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boy of noble birth who were Lord and Lady Greystoke, erew on the African coast, Soon his vigilance din his grief, English lord and an English lady Great ape.” Then he grew to monkey in mind. EEKA had become a mother. ‘Tartan of the Apes waa in- tensely interested—much more so, In fact, than Taug, the father. Tarzan was very fond of Teeka. Even the cares of prosprotive motherhood had not entirely quenched the fires of care-free youth, and ‘Teeka bad remained & good-natured playmate even at an age when other whes of tho tribe of Kerchak had as- gumed the sullen dignity of maturity. Bhe yet retained her childish delight fn the primitive games of tag and hide-and-go-seek which Tarzan's ter- tile man-mind had evolved. To play tag through the tree-tops ts an exciting and inspiring pastime. Tarzan still delighted in it; but the Dull playmates of his chidhood had long since abondoned such childish practices. Teeka, though, had been keen for !t always until shortly be- fore the baby came; but with the ad- vent of her firstborn even Teoka changed. The evidence of the change sur- prised and hurt Tarzan immeasur- ably, One morning he saw Teeka rquatted upon a low branch bugging something very close to her hairy breast-a wee something which squirmed and wrirgied, Tarzan ap- proached—filled with the curiosity which 19 common to all creatures ef- dowed with brains which have pro- gressed beyond the microscopic stace. Teeka rolled her eyes in bia direc- dion and strained the squirming mite et closer to her. Tarzan came nearer. Teeka drew away and bared her fangs. ‘Tarzan was nonplussed. In all hie experience of Teka, never before had she bared fangs at bim ‘other than in play; but to-day she id not look playful, Terran ran his brown fingers through bis thick black hair, cocked his head upon one side and stared. ‘Then he edged @ bit nearer, craning his neck to,have @ Detter look at th@ thing which Teeka cuddled, Again Teeka drew back ber upper lip In a warning snarl, Tarzan reached forth a hand, cautiously, to touch the thing which Teska held; and Teeka, with a hideous growl, turned suddenly upon him. Her teeth sank into the flesh of his forearm be- fore he could snatch it away, and she pursued him for @ short distance as he retreated incontinently through the trees; but Tooka, carrying her baby, could not overtake him Ata gafe distance Tartan stopped and turned to regard his eretwhile play- fallow in unconcenled astonishment What had happened @o to alter the gentle Teeka? Ghe had so covered the thing in her arms that Tarzan had not yet been able to recognize it for what it waar put now, a4 she turned from the pur- guilt of him, he saw tt, Through ble pain and chagrin he smiled, for Tare gan had acen young ape Mothers bo- fore. In a few days she would be Jess suspicious, and yet still Turan was burt. lt wasenot right that Teeka, of all others, should fear him Why, not for the world w uid he harm her or ber balu, which is the ape word for baby. And, now, above the pain of his infured arn: and the burt to his pride, rose a still stronger desire to come close and inspect the new- born son of Taug. Possibly you will wonder that Tarzan of tho Apes mighty fighter tut he was, should have fled before the Irritable attuck of @ ehe, or that he should hewita to return for the satisfaction of hin ourlosity when with ease he mitch! Dave vanyuished the weakened mother of the new-born ebild; but you need not wonder, Were you an ape, you would know that only in throes of madness will a bull turn upon a fomalo other than to chastise her gently—with the occasional ex- ception of the Individual whom we find exemplified among our own kind and who delights In beating up hs better half because she happens to be smaller and weaker than ho, Tarzan again came toward the young mother--warlly and with bis line ¥ retreat safely open, Again SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 191 TARZAN oF THE APES By Edgar Rice Burroughs nating fiction-figure has ever been or among the wild things of the junyle, Tarzan’ ted than this white grows to manhood a wild thing father and mother marooned by a mutinous ship's afterward Lady Greystoke’s baby D’ YOU know Tarzan—Tarzan of the Apes? No more fasol- was born; and for @ year thereafter this little English family lived alone in their isolated Jungle fastness, unable to escape and unable to find or summon succor. The story of their life was recorded by Greystoke—up to the time his wife died. And the next day, when a troop of giant anthropoid apes attacked and killed him. A female of these jungle folk had that day ‘seen her own offspring dashed to death from a tree-top; and mother Instinct led her to snatch up the year-old child and oarry it off with her, Soon “hunger closed the gap between them, and the son of an nursed at the breast of Kala, the manhood—half human and half (Copyrighted, by The Gtory-Prese Oveporation, AU rights reserved.) The Ape-Man Battles His Enemy When Peril Threatens A Jungle Infant Teeka growled ferociously. Tarsan expostulated “Tarzan of the Apes will not harm Toeka’s balu,” be said. “Let me ace It.” “Go away!” commanded Tecka. "Go away, or I will kill you.” “Let mo see it,” urged Tarzan. “Go away,” reiterated the she-ape. “Tere comes Taug, He will make you go away, Taug will kill you. Thie 1s Taug’e balu.” A savage growl close behind him apprised Tarzan of the nearness of Taug, and the fact that the bull had heard the warnings and threats of is mate and was coming to her succor. Now, Taug, as well as Tecka, bad been Turzan’s playfellow while the bull was still young enough to wish to play. Once Tarzan had sqved Taug's life—but the memory of an ape is not over long; nor would grati- tude rise above the parental instinct, Tarzan and Taug had once measured strength, and Tarzan bad been vic- torlous, That fact Taug could be de- pended upon still to remember, but even #0, be might readily face another defeat for his first-born—if he chanced to be in the proper mood. From his hidvous growls, which now rose in strength and volume, Taug seemed to be in quite the mood, Tar- zan felt no fear of Taug; nor did the unwritten law of the jungle demand that he should flee from battle with any male unless he from purely per- ronal reasons cared to do ao. But Tarzan liked Taug; he had no grudgo against bim, and his man-mind told him what the mind of an ape would never have detuced—that Taug’s at- titude in no sense indicated hatred. It was but the Instinctive urge of the male to protect its offapring and its mate, Tarzan had no desire to battle with ug; nor did the blood of his English ancestors relish the thought of flight; yet when the bull charged, Tarzan Jeaped nimbly to one side; and thus encouraged, Taug wheeled and rushed again madly to the attack. Perhaps the memory of @ past defeat at Tar- zan’s hands gouded him. Perhaps the fact that Teska eat there watching him aroused @ desire to vanquish the ape-man bofore her eyes, for in the breast of every jungle inale lurks a vast egotism which finds expression in the performunce of deeds of daring before an audience of the opposite wex. At the ape-man’s «ide swung bis long grass rope—the plaything of yesterday, the weapon of to-day—and as Taug charged the socond tie, Tarzan allpped the colls over bis head and deftly shook out the sliding noowe as he again nimbly eluded the un- gainly beast. Before the ape could turn again, Tarzan bad fled far aloft among the branches of the uppor terrace, Taug, now wrought to a frensy of real rage, followed him. Tocka peered upward at them. It was difficult to muy whother she was Interested or not. ‘Taug could not climb ns rapidly fargan, and #0 the latter reached a vels to which the heavy follow before th » former overtook him There he halted and looked down upon his pursuer, mak ng faces at Lim and calling hi such choic@ names as occurred to th fertile man-brain. Then, when he had worked Taug to such a plich of foam hg rago that the great boll fairly upon the bending timb be. » bim, Tarzan's band shot mu outward, and a widening noose ped swiftly through the alr; 40 WAS A quick Jerk aa tt settled about Taug, falling to his knece—ae ork that Uehtened it securely about he hairy legs of the anthropoid. Taug, siow of wit, realized too late the intention of bis tormentor, He scrambled to escape, but the ape-man guve the rope a tremendous Jerk that pulled Taug trom his perc and a moment later, growling hidedfialy, the upe hung head downward thirty feet above the ground, Varzan secured the rope to a stout limb and descended to @ potnt close to Taug. ‘Taug,” he said, "you are as stupid edly sas dur from behind @ clump of 9 the rhinoceros. Now hang bere unul you get a little sense in your thick head. here and watch while I go ard talk with Teeka.” ‘Taug Ddlustered and threatened; but Tarzan only grinned at him as he dropped lightly to the lower levels. in approached Tecka, only again to be greeted with bared tangy and menacing growls. placate her; he urged his friendly in- tentions and craned bis neck to have balu; but the she waded that ho bushes at the opposite side of the bull to reach him, for something in or the voice of the momentarily waned courage the victorious ape-man still held his nerves beneath Its spell. al minutes before he in bring himself to tho point into view of the glant the appearance attacker aroused jyithin thi feoling ‘of belligerent antagonism that would not be dented. scream that carrtod no human note, Tarzan leaped etraight at the throat of the attacker. | ‘Tho impetuonity of his act and the and momentum of hia body carried the bull backward, clutehing You may hang OLLOW from the panther, glared greedily at the tempting meat so close at but tho sight of the great bulls beyond gave him pause. Ah, if the ehe-ape with her balu would but come Justa trifie nearer! A quick spring, and he would be upon them and away again with his meat before the bulls could prevent. The tip of his tawny tall moved in spagmodic little Jerks; his lower jaw ving low, exposing a red tongue and Put all this Tecka did not see, nor did any other of the apes who were feeding or resting about Nor did Tarzan of the Apes in regathered his forces, Tarzan reached Tag's side, and then higher up to where the end of the grass rope was made fart, ho loosened it an the ape slowly downward, swinging him In until the clutching hands fax tened upon a Nmb, Quickly Taug drew himself to a po one upon either He pouihit 16 snarling at each other over the little creature, cota was afraid to seize the balu, for thus he would give the ape-man n opening for attack; through the leafy branches of the tree For fitteen foet the two fell, Tarzan’s the Jugular of his op- ponent, when a stout branch stopped The bull struck full of hig back deross the limb, hung there for a moment with the ape-man still upon his breast and then toppled over toward the ground. felt the instantaneous a look at Teek ape was not to be pet meant other than harm to her little Her motherhood was still so new that reason was yet subservient teeth buried In and for the thelr descent, upon the ama! yellow fangs. n for gratifude to the ape alled only the fact that Tarzan had laid this painful indignity He wold be revenged; Hut Just at present bis lege were so and his head @o dizzy that he ne the gratification of his harm's way, for had he stopped to complish this the great beast would have been upor Thus they stood while Teeka pon the clearing, golng more slowly neared the panther, for even mother-love could Realizing the futility of attempting to catch and chastise Tarzan, Teska pought to escape him. Sho dropped to the ground and lumbered across the little clearing about which the apes of the tribe were disposed in rest or in the search of food, and presently Tar- yan abandoned his attempia to per- fuade her to permit a close examina- tion of the balu. The ape-man would have liked to handle tho Uny thing. ‘The very sight of it awakened tn his Dreast a strange yearning, Ho wished to cuddle and fondle the grot little ape-thing. and Tarzan him in @n instant. Tarzan had relaxation of th after the heavy Impact with the tres . and as the other turned cor pletely over and started again upon tts fall toward the ground, he reached fyrth a hand and caught the branch to stay bis own descent, 9 dropped like a plummet Hearing the abuse which the bulls ° ring upon the helpless Taug, One was edging leaning far out in an the dangling ape. into quite a fury recollection of the last oceaston upon which Taug had now he waa bent upon revenga Once he had grasped the swinging ape, he would quickly have drawn him with- ach of his jaws, and was wroth. ‘ort to reach He had worked my of her kind, © Taug, wartly and and much bluster, and atl behind him came other bulls, Rehind her ¢ with many paus while he lectured Taug on the futility of pitting his poor and Intellectul powers, physica! , aeainst those of his 10 close be- neath the tree anf was peefing up. ta was worming hid way forward, bis belly close to ‘Tarzan looked downward for a mo- ment upon the still form of his late then he rose to his full hoight, awelled his deep chest, smote his clenched fist and roated out the uncanny challenge of torious bull ape. Bheeta the panther, crouched yw-erecn eyes glared terribly at past Tarzan they shot ances at tho apes of Kerchak It was Tecka's ba, had once lavished his young affections upon Teoka. But now bis attention was diverted by the volce of Taug. that had filled the ape’a mouth had Tarzan saw He loved a fair fight, thing which this ape contem- Alrendy a hairy would be clear of the underbrush and ‘ ready for the rapid charge and tho opted him to turn and fi hunger and the cloxo proximity of the tempting morsel in the grass be~ fore him urged him to remain, He upen it with plated revolted him. hand had clutched the helpless Taug when, with an angry growl of protest, The threats brief existence of Teeka's balu. ‘Then Tarzan chanced to look up and TARZAN FELL UPON THE TAWNY BACK AND DROVE HIS BLADE INTO THE PANTHER'S SIDE, across the cleartr titude of good pompous bo: a paw toward Teeka'e as he did Bo, Tarzan leaped to the branch attacking ape's aide and w spring at the edge the downward toward ng him comi: Surprised) and clutched madly for pled sideways, and th und prepared to iid have wiped his face f bis sudden ¢ urge across the Aimaelf toward another Here he found Tarzan of the Ay the knife of hold, quickly panther, stalking upon Tarzan, but t Was otherwise made his way peulnga in th the latter's abysmal an troplacable creatures 0 always heretofore her or any other apa nd he would reioa es abuve her, grub worms beneath « fallen her @ malign tho blood of litt {bis victory over t » to ask Teoka teasing youth to a snar Along biv sealp the bh e-ape had om the baju a Tarzan of th was no harm, rain, a@ though this vation Of lash indulge might his fighting fang He did not wai multaneoumly; » Hogers of on EVERY STORY COMPLETE ANOTHER OF THESE FASCINATING TAL WILL BE PUBLISHED NEXT SATURDAY, ONE < /ROM TO-DAY. FOLLOW TARZAN IN HIS ADVENTURES THROUGH THE WILDS. A NEW STORY EACH WEEK the fur at the throat, and with the other hand he drove hie blade into Sheeta’s alde. Over and over upon the grasa rolled Sheeta, growling and screaming clawing and biting, In a mad effort te fisiodge his antagonist or get some Portion of hin body within range of teeth on. talons, 8 Tarzan leaped to clone quar- tore with the panther, Teeka had run quickly in ane snatehed up her balu " whe sat upon a high branch, sat out of harm's way, cuddling the little thing close to her hairy bre the while her savage little eyes bored down upon the contestants An the clearing, and her ferocious voice urged Taug and the other bulls to leap Into the melea. Thus goaded, the bulis came closer, redoubling their hideous clamor; but Sheota was already sufficiently en- saged—he did not even hear them. Once he #ucceeded in partially dis- lodging the ape-man from his back, #o that Tarzan swung for an instant in front of those awful talons, and in the brief instant, before he could re- gain Bis former hold, a raking blow from @ hind paw laid open one leg from the hip to the knee, It was the sight and smell of this blood, possibly, which wrought upon the encircling apes; but it was Taug who was responsible for the thing they did. i Taug, but a moment before filled with rage toward Tarzan of the Apes, wtood close to the battling pair, bis red-rimmed, wicked little eyes glar- ing at them, What wae passing in his savage brain? Did he gloat over the unenvinble position of his recent tormentor? Did he jong to see Sheeta’a great fangs sink into the soft throat of th@ape-man? Or did he realize the courageous unselfish- ness that had prompted Tarzan to rush to the reseue and imperil his life for Teeka's balu—for Taug's Uttle bata? Is gratitude @ possesston of man only, or do the lower or, know it also? wee ener oper With the spilling of Tarzan’s blood Taug answered these questions. With all the welght of his great body he leaped, hideously growling upon Sheeta, His long, fighting fangs buried themselves in thé white throat His powerful arma beat and cliwed at the soft fur until it few upward in the Jungle breeze, And with Taug’s example before them, tho other bulla charged, bury- ing Sheeta beneath rending fangs and filing all the forest with the wild din of their battle cries. Tt was @ wondrous and inspiring aight, this battle of the primordial Apes and their great white ape-man with thelr ancestral foo Sheeta the panther, In frenzied excitement ‘Teeka fairly danced upon the sway ing limb as eho urged on the males of her people! And Thaka and Mum- a and Kamma, with the other shes of the tribe of Kerchak, added their ebril cries or ferce barkings to the pandemonium which now reigned within the jungle. Bitten and biting, teartng and torn, Sheeta dattled for bis life; but the odds were against hie. Even Numa the Hon would have been afraid to attock an equal number of the great bulis of the tribe of Kerchak, and now, half-mile away, hearing the sounds of the terrific buttle, the king of beasts rose uneasily from his mid- day slumber and slunk off further into the jungle. Presently Sheeta’s torn and bloody body ceased its struggles. It stif- fened epysmodically, twitched and was still; yet the bulls continued to lacerate it until the beautiful coat was torn to ahr At last they de sisted from sheer physical weariness, and then from the tangle of bloody bodies 4 crimson giant, straigh 4) an arr He pi @ foot upon the-dead body of the panther and; lifting his Mlood-stalned ¢ the blue of the equatorial heavens, ive voice to the rrid victory-cry of the bull-ape, One by one his hintry fellows of the of Kerchak followed Nis exam The shes came down from thelr nes of wafety and k ond re- t Sheeta, The s t ip ka was qu ‘Tarzan, ‘ with the baluf ne r hairy breast, and s hahds to take the litle XI t Teeka would bare , hg upon him: put 1 st " the balu in his nin rer, eked his And 5 ug, who had ea- w only a few scratches, mid squatted beside Tereun and ed bin as be played with the bat and last too. ’e band in epe-man’s hurts.