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i z i Sweetheart Primev By EDG Author of “TARZAN OF THE APRA,” Cee Te ae WoyFright, the Frank A. Muosey Company.) SYNOMSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPT Bu, # cave mon, loves and is lowed by 3 Brehistoric woman Of wondrous beauty. Natal ts ‘tho loved by Hud, « fellowtribemman. In Nun's temporary absence on a hinting trip the tribe decides to migrate, Dring the time of unrest Hud kidnaps Netul, Nu, returning home, finds Natal gone, and starts after her in swift purwatt, ‘Rabal kills Hud and then hides for the night in a cave, Learing her shelter in the morning, rhe {4 captured by x ravage, Tur by name, who bears PRS. ea, & her away to the lands of his tribe, She flees be- fore bis purmait. % Maps in the soft en: int near the sea though she had been wp into the akien, ‘This is fust what has A huge prehistoric bird has setned her to & cliff on the far shore of ing her there, Eacaping, Nat-ul y in the jungle. Nu ts captured by sav tle him to a stake, ‘Through the Gron, the wife of Tur, he ts freed, jron flee from the sarages and climb to avoid their pursuers, pity 225 fi? 5 5 The Great Carnivore. Gron were beyond the reach They were not yet out of reach ot est spearman. The missile struck its and before the herders could recover woman at his side, Nu hurled insult- yelling berders were glad to retreat It was evident that they were no annihilate the whole crew! should have risked so much to save own breed, able to climb equally as for a foothold at the bottom. act, and had hoisted her to a point of The woman, stealing stealthy Nu was no longer ber enemy. ever she had looked to Tur for the as well as protection. Ah, what a mate he would ha suddenly realized that she hoped Apparently the man was wholly oc- plans for escape. And why? happy upen this island forever had his plans for escape were solely a For an hour the herders remained goattered herd and disappeared in Nu_ ventured down, CHAPTER X11. ITH renewed speed they W dashed straight toward the of their hands before ever they arrived. Turning for an instact, the weapons, He reached down with his right hand and picked up a loose target full upon the forehead, crum- pling bim to an inert mass. from their surprise he had dragged Gron out of range of the spears. Ing epithets at his pursuers. These he punctuated with well-timgd and to @ sufer distance. ‘The enemy did not evem venture the better climbers than Gron, Nu held them in supreme contempt. Had he Gron, sitting close beside Nu, was filled with wonder, and something her, for at the bottom of the cliff Nu had evidently forgotten for the in- well as he, and had ascended a short distance before Ke had discovered Then, in the face of the advancing foeman, he had descended to her eafety far up the cliff face. Tur would never have done s0 glances at the profile of the young giant beside her, felt her sentiments He protected her, and now she Jooked to him for protection with same thing. She knew that Nu would forage for She had never looked for more from her ma\ Her mate! She stole an- been! And why not? They were alone in the world, separated from that it was forever. Bhe wondered what was passing in cupied with the joys of insulting the threatening savages beneath him; Bolely because he yearned for his own land and his father’s people? there been another there in place of Gron, He thought of Nat-ul—no means for returning to the mainland and again taking up his search for im the clearing near the foot of the cliff; then, evidently tiring of the the wood toward the direction from which they had come, He had discovered a cave in the face of the cliff, and there he loft (Continued.) foot of the cliff, but Nu and Nu saw the back-thrown spear-hands. bit of rock, hurling it toward the near- Then Nu scrambled upward again, Squatting upon a narrow ledge, the equally well-aimed rocks, until the attempt to follow the fugitives. but a good ax he would descend and more than wonder, that this enemy stant that the woman was not of his that Gron was scrambling futilely ide, risking capture and death In the much. undergoing a strong metamorphosis, greater assurance of receiving it than her—upon him she depended for food other half-shy glance at Nu. their people, doubtless forever. Gron Nu's mind, but yet his thoughts were busy with Far from it, Nu might have been other woman occupied his mind, and the daughter of Tha, fruitless sport, they collected their A half-hour later Gron, telling her that he would fetch ‘food to her, since in case of pursuit ‘he could escape more easily alone than when burdened with her. After a short absence he returned with. both food and drink, the latter garried in the bladder that always hung from his gee-string. He had ween nothing of the herders and Maught of the hardwood or the ma- terials for spear and axe heads that be bad desired, ‘ “There is an easier way, however,” he confided to the woman, as they squatted at the mouth of the o: and ate. “The bore spears and axes and knives. It Will be easier to follow them and take theirs than to make weapons of my own, “Stay here, Gron, in safety, and Nu Will follow the strangers, returning shortly with weapons and the flesh of the fattest of the she aurochsen, “Then we will return to the coast, fearless of enemies, find the boat, and fo back to Nu’s country. There sou will be well received, for Nu, my father, is chief, and when he learns that you have saved my life be will treat you well.” So Nu dropped quickly dow’ to the foot of the cliff, crossed the clearing, and a moment later disappeared from the eyes of Gron into the shadows of the wood, For a while he could make neither head nor tall to the tangled spoor of the herd, but at last he found the point where the herders evidently had collected thelr charges and driven them in a more or less compact for- mation toward tho oppsite side of the forest. Nu went warily, keeping every sense alert against surprise by savage beast or man. Every living thing that he might encounter could be nothing other than an enemy. He stopped often, listening and sniffing the air. Twice he was compelied to take to the trees upon the approach of wan- doring beasts of prey; but when they had passed on Nu descended and re- sumed his trailing. ‘The trampled path of the herd led to the further edge of the forest, and there Nu saw unfolded below him as beautiful a scene as had ever broken upon his vision, The western sun hung over a broad valley that stretched below him, for the wood ended upon the brow of a gentle slope that dropped downward to a blue lake sparkling in the mids of green meadows @ couple of miles away. Upon the surface of the lake, ap- Parently floating, were a score or more strange structures. That they were man-built Nu was certain, though he never had seen nor dreamed of their like. To himself he thought of them as caves, just as he had mentally described the shelters of the Boat Bullders, for to Nu any hu- man habitation was a cave; and that they were the dwellings of men he had no doubt, since he could see human figures passing back and forth along the narrow causeways that connected the thatched structures with the shore of the lake. Across these bridges they were driv- ing aurochsen, too, evidently to pen them safely for the night against the prowlers of the forest and the plain. Until darkness settled Nu watched with unflagging Interest the activities of the floating village, Then, in the comparative safety of darkness, he crept down close to the water's edge, He took advantage of every tree and bush, of every rock and hollow that intervened between himgelf ‘and the enemy to shelter and hide his ad- vance, At last he lay concealed in a heavy growth of reeds upon the bank of the lake, By separating them before his eyes, he could obtain an excellent view of the village without bimself being dis- covered, The moon had risen, brilliantly flooding the unusual scene. Now Nu saw that the dwellings did not really float upon the aurface, i He discovered the ends of piles that disappeared beneath the surface of the water, The inhabitants stood upon these, He saw men and women and little children gathered upon the open platforms that encircled many of the structures, and upon the narrow bridges that spanned the water be- tween the dwellings and the shore, Fires burned before many of the huts, blazing upon little hearths of clay that protected the planking be- neath them from combustion, Nu could smell the savory aroma of cook- ing fish, and his mouth watered as he Fares ase 3 The tvéatig World Daily M saw thd teeth of the Lake Dwellers close upon juicy aurochs-steaks, while others opened shell fish and devoured thelr, water below them. ‘ ungry though he was meat, the objects of his particular sire were the long spear, the hea axe and the sharp knife of the hairy giant standing guard upon the near- est causeway. Upon him Nu's oftenest. He saw co! scraps tossed into th their awellings, olsy about their I. Children romped and tumbled pertl- oy, close to the edges of the plat- jorms. Youths and maidens strofied to the darkest corners of the village and, leaning over the low rails above the water, conversed in whispers, Loud- voiced warriors recounted for the thousandth time the details of past eyes rested the the villagers, the nsumed and the the water valorous deeds. The youn, moth- ers, in little circles, gossiped with mueh noddin, heads, the while of they fondled Enetr babes. The old women, . toothless and white-haired, but stiff erect and agile in token of the rigid primitive laws which governed. survival,of the fit alone, busied themselves with tho care of the older children and various phases of the simple household econ- ong. which devolved upon them. ‘The evening drew on Into darkness. The children had been posted off to their skin-covered, grass pallets. For another half-bour the elders remained hbout the fires; then, by twos and threes they, also, sought the interiors of the huts and sleep, Quiet settled upon the village, and still Nu, hidden In the reeds beside the lake, watched the nearest guards- man. Now and then the fellow would leave his post to replenish a watch fire that blazed close to the shore end of his causeway, Past this no ordinary beast of prey would dare venture, nor could any do #0 without detection, for its light illumined brightly the end of the nar- row bridge, Nu found himself wondering how he was to reach the sentry unseen. To rush Pagt the watch fire would have been madness, for the guard then would have ample time to raise an alarm that would call forth the entire population of the village before ever Nu could reach the fellow’s side, There was the water, of course; but even there there was an excellent chance of detection, since upon the mirrorlike surface of the moonlit lake the swimmer would be all too appar- ent from the village. A shadow fell directly along the side of the causeway, Could he reach that he might make his Way to a point near the sentry and then clamber to close quarters before the man realized that a foe was upon him. However, the chance was slight at best; and so Nu waited, hoping for some fortuitous eircum- stance to offer him @ happier solution of his problem. As a matter of fact he rather shrank from the unknown dangers of the strange waters in which might lurk countless creatures of destruc- tion; but there was that~ brewing close at hand that was to force a decision quickly upon the troglodyte, leaving but an immediate choice be- tween two horns of a dilemma, one carrying a known death and the other @ problematical fate. Tt was Nu's quick ears that first de- tected the stealthy movement tn the reeds behind him, down wind, where his scent must have been carrying tidings of his presence to whatever roamed abroad in that locality, ow the passing of a great beast of prey upon its way through the grasses or the jungte is almost noiseless, and more so are his stealthy footfalls when he stalks his quarry. You or I could not detect them with our dull enra amid the myriad sounds of a primeval night; but Nu's ears were not as ours, Not only had he been aware of the passing and repassing of great beasts through the reeds behind him, but so quick his perceptive faculties he !m- media caught the change from mere careless passage to that of stealthy stalking on the part of the r. The beast had now, cautiously, he straight toward the watcher upon the shore. Nu looked toward the sentry. The fellow had Just returned from replen- was moving ishing his watch-fire, He stood lean- ing over the railing, gazing into the wate What was that? Nu’s eyes strained through the darkness toward the platform where the warrior stood. Just behind h{m was another figure. Ah, the figure of a woman! Stealthily, with many a backward glance, she approached the sentinel. There was a low word. The man turned, and at sight of the figure so close behind him now’ he opened. his arms and crushed the woman to him, And then the great carnivore at Nu’'s back sprang! CHAPTER XIll, In the Cave. iT the instant that the beast leaped for him Nu dove for- ward into the lake, . ‘The water was shallow, not over two or three feet deep; but the caveman hugged the bottom, ‘worming his way to the left toward of the causeway. He eat would not follow ‘hls greatest danger unknown denizens of - F i z Z 8 HG gE $ yi : @iimy body or sharp Eee Wie fr : i floating until hie nose above the ings with air he sank jued his way im tho the piling. it_ seemed an eternity to bis hands came at last in con- with the u i aft oe Ft i id to Deneath-the causeway, Safe from t eyes of the guardsman and his com- panion. h Upon the bank behind him he could 0: ar the angry complaining of the cat. He wondered if the noise of his es- cape had alarmed the sentry to iter watchfulness, For long he lis- tened for some sign from above, and at last he caught the low tones of whispered conversation. Good! They were still at their love- making, with never a thought of the dangers lying close at hand. Nu wished that they would be done, He dared not venture aloft while the woman was there. For an hour he waited waist deep in water until finally he heard her retreating foot- steps above him. He gave her time to regain her dwelling, and thén with hn lity of a cat he clambered up 3 ppery pile until his fingers closed upon the edge of the flooring of the causeway. Cautiously he drew himself up so tyat his eyes topped the upper sur- face of the platform. 1 A dozen paces from him was the sentry moving slowly shoreward to- ward the watch fire. The man’s back was toward Nu and he was already between Nu and the shore. Nothing could have been better, The caveman crawled quickly to the platform and with silent feet ran lightly in the wake of the guard. The man was beside the pile of wood with which he kept up the fire and was bending over to gather up an armful when Nu overtook him, With the speed and directness of a Killing lion Nu leaped full upon hi quarry’a back. Both hands sought the man's throat to shut off his cries for help and the teeth of the attacker buried them- selves in the muscles behind the col- Yarbgpe that he might not easily be shak€tn from his advantageous hold, The sentry, taken entirely by sur- Prise by this attack from the rear, struggled to turn upon his foe. He tore at the fingers at his throat that he might reloase t for the tit- tle instant that would be sufficient, for him to call for help; but the visplike grip would not loosen, Then the vice tim groped with his right hand for his knife. Nu had been waiting for it. xgocting this and own right hand re- yahe other's throat, 1, followed the dag- Of the coveted blade, closed about those of the sentry the instant that the lat- ter gripped the handle of the knife. Now the biade flew from its sheath, drawn by the power of two hands, and then commenced a test of strength bordel to decide the outcome of the every instant he ex+: ‘20% ouried up upon the grasses which she bad not previously been accustomed Among own people these oar would have seemed @ sign of weak- ness upon the part of & man, but Gron knew that no taint of weakness iy, behind that noble exterior. ‘OF » 14 into the night she sat age: er eyes and ears through the darkness for tho first intimation of his return, At last, when he had not come, she commenced to feel ap- prehension, He had gone out un- armed through the savage land to poo: wrest weapons from the Already he might be yet Gron found it hard to believe that aught could overcome that mighty physique. Toward morni t had gathered for her, and slept, It } hours after dawn when sho was awakened by a sound from without; it was the scraping of a 5) utt agalwst the rocky face of cliff as it “trailed along in the wake of a climbing man, As Gron saw who it was that came she gave a little ory of joy, braving the dangers of the perlous declivity to meet him. Nu looked up with a smile, exhibit- ing his captured Weapons as he came, He noted the changed expression upon the woman's face—a smile of wol- come that rendered her countenance quite radiant, . He had never before taken the time to appraise Gron’s personal appear. ance, and now ft yas with a sen’ of surprise that was almost a shock that he realized that the woman was both young and good-looking. But this surprise was as nothing by com- parison with that which followed, for no sooner had Gron reached him than she threw both arms about his neck, and before he realized her intent had dragged her lips to his, Nu disengaged hinself with a laugh. He did not love Gron; his heart was wholly Nat-ul's, and his whole mind now was occupied with plans for re- turning to. his own country, where he might continue his search for her who was to have been his mate. Still Jaughing, and with an arm about Gron to support her up the steep cliff, he turned his steps toward the shelter of the cave. “T have brought a little food,” he aaid; “and after I have slept we will return to the sea. On the way T can hunt, for now I have weapons, but In the mean time I must sleep, for I am exhausted, While I sleep you must watch.” But once within the cave Gron, car- ried away by her new-found love, re- newed her protestations of affection; but even with her arms about him Nu aaw only the lovely vision of another face—his Nat-ul. Where wi CHAPTER XIV. The Cleverness of Tur. HEN Nat-ul and Nu, the chief, discovered that the son of Nu no longer wee bounc to the flame-gire stake In the Village of the Boat Builders they turned toward one an- other in questioning surprise, The man examined the stake more closely. “It is not burned,” ho said; “a0, herefore Nu could not have been burned. And here’—he pointed at the ground about the stake—“look, here are the cords that bound tim." The lake dweller sought to drive thes He picked ono of them up, examin- knife backward into the body of the upon his back. Nu sought to the knife-hand upward and out- ‘The -blade was turned back- Nu did not attempt to alter this; it was as he would have it. Slowly his mighty muscles prevailed over those of his antagonist, and still his left hand choked off the other's voice, Up- ward, slowly but surely, Nu carried the knife-hand of his foe, Now it is breast high; now to the other's shoulder, and all the time the hairy giant is attempting to drive It back into the body of the caveman. At the instant that it rose level with the sentry’s shoulder, Nu pushed tho hand gradually toward the left until the blade hovered directly over the heart of its owner. And then, quite suddenly, Nu reversed the direction of his exertions, and like lightning the blade, driven by the combined strength of both men, and guided by Nu, plunged into the heart of the lake dweller, Silently the man crumpled beneath the weight upon him, ‘There was a final struggle, and then he lay still. ‘u did not wait longer than to transfer all the coveted weapons from the corpse of his an- tagonist to his own body, and then, silent and swift as a wraith, ho van- ished into the darkness toward the forest and the heights above the lake. Gron, alone tn the cave, eat in thought. Sometimes goaded to despair, and again she rose to helghte of righteous anger at thoughts of the brutality and {n- justice of Tur. Her fingers twitched to be at the brute’s throat. She compared him time and time again with Nu, and at each compari- son she realized more and more fully u intensity of her new-found pas- sion for the stranger. She loved this alien warrior with a fierceness that almost hurt. She re- id again the countless which he had shown and consideration to buried, sha swasl ing it. “They have been cut! Some one came before us and liberated Nu, the son of Nu." “Who could it have been, and whither have they gone?” questioned Nat-ul, 2 Nu shook his head, “I do not know, and now I may not stop to learn, for my warriors are pursuing the strangers, and I must be with them,” and Nu, the chief, leaped across the dying fires after the yelling spearmen, who chased the enemy toward the sea. But Nat-ul was determined to let nothing stay her search for Nu, the son of Nu, Scarcely had the young man’s father left her than she turned back toward the shelters, First she would search the village, and if she did not find him there, she would go out into the jungle and along the be: not be far, As Nat-ul searched the shelters of the Boat Builders @ fig- ure hid beneath a pile of aurochsen skins in one of them stirred, un- covered an ear, and listened. ‘The sounds of conflict had retreated; the village seemed deserted. An arm brew aside the coverings, and a man erase quickly to his fect. It was Tur. Hard~pressed by the savage spearmen of the caves and surrounded, the man had crawled within a hut and hidden himself beneath the skins. Now he thought ho saw a chan escape while the enemy was pul people. He approached the entrance to the melter and peered out Quickly he drew back; he had seen @ figure emerging from the next hut. It was a woman, and she was coming toward the shelter in which he had concealed himself. The light of the beast-fires played he could © upon her, Tur drew in his breath tn Pleased surprise—it was the woman he had once captured and who had ca- caped him, Nat-ul advanced rapidly to the shelter, She thought them all desert. ed. As she entered this one she saw the figure of a man dimly visible in the darkness of the interior. She thought it one of the warriors i of her own tribe looting. Oftentimes, they could not wait the total destruc. Hon of an enemy before searching for ty. “Who are you?" she asked. And then, not waiting for an answer: "I be te | for Nu, the son of Nu.” ur saw his opportunity a: quick to grasp it, Angst “I know where he ts," he sald. “I am one of Scarb's people; but I will lead you to Nu, the aon of Nu, if you will promise that you will protect me from your warriors when we return. My people have fled, and I may never hope to reach them again unless you Promige to aid me.” Nat-ul thought this a natural and fair proposition, and was quick to accept it “Then come," cried Tu no time to be lost, The n ia hid- den inacove south of here along the shore. He is fast bound, and so was left without a guard. If we hurry we may reach him before my people re- gain him, If we can elude your, war- Nd the delay that would follow lscovery of me, we may yet bo in: time," Tur hurried from the shelter fol- or by Na careful to kéep his face av the girl while they traversed the area Nt by the camp and beast fires, so he fofffed ahead, trusting to her desire to find her man to urge her after him. Nor did he overestimate the girl's anxiety to find Nu, the son of Nu, Nat-ul followed swiftly upon Tur's heels through the deserted village and across the beach, from whence the sounds of conflict rose beside the sea, Tur kept to the north of the fight- ers, going to @ spot upon the beach where he had left his own boat, He found the craft without difficulty, pushed it into the water, lifted Nat-ul into it and shovedsit through the surf. To Tur the work required but a moment; he was as much at home in the boiling surf'as upon dry land. Seated in the stern with Nat-ul fac- ing him in the bow, he forced the dug- gut beyond the grip of the rollers, Nat-ul took wp a second paddle that lay at her feet, plying it awkwardly, perhaps, but not without good effect. She could scarce walt until the boat reached the cove, and every effort of her own added so much to the speed of the craft. Tur Kept the boat's head toward the open sea. It was his purpose to turn toward the south after they were well out, and, moving slowly during the night, await t reaking of dawn to disclose thé ereabouts of his fel- lows.. » That they, too, would paddle slowly southward he was sure. Presently he caught sight of the outline of a boat just ahead, Prob- ably muyakte: were others, He had an ¢ to stumble ppon the last Boat load of his fleeing tribe. He did mot hail them for two rea- sons, One was that he did not wish the girl to know that he was not bearing her south toward the Cove— the imaginary location of her man; and the other was due to the Spogee of attracting the attention of the enemy, who might have captured some’ ct the boats and be carrying the pursult out upon the sea. Presently @ third possibility kept him quiet—the boat ahead might con- tain wartlors of the enemy searching for fugitives, Tur did not know that the tribe of Nu was entirely unfamil- jar with navigation—that never be- fore had they dreamed of such thing as a boat, So Tur followed the boat ahead in silence straight out to sea, To Nat-ul it seemed that the cove must be 4 long distance away, In the darkness she did not perceive that they were traveling directly away from shore, After a long time she heard the pounding of surf to the left of the boat, She was startled and confused. Travelling south, as she supposed they had been doing, the surf should» have been off the right side of the boat. “Where are wo?” she asked. “There is land upon the left, whereas it should be upon the right.” Tur laughed. “We must be lost," he sald; but Nat-ul knew now that she had been ved. At the same instant there me over her a sudden sense of fa-, millarity in the volce of her com- panion, Where had she heard it before?, She strove to pierce the darkness that shrouded the features of the man at the opposite end of the boat. “Who you?” abe asked. “Whe are you taking m ; “You will goon be with your man,’ replied Tur, but there was ai i!l-con- cealed note of gloating that did not escape Nat-ul. The girl now remained silent. She no longer paddled, but sat listening to the booming of the surf which sho realized that they rapidly were ap- proaching, hat shore was It? Her mind was working rapidly, She was accustomed to depending largely on @ well-developed instinct for lo- eality and direction upon fand, and while it did not aid her ich upon the water it at least preserved her from the hopeless bewilderment that agazine, Friday. July 16: 1915 9 ~:-* ‘A-COMPLETE. NOVEL EACH-WEEK-IN THE EVENING WORLD [fia .B.M nea preventing any jonal thought in the mont of his whereabouts, knew that they had not toward the north once after hey had left the shore, and so she knew that the mainiand could not be surf upon that band upon the shore of one of the isiands that « ly too well knew lay off the mainland. Which of the islands they were ap- proaching | could not guces, any number of them was sulficiendy horrible in her estimation, Nat-ul planned quickly inat the emergency which confronted her. She knew, or thought, that the man had brought her here where sho would be utterly helpless in power, Her people could not follow them. There would be none to succor or avenge. Tur was wielding his paddle rapidly and vigorously now. He shot the boat just ahead of an enormous roller that presently caught and Ltted it upon its crest, carrying it swiftly up the beach, As the keel touched the sand Tur leaped out and dragged the craft as fur up as he could, while the wave receded to the ocean, Nat-ul stepped out upon the beach, In her hand she still held the paddle, Tur came toward her. He was quite close, and even in the darkness she aaw his Hereh ibed and recognized th h He reach er. toward her arm to seize Jome,” he sald, “Come to your a- mat Like @ flash the crude, heavy dle flew back over Nat-ul's should cleaving the alr downward toward man's head, Tur, realizing his dan back, but the point of the bl his forehead a glancing blo man reeled drunkenly for a second, stumbled forward, and fell full upon his face on the wet sand, The instant that the biade touched her tormentor Nat-ul dropped the Paddle, dodged past the man, and scurried like a frightened deer to- ward the black shadows of the jungle above the beach. Tho next great roller washed in Acroas the prostrate form of Tur, It rolled him over, and as it raced back toWard the sea it di him with it; but the water revived him, and he came coughing and struggling to his hands and knees, clinging desperate- ly to life until the waters receded, leaving in momentary safety. Slowly he staggered to hie feet and made his way up the beach beyond the reach of the dy seas, ul he have laid his de ul Nat-ul then she would have died Beneath his choking fingers, But th hands upon her, beta ready safely ensconced within the Until daylt in a tree just lows of the jungle. * was as sate there from Tur as though a thousand miles separated them. A half-hour Jater Nu and Gron, mile further inland, were clambering into another treo. Ah, if Nat-ul could have but known it, what doubt, despair and suffer sho might have been spared! Tur ran down the beach in the direction in which he thought that - Rot ys Magri of the Resting at-ul, You, there she was, doubled his speed. ‘ bad His quarry was just beneath a tree at the edge of the jungle, The man leaped forward with an exclamation of savage satisfaction—that died upon his lips, frozen by the horrid roar of thi a lion, Tur turned and fled, ‘The thing had thought was il proved to a huge-cave-lon standing over the corpse of its kill, Fortunate for Tur was ft that the beast already had its supper before it, It did not pursue the frightened man, and so Tur reached the safet; ¥ pearhy tree, were he crouched; shaking an rembling, throughout the balance of the night, ‘Tur was a boat builder and a fise- tock of ‘ul, the hunters of savage beats, the precursors of warrior nae tions yet unborn, CHAPTER XV. The Other Woman. 'T was late in the morning when Nat-ul awoke, She Deered through tho foliage in every direction, but could see no aign of Tur. Cautiously ahe descended to the ground. beach, not far separated, she saw two heats, To whom could the other belong? Naturally to some of the Moat Builders, Then there were other en- emies upon the island besides Tur. She looked up and down the beach, ‘There was no eign of man or beast. If she could but reach the boats she could push them through the surf and some way, dragging one, paddle the other way from the is- jand, This would leave no means of pursuit to her enemies, That ehe could reach the main- land she had not the slightest doubt, TUMBLE TOM—He Is Pursued by the Angry Giant “rumble, tumble; Tom whirled through the space which surrounds Bylowland, One more and he was greeting his friends, the Queen of Heart's Courtiers, the Pied Piper, Jack-of-the-Bean- down, tumile ‘stalk and the marvelous hen, to leave the ossified giant behind, ‘Upon golden egg, which Tom picked pocket. Soon all their pockets useless gold, They stumbled and weight, wishing that the eggs were edible, for all were ‘Leaving Kier to roost in the bird house outside, they entered a shack to discuss what to do about this bur densome hen, whose eggs they could not even ex- ‘change for food, there being no shops in that vicinity, Meanwhile the giant came to his senses, Finding hig With flames Mashing from his, angry nosirils, the glant, about to raise his spiked club and crush the ‘Tom, ‘blow, suddenly stag. gleeful y Eleanor Schorer coming out of tte hut, tumbled over the ‘ankle of the giant lying stark in the path. The golden egg, embedded each knew (hat he was indebted to the hen for his life, ‘Thanking ‘Awakeness between his eves, told the story, ant he Tom tumbled back to Wide Tove Conlon omen Upon the # FERGUSON #0 self-reliant had heredity an@ vironment mad» her, Again she glanced up and the beach, Then she raced toward the nearest boat. ‘upon the heavy er what seemed anxious mind many minutes, it slipping lovee trom ean Slowly, inoh Ing It toward ite inch, she by i the point wl oo ee would at last reach and i it Instantly her dream of eecape faa. ed, for from up the beach Tur running swiftly toward her, could she have managed to this one boat and enter it, Tur could overtake her in the other, The water was his ¢! bs-4 the land, the caves and thé en, . Abandoning her efforts with boat she turned and fled back the jungle, A couple of hundred behind ri Tur, but the knew that once she reached the tan- pled vegetation of the forest it take a better man than Tur to her, Straight into the mazes of the wood she plunged, sometimes keeping to the ground and — again through the lower branches i trees, All day she fled, scarce haiti food or drink, for several times . the elevations of the foothilis mountaing that she tras leaving the jungle she saw the @ticking to her trail, It was when she came at last to a previpl- tous cliff, dropping how far she could not guess. Below and as far as her could reach all was impenetrable Paget Lg bya wandei mt fh search of prev i crsd SLR aan thane or the thunder of their titanic That the cliff upon the verge which she had halted just in time avert « pluyje into the unknown ‘was @ high one she was sure from volume of the night noises that up to her from below, mellowed 08. ‘What should she do? The of the escarpment was nude 16 nl in so far as she could udge in darkness—at least she had not ly through any sort of recipies at night might prove co a y ae calamito Nat-ul ‘crouched upon the brink of the ab; at a lose as to her steps. dear Br pay ebay ieoikse se uaranemnn sae own people seemed return to her tile, j How, Indeed, could she accomplish i bagel d enemtos Oe surround- y unknown angers She was very and thi and sleepy. She would have Savon are most her last for, succor to e sg down and She would ing her robe about her, ul stretched if upon the hard earth at the top of the pice. She closed her eyes, and, would have instantly claimed her not @ stealthy noise & short away caused ber to come to wakefulness, Bomething was cree upon her— a in some form, she was Even now she heard the heavy ing of @ large animal, and wind was blowing between ° ge ’ her feet dangling tn '* and yet without. ic, she with her feet for a hold upom th ere slightest uberance that rould i Gene lower herself mi her from above, A sudden chill of horror swept ever her as abe felt the hot breath and drip of saliva upon her hands psid clung to the edge of the above, That she fell but did not detract an iota from the she endured in hand bold gave feeling # narrow ‘Stat the beast might e ‘had little fear, There running down to this again thei do was stay wi for the best, any as securely as she what the immediate future for her, Sho heard the beast might growling * erily as it paced along the the cliff above her, now stopping casionally to lower its nose ov edge and sniff at a an. might, great taloi wet apera seize her, sweeping but a few above her head, f For an hour or more this until the b cat, baffled sgruntied, wandered away into {uasie in search Of Ottm. De cried as he went in deep- along the ledge to and left with her fingers. The face of the rock was weather-worn, but not polished as would hi been her, and reaching down a y cla (To Be Continued) GOING AWAY FOR THE SUMMER? Remember The Eve- ning World prints each week a complete up-to-date novela week's reading! Have The Bye ning World sent to your sume mer address. : am ‘Y . “a a& a a Le