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_Author Mu, a cave ma ‘woman’ of hell ‘captured Tur her away. to thes lands before. his’ pursuilt. Roe soft earth leaving Wy etmages, who tie Blin th a vas CHAPTER X. The Rescue Party. FTER Nu, the son of Nu, had left bis father and his father’a people search of Nat-ul A Mith wat Tha, father of Ni of the tribe. @orrow that had overtaken thelr savage fellows. Not was bitter, Presently Nu, the chief, “We cannot go in search home,” he said, “leaving t dhildren behind.” ‘Mights among them. They ane that it should be ao, .& young warrior stood hile spear he drew a line (ground from east to west dust north of him, wether we hunted our first and then, pointing bad drawn upon the ground, con- ‘Never shall I cross this line ‘ned until I bave found Nu, ti Nu’ * As he ceased 6 ‘ing he @elf up to his ‘turned to face his chief. From the tribe came grunts of ap- eepval. All eyes turned toward Nu. it would he do? The young warrior’s act short of rebellion. iddenly Aht, brother of Nat-ul, to his feet and stood beside the defiant warrior, He said nothing is act proclaimed his in Nu, the chief, looked at this dour countenance, He, walked to where the Tanged himself beside ha was the first to guess the eig- nificance of the act, and t ‘be did so he leaped to Then the others understood, and a * Gmoment later the whole ranged with their backs to facing toward the south. Mancing and shouting now. ‘The men waved their sto: threw their lon § The women beat eir palm: and the little children ran skipping ut, getting in every one's way. After a few minutes of th atarted off toward the south, telling ‘aff'a score of men to remat ‘women and children who were to fol Jow slowly back toward th Awellings, while the chief jal “Firat they came upon ‘body of Hud within the cave in the face of the Barren Cliffs. From there spoor and faint older spoor of the girl, they discovered Nu’ “traces of th wing that Nu had not ‘at this point, ‘On they went along the “ward their old caves, and everywhere ‘the signs of one or the other of those they followed were distinguishable, It they reached *eaves, and the following morning they had difficulty In again picking up the because of the fact that the ‘was dark when spoor tide had obliterated it wh touched the sandy beach at Now Nu separated his warriors tnto three parties. ‘One, with which he remained, was @ keep south along the ‘wecond was to work into for a mile and then turn south, while the third was to search straight in- Jand toward the west. In this way one of them must come upon those or some sign of them in command of the cen- and Aht was with him, they sought, Tha was ‘tral party, vith Nu, the chief, Oee olaly the beach, and along h peat rapidly i, grom spread out across othe jungle, that eacape their observation. Several times b; v ds into the jung mech time, with th ness came upon thi having discovered t. worney camped upon the outside the junel building: fires about them to ensts. Then they —all but two who ded the fires. Dag was one of the ‘aware ‘eatled “There & result the dow of a glow in, the s his companion's atten are men there, That is the light from beast fires. stent” and in the his, Dag was on th Hrousing tected some ‘tween the jun and the ea ntly it had but just Jenso vegetation, Dax hiicht have thonght it previ so riiio, mon seldom crept through the for darkness had fallen; but was something about b b Sweetheart (oprrieht, the Frank A, Munsey Company.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, footprints vanish as though bed up inte bers a ot orne the warrior chief had sat in silence for many minutes, Beside Found about equatted other members All were silent in the face of the nd his principal Heutenant, Nu and Nat-ul were great favorites among 4q; ever, Hud, and the anger against bin His Ustenersa knew that he ignored ddud—that Hud, in bringing this sor- ‘row upon the tribe, had forfeited his » ‘Nw, the son of Nu, passed through “the ordeals with me—we became men @nd warriors upon’the same day. To- li height, and verms folded across his broad chest, qyouns men from beneath his shaggy a 3. The watchers were almost certain ‘that a half-smile played grimly about pears high in air. balance of the fighting men searched ‘rapidly ahead for signs of Nu and nothing might followed false so that they I em without their keep off the kept watch and f the watchers. night grew darker he yells rose faintly from the chat direction of ae Nu when his keen thing moving warlly be- jut with the discovery of the hess of a camp of men he was not . The Evening World Daily Magazine, Thursday: July 15: A COMPLETE NOVEL EACH WEEK IN THE EVENING WORLD Primeval | toward the distant fire glow. “Come!” As Nat-ul led them along the beach and through the jungle she told Nu, the chief, all that had transpired since Hud had stolen her away. She told of her wanderings, and of the Boat Bullders, of how one had chased her and of the terrible creature that bad seized and carried her to its nest. CE BUR of “TARZAN OF THE APRS,” Ete, crawled into the shelter where she was confined, leaping upon the back ments of this creature that suggested of Tur. And of how she slipped out the crawling of @ man on all-fours. Dag circled the camp, apparently bh tal of the presence of the in- ‘uder, He threw a stick upon @ blaze here, and there he stamped out some ; smoking fagota that had fallen inside the ring. But all the while he watched the movements of the thing that crept , through the outer darkness toward ‘a pomt the camp. He could see it more distinctly now, of the shelter as the two battled, and Bh the gauntlet of savage beasts she had been forced to run between the beast- fires of the Boat Builders and the safoty of the jungle trees. “L rested for the balance of the night in @ great tree cl Village of the stranger: At skies, Tht and was aware that from time to 8°@fch of food, intending ater northward until 1 came to our old fete Be fee neulder, © CACKWard Glance over Gwolings where I could live in com- parative safety. “But all the time I kept wonderi: what it might have been that leaped upon Tur’s back in the shelter the night before, and the more I thought about it the more apparent it became that it might have been a man—that it must have been a man, for what animal could pass through the beast- fires unseen? “Had it a companion, or compan- fons?) Was something following !t?” ents taone tees brea face of the ingle beyond the creeping thing. “Ah! #0 that was it? A dark shadow had stepped from the sombre wood upon the trail of the creature that was now half-way across the 0; space between the camp. Dag needed to go in jungle and the “And eo, after filling no second C1 ttest: a my stomach, and Hud, Of tho moweomon, ont Be ently y crept back through the trees to ths ‘The lithe body, the black mass that S1#° of the village, and there I marked the bristling mane, the Watched. at-ul, and crouching , the two angry “The sun then was straight above id Splotches_ of yellow-green fire—no me—half the day was gone. I could not reach the caves before darkness if anything occurred to delay me, and as I might at any moment stumbie upon some of the strangers or be treed by Ur or Zor or Oo I decided to wait now until early to-morrow morning before setting out for the loubt here. It was Zor, the lion, stalking his prey. Day whispered a word to his com- panion who came to his side, The two stood looking straight toward the nearer creature, with no attempt to isguise the fact that they had dis- their chief 80, how- covered it. caves. “ man," pered Dag’ “Too, there was something within companion, Maes © me that urged me to remain. “What it was I do not know; but it was as though there were two fone one tai as ee ey 4 away ‘om. 1e 0! 16 rangers as Rhone’ the Whole cane Dag Yona, Tapldly as possible and the other in- beyond the flaming circle, his spear Sting that it was her duty to re- hand back thrown, one head Min. At last I could deny my other laboriously chipped to a sharp point, Self no longer—I must stay, and so I directed at the charging Zor. Pg rate ad nd RS The weapon passed scarce a hand's ove , breadth from the shoulder of Zora {lating where the strangers’ village stands, and there I remained until prey, a penne itself in the breast of jong after darkneas came. And, then, with a frightful roar, Zor charged, and the creature before it rose upon two feet full in the light spoke, of a new wo of our were eat- up. With ook tks As ther agen thatany Daa ti “It was then that I saw the thing and lying past the fugitive, actin” hienbeag within the village that sent me here, Before, I had seen your fires and wondered who it might be that came from the north, “I knew that all the strangers had returned in the afternoon, so it could be none of them, and the first tribe to the north I knew was my own, so I hoped without believing that it might indeed be some of thy warriors, Nu. “And then I eaw that something was going te occur in the village be- low me. Warriors approached a hut from which they dragged a captive. By the lega they ‘ragged him, through sprung to his side, and from the camp wasage OS Se Se Be eee were running the balance of the sav- “id #o the women and children tor- age spearmen. Zor, rearing upon his tured and spat upon the prisoner. hind feet, was striking at Dag, who _,“At first I could not see the victim leaped nimbly from side to side dodg- Plainly, but at last as they raised him ing the terrific blows of the mighty, to his feet and bound him to @ stake taloned paws, and striking the beast’s Where they are going to roast him head repeatedly with his heavy ax. @live among slow fires I saw his face, The other warrior met the charge | “Oh, Nu, can you not guess who it of the infuriated lioness with his W%# that had followed me so far, had apear. overcome such dangers and fought Straight into the broad breast ran his way through the awful waters to the sharp point, the while the man fescue mo?” - clung tenaciously to the haft, whipped ‘Nu, the son of Nu,” said the old hither and thither as the beast reared Warrior, and hia chest swelled with and wheeled and struck at him with Pride as he strode through the tan- her claws. gled jungle in the the Village Now Nu, the chief, and his fellows of the Boat Builders, arrived upon the scene. Angry beasts of prey menaced the A score of spears bristled from the Tesculng party upon every hand, out bodies of Zor and his mate. Axes fell St last they won to the edge of the upon their heads, and Nu, the mighty, Jungle benind the village they sought. leaped upon Zor's back with ony hie _ There the aight that met their eyes Hane baite, and cars was ono of wild confusion. There he clung to the thick mane, Men and women were run - driving the puny weapon time and 4nd thither uttering shouts of rage. again into back and side until at Inst , Beyond them was a circle of flam- the roaring, screaming beast rolled {9S brush. In the centre of this Nat- pt ‘its wide to rise no more, Ui told the rescuers Nu, the son of The honess proved more teaseleus Nu, was fast bound to a stake. Slow- of life than her lord, and though |¥ he was roasting to death—possibly Nu bristling with spears and cut to rib- "owas already og rt pas bons with the knives of her antagon- ,,NU¥ fathered raed to toma iste she charged into close quarters him. Two he commanded to remn with a sudden rush that found one of [it "Utners at hia, heels, his long, the cavemen @ fraction of @ second wnite feather nodding bravely above his noble head, and the shaggy pelt The strong claws raked him from G¢'ur, the cave’ bear, falling from nis neck to groin and as he fell the shoulders, Nu, the chief, alunk allently mighty Jaws closed with @ sickening erunch upon his skull. At bay over her victim the loness stood growling and threatening, while the wild warriors danced in a circle about her awaiting the chance to rush in and avenge thelr comrad Within the circle of fires Nat-ul replenished the blaze, keeping the whole scene brilliantly Mghted for the warriors. That she had stumbled upon men of her own tribe so unexpectedly seemed little short of miraculous, She could scarce wait for the battle with the lions to be concluded, so urgent was the business that ‘filled her thoughts. But at last Zor’s savage mate lay dead, and as Nu, the chief, returned to tha camp Nat-ul leaped forward to meet him, “Quick!” she erled. “They are kill- ing Nu, thy son,” and she pointed to- ward the south in the direction of the glare that was now plainly visible through the darkness, Nu did not walt to ask questions then, He called his warriors about him, “Nat-ul says that they gon of Nu there,” he 6 directly in the path of the Hon with only an ax and knife of stone to com- bat the fury of the raging, wounded demon of destruction. Over his shoulder he threw a word to the one he had leaped forth to succor. “Run within the beast-fires, Nat- ul," he cried; “Zor’s mate is coming to his aid.” And sure enough, springing Nghtly across the sands Came a fierce lioness, maned like her lord. Now Dag’s fellow warrior had lion.” He to the line he eon of drew him- with was noth- tention. t the two too, arose two stood them, he instant Nu's etde, tribe was Dag’s line, They were ne axes or together, in with the eir former with the the dead the excited Boat Builders, There were forty of them, mighty men, mightily muscled, In their strong hands they grasped their formidable spears and heavy axes, In their loin cloths rested their stone knives for the moment when they closed in hand to hand combat with their foes, In their savage brains was but a single idea—to kill--to kill—to kill! ‘To the outer rim of fires they came, and yet the excited populace within had not discovered them. Then a girl, remembering tardily her duties at the fires, turned to throw more brush upon the blaze and saw them—saw a score of handsome, savage faces just beyond the flames, With a scream of terror and warn- ing she turned and scurried among the village! For an instant the hub- bub was stilled, only to break out anew at the girl's frightened ery of: “Warriors! Warriors!" Pi Nu and his men were among them, The warriors of the Boat Builders ran forward to meet the attackefs, The women and children fled to the opposite side of the enclosure, en overt beach to- the ere it had low water, beach, the the jungle They the water She told of the strange creature that t out of the jungle toward the village of © Hoarse shouts and battle crfes rang out as the Clift Dwellers hurled them- selves upon the Boat Builders, A shower of long siim spears vol- leyed from one side, to be answered EA the short, stout,barpoons of the villagers. Then the warriors rushed to closer conflict with their axes, Never after first assault was the outcome of the battle im question; the flercer tribe of Nu—the bunters of beasts of prey, the warrior people--were the masters at every turn, Back, back they forced the Boat Builders, until the defenders had been driven across the inclosure upon their women and children. And now the inner circle of fires Was surrendered to the invaders, and Tu as Nat-ul spr between the warrl- ors of her people to be first to the side of Nu and cut away his bonds, the last of the Boat Builders turned and fled into the outer darkness, along beach to where their boats were drawn up beyond the tide, Nu, the chief, leaped through the flames upon the h ul. In the terri bare and smoking pole and at the ground around it befo! turned and threw herself into N: Nu, the son of Nu, waa not there, nor waa his body within the Inclosure, CHAPTER XI. Gron’s Revenge. ON, suffering and exhausted from the effects of the cruel beating Tur had adminis- tered, lay all the following day in her shelter, Tur did not molest her further. Apparently he had forgotten her—a suggestion which aroused all her Primitive savagery and jealousy as no amount of brutal punishment might have done All day she lay suffering and hat- ing Tur, All day she planned new and dia- bolical schemes for revenge. Close to her breast she hugged her stone knife, it was well for Tur that he did not chance to venture nevr her then, While he had beaten her the knife had remained in her loin-cloth, nor had the thought to use it against her mate entered the head of Gron; but now, now that he had deserted her, now that he was doubtless thinking upon @ new mate, her thoughts con- stantly reverted to the weapon, it was not until after nightfall that Gron crawled from beneath the hides and thatch of her shelter, She had not eaten for twenty-four hours, yet she felt no hunger—every other sense and emotion was par- alyzed by the poison of jealousy and hate, Gron slunk about the outskirts of the crowd that pressed around the figure at the ie. Ah, they were about to torture the prisoner! What pleasure they would derive from that! Gron raised herself on tiptoe to look over the shoulder of a woman. The latter turned and, rec- ognizing her, grinned. “Tur will enjoy the death agonies of the mate of the woman he is going bh to take in your stead, Gron.” taumed her friend, Gron made no reply, It was not the way of her period to betray the emo- tions of the heart. She would rather have died than let this woman know that she suffered. “That is why he was so angry,” continued the tormentor, “when you tried to rob him of this pleasure.” With the woman's words a sudden inspiration flashed into the mind of Gron. Yes, Tur would be made mad if the prisoner escaped. So would Searb, the chief who had commanded Tur to beat her and to take another mate. Groh raised herself again upon her toes and looked long and earnestly at the face of the man bound to the stake. Already the flames of the en- circling fires illuminated his figure and his every feature—they stood out as distinctly as by sunlight. The man was very handsome, There was no man among the tribe of Scarb who could compare with the stranger in physical perfection and beauty, A gleam of pleasure snot dark eyes. 6 could only find such another man and run off with bim, then in- deed would she be revenged upon Tur, If it could be this very man! Ah, then indeed would Scarb and Tur both be punished! But that, of » was Iimpossible—the man be dead in a few hours. Gron wandered about the village— too filled with ber hate to remain long in one place. Like an angry tigress she paced to and fro, Now and again some other woman of the tribe hurled @ taunt or @ reproach at her, It would be ever thus, How she hated them—every one of them! As she passed her shelter in her reat- less rounds she heard the plaintive walling of her child, She had almost forgotten him. She hurried within, snatching up the in- fant from where it lay upon a pile of otter and fox skins, This was Tur's child—his man- ehild. Already {t cominenced to resemble the father. How proud Tur was of it! Gron gasped at the hideous thought that followed remorselessly upon the heels of this recollection She held the child at arm's length and tried to scrutinize its features in the dim interior of the hut. How Tur would suffer if harm be- fell his first man-child—his only off- cpring! Gron almost thriw the wee bundle of humanity back upon ita pile of skins, and leaping to her feet ran from the shelter, For half an hour she roamed rest- lessly about the camp. Her brain was a whirling chaos of conflicting emotions. A dozen times she approached the death fires that were siowly roasting alive the man bound to the stake they encircled. As yet they had not fnjured bhim— but given him @ taste of the suffering to come, that was all, Suddenly she came face to face with r. Involuntarily her hands went out In & gesture of appeal and supplication, She directly in Tr path. The man stopped and loo! at her for an instant, then with @ sneer that was half-snarl he ised his band and struck her in the face. “Get out of my way, woman!” he growled, and passed on. A group of women standing near had seen. They laughed boisterously at the discomfture of their sister. Gron went cold and hot and cold again, She burned with rage and bumilia- tion, Her long black hair streaming about ber face and across her sboul- ders, she ran to the outskirts of the crowd that was watching the victim who obstinately refused to gratify their appetite for human suffering— Nu would not wince. Already the heat of the flames must have causod him excruciating agony, yet not by the slightest movement of a muscle did he admit knowledge of either the surrounding fires or the savage, cagor spectators. Gron watched him for a moment. And now there sprang to Gron's mind a recurrence of the thought that the taunting female's words had implant- ed there earlier in the evening. How could she compass this last otroke of revenge? It seemed prac- tically impossible, The stake was hemmed in upon all sides by the clustering horde of eager tribesmen, Gron turned and ran to the oppo- site side of the village, beyond the shelters, There was no one there. Fven the girls tending the fires had deserted their posts to witnoss the last agon- les of the prisoner. Gron selzed a leafy branch. that lay among the fire- wood that was to replenish the blaze. With tt she beat out two of the fires, leaving an open avenue into the enclosure through which savage beasts might reasonably be expected to venture, Then she ran back to the crowding ring of watchers, As she approached them she cried out in apparently incoherent terror. Those nearest her turned, startled by her shrieks, “Zora!” she erted. “Tho fires have died and four of them have entered the shelters where they are devour. Ing the babes. On that aide,” and she pointed to the opposite aide of the enclosure, Instantly the whole tribe rushed toward the ring of huts—first the ee then the women and chil- ren, The victim at tho stake was de- serted. Scarce was every back turned toward the prisoner than Gron leaped through the flery girdle to his side Nu eaw the woman and recognized er, He saw the knife in hor hand. She had tried to kill him the previous night, and now she was going to have her way. Well, it was better than the slow death by fire! But Gron’s knife 414 not toucn Nu, Instead, it cut quickly through the bullock sinews that bound bim to the stake, As the last strand parted the woman seized him by the hand. “Come!" she cried. “Quick, be- fore they return—there are no Zors in the village.” Nu did not pause to question her or her motives, For a few steps he stagwered drunk- enly, for the bonds had stopped the circulation in his arms and legs. But Gron, half supporting, half draveing him, ~ulled him across the fires about the stake, on past the outer circle of the beast-fires toward the Stygian blackness that enveloped the beach toward the sea, As Nu advanced the blood com- menced to circulate once more through the veins from which it had been choked, #0 that by the time they came to the water he was al- most in perfect command of hia muscles. Here Gron led him to a dugout. “Quick!” she urged as the two seized it to run ft through the surf. “They will soon be upon us and then we shall both die!" Already angry shouts were plainly distinguishable from the village, and ° the firelight disclosed the tribe run- ning hither and thither about the fires that encircled the stake to which Nu had been secured, The boat was through the surf and out riding the waves beyond. Gron had clambered in and Nu was taking his place in the opposite end of the craft when a new note arose from the village, The savage shouting carried a dif. ferent tone, Now there wore battle- cries where before there had been but howls of rage, Even at the dis- tance at which they were Gron and Nu could see that a battle was raging among the shelters of the Boat Builders, What could {t mean? “They have fallen upon one an- oth said Gr "And while they fight let us hasten to put as great a that dark- two they sand Just a ring of tid ‘n to sleep As became uth, He ation to it, he said, mp. crept out Ordinarily a beast of Tumble Tom closed his eyes, tumbled head over heels and landed in Bylowl. the land of adventure. His men met on the shore of the Goldzn Lake, where they found, after climbing up the beanstalk, Giant Lied died of fear when he beheld their symbols tee cried Tom, fore Apel the lake, across the mover abo mca tetp eM yates s a TUMBLE TOM—He Rescues the Hen That Laid the Golden Eggs ‘TacK-of-the-Bean-Stalk reminded Tumble Tom that in Story-Book Realm this giant owned a hen who laid golden Cit Might not they take her to their 2 “Fall to,” “PL go in quest, ur Using shields as rafts, the adven- Pad wet fat bay, ee Disembarking, the party harkened to a low cryand Nastened whence it proceeded, Vicious pets of Giant Hate barred the way. Tho’ Tumble Tom and his es- cort carried swords, they never used them in violence, not even toward these ugly monsters who held them | fumbled Tn fils haste fo rescue the unhapp; distance between them and ourselves as we can before the day returns.” But Nu was not so anxious to leave, He wanted to know more of the cause of the battle, it was not with- in the bounds of reason that villagers could have set upon one another with such apparent unanimity and without any seeming provocation; and, too, it appeared to Nu that there were more people in the village now than there had been before he loft it, What did all this mean? Why it meant to the troglodyte that the vil- lage had been attacked by enemies, and he wished to wait until he might discover the identity of the invaders, But Gron did not wish the watt, She seized her paddle and com- menced to ply it. “Wait!” urged Nu, but the woman naleted that they must hasten or be jont, Even as they argued Gron sudden- ly leaned forwi he beeek, ard, pointing toward “See!” she Nee “Th Sar ue. are being - sued." Nu looked fn the direction that she pointed, and, sure enough, dimly through t night he descried two forma racing toward the beach. As he looked he saw them seize upon boat and start launching It, and then he knew that only in immediate fight lay safety. Hoe seized his paddle, and in concert with Gron struck out for the open “"% 00. “We can turn to one side pres- ently and elude them,” whispered the woman, Nu nodded. “We will turn north toward my country,” he said. Gron did not demur, She might as well go north as south, Hor life was spent. There was to be no more hap- piness for her. For a while both were silent, - from shore. ind them they now and then discerned the darker blotch of the pursuing canoe upon the dark waters of the sea. “Why did you save me?” asked Nu at length. “Because I hated Tur,” replied the woman, Nu fell silent, thinking. But he was not thinking of Gron. His mind was filled with speculations as to the fate of Nat-ul. Whither had she fled when she had escaped from the clutches of the Boat Builders? Could she have reached the tribe in nafety? Had she known that it was Nu who had entered the shelter whore sho lay and rescued her from Tur? He thought not, for had she known it he was sure that she would haye remained and fought with him, Presently Gron interrupted his as She was polnting over the at of the boat. There, not fifty yards away, Nu saw the outlines of ow craft with two paddlers with- in, “Hasten!” whiapered Gron. “They are overtaking us, and but for my knife we are unarmed.” Nu bent to his paddle, On the boat Wallowed toward the open sea. There was no chance to elude the pursuers and turn north. First they must put sufficient dis- tance between them that the others might not see which way Kid turned, But there seemed Httle likelthood of their being able to accomplish this, for, strive as they would, they could not shake off the silent twain upon ther trail. The darkest hours of the night were upon them—those that precede dawn, They struggled to outdistance their pursuers, That they were lengthen- ing the distance between the two boats seemed certain, In another few minutes they might risk the strata- gem. But they had scarcely more than turned when the surge of surf upon a deach rose directly before them. Both were nonpulsed. What had happened? Where were could be no mistaking that familiar sound—land was directly ahead of them. To turn back now would mean to run straight dnto the arme of their pursuers—which neither had the slightest desire to do. Had Nu been armed he would not have hesitated to preppe with the two occupants of the boat that had clung so tenaclously to their wake, but with only the woman's knife and & couple of wooden paddles it would have been @ fruitiess thing to do, until its nose ran upon the sand, Then they leaped out and dragged the boat still further up beyond the reach of the mightiest roller, Where were they? Nu guessed @ part of the truth. He joned that they had fallen upon isand from which he had ‘ul #natched by the Boat nd from whieh he himself ped #o recently, But he was not quite right. Their strenuous paddling during the hours of da.kness had carried them to the north of the nearer island and ‘ond it. As a matter of fact they been deposited upon the southern coast of the largest island of the roup which lay several miles north- ast of the one with which Nu had had acquaintance, But what mattered it? One was as bad as another. Both belonged to the Mysterious Country, ‘They were inhabived by hideous fly- ing reptiles, and legend held that frightful men dwelt upon them, And Nu was without weapons of defense, By y hen Tom H-mell down hill and through dale to fetch the Piper who lived next page to him in Fairy-Tale Volume. The piper’s sweet music charmed away these sentinels’ yicious dispositions as sweet things always will, ts, sagen ne 8) Nu was lost, but far from hopeless. He knew when to fight and when to flee. At present there waa noth- Ing to flee from, but a place of safe hiding must be thetr first concern. He @rasped Gron by the wrist. “Come!” he said. “We must find & cave or a& tree to preserve us until the day comes again.” Tho woman cast over her women, “Look!” she whispered, and pointed toward the surf. Nu looked, and there u, of a great wave, outlined against the dark borizon, loomed @ boat In which #at two figures, plying paddies, One glance was enough, The pursuers were close upon them. Nu, still holding Gron’s wrist, started toward the black shadow: okward glance shoulder—a way with above the beach. The woman ran by hia aide. Nu wondered not a little that the woman should thus flee her bat ae ple to @ave him, « fob oy and an enemy. Again he raised the question that Gron had ao tily answered, “Why do you seek to save me,” he ed, “from your own people “I do not seek to anve you,” re- lied the woman, “I wish to make ‘ur mad—that is all. THe will think I have run off to mate with you. When he thinks that you may die for all that I care, I hate you, but not quite so much as I hate Tur.” CHAPTER XIil. The Great Carnivore. S$ Nu led Gron through the dark night amidst the black- Ness of the tropical forest that clothed the gentle as- cent leading inland from the beach he grinned at the thought of Tur'a discomfiture, as well as at the candor of his rescuer, , But now Nu was tho protector, He might have left the woman to shift for herself, but the idea of deserting Gron never occurred to him. She was a woman, She had saved Nu's life, Her motive was of negligi- ble import. In the darkness Nu found a large tree. Hoe entered the lower branches to reconnoltre, There were no dan- gerous foes lurking there, so he reached down and assisted Gron to his side, There they must make the best of Mt until daylight returned—it would never do to roam through the woots unarmed at night longer than was Qbsciutely necessary. Nu was accustomed to sleeping in His people often did so when the march, or when the quarry of chase led them overfar from th caves day, necessitatt: the spending of the night abi 3 but Gron, was not #0 familiar with life arboreal, Sho clung, fearful, to the bole of the tree in # position that pre- cluded sleep, Nu showed her how to compono herself upon a limb with her back to the tree stem, but even then she was ee of falling should she chance to Jone. At last Nu placed an arm about her to support her, and thus she sie; her head pillowed upon the shoul of her enemy. The sun was high whon the sleep- ers awoke. Gron was the first to La ler open her eyes. For a moment she was bewildered by the strangeness of her surroundings. ‘here was she? Upon what was her head pillowed? She raised her eyes, They fell upon the sun-tanned, features of the godlike Nu. Slowly recollection forced its way through the misty pall of somnolence, She felt the of the man about her, ati fi flexed in protective { support. This was her enemy—the enemy of her pei She jooked at Nu through eyes. It was as though the awaken- ing day had brought an bagven postin He her soul, The man was unde! ly beautiful—of a masculine beauty that was all strength, Gron closed her eyes again dream~- ily and let her head sink closer to the strong, brown shoulder, But presently came entire wakeful- noas, and with it a full return of ac- Uvely functioning recoHection, With a sudden intaking of her breath that was almost a scream, Gron wat erect, The movement awakened Nu. He opened his eyes, looked at the women, and removing his arm from about her, stood upright upon the tree-branch, ple. “First wo just seek food and weapon he id, “and then return B the land that holds my country, Some." His quick ayes had scanned the ground below. ‘There were no beast of prey in sight, Nu lowered thi woman to the base of the tree, leap- ing lightly to her side. Fruits, growing in plentitude, as- suaged the keenest pangs of hunger. This accomplished, Nu led the way inland toward higher ground where he might find growing the harder wood necessary for 4 spear-shaft, A fire-hardened point was the best that he might hope for temporarily, Eleanor Schorer ToMb.e, | Toms} i NEXT_WEEA'S COMPLETE WOVEL IN THE EVENING WORLD J n the crest of a gorge upon @ forest in * whereon the forest grew unless chance should direct bim a fragment of leek-green nepbrite jece of flint. nward and upward tolled the searchers, but though they scaled the low and rugged mountains that alleled the coast they came ard wood minerals from whic! “Bown the, further slopes 6 Ge own the further slopes mountains made their «limpsing at times through the far below. Toward this Nu bent his There might grow the weed be sought. At last they reached the last steop deélivity, @ sheer drop of two hundred feet ‘to the leveler : the base of the cliff. For a moment tbe two stood out over the unfamiliar rather open woodland that fringe the shoulder of the dropping from sight a mile or eo yond them into an invisible bove which hung a soft, warm and perves ~ Leg dimly rose the outlines of far-off moun’ thelr serrated crests seemingly ‘hoat? ing upon the hase that obscured their “Let us descend,” said Nu, started to lower his legs over edge of the Gron drow back with @ little em clamation of terror, “You will fall!" she orted. “Let as "hls looked up.oud atebed. 'u loo! up an ug! “What could be easier than this?” he _ asked. Gron peered over the She waw the face of a rocky broken nd there by protruding bould- ‘by narro nd again ‘by Ww where a harder stratum had weno the ravages of the ele- ments. In occastonal spots where lodgement ad been afforded lay accumulations of loose rook, to trip the C4 wary foot, and below all a mass of jarged pieces, waiting to Fe~ po ad Lge of ~ “ led body of whoever mi #0 foolhardy, to choose this way to the forest. Ne saw that Gron was but little reas- sured by her inspection. “Come!" he said, “There is me danger with me.” Gron looked at btm, conscious an admiration for his courage Prowese—an admiration for 4 that sho would rather not felt. Yet aid feet the truth of words: “There is no me. She sat down the ot fee “vetting her we AAS b> ‘Nu’ reac arm, drawin, Gron ceased to found herself di outcroppings that made easier for them both. And when stood safely the clutter of at the base threw a glance of ill-concealed ad- miration upon her P Mentally she compared him rand Berab and the other males: the Boat Builders, nor would comparison have swelled the fy of the latter could they have the travel,” and 6) left along the rocky eacarpmen! “T had forgotten that followed,’ havo bes ye Rica reyy : » < spear and an ax, let them the son of Nu, wil! welcome From the base of the ibble and when the: aurochs appeared among the before them, Another and another came sight, and as the animals saw feeree they halted, the bulls Ly across lords. Here was meat, and only the of the woman to bring It down, H reached for Gron's weapon, } “Go back to the cliff,” he said, “lest they charge. I will bring dows young she. Gron was about to turn back as Na point of circling toward when there appeared on either the au: several were clothed in the sk: cies they accompanied, armed with spears and axes. ‘ht of Nu and Gron they great shout and dashed for- "inn Saarmed, recived the futility ju, wi pe of accepting battle, Instead he Gron's hand, and with her fled back toward the cliffs. Close upon thelr heels came the herders, shouting sav age cries of carnage and vietcry, They had their quarry The cliff woul them, man would be quickly killed and the wornan captured, But these were not Ci? Dwellera— peer knew nothing of the agility of u. Had they, they would not hawe slowed up as they did, nor spread out to right and left for the purpose of preventing a flank escape by the fugi- tives, Across the rubble ran Nu and Gron, and at the foot of the cliff where they should have stopped, according the reasoning of the herders, they ‘aia not even hesitate, Straight up the sheer wall sprang Nu, dragging t woman after him, Now the aurochsen's herders raised @ mighty shout of anger and (To Be Continued.) GOING AWAY FOR THE! SUMMER? Remember The Eve- ning World prints each week a complete up-to-date novel —@ week's reading! Have The Eve ning World sent to your sum aes the ome poring bee ky