The evening world. Newspaper, February 2, 1918, Page 11

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1918 TARZAN OF THE APES By Edgar Rice Burroughs The Man-Monkey of the Jungle| Does Battle for His Love Against All Odds Coprrightet by The Story.Pres Corporation, All rights reserved. oy you know Tarzan—Tarzan of the Apes? No more fascl- nating fiction-figure has ever been created than this white boy of noble birth who grows to manhood a wild thing among the wild things of the jungle. And it is therefore with tho deepest pleasure that The Evening World announces that it will publish twelve new stories of his adventures on twelve suc- sessive Saturdays, beginning to-day. Each will be a complete story. Tarzan's fathor and mother were Lord and Lady Greystoke, who were marconed by a mutinous ship's crew on the African oast. Soon afterward Lady Greystoke’s baby was born; and for a year thereafter thia little English family lived alone in their iso fated jungle fastness, unable to escape and unable to find or sum- mon succor, The story of their life was recorded by Greystoke =| up to the time his wife died. And the next day, when his vigilance | relaxed in his grief, a troop of giant anthropoid apes attacked and | killed him. A femate of these jungle folk had that day seen her own offspring dashed to death from a tree-top; and mother ine | stinct led her to snatch up the year-old child and carry it off with = | her. Soon “hunger closed the gap between them, and the son of an English lord and an English lady nursed at the breast of Kala, the great ape.” A part of the history of Tarzan has been chronicled, but many of his most striking adventures are yet to be told. A peculiar glamor gilds these captivating new storics—something of the bloom and radiance of the world’s dawn glorifies Tarzan’s life in the jun- gle; and you will find these wonder-tales uniquely refreshing. BEKA, strew at luxurbous | you lls, looked up, half ap ease in the shude of the trop halt rested. They were] al resented @ MM hey sensed a fight. It jur pl © of young fe the monotony of the} Gide” ew , 80 irum Jungle Hfe they led. Warean of tie woo squat fled wbout Tarzan’s shoulders | upon & bg branch in a § @ long grass rope, in hia hand Bearby nd 1 down up a the hunting knife of the long- es id futher he had never known, In a tolls Paug’s little brain lay a great respe: otra Me eric MSRERTBE TEN ie the shiny bit of sharp metal which the ape-boy knew so well how o use. With It had he sloin Tublat, is flores foster-father, and Bolgant gorilla. Taug knew these thingy, ad so he came wartly, circling about rzan in search of an opening. The vatter, made cautious becouse of his jesser bulk and the inferiority of his natural armament, followed similar tactic: je forest giant, bis brown skin wt tléd by the brilliant equatorial sun Jight which percolated through the leafy canopy of green above him, bis elean limbed body relaxed in gracoful ease, his shapely bead part turoed tu contemplative absorption and bis tn- teiligent gray eyos dreamily devour- Jing the object of thelr devotion, you would have thought him the remear sMation of some demigod of ¢ squatted upon her haunche: d both her admirers tm 4 Yes, Teeka was indeed beautif taunts Of course Kala had been beautiful— | aaeu ae fone's mother ts always t but aa, “Eis:| Teeka was beautiful in a y | and 4 anne own, an indescribavle sor, of way threatened to call} them with a) Mumega, who was so old that could longer climb and thiews that she had to confine her | which Tarzan wense rath Tarzan ming his of black air was just beginning Mumga to ick chastise vaguely utched his head, p into the run- | she no shock | chanced to lot his eyes rove beyond site when the two would stand pantin| for breath, facing each other, mus- tering their wits and their forces for a new onslaught. It waa during a pause such as this thar Taug his fooman, Instantly the entire as pect of the ape altered. Rage lef! his countenance, to be supplanted by an expression of fear. With a cry that every ape there ‘Taug turned and fed No need to question him: hie warn ing proclaimed the near prevence of their ancient enemy. ‘Tarzan started to seek safety, as did the other members of tne tribe, and as he did so be heard @ pan- recognized ther’s scream mingled with the frightened cry of @ she-ape. Taug heard too; but he did not pause tn his Might &2 With the ape-boy, however, tt was different. He looked back to ace if any member of the tribe was close pressed by the beast of prey, and the sight that met his eyes filled th an 6xpreasion of horror reoka It was who cried out in tor ror as she fled acroas a little clear- Ing toward the trees upon the oppo- side, for after her leape the panther, in easy, grace- Sheeta appeared to be nono hurry. His meat was assured, since even though the ape reached he treas ahead of him sho could not Sheeta. ful bounds. Iimb beyond his clutches before ho | 4 be upon her. Tarzan saw that Teska must ‘ie 1 to Taug a the othe at the same time he ran toward » pursuing beast, taking down his pe as he came. Tarzan knew that nce the great bulls were aroused none of the jungle, not even Numa, » lion, was anxious to measure with them, and that tf all of the tribe who chanced to present to-day would charge, sta, the great cat, would doubt eas turn tail and run for bis life, Taug heard, as did the others; but 29 one came to Tarsan’s assistance © Teeka's rescue, and Sheeta was spidly closing up the distanoe be- tween bimself and bis prey. The ape-boy, leaping after the ngs hose asten to Teska’s assistance | | nther, cried aloud to the beast in effort wise distract ite attention until gain the safety of is shes, where Sheeta ed not go. He called panther ‘ opprobriows name that fell to hia 16, He dared him to stop Jand do battle with bim; but Sheeta 4 on after the luscious tid- almost within his reach, the duelista. T i 5 forty feet be- de ~ missing 1 Sheets changed poked at T ' 4 anch above Te Tarzan saw <p oth ‘ ? » may wayed a Uitte with t nee Into the : wi tn f the body of the wat ich she had Be ed op and weratehed {along it, Taug had halt tno soon; and aati was preparing to make ar Tt were useloss aa 5 s were Necked with 4 bia Uf Ne and unequ areas sida silva drooled from his Jowls sae dr I no good cou! f ested " h head {and a ape @ battle 1 Apes silled 0 ed, preg a su th the onra And if he was i i ace Ww ot ¢ Could he aurea ¢ w ance had he cen & but lay his mighty hands upon that | irvive Tar 4 constrali 0 of Tau ft brown skin the battle would be| to ad Was aught his " r » | Ma. Taur ¢ fored Tarzan’s man-| put a de The trees we mati of fighting unt He would not | too tar to 2 In time ¢ ose. Ina aped nimbly Just /elude theeat 7 could but stand at y jo reach of Taug's muscular | ta t ‘ and beliowed | Knit fi r aid th A 1 Tarzan of the Ay f min in th v vals of e to this side and that “ anthropol be ti aM i M < . ' to turn it from Teeka or | » framed his] stor almost exclusively to bananas a far i hind, and he sbapoly boyis face. He scratched | and grub-wormas | wos gaining; Dut the distance wae #0 d aud sighed. Teeka‘a ney ort that he ser oped to over- bie ‘aap, He anvlad “Ser (he heard and laughed. Tauelaceka In hie rignt hand the boy was infuriated. He made @ handsome ceat of hair which cov |awung hiv erase rope above his head her body. H wn smooth brows sudden lun or Tarzan, but | ran. He hated to chance a Paeiar caiel. hatred born of $22 APe-boy leaped nimbly to one | Tt Oe ee ne ee ne oo aeich erento EES ee te nace #0 cluding nim, and with the | ™ a i uarina Wd poes cone Maa disgust and contemy fears back none of a cat, wheeled ana {router than he ha ron ; he had harbored a hope that some except in practice. It was the full leaped back again to close quarters, |) °")) ‘ z ~ day he too w clothed in bair length of r sr which so} Ils lunting-knife was raised above fica, eho aiivas ra as were al! ers und sisters; || arated from Shesta, and ye but of lat been forced to | M8 head as he camo tn and he aimed | there was no other thing to do, He eee a the Neeih area \ vicious blow at Taug's neck. The | oouig not roach the brute's aide ba ; ipe wheeled to dodge the weapon, 50] perform it overhauled Tecka, He And as he watched her that after- | that the keen edge struck Bim Ut | mist chance a throw. mdered, a y bull | pane! | x noon ent wondered, & younk Dill’ glancing blow upou the shoulder Just a» Teeka sprang for the lower 9 ee _ py heat tatre, car. | .T8® spurt of red blood brought @/iimba of a «reat tree, and Sheeta food benea vine pains i ; tno | Miri cry of delight from Teeka, behind he a long, einuous pbet of ata Een icee. sre | Als this was something worth while! », the colle ape-boy's grass roots of a wae y whe | Sue Blanced ab: to see if others | rope shot awif through the afr, ayewardly in: Teoh * | bad witnessed this evidence of her |staightening into a long thin line omer Apes of the nee | popular Helen of Troy was|as the opon sc hovered for an in- Taree. etieesly, AVOUs oe IS never one whit more proud than | stant above the savage head and the fully in the mid-day heat was Tecka ut that moment, snarl Phen it settled Meemsnrial, -juigie. From nat| If Teeka bad not been ao absorbed | « and about the tawny neck tins one or another ¢ Tarean |!? DOF OWD vainglortousness she | it settled: and Tarzan, with a quick passed cloes Why was it, | ENE bave noted the rustling of | wist of rope-hand, drew the | an eee ontracted and | (eaves tn the trea above her—a ruats|noowe taut, bracing bimselt for the then, that his ey seghn ae Rea ig | Uae which was not caused by any |shock when Sheeta should wave hia smuscles tensed us ho saw TOE | movement of the wind, wince there |taken up the slack pause beside the young Miele Mee aswa cioas to ee was no wind, And had she looked OT whet cf ‘Tetke’® omy up she might have seen @ sleek body | = ; » ” Roar aties | haunches > crual talons For a few tr ‘ou! rouching almost directly ver her| ‘i i" {man wat aug press closer tol yng ee ae raked tho alr as the rope Teck, Ho suv TURN oATOO CCl gc acta osam fae Hay Wonka aid Saenianeg! snk ye, was Bes vaw: ta \eassonen an tily dewn upon her, but ‘Toeks did) ougnt 10 @ sudden stop—e stop Phoulderot:4 4 then T of look up. ut snapped the dig beast over upon say Kee. wit «| With his wound Taug had backed! niy back, Inst Sheeta was up ¥. horribly. ‘Targur tol ane and lashing tail mronne 1 . rcreaming {insults at him and gaping Jaws trom which tesued Aa) fig’ car : ug him with bis bran. | pi 4 cries of rage @nd disap. y oe ning blade Ka moved p ent “ eneath the tree in an effort t Ho saw the ane-boy, the cause of URDAY, FEBRUARY 2, + ae PPPLP A PLLA ALAA ” le ETT kta FIRST COMPLETE STORY } TUE SECOND IN THIS SERIES OF FASCINATING — ¢ YARNS WILL BE PUBLISHED ONE WEEK FROM j TO-DAY, BE CERTAIN TO READ THESE GRIP- with which some fea ar was no evidence of anger upon| Ieapet ant turned and twisted in} PING TALES OF THE WILD. # at i went downto defeat and death or . | mi It was rather in th ; . Seniac bill by Hasting 1t eat chost and| hope of w ng something of th Next Story’ Next Saturday From safety 1 in treea th ton hia short Ings, making | Kind that he now followed the war great apes wate! ren r wh tile throat.| riors back ward their v ths at Sheeta and advice at Tarza {hia lips, bar his fangs.| in this he was diaippointed, for there | man, they were deli@hted with| Mbenga's bia rriore, eweating the progenitors of man hav it what great, beautiful fangs | way no donee thac night | ir catoh beneath their nu tank, ane ally, many buman tra Cy wae | 1171 1 could not but notice Ins te the sofe concealment| Tarzan pricked up hia ears when he | resting oan to frightened. Sha acraamed at the b 1 She also let her eyes rest in| of bie tree, Tarzan saw littie groups | eard the v of @ grout ape, and| ward their village, Always the eav to hasten to Tarzan's asnistan: | ration upon Taug's beetling | seated Jt tiny fires discussing the Ning quickly until he wax down- lags benst in the primitive cage the bulls were otherwixe " 1 his short, powerful neck, | events of the day, and in the darker Wind from the trap, he aniffed at the | growled and roared when they move rincty y in giving advice and ma fi cature he wae tn corners of the village he weriod rin search of the scent-spoor of the him. Ho beat upon the burs ap faces, Anyway, Tarzan lated couples talking and Inughing PT F wag it long before there | siavered at the mouth. Fis noise wu A foal mangint; so why Khould they | at cloner to Teela, fin-| together; and alwaya one of each “ame thone ute nostrite the | nideous, risk thelr lives in an effort to prote y t close against her, When] couple was a young man and th «miliar odor that told Tarzan the! They had almost completed their btm? Partan returned from his hunting «| other a young woman. ntity of the captive a@ userringly | journey and were taking their fine AGA now ‘Wheels was akeasat tr timo lator, tt wan to mee ‘Teska| ‘Tartan cocked Bis head upon on | § (hough be bad tooked tpon ‘Taug the lithe, naked body, and- edly foratching the back of th his eyes, was not there, Quick as is the ere r side and thought, and before he we to sleep that night, ourled to the | Yos, tt wae Taug, and was alone. oat, the ape-boy se quicker. He loupe Toran wes disgusted. Nelther h of the great tree above th Tarzan grinned as he approached to fo. one alde almost as the + Teoka saw him as he| village, Teoka flied hie mind; and ver what the blacks would do to aiig upon him, and tt h the trees into the) afterward she filled his “mahi r prigoner, Doubtless they would Sheeta went hurtling to the « Ho paused @ moment looking| and the young black mon laughing | ay him at once, Again Tarsan beyond, Parsan was facia fot t with a sorrowful] and talking with the young black|irinned. Now he could have Teoka AALS Of the Heatest trea ned and faded away | womer 1 Dis own, with none to Mapute his The-panthér recovered h of leafy boughs) Taug, hunting alone, had wandored | riht to her, As he watched he saw immediately, and wheeling, tore fe im out of which hej a siderable = distar from the | ‘he black warriors strip the screen ite prey, the ape-boy's rope dra } balance tribe. He was making} ‘Tom about the cnge, fasten the ropes Aisha the excind Henna Te ae faye Inter he was stil! hunt-| his way slowly alone an elephant. |'o tt and drag it away along the tral tre after sai) @hoeta r y¥ morose and very ane} path when he pvered Chat tt wax in the direction of thelr village, id’ & ow Be BE but ho was dete ed never | blocked with undergrowth. Now| Tarzan watched until bis rival par path bt 1 to the tr uld not| Tau, come maturity, was ar 1 out of sight, att beating upon aks Web anie t ug and| vil-natured brute of an exceeding |{he burs of his prison and growling ipa ea alas & . Aa he| vort ten When nothing bin Anger and his threats: then no trailing rope dangling bebind | se ape-boy turned and swung rap- Pit Gtesth Willhabdioanped. bY ax AS yok in wearch of the tribe and a rope, after Tarzan in and as he 4 once aga © Apes, the ro bush, * © upon the journey, he surprised Sheeta and hs family tn a little over mied in and the wn ¢ ring, The great cat lay to @ wadden: at tehed upon the ground, while hia Taurean was safo amo: ” ! Ate, One PAW actoxs her lord's sav anch areet Ko fae, Noked at the soft white fur rane all: t hin throat. Sheeta could not follow him | Here he perched, hurling twires | ARZAN tnoreased his speed epithets at the meing line then unti! he fatrly ew tim, The other hers of the tribe | through the forest; nor was now took up t xabardmont, ts it long before he came upon such hard-s! fruits an 1 |the tribe, He saw them before branches as came within th 4 they saw him, for of all the jungle until Sheets roaded to frenzy an PP | creatures, none (passed more quietly jrhan Tarzan of the Apes. He saw |Kamma and her mate feeding midi sy wide, thelr hairy bodies rubbing | agninet ane another, And he saw | Teoka feeding by herself, Not fur j!one would she feed thus in lonel!- ness, thought Taraan, ae with a | bound he landed amongst them. Thore was # atartied rush and a chorus of angry and frightened anaria, for Tarzan had surprised them; but there wan more, too, than mere ner- Yous shock to account for the brint- ling neck-hair which remained stand- ing long after the apes had dis- covered the idengity of the newoomor. Tarzan noticed this a# he had no- tleed it many times in the past—that always coming among thom left them nervous and unstrung for a considerable time, and that thi found it mecaasary to themacives that he was in Tarzan by smelling about him half a dozen or more Umea before they calmed down. Pushing through the way Troln; ap- proached the ape drew away, her teeth Ina snarl of fear Js ‘it is Tarzan, You Tarzan I come for snapping at the grass rope, fed in eovering ite strar @ moment the panther atood ¢ his sudden one. and all dened ho made his toward but as he her, bartr he; al belong you.” The ape have drew cloner, over carefully king him Finally she aniffed at MMs sole tdea wan to bim, as though to make assurance reome tt by brute « eth and doubly sure, w wh ound ‘Where tis Taug?” she asked. a be elie i The gomangant have him," replied Va aot les Tarzan, “They will kil him. found himaeif within « kv Wry) th the eyes of the ahe, Tarzan saw iy DFOgTeKN effe not | 4 wistful expression and a troubled untanding his Mout of morrow as he tokt her of forge ahead. ya fate; but ab me quite close Biting and at & at the nd snugeied againat him, and Tar Tang finally w t f Lord Greyatoke, put) hie arm frightful rage; but o avail, and | about her at la@t he i ae b he A» he did so, he noticed with a start iust turn ba strange ‘ncongrutty of that va done #0, w wan his oth, brown arm againat the black STEEL FINGERS 2 THE BLACK’S THROAT, discov thar an barrier had of his lady and hairy mut love. He | uld bagrin first at one of hin tormen © Lo arent 1 na thelis break down one bat A Re aw a Bes m : at ancthas anh ‘ shor the Ibe ts idee ; We eeae : ; maine Taug was trop \ ‘ thought of ttle Manu 5a ‘i at « wan a nat-[ > eee oe ; ng to the other. ven bra i hurled a| 1% the morntng a party of btn male bind with hi HALF HOUR ate jeu m the ‘ ‘ © re @ close resomblar " a ot} n of ue, While Numa. at . th terpia © Honeas Sabor. 7 bre 4 ie a If s difte top 4 . M ” p Tarzan and T 4 nt tthe t ! cholee wus hi ee wiiar Mgure of tea AN Later in t on att Shed aed ¢ w Tarzan toot t y of ody of bia tit of gume, M wie 4 were i wi ul aM buat Ka t ' iat @ione mutiol i ' t A * slowmecs aod fu K ine and etre f area eS id : ; Terka; y t u ack f : : " at 10 eparing to run sud- ' As a him, they saw him Th * 7" - reat before forging ahead to gain th olearing In which lay their village fow more minutes would have tak« them out of the forest, and ther doubtiess, the thing would not hav happened which did happen. A ailent figure moved through th» trees above them, Keon eyes inspect the cage and counted the number the warriors. An alert and dariny brain figured upon the chances ¢ success when a certain plan shou be put to the te Tarzan watched the blacks loliin in the shade, They were exhausted Already several of them slept. H crept closer, pausing Just above them Not @ leaf rustled before his ateal advance. He waited tn the tnfint pationce of the beast of prey. Pree ently but two of the warriors re mained awake, and one of then wa doming. It wag not long before b yead nodded upon his breast Tarzan of the Apes gathered him neif, and as he did so, the black w did not sleep arowe and passe around to the rear of the cage. T Wpe-boy followed just above bis hem Taug wae eying the warrior and omitting low growls. Tarzan feare the anthropoid would awaken th sleepers, In @ whisper which was inaudlh’ to the ears of the negro, whispered Taug’s name, cautionin: the ape to silence, and Taug’s grow ing Ceased. The black approached tho rear of the cage and examined the fastenings of the door, and as he stood therr Tarzan above him threw himael’ from the tree full upon the man's back. Steal fingers circled the black’ throat, choking the ery which sprang to his Ups. Strong teoth fastene themselves in his shoulder, and powerful legs wound themselves 1 an unshakable grip about bis tors The black, ‘In a frenzy of terret tried to dislodge the silent thir which clung to him. He threw lb self to the ground and rolled abou but atill thome mighty fingers clos more and more tightly in their dea ly grip. The man's mouth gaped wide; hs ewollen tongue protrudet: s ey started from their sockets: but t relentiosa fingers only tnereased the pressure. Taug was a atient atruggio. In his flerce n > Joubtiess wondered wh a prompted Tarzan to at lie not forgot “ mangant go suddenly The wag a convulsive ahiver, and after moment the man lay still Tarren sprang ran to the door of o fingers he w Taug could y wateliy not pushed ¢ and Taug cra have turned from his prey @ rapidly a valit help. Ir geance; but stead, th ape-boy rag lat 1y of (he black within the c opped tt uxu ar " . ar , or’ A haps sir us be W prinely f Mb ca ! o th wu t fer {a Engliat ‘ ws 46h ie wont abe The n