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EASTS OF TARZAN (The Sequel to “TARZAN OF THE APES") +A Story of the Ape-Man’s Return to the Jungle seen or heard of this other 0 though nearly all had direct l= ence with the Russian or had with others who had. with the greatest difficulty wa, that Taran could find means to com- moment their ws fell upon his com- ney fled_ precipitately into is only alternative was a ere fe" to go ahead of his pack and Wat in CHAPTER X. (Continued) The Swede. VEN as he had guessed, the first charge carried the howling warriors but a short distance into the open —a shrill, weird challenge from the ape-man being all that was A to send them scurrying mek to the bush. For half an hour yy pranced and yelled their courage to the eticking point, and again es: @ayed a charge. “This time they came quite to the village gate, but when Sheeta and the hideous apes leaped among them they turned screaming in terror, and @gain ‘fled: to the jungle. Again were tho dancing and the geesuiog repeated. This time Tarzan tt no doubt they would enter the village and complete the work that a handful of determined white men would have carried to. @ successful “eonclusion at the first attempt. To have rescue come 80 close only to be thwarted because he could not ‘make bis poor, savage friends under- he wanted ot e seould not find it In bis hea velame upon them. They bud _ done 4 blacks were already preparing ‘for. the charge. A few individuals had advanced a short distance toward the village and were exhorting tho xothers to follow them. In a moment (the whole savage horde would be rac- across the clearing. -Baszan thought only of tho little whild somewhere in this cruel, re- fentless wilderness. His heart ached @@ the son that ho might no longer meek to save—that 1 the real- dzagion of Jane's su ahat waswet upon h » these he_thoug! of life. Succor, all that he could for, bad come to him in the in- ; ‘of his extremity—and failed, i was nothing further for which ope. "The blacks wero half way across the telearing when Tarzan's attention was pmatzacted by the Actions of one of the yapes. The beast was glaring toward yeue of the huts, Tarzan followed his ‘ ‘o. his infinite relief and de- t he saw the stalwart form of ‘ugambi racing toward him. “The huge black was panting heavily though fom strenuous physical ex- tion. and nervous excitement. He ed to Tarzan's side, and as the ret of the savages reached tho vil- gato the native's knife severed je last of the cords that bound Tar- zan to the stake. ¥=In' the street lay the corpses of the “éivages that had fallen before the \ffaok the night before. From ono of Tarzan seized a spear and knob and with Mugambi at his side narling pack about him, he natives as they poured ie) ate. ©" Fierce and terrible was the battle ‘wat ensued, but at last the savages ‘were routed, more by terror, perhaps, t sight of a black man and a whito ting In company with a panther id the huge, flerce apes of Akut than cause of their inability ‘to over- ‘come the relatively small force that = sed them. "One prisoner fell into the hands of fan, and him the ape-man ques- in an effort to learn what had 7 of Rokoff and his party. ised his liberty in return for the ‘tpformation, the black told all "knew concerning the movements of fhe Russian. It seemed that early in the morn- ing their chief had attempted to pre- vat ‘upon the whites to return with bim to their village and with their guns destroy the ferocious pack that bad taken possession of it, but Rokoft peared to entertain even more fears of the giant white man and* his strange companions than even the blacks themselves. Upon no conditions would he con- sent to returning even within sight of the village. Instead he took his party hurriedly to the river, where they ‘stole a number of canoes the blacks had hidden there. The last that had been seen of them they had been pads strongly upstream, ~ Mae ptom Kavirl's village wielding des. Hig once more Tarzan of the Apes iwith bis hideous pack took up his search for the ape-man’s son and the *pursuit of his abductor, "Wor weary di they try, rn at last that they swore upon the wrong trail. The little band had been reduced by three, for three of Akut’s apes had fallen in the ‘fighting at the village. Now, with ‘Anwut, there were five great apes, Sheeta was there—and Mugamb! followed mors even of th * Rokoff—the white mai cpa ‘and the child. Who the man and woman were he could not guess, but that the child was bis was enough ¢0 keep him hot upon the trail, He swaeaure that Rokoff would be folfow- Ming this trio, and so he felt confident (that so long as he could keep up ethe Russian’s trail he would be win- ‘ming so much nearer to the time he omight teh his little son from the dangers and horrors that menaced In retracing thelr way after losing Rokoff's trail Tarzan picked !t up ‘again at a point where the Russian ehadileft ‘the river and taken to the brush in a northerly direction, Ho oeuld only account for this change emjthe ground that the child had been eurried away from the river by the hi gwho now had possession of it. along the way, however, k definite information he ™ occasional warrior whom be fou racking an unsuspecting savage, he iss upon the fellow in the act of hurling a spear at a wounded white man who crouched in a clump of bush at the trail’s side. The white was one whom Tarzan had often seen. Deep in his memory was im ited those repulsive features—the close-set eyes, the shifty expression, the droop- ing yellow mustache. enres it occurred to the ape-man ry t the village where Tarzan had been prisoner. He had ecen them all, this fellow had not been there. could be but one explanati went white a: he looked upon the pasty, vice-marke countenance of the Swede. Across his forehead stood out the broad band of scarlet that marked the scar where, years before, Terkoz hi strip of the akull in tho flerce battle zan had sustained his fitness to the kingship of the apes of Kerchal ‘The man was his prey—the black should not have him, and with the thought he leaped upon the warrior, striking down the spear before it could reach the mark. The black, whipping out his knife, turned to do battle with this new enemy, while the Swede, lying in the bush, wit. nessed the duel, the like of which he had never dreamed to see—a half. naked white man battling with a half-naked black, hand to id with the crude weapons of primeval man at first, and then with bands and teeth after the manner of the prim- ordial brutes from whose loins their common forebears sprung. For a time Anderssen did not recog- ognize the white, and when at last it dawned upon him that he hac seen this giant before his eyés went wide in surprise that this growling, rend- ing beast could ever have been the well-groomed English gentleman who had been a prisoner aboard the Kin- cald. An English nobleman! Ho learned the identity of the Kincaid’ prisoners from Lady Gi joke dur- Ing their flight up the Ugambi. Be- fore, in common with the oth ym bers of the crew of the steamer, he had_ not known who the two might The fight was over. Tarzan had been compelled to kill his antagonist, as the fellow would not surrende! The Swede saw the white man leap to his feet beside the‘corpse of his foe, and placing one foot upon the bro! neck lift his voice in the hideous chal lenge of the victorioug bull-ape. Anderssen shuddered. Then Tt zan turned toward him. His face cold and cruel, and¥in the gray ¢; the Swede redd murde: “Where's my wife?” growled the ape-man. “Where is the child?” Anderssen tried to reply, but a sudden fit of coughing choked him. There was an arrow entirely through his chest, and as he coughed the blood from his wounded lung poured suddenly from his mouth and nostril ‘Tarzan stood waiting for the par- oxysm to pass. Like a bi , hard and relentle: over the helpless man, waiting t wring such information from him he_ needed, and then to kill Presently the coughing and the hemorrhage ceas wounded man esi zan kneeled and to the faintly moving li he wife and child!" “Where are they?” nderssen pointed up the trail. “The Russian—he got them,” hispered. “How did you come here?” contin- ued Tarzan. “Why are you not with Rokoft?" “They catch us,” replied Anderssen in a voice so low that the ape-man could = ju: distinguish the words “They catch us. Ay figbt, but my men they all run away. Then they get me when Ay ban vounded, Ri koff he say leave me he hyenas, That vas vorse than to kill. He tak your vife and kid.” ‘What were you doing with them— where were you taking them?” asked Tarzan, and then, fiercely, leaping close to the fellow with flerce eyes blazing with the passion of hate and vengeance that he had with difficulty controlled; “What harm did you do my wife or child? Speak quick be- fore 1 kill you! Make your peace with God! Tell me the worst or I will tear you to pleces with my hands and teeth, You have seep that I can do it! A look of wild-eyed surprise over- spread Anderssen’s face. vhy,” he whispered, “Ay did not hs y tried to save them from that Russian, Your vife was kind to me on the Kincaid, and Ay hear that little baby cry sometimes. Ay got a vife an’ kid for my own id back by Christiania an’ Ay couldn't bear for to see them separated an’ in RKokoff's hands any more, T! all. Do A hurt them he continued after a 4 pause, pointing to the arrow protrud- ing from his breast. There was something in the man's tone and expression that convinced Tarzan of the truth of his assertions. More weighty than anything else was the fact that Anderssen evidently seeme) more hurt than frightened, He knew he was going to die, #0 Tar- zan's thfeats had little effect upon him; but it was quite apparent that he wished the Englishman to know the truth and not to wrong him by harboring the belief that his words and manner indicated tl he had e! tertained. ‘Tho ape-man instantly dropped to his knees beside the Swed “IT am sorry,” he sald very simply, I had looked for none but knaves in company with Rokoff, I see that was wrong. That is past now, and ‘we will drop it for the more important matter of getting toa of comfort after your must have you on your this fellow had not been among| hose who had accompanted Rokoff at; sgt er: rge feot again as soon as possible.” The Swede smiled and shook his head sadly. “You go on and look for the vife an’ kid,” he said. “Ay ban as gude as dead already; but”—he hesitated— “Ay hate to think of the byenas. Von't you finish up this job bees you go?” Tarzan shuddered. A moment a , he had been upon the point of killlag Now he could no more have taken his life than he could pare taken the life of any of his best riendg,. a ve He Iftéa the Swede'’s head in his be the terrible hemorrhage. After it was over Anderssen lay quietly with closed eyes. Tarzan thought that he was dead, until he suddenly raised his eyes to those of the ape-man, sighed and spoke—in a very low, weak whisper: “Ay tank it blow purty soon purty hard!" he said, and died. sive exterior had beaten CHAPTER XI. Tambudza. T |ARZAN scboped a shallow the heart of a chivalrous gentleman, That was all he could do in the cruel jungle for the man who grave for the Kincaid'’s cook, beneath whose repul- had given his life in the service of bis * little son and his wife, Then Tarzan took up again the pur- sult of Rokoff. Now that he was positive ahead of him was indeed Jane, and that she had again fallen into the hands of the Russian, it seemed that with all the Incredible were many paths at this point— forking and branching in all directions, and over them all had passed nativ numerable, coming and going. The spoor of the white men was obliter- ated by that of the native carriera who had followed them, and over all was the spoor of other natives and of wild beasts. F It was most perplexing; yet Tarzan kept on siduously, checking his sense of sight against his sense of that he might more aurely kee, right trail. But, bh all his care night found him at a point where he was positive that he was on the wrong trail entire) He know that the pack would fol- low his spoor, and so he had been careful to make it as distinct as pos- sible, brushing often against the vines and creepers that walled the jungle path, and in other ways leaving hia scent spoor plainly discernible along the t ‘An darkness settied @ heavy rain set in, and there was notbing for t! baffled ape-man to do but wait inthe partial shelter of a huge tree until morning; but the coming of dawn brought no cessation of the torrential downpour. For a week the sun was obscured by heavy clouds, while violent rain and wind storms obliterated the la: remnants of the spoor Tarzan con- antly though vainly sought. During all this time he saw no aligns of natives nor of his own pack, the members of which he feared had lost ‘his trail during the terrific storm. As the country was strange to bim he ! had been unable to judge bis course accurately, since he had had neither sun by day nor moon nor stare by night to guide him. ‘When the sun at last broke through the clouds in the forenoon of the seventh day it looked down upon an I almost frantic ape-man, For the first time in his life Tarzan the Apes Lgl Me a in this savage land his wife and son lay in the clutches of the arch fiend Rokoff. \ What hideous trials might they not have undergone during those seven him in his endea Tarzan knew the Russian in whose power they were ao well that he could not doubt but that the man, filled with rage that Jane had once escaped him, and knowing that Tarzan might be close upon his trail, would wi without further loss of time whatever his polluted mind might ble to conceive. But now that the sun shone once more the ape-man was still loss as to what direction to take. He knew that Rokoff had left the river in pur- sult of Anderssen, but whether he would continue inland or return to the Ugamb! was a question. The ape-man had seen that the river at that point he had left it was growing narrow and swift, so that he judged that it could not be navigable even for canoes-to any great distance farther toward its source. However, if Rokoff had not returned to the river in what direction had he pro- ceeded? From the direction of Anderssen’s flight with Jane and the child Tarzan wae convinced that the man had pur- Posed attempting the tremendous feat of crossing the continent to Zangibar; but whether Rokoff would dare so dangerous a journey or not was & question. Fear might drive him to the attempt now that he knew the manner of hor- rible pack that was upon his trail and that Tarzan of the Apes was following him to wreak upon him the vengeance that he deserved. At last the ape-man determined to continue toward the northeast in the general direction of German East Af- rica until he came upon natives from whom he might gain information as to Rokoff's whereabouts, The second day following the cessa- tlon of the rain he came upon a na- tive village, the Inhabitants of which fled into the bush the instant their fell upon him. ‘Tarzan, not to b din any such manner as thii pursued them, and after a brief chi caught up with a young warrior, The fellow wag so badly frightened that he could not 60 much as defend him- self, dropping his weapons and falling upon the ground, wide-eyed and jscreaming. It was with considerable diMficulty that the ape-man quieted the fellow’s fears sufficiently to obtain a coherent statement from him as to the cause of his uncalled-for terror, From him Tarzan learned, by dint of much coaxing, that a party of whites had passed through the village several days before. These men had told them of a terrible white devil that pursued them, warning the na- tives againat it the frightful pack ons that accompanied it. black had recognized as the white devil from the 4 tions given by the whites and their black servants. Behind him he had expected to see a horde of demons dis- Bulsed as apes and panther In this Tarzan saw the cunning hand of Rokoff. The Russian was at- tempting to make travel as difficult as possible for him by turning the na- tives against him in superstitious fear, The native further told Tarzan that the white man who had led the recent exnedition had promised them a fabu- lous reward if they would kill the white devil. This they had fully tn- tended doing should the opportunity Present itself; but the moment they had: seen Tarzan their blood had turned to water, as the porters of the white men had told them would be the cam Finding that the ane-man made no attempt to harm him, the native at last recovered his grasp upon his courage and, at zan's suggestion, accompanied th te devil back to the villege, callin he went for hia jows to return also, as “the white devil hae prom! to do you no if you return answer his ques- ‘Des by one the blacks straggied late, this aight, on the chance that the village, blit that their fears were not entirely allayed was evident from the amount of white that showed about the eyes of the majority of they cast constant ani ap- d prehensive aldelong glances at the igure of the ape-man. The chief u return to the vill he that Tarzan was most to interview, he lost no time in en- tering into a palaver with black. The fellow was short and stout, with an unusually low and degraded gountenance and apelike arms. His whole expression denoted the doceit- fulness and trickery of his nature. Only the superstitious terror en- gendered in him by the stories poured into bis ears by the whites and blacks of the Russians party kept him from leaping upon Tarzan with his war- rlors and slaying him forthwith, for he and his people were inveterate man-eaters. But the fear that might indeed de a devil and that out there in the jungle behind him his fierce demons waited to do his bid- ding kept M'ganwazam from putting his desires into action. Tarzan questioned the fellow close- ly, and by comparing his retreat in the direction of & wnat coast. y of the Russian’s porters had already deserted him. In that very village he had hanged five for theft and attempted desertion. Judgin however, from what the M’ganwaza had learned from those of the Ru alan's blacks who were not too far gone in terror of the brutal Rokoff to fear even to apeak of their plans, it ‘was apparent that he would not travel any great distance before the last of his portera, cooks, tent-boys, gun- bearers, askari, and even his headman, would have turned back into the bush, M’ganwazam denied that there had been any white woman or child with the party of whites; but even as he spoke Tarzan was convinced that he Hed, Several times the ape-man ap- proached the eubject from different angles, but never was he successful in surprising the wily cannibal into a di- rect contradiction of his original statement that there had been no women or children with the party. Tarzan demanded food of the chief, and after vonsiderable haggling on the part of the monarch succeeded in ob- taining a meal. He then tried to draw out others of the tribe, especially the young man whom he had captured in the bush, but M’ganwazam's presence sealed their lips. At last, convinced that these people knew a great deal more than they had told him concerning the whereabouts of the Russian and the fate of Jane and the child, Tarzan determined to remain overnight among them in the hope of discovering something further ,, of importance, When he had stated his decision to the chief he was rather surprised to note the sudden change in the fel- low's attitude toward him. ‘rom apparent dislike and suspicion M’ wazam became @ most eager and so- lcttous host, Nothing would do but that the ape- man should occupy the be village, from which M' oldest wife waa forthwith su: 1 ejected, while the f took up h sorta. chanced to recall th fact that @ princely reward had ber offered the blacks if they should # ceed in killing him, he imight have more quickly interpreted M’ganw udden change of front. ‘0 have the white xiant sleeping peacefully in one of his own huta the matter of but inviting As much the ape- the thought of sleeping within tive hut, be had determined to aa- a . he M hut of one of } Mrs. Howard Govko’ The Crystal Rood = left his country and gone he knows not where.” “Oh, they have not plie Tambudza, for the ge knowa where they camp. His runnera Anderssen to a could quickly overtake them—they and move slow! ked Tarzan. the child while they guessed the direction of i is, and the desire to “Where are they?” Do you wish to come to them?” countless oth ked Tambudza in way of reply, uld to help Jane Clayton. co: ‘arzan nodded. er strength. He had bee! b cannot tell you where they lie so chagrined on discovering the m that you could come to the place he had made in the identity of @ yourself, but I could lead you to baby, but once the young womans them, bwana.” 2 came convinced that, hie, mott' In their interest in the conversation truly chivalrous she would ither of the speakers had noticed him longer to upbraid himself. . the little figure which crept Into the ¢rror that he could not by any darkneas‘of the hut Deb d them, nor bave ge ace GeO did they see it when it slunk noise- je close of eac! iJ leasly but again, Anderasen saw to the erection of 4 It was little Buulaoo, the chief's comfortable shelter for Jane and > > son by one of his younger wives—e child. Her tent was always pit ee vindictive, degenerate little raseal in, the most favorable location, who hated T udza and waa ever thorn boma round it was the seeking a ga Body ph Meth ree Ss Tate ous om oh a and report r slightest breach. 0! construct. ; Mo hia father. " Her food was the best that the rifle of Bwede could provide, but the tl ‘This Bi for he that touched her heart the « was already legs! Vilage (roe Abe gentle consideration atreet to where his hideous aire gua- Courtesy which’ the man always aoe zled native beer and watched the evo- Corded ber. i, lutions of the frantic dancers leaping | That @uch nobility of chia high in the alr and cavorting wildly Could Ile beneath so repulsive an in their hystertcal capers. terior never ceased to so So it happened that as Tarsan ang Eonder end amasemens to Rew. Tambudza sneaked warily from dase tpdnnate chivalry pf the village and melted into the Stygian Sud, Rip wi falling kindness and syme ” darkness of the jungle two lithe Func, oy Sue ean o ine ners took their way in the same die bs eps sagt concerned wi wed rection, though by another trail, FE SRix Mae aweetnase of his When they had come aumciently far ‘fh mirrored in his countenance, 5 from the village to make It nate for’ ,,,7hey had commenced to make @ Mts them to apeak above a whisper Tar. te .netlcr progress when word zan asked tho old woman if ahe had inet Hokot was’ Bat & xeen aught of a white woman and @ (y\rches béhind them, and that he little child, direction | “Yon, bwann,” replied Tambud: re a e In lant diacovered tl thelr flight. It was then that gen took to the river, pureh: ons from a chief whose sl upol might be able'to induce one of the ounger men to.ait and chat with him fore the firé that burned in the coen- tre of tl from him draw the truths he So Tarzan accepted the invitation of old M'ganwazam, insisting, however, that he much preferred aharing a hut with some of the younger men rather than driving the chief's old wifs out in the cold, The toothicss old hag grinned her appreciation of this suggestion, and as the plan still better sulted the chief's in that it would per- mit him to surround Tarzan with a wang of picked he readily assented, so t ly Taraun had been installed in a hut close to the village gate, An there was to be a dance that night in honor of a band of recent! hunters, Tarzan was left fn the hut, the young mei nwazain explained, having to take part in the festivit ” |“There was a woman with them an a little child—a Hittle white picca- ninny. It died here in our village of the fover and they buried it!” wADTERR © tives fled up the broad Ugambl, CHAPTER Xil. % rapid nad their Signe become Scoi ey no longer received word, A Black Scoundrel. pursuers, At the sud of ashe HEN Jano Clayton regained gation upon the river they consciousness she saw An- their canoe and took to the ji dersseon standing over her Here progreas became at ence. holding the baby in his ous, slow and dangerous, arms, As her eyes reated Ueanenens Rony after upon them an expression of misery fern y fell ill and horror overepread, her eounte- Ander pray Bg nance. tell Jane Clayton the truth, for he “What is the matter?” asked the seen that the young woman had Swede. “You ban atek?” $ love the child almost as p o “Where is my baby?" cried the attl, Poshvand tera.” nad been her ignoring his questions. As the baby’s condition T Anderssen held out the chubby tn- further advance, Anderssen withdre fant. £ nite from the main trail he She shook her head. sapall naturpl osearinn east taate ina “It ie not mine,” she said. “It is not of a little river. mine, You knew it was not mine, You Here Jane devoted her J aro as much @ devil as the Russian.” meat to casing for the tiny e bl 01 er sorrow 1, Antareege’s Hite jue eyes mtretched ras ae ovat eorrem and nt en er blow came with the sudden am “Not yours!" he exclaimed. “You nouncement of one of the M tole mo.the kid aboard the Kincaid ban tera who had been foraging in your kid, Jungle adjacent that Rokof “Not this one,” replied Jane dully. Party were camped quite bE “The other. Where is the other? them, and were evidently uy; Y ‘There must have be 14 t to this Ii nook which all know about this on thou lent a hiding “There vasn't no other kid. Ay ion could tank his ban yours. Ay am very one thing, and that that sorry.” b camp and fly onward Anderssen fidgeted about, standing leas of the baby’s condition, on as the ape-man wae safely the Clayton knew the traits of the in the trap M’ganwazam vident to 8!an well enough to be poaitive called about him the young riora Jane that he was honest in:hie protes- he would separate her from . whom he had selected to spend the tations of ixnorance of the true iden- it that he recaptured éhd night with the white devil! tity of the child. and she knew that separation wy None of them was overly enthusi- Presently the baby commenced to mean the immediate death “Og” aatic about the plan, aince deep in Crow, and bounce up and down in the Dady. their superstitious hearts lay an ex- Swede's arms, at the e time lean- . As they stumbled forward. Aggerated fear of the ctrange white 10K forward with little hands out- the tangled vegetation along am @ but the word of M'ganwazum Stretched toward the young woman, 4nd almost overgrowa ripe was inw among his poople, ao that _ She could not withstand the appeal Mosul& portera deserted ene by not one dared réfuse the duty he was called upon to perform. As M'ganwazam unfolded his plan in whispers to the savages squatting about him the old, toothless hag, to ! whom Tarzan had saved her hut for t ight. hovered about tho conapir- p ent tet the.ting rs t ators ostensibly to replenis) een her love jack was o t away to @ great hope that after al fol as is mortal torre + and a wome miracle had occurred to anateh tholn telid heer wend ae her baby from Rokoff's hands at the ‘ould fortity last inatant before the Kincaid aailed Guighly a Bo from England. Arete Briclip ly ee Then, too, there was the mute the ‘girl, ‘The Bwede went peal of this wee waif alone and un- now's way through the bush, loved in the midst of the horrors Of the path was entirely overgre the savage jungle. It wasthisthought at on this'march it was: more than any other that had sent that. the young woman carry mother’s heart out to the innocei All ‘aay hey marched. me 7 babe, while atill ehe euffored from dis- afternoon they realized that ¢ they 4 é we and with a low cry she sprang to her ne, feet and gathered the baby to her , The men had been staunch enem in their ‘devotion and loyalty as they were in no oft > overtaken by the Ri wept allent- in baby's soiled dress. The first shock of disap. tinent that the tiny thing had not si the sup- ply of firewood for the blase about which the men sat, but really to drink in as much of their conversa- tion as possible. Tarzan had slept fo hour or two deapite the savage din of the revellers when his keen senaos came suddenly alert to a auspiclously stealthy movement in the hut tn which he lay. The fire had died down to a little heap of glowing em- bers. The interior of the evil-smell- ing dwelling waa shrouded in almost impenet: darkness, yet the trained ses of the ape-man warned him of another presence creeping al- Ce it silently toward him through the gloom, He doubted that tt was one of his hut mates returning from the festiv- ities, for he still heard the wild cries of the dancers and the din of the tom-toms in the villave street with- out. Who could it be that took such painag to conceal his approach? As the presence came within reach of him the ape-man bounded lightly to the opposite side of spear poised ready at nti nd as perhaps an appointment that she had been de- gaijied. Close bhind them ed in its identity. the noise, jave you no idea whose child this along the is?” she asked nderes De 7 @ man shook his head. ‘When it became quite evidi t now,” he sald. “If ho ain't they cnast be overtaken in eat ban your kid, Ay don’ know whose kid time Anderesen hid Jane behts he do ban, Rokoff sald it was yours. large tree, covering her and the Ay tank he tank ao, too. with brush. “What we do with it now? .Ay “There in a village about @ can't go back to the Kincaid. Rokoff further on,” he said to her. would have me @hot; but you can €@ Mosula told me its location back. Ay take you to the sea, and they deserted us. Ay (ry to lead wy. then gome of these black men they, Russian off your trail, then you take you to the ahip—eh?" to the village. Ay tank the chiet b “No! no!" cried Jane, “Not fof friendly to white men—the Me the world. I would rather die than tal me he ban. Anyhow, that wag, fall into the hands of that man again. we can do. we No, let us Ko on and take this poor lit. “After while you get. chief to tle creature with us, If God is willing you down by the Mosula village at we shall be saved in one way OF a+ sea again, an’ after a whtl other.” sure to Ho they again took up their fitght Ugambi. through the wilderness, taking with Gu of them a half dozen of the Mosulgs to ~ carry the provisions and the tent® asked Jane. “ y can't you that Anderssen had smuggled aboard here and go hack to the sea with, the small boat in preparation for the y gotta tal the Russian you attempted escape. dend, so that he don't luke for you.ae ~ ‘Tho days and nights of torture that inore,” and Anderssen grinned. the young woman euffered were #0 merged into one long, unbroken night- you hi mare of hideousness that she soon lost gi k of time, Whether they had ~ anderasen shook his head. ing for days or years @he = “ay don't ‘The one bright #pot 1M any more of a large safari ad trail which they had for their pursuers. 108, a!" replied an ‘old, ‘ked voice, “It is Tambudza—she whose hut you would not take and thus drive an old woman out into the cold night.” “What does Tambudza wan zan of the Apes?” asked the You were kind to me, to whom none is now kind, and I have come to warn you in payment of your kind- answered the old hag. of what?" am has chosen the n who are to pin the replied Tambudza, "I was near as be talked with them and 1 heard him issuing his instructions to t of fear and suffering waa ‘ them. When the dance is run well the little child whose tiny hands had — «you don't mean that. you into the morning they are to come Jong since fastened their softly grOP= wii} kill you?” asked Jane, and 9 to the hut. ing fingers firmly about her heart. her heart she knew that “If you are awnke they are to pre-e ‘An'a'way the Itttle thing took the actly what the great ec: tend that they have come to sleep, place and filled the achin~ void-that go jn revenge for hia ba’ but if you sleep it Is M'kanwazam's the theft of her own Labv had left. thwarted by the 81 command that you be killed. Ifyou ‘It could never be the eame, of course, iq not reply, other than to are not then asleep they will walt but yet, day by day, she found ber t toward 2] quietly beside you until you do aleep, mother-love enveloping the waif more had sy t care, whispered ton, “I shat! net let you and then they will all fall upon you closely until she sometimes sat with together and alay you. M'ganwazam closed eyes tor 19, che sweet Imagin. ch Ing that the little bundle of humanity Soyo ine if I can prevent it’ her breast was truly her own. way. Give me your revolver. {a determined to he reward th For ome time their progress iniand Wn. ,.0 ud Mogtier re ay oung white man has offe vara,” ald was extremely slow. ‘and then he hope them from time to time now. tha the ‘white men who are my enemies hat