be the one adopted by the Russian, and what could be more terrible than to leave him to @ lifetime of suspense upon an uninhabited island? Rokoff doubtless had sailed directly to the mainland, where It would be a comparatively easy thing for him to find the means of delivering the In- fant Jack into the hands of the cruel and savage foster parents who, as his note had threatened, would have the upbringing of the child. ‘Tarzan shuddered as he thought of the cruol suffering the little one must endure in such a life, even though he might fall into the hands of individ- uals whoxe intentions toward him were of the kindest, The ape-man had had sufficient experience with the Jower savages of Africa to know that even there may be found the cruder virtues of charity and humanity; but their lives were at best but a series of terrible privations, dangers and sufferings. ‘Then there was the horrid after- fate that awaited the child as he to manhood, The horrible practi that would form part of his life training would alone be sufficient to bar him forever from association with those of his own race and sta- tion in life. A cannibal! man-eater! contemplate, The filed teeth, the slit nose, the ittle face painted hideously, Tarzan groaned, Could he but feet the throat of the Russ fiend beneath his steel fingers! And Jane! What tortures of doubt and fear and uncertainty less terrible than hers, for he at least knew that one of his loved ones was safe at home, while she had no idea of the whe abouts of either her husband or her won, It is well for Tarzan that he did t guess the truth, for the knowl- @ bua- had set him ashore upon it! If there His little boy a savage It was too horrible to As he moved slowly baby the Jungle, bis mind abserbed by bis gloomy thoughts, there presently came to his ears a strange ecratchi sound which he could not translate. Cautiously he moved iu the direc. tlon from which it emanated, pres- ently coming upon a buge panth pinned beneath a fallen tree. As Tarzan approach the beast turned, snarling, toward him, strug- gling to extricate itself, but one great mb across its back and the smaller entangling branches pinioning its limbs prevented it from moving but @ few inches in any direction. The ape-man stood before the help- Jess cat fitting an arrow to hig bow that he might despatch the beast that otherwise must die of starvation, but even as he draw back the shaft a eud- den whim stayed his hand. ‘Why rob the poor creature of life and liberty when it would be so easy fa thing to restore both to it! He was sure from the fact that the panther moved all its limbs In its futile strug- gle for freedom that its spine was un- injured, and for the same reason he knew that none of its Imbs were broken. Relaxing his bowstring, he returned the arrow to the quiver and, throw- the bow about his shoulder, stepped closer to the pinioned bea On his lips was the soothing, pu ring sound that great cats them- rely when contented and happy. It was the nearest approach to a friendly advance that Tarzan could male in the language of Sheeta. The panther ceased his snarling and eyed the ape-man closely. To lift the tree's great weight from the animal it was necessary to come within reach of those long, atrong talons, and when the tree had been removed the man would be totally at the mercy of the savage beast; but to Tarzan of the Apes fear was a thing unknown, Having decided, he acted promptly. Unhesitatingly, he stepped into the tangle of branches close to the pan- ther's side, still voicing his friendly and coneiliatory purr. The cat turned his head toward the man, eyeing him steadily~-questioningly. fangs were bared, but more in pr paredness than threat. Tarzan put a broad shoulder be- neath the bole of the tree, and as he did so his bare leg pressed againat the cat's silken side, so close was the man to the great beast. Slowly ‘Parzan extended his giant thews. The great tree with its entanglin branches rose gradually from the panther, who, feeling the encumber- ing weight diminish, quickly crawled from beneath, ‘Tarzan let the tree fall back to earth, and the two beaste turned to look upon one another. A grim smile lay upon the ape- man’s lips, for he knew that he had taken his life in his hands to free this savage jungle fellow; nor wo it have surprised him had the cat sprung upon him the instant that It had been released. But it did not do #o, Instead, It stood a few paces from the trea watching the ape-man clamber out of the maze of fallen limbs and branches, Once outside, Tarzan was not three paces from the panther, He might have taken to the higher branches of the trees upon the opposite side, for Sheeta cannot climb to the heights to which the ape-man can go; but some- thing, a spirit of bravado perhaps, prompted him to approach” the panther as though to discover if any feeling of gratitude would prompt the beast to friendliness, As he approached the mighty cat the creature stepped warily to one aide, and the ape-man brushed past him within foot of the dripping jaws, and as continued on through ‘the forest the panther followed on behind him, @ hound follows at beel. For a long time Tarzan could not tell whet ast was following the be: out of fi iy feelings or ly tesinet “tho time be ing mal’ ehould be hungry, but finally he was forced to believe that the former in- centive iy was that prompted the ani- Later in the day the ecent of a deer nt Tarsan into the trees, and whea he had dropped bis ni out the animal's neck he called to Sheeta, using @ purr similar to that which he ad utilised to pacify the brute’s sus- picions earlier in the day, but a trifle Jouder and more ebrill, 't was similar to that which he had heard panthers use after a when they had been hunting in pairs. Almost immediately there wi: siting of the underbrush close at and, and the long, lithe body of his @trange companion broke into v! At sight of the body of Bara the smell of blood the panther gave forth a shrill acream, and a moment later two beasts were feeding side by ¢ side upon the tender meat of the fallen deer. For several days this strangely as- sorted pair roamed the jungle to- gether. When one made a kill he called the other, and thus they fed well and often, On one oce ing upon the ion as they were din- rcass of @ boar that Sheeta had despatched, Numa, the Mon, grim and terrible, broke through the tangled grasses close bealde thei With an angry, warning roar he sprang forward to chase them from their kill. Sheeta sprang into a near- by thicket, while Tarzan took to the low branches of an overhanging tree. Here the ape-man unloosed his grass rope from about hia neck, and as Numa atood above the body o| the boar, challenging head erect, he dropped the einuous noose about the maned neck, drawing th atout taut with a sudden jerk. At 4 ahrilly to ling hind feet touched the ground, Quickly he made the rope fast to to a stout branch, and as the pan. ther, in anawer to his summons, leaped into alight, Tarzan dropped to the earth beside the struggling and infuriated Numa, and with his long, sharp knife sprang upon him at one side even Bheeta did upon the other. The panther tora and rent Numa upon the right, while the ape-man atruck hone with his stone knife upon the other, so that before the mighty clawing of the king of beasts had succeeded in parting the rope he hung quite dead and harmless in the noone. ‘And then upon the jungle air thore rose in unison from two @avage throats the victory cry of the bull ape and the panther, blended into one frightful and uncanny e#cream. As the last notes died away in a long drawn, fearsome wail, a score of painted warriors, drawing thelr long war canoe upon the beach, halted to atare in the direction of the jungle and to listen, of Akut. At alght of the panther the great apes took to flight, but after a time Tarzan suc- ceeded in recalling them. For days the man, the panther and the great apes roamed thelr savage haunts side by side, making their killa together and sharing them with one another, and of all the fierce and savage band none was more terrible than the amooth-skinned, powerful beast that had been but a few short months before a familiar figure in many @ London drawing room. Sometimes the beasts separated to follow their own inclinations for au hour a day, and jt was upon one of these cocasions when the ape-man CHAPTER V. Mugambi. HE day following the killing of Numa, Tarzan and Sheeta came upon the tribe ws histo. r) ds y. Dece mbe fr. Mrs. HOWA <==The Crys had wandered through the tree-tora toward the beach and was stretched in the hot sun upon the sand, that from the low summit of a nearby promontory @ pair of keen eyes dis- covered him. For & moment the owner of the eyes looked in astonishment at the figure of the savage white man basking in the rays of that hot tropio sun, then he turned, making a sign to eome one behind him. th; epe-man, then er an other, until a full score of hideously trapped, savage warriors were ving along the crest of the ridge wxtchii hite skinned et . the foot of the ridge they came cautiously to their feet and, bent half double, wanced sileatly upon the unconscious white man, their heavy wart clubs swinging men- acingly in thelr brawny hands. Bo quickly, though, were Tarsan‘’s 4 and muscles wont to react Unison to the slightest alarm that was upon bis feet and facing his ene- mies even as he realized that some- thing was behind him, As he sprang to his feet the warriors leaped to- ward him with raised clubs and sav- age yells, but the foremost went down to audden death beneath the long, stout stick of the ape-man, and th the Uthe, sinewy figure was amo: them, striking right and left wit! a fury, powe: nd precision that brought panio to the if the blacks, Then it was that the ape-man lifted bis voice in a series of wild, weird ecreames that brought the blacks to a sudden, perplexed halt. Leaping from the tangled vegeta. tion of the jungle's rim came a buge panther, with biasing eyes and bared fangs, and in his wake a score of mighty, shaggy apes lumbering rap- idly toward them, half erect upon their short, bowed legs, and wi! their long arme reaching to the ground, where their horny knuckles bore the weight of their bodies as they lurched from aide to side in their grotesque advance. The beasts of Tarzan had come in answer to his call. Before the Wagambi could recover padd! from their astonishment the frightful horde was upon them from one side and Tarsan of the Apes from the other. Heavy spears were hurted and mighty war clubs wielded, and though apes went down never to rise, #0, too, went down the men of Ugambi. Shecta's cruel fangs and tearing tal- ‘ons ripped and tore at the black hides, Akut's mighty yellow tusks found the jugular of more than one sleek-skin- ned savage, and Tarsan of the Apes wan here and there and everywhere, urging on his fierce allies and taking @ heavy toll with his long, slim knife, In a moment the blacks had acat- tered for their lives, but of the score that had crept down the grassy of the promontory only # single war- be poet to senee, the horde that bad overwhelme people. ‘This one was Mugambl, chief of the ‘Wagambi of Ugambi, and as he dis- appeared in the tangled luxuriousness of the rank growth upon the ridge’s @ummit only the keen eyes of the ape- man aaw the direction of his flight. Leaving his pack to eat their fill flesh of their victima—fi could not touch—Tarzan of the Apes pursued the single survivor of the bloody fray, Just beyond the ridge he came within sight of the fi ing black, making with headlong leaps for a long war-canoe that was drawn well up upon the beach above the high tide surf. Notsel as the fellows shadow, an raced after the terro1 In the white man's mind was a new plan, awakened by sight of the wi If these men had come to his tsland from another, or from the mainland, why not utilize their craft to make his way to the % try from which they had com Evidently it was an inhabited country and no doubt had occasional inter- course with the mainiand, if it were not itself upon the continent of Africa, A heavy hand fell upon the shoulder of the escaping Mugambi wus aware that he was being pursued, and aa he turned to do battle with his assailant giant fingers closed about his wrists and he was hurled to earth with a giant astride him before he eal 1 strike @ blow in his own de- ‘enn on the Janstage od the Weat Coast ‘arzan spoke to the prostr beneath him, * ae eee “Who are you?" he asked. fugambi, chief of the Wagamb!,” * said Tar- will promise to help me la island. What do you answer?" “T will help you," replied Mugambl. But now that you have killed all my warriors, I do not know that ever I can leave your country, for there will be none to wield the paddles. Tarzan rose and allowed his pris- oner to come to his feet. ‘The fellow Was a magnificent specimen of man- hood-a black counterpart in physique of the splendid white man whom he ed, ome!" sald the ape-man, and in the direction’ from ch they could hean the snarling and growling of the fei Murambi drew bac! bide “They will kill us." he sald, “IT think not,” replied‘ are min Sull the black hesitat the consequences of approaching the terrible Tarzan forced him to accompany him, and presently the two emerged from the jungle in full view of the grisly spectacle upon the beach. At slight of the men the beasts looked up with phacing growls, but Tarzan strode in among them, dragging the trem- bling Wagambi with him, Ashe had taught the apes to accept Sheeta, so he taught them to adopt Mugambi as well, and in more easily; but Sheeta seemed quite un- able to understand that though he had been called upon to devour Mu- gambi's warriors he was not to be al- lowed to proceed after the same fashion with Mugambl. However, Deing well filled, he contented himaelf with walking round the terror. stricken savage, emitting low, men- acing growls the while he kept bis baleful eyes riveted upon the Mugambi, on his part, clung closely to Tarzan, so that the ape-man could scarce control the pitlable te RD GOULD’ tal Rood= Novel in The E fear had reduced him; but at the white took the great cat scruff of the neck and, it Satay soot a aa Ly nose that it mrowled at the a At the sight of the thi mauling with his bare ies ‘e lao relentless pa. le = carnivora—! iged from their sockets, and entertaining a sullen for Bass white man who had made him ping awe of The education of Sheeta @o well that in a short time M: to be the object of his attention, and the black felt a yy equi pang hg Ke being 10 wield the paddies, though Re did manage to get several of them to embark in the frail cratt which and Mugambi paddled about 11 the reet where the water was quite beg thr uring these trips he had paddies in their hands when a see tempted to imitate the movements him ané Mugambi, but so difficult ts for them long to concentrate upon thing that he soon saw that it req weeks of patient training y would be able to make feo! use of these new tmpl if, in fact, they should ever do so. There was one exception, and he was Akut, Almost from first he showed an interest in new sport that revealed a h jane of intelli thas atl by any of his tribe. seemed ¢ th Tpose paddies, ‘and when ‘Tarzan ry owe they auight the anthropoid how used to the best advantage. From Mugambi Tarzan learned the mainiand lay but a short from the island. It seemed that Wagambi warriors had ventured far out in their frail craft, and caught by a heavy tide and a wind from off ehore they had driven out of sight of land. ling for a whole night, that they were headed for had eeen this land at sunrise, and taking it for the mainiand, had hatied it_with joy, nor had a aware that it was an Farmpn bed told Rise thes thls the The Wagambi chief blous as to the sail, for @een te hy Seats aan count DY oO! le their way to the Pl misg confid Tarzan, however, was with a good west wind he could ate the little craft to the referable 43 perish on the pre! on to remain indefinitely upoi sy. Saenarhee lotted to 4 tryglpe} it was that when fair wind rose he embarked cruise, and srith him he strange and fearsome a crew eailed under a savage master. Mugambi and Akut went with and Sheeta, the panther, and a great males of the tribe of Akut. i of # i mul if CHAPTER VI. A Hideous Crew. PEALE war-cance with its age load moved slowly to- ward the break in the reef through which it must gags, to gain the open sea. Tare zan, Mugambi and Akut wielded the paddies, for the shore kept the west wind from the little sail. ‘ Sheeta crouched in the bow at the ape-man's feet, for it had seemed bhes® to Tarzan always to keep the wi beast as far from the other m of the party as possible, since é require little or no provoeation te send: him at the throat of any than white . whem he evidently sow looked upon as his master. In the stern was Mugambl, and just ~ in front of him squatted Akut, Bsn | between Akut and Tarzan the ‘twel hairy apes pon their haunches, blinking dubiously this way and that, and now and then turning thelr eyea longingly back toward shore. intil the canoe a the reef. Here reeze struck the sail, sending rude craft lunging among that ran higher and higher as they drew away from the shore, r With the tossing of the boat the apes became panic atricken, ‘They first moved uneasily about, and then commenced grumbling and whining, With difficulty Akut kept them tn hand for a time; but when a particue Jarly lar wave struck the dugout simultaneously with a little squall of wind their terror broke all and leaping to their feet they all bu® overturned the boat before Akut and Taraan together could quiet. them. At last calm was restored, and eventually the apes became tomed to the strange antics of thei craft, after which no more trouble was experienced with them. The trip was uneventful, held, and after ten hours’ atead: ing the black shadows of the loomed close fore the 4 tyen of the ape-man in the ‘bow. Ie was far too dark to distinguish whether they had approached close to the mouth of the Ugambi or not, eo ‘Tarzan ran in through the surf ag the closest point to await the dawn. The dugout turned broadside the instant that its nose touched the sand, and immediately it rolled over with all its crew scrambling madly for the shore. Thp next rolled them over andfover, but ite ¥ eal. UW id in their ungainly crag ‘up beside them. , The bala of the night the apes sat huddled close to one another ter warmth, while Mugambi Eyl e fre close to them over which. crouched for warmth, of their hunger sent them off Stygian ot the i *