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“hie heavy hu t #0 <a # ra oe eres -, tempted to plunge (The Sequet to “TARZAN OF THE APES”) A Story of Ape-Man’s Return to the Jungle BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS (Copyright by Frank A, Manmey Co.) S¥Nops13s OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. of the A (born and reared \onsl Tatar wcsstiag Wr tie, Lod Gre; vy u Feet Briss where a ‘of starve. Wi tone 2 fel faethe influence, is deal Of carmionts, “sietl a test bo urmuve, hs ‘search tgt Jane and ‘the ‘Jane, meantione, iy belr inten by ie CHAPTER XV. (Continued) _ Down the Ugambi. HEN tho Russian discov- ered who it was that re- pelled his advance he be: came furious, cursing an threatening in @ most hof ride manner; but finding that tyffe tactes failed to frighten or moyf/the @irl, he at last fell to pleadigf and promising. * Jane had but.a single rep for his eVery proposition, and thof/was that nothing would ever persfide her te permit Rokoff upon tho/ame vessel ~ with, her That she 1d put her threats into action tha shoot. him should he persist in endeavor to board the ship he yAs convinced. $e. as there was/fo other alterna tive, the great coyfrd dropped back inte the dugout at imminent tisk of being swefft out to sea, finally guccecded In m@king the shore far down tho bay afd upon the opposite side from that//on which the horde of heasts stood/Anarling and roaring. Jane Clayto#/ knew that the fello’ * could not, alghe and unaided, bri daft back upstream fo \ the Kincaid// and so sho had fo further feay/of an attack by him. The hideouscrew upon the shore fhe i recognized as the same ‘that had pabsed her in the jungig far up the Ugambi several days bgfore fow it seged quite beyond in that therd/ should be more thaf one ‘such @ styangely assorted pack; what had/brought them downgtream she could not imagine. Toward/the day's close the mri was wuddenty//alarmed by the shoyting of the Ruspian from the opporife bank of the #fream, and a moment Jater. following! the; direction of hin. gaze. she terrified to see a ship's boat roachini rom ups Ghnch, dhe felt assured. there ould be bers of the Kincaig’s mi only heartless rufjans and ‘onty_ mq} 88 ing cre enemi CHAPTER XVI. In thd| Darkness of the\Night. EN Tarzan of the Apes re- alized that he wag in the grip of the great jaw of a crocodite he did no4, as an 4 ordinary man might ha done, givup all hope and resign him- wolf to hit fate. Instead |be filled his lungs whh air before thel\huge reptile dragged him oneath ti) surface, and then, \with all the mi et of his great mufclet fought bittealy for freedom. But\out of bis natitp eloment the ape-rman tly handicapped to \do \ cite jee og 0 greater apeod\\as it drag: 3p swiftly througy the water. ‘s lune were bursting for breath of purel\fresh air. He knew! that he could s¥vive but a moment. more, and in the\\ast paroxysm of his auffering he did\\what he could to avenge his own déth. His body tratle\ out beside the wilmy carcass of hl captor, and into tough armor © ape-man at- mene hi stone knife as he was borne to the ature'’s horrid His efforts but served\to accelerate the speed of the crocodil\ and just af the ape-man realized the reacied the limit of his erurance he felt %is body dragged to dd, and his nostrils rise abov | aged ny about him was t a8 of the pit. ror a moment Tassad ot th 4 ping for breath upon the evil emelling ‘bed to which the ant had borre him. Close at his side Re gould feci the cold, hard plates of thi th water’ A biack- pes vs 1 Creatures coat rising and falling ae\helr filghts from the interter. though with spasmodic eff to breathe For * us, a ‘veral minutes the two lay then a sudden convulsion giant carcass at the man's tremor, aad a stiffening Tarzan'to his knees beside the crocodile. To his utter amaze- Mont he tound that the beast was feaa The slim knife had found a Tulnefable spot in the scaly armor. germ to his feet, the ape-man bout the recking, oozy den. } that he was Imprisoned in ‘a hia attention was suddenly & © of the huge animals @oren or 4 one that had dragged guch vs the Tim thither He reaiized that he was in the Yreatur’s lidden nest far under the bank of the stream, and that doubt- leas the only means of ingress or egress lay through the submerged opening through which the crocodile bad brow. hem. His first thought, of course, was of escape, but whether he could make WS way to the surface of the river nd then tu the shore seemed y Improbable ‘There might be “and windings in the neck of the oxt to be feared, unother of the slim in- Mf the retreat upon his jour- was still the danger of being again att.cked before he could effect « safe landing. Still there ' “Was no alternative, and, filling his with the close and reeking air 4 chamber, Tarzan of the Apes into the dark and watery hole h he could not see but had felt ut and found with his feet and lesa, lacerated, but the bone had not been broken, nor were the muscles or ten- dons gave him excruciating useless. pain, that was all Bi by the rp teeth of thi Rapidly he cr a throw ‘th bart ps downward and finally upward togptn at last into the river bottom by feet from the shore line. man reached the surfa heads of two it short distance Ly making rapidly in h @ super! n effort the man struck out so the overhanging branches of jear-by tree, Nor was 4 a moment too soon, for scarcely pi he drawn himself to the safety ofthe limb than two gaping mouth snapped venomously belo’ him/for a few minutes Tarzan ed 4A the tree that had proveg ins of his salvation. Hiy¥ eyes nned the as far dow’ stream, 8 the tortuous channel woyfd permit, but there was no sign of Zhe Russian or dugout. - ‘When he had restej/and bound up his wounded leg he gfarted on in pur- suit of the drifting/canoe, He found himself upon the Apposite side of the river to that at the stream, bj upon the bo of the water it made little differegice to the ape-man upon which side fie took up the pursuit. To his/intense chagrin he soon found thgt his leg was more badly in- jured tyan he had thought, and that its cogdition seriously impeded his Progrgss. It was only with the great- est giMfculty that he could proceed fast4r than a walk upon the ground, an ng Gdiles but a ‘They were direction, and oe only impeded his progress, but dered travelling distinctly danger- Ss. From the old negress, Tambudza, Tarzan had gathered a suggestion that now filled his mind with doubts and misg!ving ‘When the old woran had told him of the child's death she had also added that the white woman, though grief stricken, had confided to her that the baby was not hers. Tarzan could see no reason for be- Meving that Jane could have found it advisable to deny her idet of the child; the only exp! he could put upon the matter was had accompanied +his son and the Miciently injured to render it} In the trees he discovered that It; ! but that, after all, the white woman who | ‘*” Swede into the jungle fastness of the} ~~ interior had not been Jane at all. The more he gave thought to the problem the more firmly convinced he became that bis son was dead and his wife still cafe kit. ind in ign rance of the terrible fate that had overtaken her first born. . After all, then, his interpretation of Rokoff's sinister taunt had been err roneous, and he had been bearing the burden of a double apprehension need- least so thought the ape- . From this belief he garnered some slight surcease from the numb- ing grief that the death of his little son had thrust upon hi. And such a death! Even the savage beast that was the real Tarzan, in- ured to the sufferings and horrors of the grim jungle, shuddered as he con- tomplated the hidvous fate that had overtaken the innocent child. As he mi way paintully toward the coast he let his mind dwelt 80 constantly upon the frightful crimes that the Russian had perpetrated against his loved ones that the great scar upon his forehead stood out al- most continuously in the vivid scarlet that marked the man’s most relent- less and bestial moods of rage. At times he startled even himself and sent the lesser creatures of the wild jungle scampering to thelr hiding places as involuntary roars and growls rumbled from his throat. Could he but lay his hand upon the Russian! ‘Twice upon the way to the coast cose natives ran threateningly from their villages to bar his further prokress, but when the awful cry of the hull-ape thundered upon their af- frighted ears, and the great white fast arged ‘bellowing upon them, they Ad turned and fled into the bush, ndq ventured thence until he had safe) . Though lizingly seemed tanta- made, as a rapid progres as drifting canoe that bore Rokoff ofvahead of him, so. that he came to the\bay and within sight of the ocean jusNafter darknes: had fallen upon the sime day that Jane Clayton and the Ritysian ended eavily The darkness lowered so cire- upg “he black river and the @ ling\Qungle that Tarzan, even With eyes eecustomed to much afte dark, Oduld make out nothing a few yards fi him. His idea, was to search the\qhore that night for signs of the Rui ‘and the women who he wae certat must have preceded Rokoff down tM Ugarall. That the Kincaid or othergnip lay at anchor but a hundred yard&{rom him he did not dream, for no TMakt showed on board the steamer. Ne Even as he commencedNajs search racted by a noise that he had not rst Perceived-the stealthy dip of Pad dies in the water some distance frol shore, and about opposite the point at which he stood. Motlonless as a statue he stood listening intently to the faint sound. Presently it ceased, to be followed by a shuffling noise that the ape- man's trained ears could interpret as resulting from but a single cause-- the scraping of leather-shod feet upon the rounds of @ ship's monkey-ladder: And yet, as far as he could see, there was no ship there—nor might there be one within a thousand miles, As he stood thus, peering out into he the darkness of the cloud-enshrouded night, there came to him from across the water, like a slap in the face, 80 sudden and unexpected was it, the sharp staccato of an exchange of shots and then the scream of a woman Wounded though he was, and with the memory of his recent horrible ex+ Perlence still. stro: upon him, zon Apes did not hesitate ai Co notes - oat Sranlaned or) rose shrill ai reing upon it alr. With a md he cleared the ° ‘The Evening World Daily Magazine, Saturday, Decem ——“iMen Who Fail---IV. ° Conpnatt. 1914, by The Press l'ubiisbing (The New York Kremna W MOST QUITTING TIME—ONLY FIFTEEN MINUTES TO KILL NS THE GREAT GERMAN 42:CENTIMETRE GUN. The outer circle on this page meagures the exact diameter of a shell from a 42-centimetre German gun. The shell itself is two and one-half times as fong as its diameter: inches ; length of shell, The inner circle is the exact size of the diameter of a shell from 14-inch guns. then, with powerful strokes, he swam out into the impenetrable night with no guide save the memory of an illusive cry, and for company the pideous denizens of an equatorial river. The boat that had attracted Jan’ attention am she stood guard upon the deck of the Kincaid had been per- ceived by Rokoff upon one bank and Mugambi and the horde upon the other. The cries of the Russian had brought the dugout first to him, and then, after a conference, it had been turned toward the Kincaid, but be- fore ever it covered half the distance between the shore and the steamer a rifle had spoken from the latter’s deck and one of the sailors in the bow of the canoe had crumpled and fallen into the water. After that they went more and presently, when Jan found another member of the party, the canoe withdrew to the shore, it lay long as daylight lowly, where lasted. The savage, snarling pack upon the opposite shore had been directed in their pursuit by the black warrior, Mugambi. Only he knew which might p: be foe and which friend of their lost master. Could they have reached either the canoe or the Kincaid they would have made short work of any whom they found there, but the gulf of black’ water intervening shut them off from further ce as effectually as though it had been the broad ocean that separated them from thelr prey. Mugambi knew something of the occurrences which had led up to the jJanding of Tarzan upon Jungle Island and the pursuit of the whites up the Ugambi. He knew that his savage master sought his wife and child who had been stolen by the wicked white man whom they had followed far into Me interior and now back again to the sea. He man had whom he hi love as he had jeved also that this same led the great white glart come to respect and +r loved the great- est chiefs of his o' people. And s0 in the wild breastof Mugamb! burned an iron resolve to to the side of the wicked one and ka terrible vengeance upon him for murder of the apeman But when he saw the canoe come down the river and take in Rokoff; he saw it make for the Kin. caldSske realized that only by pos: sessing knself of a canoe could he hopa to t ort the ts of the pack within ing distance of the enemy So it happened thi®sgs Jane Clayton fired tho fir Rokoft's canoe the beasts of had disappeared into the jungle After the Russian and his party, which consisted of Paulvitch and the several men he had left upon the Kincaid to attend to the matter of coaling, had retreated before her fire, Jane realized that it would be but a temporary respite from their atten- tions which she had gained, and with the conviction came a determination to make a bold and final stroke for freedom from the menacing threat of Rokoff's evil purpose. ‘With this idea in view she opened Negotiations with the two sailors she had imprisoned the forecastie, and Raving _foseed. their sroneent to her jans, pain of death shoul they attempt disloyalty, she released @s darkness closed about rh n before into rifle had ¢) 39% inches. With ready revolver to compel obe- dience, abe let them up one by one, searching them carefully for con- d cealed weapons as th with hands devated above thi ds. Once satisfied that they’ were un- armed, she set them to work cutting the cable which held the Kincaid to ‘her anchorage, for her bold plan was nothing less than to set the steamei adrift and float with her out into the open sea, there to trust to the mercy of the elements, which she was confi- dent would be no more inerciless than Nikolas Rokoff should he again cap- ture her. ‘There was, too, the chance that the Kincaid might be sighted by some passin, he was well- stoc! the men had assured her of this tact— d as the season of storms was well e had every reason to hope for intual success of her plan. The night was deeply overc heavy clouds riding low above le and the water-—only to the » Wh the broad ocean ad beyond the river's mout! there a suggestion of lessening gloom. It was a perfect night for the pur- of the work in hand. Her enemies could not see the ac- tivity aboard the ship nor mark her course as the swift current bore her outward into the ocean. Before day- light broke the ebb-tide would have carried the Kincatd well into the Ben- guela current which flows northward along the coast of Africa, and, as a south wind was prevailing, Jane hoped to be out of sight of the mouth of the Ugambi before Rokoff could become aware of the departure of the steamer. Standing over the laboring seamen, the young woman breathed a sigh of relief as the last strand of the cable. parted and she knew that the vessel was on its way out of the maw of the savage Ugambi. ‘With her two prisoners, still be- neath the coercing influence of her rifle, she ordered them upon deck With the intention of again imprison- ing them in the forecastle; but at length she permitted herself to be in- fluenced by their promises of loyalty nd the arguments which they put ‘orth that they could be of service to her, and permitted them to remain ‘ade For @ drifted rapidiv then, with a grinding Jar, she in midstream. minutes the Kincaid purrent, ap nel about a quarter of a mile from the se: For a moment she hung there, and then, swinging round until her bow pointed toward the shore, she broke drift once more. y e_same instant. Clayto r that the ship = there fell upon her ears from a poin up the river about where the Kinenid had been anchored the rattle of mus- ketry and a woman's scream. The sailors heard the shots with certain conviction that thev an- nouneed the coming of their em- ployer, and as they had no relish for the plan that would consien them to the deck of a drifting derelict they whispered together a hur overcome the young womal Rokoff and their companions rescue, It seemed that fate would play into their hands, with She \renerty “from ‘bet uawilina nbsd's just as Jane gneratulating herself and hail to their hewn assistants, and instead of keepinx one eye upon them as she had intended he ran to the bow of the Kin- caid to peer through the darkness @ of the disturbance bosom. Seeing that she was off her cuard, the two sailors crept stealthily upon her from behind. The scraping upon the deck of the shoes of one of them startled the girl to a sudden appreciation of her dan- ger, but the warning had come too late As she turned both men leaped upon ner and bore her to the deck, and as she went down beneath them she saw, outlined against the lesser gloom of the ocean. the fleure of an- other man clamber over the aide of the Kincaid. After all her pains her heroic strug- gle for freedom had failed. With a stified sob she cave up the struggle. CHAPTER XVII. On the Deck of the Kincaid. HEN Mugamdi had turned back into the jungle with the pack he had a definite purpose in view. It was to obtain a dugout wherewith to trans- port the beasts of Tarzan to tho side of the Kincaid. Nor was he long in coming upon the object which he sought. Just at dusk he found a canoe moored to the bank of a small tribu- tary of the Ugambi at a point where he had felt certain that he should find one. Without loss of time he piled his hideous fellows into the craft and shoved out into the stream. So quick- jy had they taken possession of the canoe that the warrior had not no- ticed that it was already occupied The huddled tigure sleeping in the bottom had entirely escaped his ob servation in the darkness of the night that had now fallen, But no sooner were they afloat than @ savage growling from one of tie apeg@directly ahead of him in thes dy@ out attracted his attention ering and cowering, that Td the great the Mugambi's aston- ishment he saw that it was a nativo difculty he kept the ape from her throat and after a tine succeeded in quelling her fears. It seemed that she had been fleeing from marriage with an old man sbe loathed and had taken retuge for the night in the canoe she had found upon the river's edge. Mugambl did not_wishe= pecweWas, and rati Ppres- the shore the black permitted her to remain on board the canoe. quickly as his awkward com- panions could paddle the dugout down-stream toward the Ugambi and the Kincaid they moved through th» darkness, It was with difficulty thot Mugambi could make out the shad- owy form of the steamer, but ax he had it between himself and the ocean, it wag much more apparent to ona upon either shore of the river. As it approached he was amazed to note that it seemed to be receding from him, and finally he was con- vinced that the vessel was moving s@own-astream.. Just.as be wap about | me id Diameter, 16% one of Uncle Sam’s new his creatures to renewed of- fort to overtake the steamer the out- Une of gnother 0@ burst suddenly into view not three yards from the bow of his own craft. * At the same instant the occupants of the stranger discovered the prox- imity of Mugambi's horde, but they did not at first recognize the nature of the fearful crew. A man in the bow of the oncoming boat challenged them just as the two dugouts were about to touch, For answer came the menacing grow! of a panther, and the fellow found himself gazing into the flaming eyes of Sheeta, who had raised him- self with his forepaws upon the bow of the boat, ready to leap in upon the occupants of the other craft. Instantly Rokoff realized the peril that confronted him and his fellows. commandyo fire upon ints of the oth@ canoe, and volley and thse scream of native woman in the Mugambi that both Tar Before the slower and less skilled paddlers in’ Mugambi's canoe could press their advantage and effect a ding of the enemy the latter had turned swiftly down-stream and @ero paddling for their lives in the direc- ttion of the Kincaid, which was now Visible to them. Tho vessel, after striking upon the bar, had swung loose again into a slow moving eddy, which returns up- stream close to the southern shore of the Ugambi only to circle out onco more and join the downward flow a hundred yards or so farther up. TI! the Kincaid was returning Jane Cla: ton directly into the hands of her that sprang into the river the vi not visibl o him, and as he am out into night he had no idea that a ship drifted so close band. was guided by the sounds whic) could hear coming from tb canoes. As he swam he had tions of the last oce: he had swum jj Ugambi, and two fd recollec- 6n upon which o waters of the ith them a sudden shudder sp the frame of the giant. But-effough he twice felt something bedfh his legs from the slimy depths below him, nothing seized him, and of a sudden he quite forgot about croco- diles in the astonishment of seeingyy dark mass loom suddenly before py wherethe had still expected to Sythe open river il So close was it thattouple of strokes brought himes#to the thing, when to his fement his stretched hageCame in contact with @ ships, Hail not take the agile ape-man Ting to find @ wav to clamber over the vessel's rail, when there camo to his sensitive ears the sound of a deck. Noiselessly he sped across the in- tervening space. he moon had risen now, and, though the sky w. banked with clouds, & lesser kness enveloped the scene than that which had blotted out all sight earlier in the night, Hi keen eyes, therefore, saw the figures of two gen grappling with a woman That it was the woman who had accompanied Anderasen toward th interior he did not know, though he ai ited as much, as he was now quite certain that this was the deck of Kincaid upon which chance ber $, 1914 By Robert Minor| ane Mrs. <The Crys Will Be Next Week's Complet But he wasted Hotie time in idle @peculation. There was a woman danger of harm from two rufians, which was enough excuse for the ape-man to project his giant thewe into the conflict without further in- vestigation. The first that either of the eailore knew that there was a new force at work upon the slip wae the fall- ing of a mighty hand upon a guider of each. As if they had Min the grip of a fly-wheel they Naked suddenly from their 9 this?” asked a low no time to reply, Ihe sound of that \e Ly man had sprang ‘and, with\ little cry of toward th pallant. two ul otled, stunned and terrif\ into scuppers upon the oppositd\elde, with an exclamation of\n- y gathered the girl into Qwover, were the momen ing. they recognized one @ clouds above thi e figures of a hall ing over the side steamer’s deck, them was the another than ted to show lozen men clamb of the Kincaid to t Foremost amon, Russian. As the bi — of @he equatorial moon ligytad the deck and he realized that th before him was Lord = Gre: screamed hyete~ical commuyds to his followera to fre nthe \two, Tarzan pushed Jane behind the cabin near which they had\ been and with a quick hound Rokoff. The men band the Russian, at least two of tem, ralsed their rifles and fired at \he charging ape-man, but those behihd them were otherwise engaged—fo up the monkey-ladder in their real was thronging a hideous horde. Firat came five snarling apes, huge, manilike beasts, with bared fangs and slavering jaw: and after them a gant black warrior, gleaming in the moon! Behind him again other creature, aid of all the horri horde it was this they most feared— She a, the panther, with fe ming jawa opape and fiery eyes biasing at them in the ie hate and of his blood-lus! The shots that had been fired at Tarzan missed bim, and he would have been upon Rokoff in another in- stant had not the great coward dodged backward between his two henchmen, and, screaming in hysteri- oa) terror, bolted forward toward the forecastle. Vor the moment Tarsan’s attention racted by the two men before that he could not at the time tl Russian. About him the apes and Mugambt were battling with the balance of the Russian’s party. Beneath the terrible ferocity of the beasts the men wére soon scaimper. ing in all directtons—those who still Nved to scamper, for the great fangs of the apes of Akut and the tearing Itutons of Sheeta already had found more than a single victim. Four, however, escaped and disap- peared into the forecastle, where they hoped to bi de themselve: further assault. Here they Rokoff, and, enraged hie desertion of them in their moment of pertl, no less than at the uniformly ®rutal treatment it had been his wont to ac- cord them, they gloated upon the ov- portunity now offered them to re- venge themselves in part upon their hated employer. Despite his prayers and grovelling pleas, therefore, they hurled him bod- ily out upon the deck, delivering him to the meroy of the fearful things from which they had themselves just escaped. Tarzan saw the man emerge from the forecastie, but another saw him even as soon. It was Sheeta, and with grinning jaws the mighty beast slunk silent!; toward the terror stricken man. When Rokoff saw what it was thit stalked him his shrieks for help fifed the air, with trembling knee7 he stood, one paralyzed, beforg the hideous death that was creeping upon Im. ‘Tarzan took a step toward fhe Rus- sian, his brain burning witha raging fire of verigeance. At last Ae had the murderer of his son at/his mercy. Hijs was the right to avesgo. Presently he saw that Sheeta was about to forestall him bing hin of the fruit of his great hate. He called sharp to the panther, and the words. ay/if they had broken a hideous spell fant had held the Rus- sian, galvanized him into sudden tion! With scream he turned and fled towargthe bridge ‘After pfm pounced Sheeta, the pan, ther, ysnindful of his master's way ing yOiee. frzan was about to leap aft o when he felt 9 light touc his arm, Turning he found elbow. y “Do not leave me," shof@hiapered. “Tam afraid” ‘Tarzan glanced bey All about were ty Akut. Som pproaching the young woy pared fangs, and menaciggAguttural warnings The them back. again toward the ssh chagrined that he should hayA'to forego the pleasure of per- fal revenge—uniess the man should fascape Sheeta, But as he lookad ho saw that there could be no hope of that, The fellow had retreated to the end of the bridge, where he now stood trembling and wide-eyed, fac- : the beast that moved slowly to- ward him ‘The panther crawled with belly to the planking, uttering uncanny nouthings. Rokoff stood as though petrified, his eyes protruding from their rockets, his mouth agape, and the Zivon ane at at her. deous apes of fose time by returning hor to struggle at the opposite side of the the cold sweat of terror clammy upon his brow: Below him, pon the deck, he hat seen the great anthropolds, and 8 had not dared to seek escape in that direction, In fact, even now one of the brutes was leaping to sieze the bridge rail and draw himself up to the Russian’s alde Before him was the panther. Rokoff could not move, His knees trembled. His voice broke in inartic- ulate shrieks, With a last piercing wall he sank to hie knees—and then by Ful ‘Upon the mai upon rh hurtled, back. HOwA RD GouLo's tal Rood = Novel in The Evening World As the great fangs tore at | throat and chest, Jane Clayton away in horror; but not so Tarsan the Apes. A cold snrile of sai that had ov countless crimes he was the brief moment @eath that claimed him at the All that night Sheeta, the uel yn the gy ke Rokoff. of the Kincaid wan morning, there remained of great enemy only a dozen and broken bones Of the Russian’s party, al counted for except Paulvitch. rest were dead. men Tarsan jteam upon the vessel, aad nowledge of the mate, who Rened to be one of those su Avot out in quest of Ji son. Who or what had b could not im koft and Paulvit was no way of There was, ho yet, hope. of the baby's deal there was an h u I seemed quite evi Jack had not the Kincaid. A known of it had Meorg he had and time again that had her It Cy ewater, through Lomi Greystoke Munteafion with London. learned/ that which @lled h jeart with joy Little Jack was reystpke's town house. It not until they don that they learned BIR tye] chain it . lY developed that tale the child bt i: day, had hidden it ina ny Saini inte weres] ior dar Garry it confederate anf ant, Paulvitch, tru years of teaching of had at last succum ery and greed tha 1d his superior, thoughts of thg@/ im: that he might child unharm secret of Its p Tis wiiym to the ing had arranged for f another infant, at never unti uld Rokoft suspen zt : jad been played oi aun had promised te * 41 Paulvitch reti » in turn, had to betray her tr ft gold, and’ so had opeacd tions with Lord Yftors for the return ff Esmeralda, hose absence on a» America at the time of the abd: of little Jack had been attributed nee as He Yr of the calamity, returned and positivel: rau positively identified the The ransom had bee: within ten days of the date sé kidnaping the future Lord G: none the worse for his exp had been returned to his fathers home And so the last Nikolas Rokof's m: ay toate Calitien not only miserably malcarried the treachery he had taught i but it had resulted J ain’s death and give and Lady Greystoke a me, of that neither could ever have felt long as the vital spark remained f the body of the Russian and his malign mind was free to formulate new atrocities against them. It was a happy family part; were reunited in Greyatoke the day that Lord Greystoke lady landed upon English the deck of tho Shorewater. Accompanying them were sambi and the Mosula woman he had found in the bottom canoe that might upon the the little tributaey of the Ui The woman had preferred to te her new lord ane roaster. han return to ¢ bred to escape. enbieaien: urran had pnwposed to them they might find a home upon vast Afvican estates in the land the Waztri, whore thay were te nent as soon aa opportunity Possibly we aball see them ail: amid the Namance of am Ing full we too late J trick thay