The evening world. Newspaper, February 23, 1918, Page 11

NER ST me . . ° SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1918 TARZAN oF THE APES By Edgar Rice Burroughs * EVERY STORY COMPLETE ANOTHER OF THESE FASCINATING TALES garrulity, The small apes talked a Tarzan away, but tn reality had no passed re the hut of the witch Others heard, too, and saw from ed BE PUBLISHED yen sO” Fina ONB " ‘iam doctor , waa groauy con- the darkness of their huts—bold wa ‘EEK FROM TO-DAY. FOLLOW TARZAN IN great deal and ran away from an mich effec a waa Rroat i { ‘ enomy. The big olf bulls of Kerchak Tarzan did not pause. Hoe had set ¢ 4. Wise olf patriarch that he rior hideousty painted, =f? *D HIS ADVENTURES THROUGH THE WILDS. D’ YOU know Tarzan—Tarzan of the Apes? No more fascl- talked but Httlo and foustt upon out to bh and examine God, v we had never more sad ony A wy War Ape te sve < nating fiction-figure has ever been created than this white slightest provocation. Numa the lion and nothing upon ea aight now ved in witch doctora—at least, Arainst Numa tho lion th boy ef noble birth who grows to manhood a wild thing an not given to lomunetty; set of all tray hia tent A HIN(Aiiloh nor “BInGGTRPUAUNE: wiNOnT Had Come ‘Mave, cliateed. fearlessly. KE A NEW STORY EACH WEEK y was not 0” Ss well many tines tt wn numbe among the wild things of the Jungle, Tarzan's father and mother the Jungle folk thero were fow who had no p © visitor, he with age; but asa chief age Wise. Wack Grasetnis acute Chee tate WEEDO were Lord and Lady Greystoke, marooned by a mutinous ship’ fought more often than ho. witch doctor tri new medic , vineed of the pve ee ne ; yews foe 2 the prt fic tak orew on the African coast. Boon afterward Lady Groystoke’s baby uate Avanos ‘ - Spitting upon tt Be * oh ‘ poral ‘ i jist Ay EM ta Or Semeie AT CLEAN Sree lner a ane OU le ent: Cre ealner Loeb sme nsine Secu atte Teka thas a t bs , of m r. ~ove it with the arrows superstitious foars of his pe to With terror Mere was nothing Upon the fearsome nocturnal jungle? did he seek to escape the horrid h latod Jungle fastness, unable to escape and unable care ash % rif "7 : ehile b Y . nds th Hh the medium of human tm the bostial ls that And the Sun? Did the Bun merely death that confronted him; his eole tone: tw the: Inetated Jung) which he understood; and pers tn the ¢ meanwhile back- his own ends through the m n te find or summon succor The story of their life was recorded by haps becauso they were ing cautiously away from Tartan and the medicine man. rumbled up from his sp chest; happen there? @im was to #lay Histab and thus free Greyatoke—up to the time his wife died. And the next day,.when trange be thought that they must epeaking confidentially to the bushy Mbongn and the witch doctor had there was nothing human in the ¥ were all the peoples of the ‘Teoka and her balu. his vigilance relaxed in his grief, @ troop of giant anthropold apes = Fi to do with tho God ho could not end of the tail worked together and divided the barat fange or the ecatlike leaps. Jungle net treet Way were ae Te erent Wide-raping Jaws of the " “face” of the Mbongn'e wa ve fled— trees not aome' ele an rned and hovered attacked and killed him. A female of these Jungle folk had that day understand. He anw thres youtha ro. This medicine must bo short mett- spoils, and now the “face” of the 1 Re “warriors were dle ie Laat. sr ed Pati babel oraed nti he ee ae geen her own offspring dashed to death from a tree-top, and mother ceive their first war-epears tna weird cine, however, for the creature, god witch ee w cy be Hea fo ths x ») torrt be Mi vase eit int a cane dient from Sauer toast hi : sernel Sal . y c otasque witch- or demon, was stoully closing up the any enw what Mbonga had aean; nor curliy 0 r huts ey Ta rom Bara yo buck ee er dicpan Glvead te Ga WaGein HARE aE OS eae Fi Porepemip lig ced ta Nite tance which had separated them. would thts generation again have as Watched the beast-man spring full 4d Bara different from Sheeta the with equal facility, yawned for Bims lide rs Palit aatbal adel iniath lthaddektalln liad tla dbadd tt 4st etdaditey 4 rele erefo! « ow An) er ! future witch upon the back of thelr old chieftain, Panther? And why was not Sheeta dan English lady was nursed at the breast of Ki uncanny and awesome. The circles ther were fow and much falth in any English lord and an Englis! y the great ape.” Then he grew to manhood—half human and half monkey in mind, Tarzan Dares a Terrible Death to Save His Old Playmate From Danger. (Copyrighted, Wy The Btory-Tress Corpor: MONG tho books of his dead father in the little n by 8, All rights eemerred.) when Goro did not reply, Tarzan of the Apes waxed wroth, Ho swelled the land-locked harbor, Tar- hia giant chest and bared his fighting gan of tho Apes found many fangs and hurled into the tooth of things to purzio his young head. Hy tho dead satellite the chailonge of abor, and through tho me- the bull apo. as i IRnsste attence as well I the moon made no answer to atom of tatance dlscov> the boasting of the ape-man, and had without a the purpose of the little buss which ran riot upon the tho printed pages. Ho bad learned that in me many combinationa in pale . found them they spoke in a allen| Janguago, spoke in @ strange tongue, when a cloud came and obscured her face, Tarran thought that Goro was indeed afmid and was hiding from him; so he came down out of the trees and awoke Numgo and told him how great was Tarzan—how he had erful things which @ frightened Goro out of the aky and epoke of vsieses saad not by any mado him trembla Tarzan spoke of Los Lah understand—arousing the moon as ho, for all things large ANCE ied bis curiosity, stimulating his imagin ation and filling his eoul with = mighty longing for further knowl- A dictionary bad proven Yen is wonderful storehouse of information, when, after soveral yours of bea a3 end , he had solved the myster sate cryove and ue manner of 18 or awe-inspiring are male to the ape-~ folk. Numgo was not much tmpressed, but he wns very elcepy, and so he told Tarzan to go away and leave his betters alone, “But where shall I find God?" tn- sisted Tarzan. “You are very old; if there 1s God, you must have him. What does he look like? Where seen use, does he live rse, certain ‘ ¢ course, stat fe S40 east 7 F Thore wer of culmsurtosity to "I am God,” replied Numbo, * words which aroused ide words siesp and disturb me no more,” than others, @ greater extent which, for one reason ng tion. There was one, Tarzan looked at Numgo ateatily yuher, 6x oe for eeveral minutes; his shapely head etted his Imagine Ing of which #ank Just @ trifle between his groat for exainplo, te meaniie ot waa Shoulders; his equare chin shot for- was rather cimicult to 6roep: ward and his short upper-lip drew the word God. Tarzan had been first attracted to it by was very short and menced with o larger hose about {ta malo g-bug to Tarzan, tie lower case being females ; ‘ But of the meaning of God he aie mot quite sures Once he thought he back, exposing his white teeth. ‘Then with a low growl he leaped upon th ape and buried his f in th Jer, mighty *. 1 apo; then he that it com~ than it was letters the fact that it g-bus oluteh freat ‘twice he shook the neck to leased his tooth-h: “Are you God?" he dema had ‘eethat God waa a "No, od Num ra taht in, king of all the & peor old ape. Leave me alone Ge es He was not qnite sure, ie se . ; ‘owever, since that would mean that ; aioe 2 a Mee elantiog thas. Tarkan=w, Very Wise) too , Lanogigs ; Tarzan 120 r no Apes Was point which Tarzan of tt fLnMe setteaed Hmian 408 surned foath to concede, He commenced ault the blacks appealed to b by aque eit and had thourh his relations with the people Mumga, who was Aer rlong @f Mbonga tho chief were the an geen many str e ad a tithesls of friendiy, could at lex }ife; but Mumga, belng an ape ¢ epy v faculty for recalling the d enemies and dis- ! Intercourse with riv cover o mistook a at : r God, for an edible beotie had mado 0 upon Mumga than So it was t erates wmaple manifestations of through the trees toward the village all the innur : a which she had of the blacks, all excitement at Danie? ‘ which, of courve, she prospect of discovering the Supreme Bed not Ui a tood. Being, the Creator of all things, opens srheartos Tarzan’s ques- he travelled he reviewed, me haere wrest his atten- his armament—the condition ¢ od to tions, managed / atten ton iong enough from the divers a of fiea-bunting to advance the (h hunting knife, the number of h rows, the newness of the gut which trung his bow; he hefted the war- : hich mado the Lg strung hi : that the poner ole ae : spear which had once b the prt ning and we ise pe of nome black warrior of Mbonga's came from Goro, tribe. Tt was dark when Tarzan came to tho village of Mbonga Aa allently as ‘enew this, he sald, because Dum always was danced In of Goro. ntirely the etlent shadows of the night he seasoning, though enttr at This Ladera Numgo ond Mumma, sought his accu ee Lonseeypatnty nvince Tarzan. How- Hones of the great tres which failed fully to ¢ yasis for further overhung the paliaa Below him, ever, it gave him arenas Ho in the village strect, ho anw men and investigation Ds ne moon. That women. ‘The men wore hideously would: inves! ay to the loftiest painted—moro ic an usual Rept pee ‘tallest Among them mo A welrd and asp ya sae fall, a erent, grotesque @ tall figure that See merce wer Went upon the two less of a man and C poielagn ee he ore yot had the head of a buffalo. A Apt ht a e todo ati the moon held & pe ar . n mane mi entrlag i ard eit Epa siaende bunch of small arrows stellen who 3 the # Tarzan was eloctrified id tt ba end the migh nda the that pe had & him thus early waters down upon ) * P ¥ 1 OPE unity to look upon Go when the days are and it 18 Surely tila thin 4 neither man ood. Tell me, Goro, are you Go nor beast; so what could It be, the Of course he did not pronounce G 1 other n the Creator of the Uni- ae you or I w verse! The ape-man watched mame, for Tarz: every move of sirange creature spoken language Hoe saw tho black men and women bears, but he ha fall back at its approach as though ch of the y stood In terror Presently hoe discove d that deity was speaking and th tened tn silence to bis words, {nvention for & which constitute Thus it was which Tarzan m culine prefix of the apes © was eur feminine mu; 6 Tarzun bad named could inspire such awe tn the hearts las o he pronou. 1 tu, and d wos of the Gomangani, or atop their me So the word God evolved Itself mouths so effectually without recourse #mto bulamutumumo, or in Evglish, to arrows or spears. Tarzan had he-g-she-o-she-d. come to look with contempt upon the @arzan barangued the moon, and blacks, principally because of their f its powers, Tarzan that none other than God Hugely interested, Tarzan watched the slashing of the three brown arms rapld, and when the the witch doct oF atruc were completed doctor, an attitude Mbonga must do something to 7 hange ood with Which was Intended to be awe-in- counteract the evil influence of the Shenae Gun ae, is tie tee of the epiring, and waving the xebra’s tail forcat demon's victory over the witch ceremony of blood brotherhood, He before him, drew an imoginary Hine doctor, He rained his heavy spear saw the eobra’a tall dipped into a between hin and Tarz ond crept silently from his hut fn the caldron of water above which the “Beyond this ling you cannot pass, ¥ of the retreating ape-man witch doctor had made magical for my medicine Is strong medicine,” Down the village atreet walked Tar passes the while he danced and he erled Mp, or you will fall dead fa unconcerned and as deliber Joaped about it, and ho saw the 48 Your foot touches this spot, My ate an though only the friendly apes doo: 1 ive upon Lon: breasts and foreheads of each of the three novitintes sprinkled with the charmod liquid. a en. I the entrails of the panther; I eat ¢ y father was of Kerchak ’ hearts and surrounded him instead of a village full of armed enomic eming only was the tndifference ‘The longer Tarzan watched, the YOUNE babies for breakfast, and tho of Tarzan/ for alert and watchful was more convinced he became that his Gemons of the Jungle are my slaves. every well trained sense. Mbonga, syea were upon God, and with the 1 @m the most powerful witch doctor wily stalker of keen-eared jungle baad determination. to 12 the we I fear nothing, for I creatures, moved now in utter Lane word with tho deity, With Tare CanBot die, I’—, Tut he fot no sitence, Not even Bara tho divi eee noon te think was to act, further: instead, he turned and fled with hie great ears could havo pclae Bey Mtb ais wick yaged as Tarzan of the Apes cros: the 5 ed tre any sound that tthe Tr neat pllen on t rical ei bissrsAndapelit and still lved, bonga wos near; but the black was citement. They necded little to ree A® the wi tor ran, Tarzan not stalking Bara; he was stalking almost los way for God to act, accordance with the « ne t. lenae the accumulated prossuroe of matic nerve force which the terrortz- ad induced. : ‘ A lon roared, suddenly and tond, phase ues back, God. I will not close without the palisada, The But the witch doctor wa blacks started nervouniy, dropping si. o+ by thi time, at Into utter etlence an they listened TOF Ke ieanad over cooking 1 a repetition of that all too familiar and always terrorizing voice. Even witch doctor paused {fn the midst of An intricate step, remaining softs the mo- mentarily rigid and statuerque as he for a plumed his cunning mind suggestion as how best he advantage of the cc dience and the time Numa‘'a roar st! along taut nerves when a woman’ laugh, shrill and plereing, shattered the ailence of the village. It was this that Tarzan chose drop lightly from his’ tree into the Village street. Fearless among hi« Interruption reverberate: moment to {ght for his ¢ octor, by terr: This was n> mar yall fires thot and so he sought only to avoid least not tn nx on Tar- c er and closer to the slowly God. moving ape-man he came. Now he lod. harm you sin full r ving high ts and huts of vil- TARZAN SEIZED THE REPTILE AND SANK HIS BLADE INTO IT, ratsed his throwtn Kk above his 1 and for war epanr, Rpear hand far t Bh ulder, Once all wou unw 1 speed; but f bonga the chief rid himself and his effort; the ape-man t people of tho menace of this fy blood enemias, he etor taller by a him w ing enemy. He would mako no full head than a { Mbonga's war- Just at . Was cast; he would dake pains, and he ors, wtnuychit as thelr astral the w doctor over! A would hurl his weapon with such arww 1 » Numa the lion hand upon his ¢ ler rreat force as would finish the demon Por a moment Tarzan stood look him back, It seized va forever. straight 1 doctor. ery Of the buffalo hide, drag t Mbonga, mura an he thourht eyo was upon him; yet no one had #ulso from him. It waa hinwelf, erred in his nations, He moved: sralysia of terror held}! man that Tarzan i it believe thot he w lking a them, t noken a moment later !ito » darkness of tie huts in » did not know as th @ toss of head, teri was a man with 1 t rd the hideous hia was what } hought eption of the buffalo head as God! Tarzan'a Lin n he ha tt es of the blacks a snarl as he leaped hut os, For months after the terror stricken w tor, {1 never ro, white fun- Int ackness within 1 the considering in the hu n them, Their man huddied at the ¢ and the wind, It bl 1 beer en from the very dragesd him forth A+ direction their village; thelr warrtorg Uve lightness of t1 t te noutrils tly alain upon the jun- Tho witch doctor bit od nd him sand thelr dead bodies In tte to ¢: ar and by night © ross the head | nto Lf ® street as from the 4 better realization « f t ve, resistance. I » quite a number who 1 the cringing fig fren 0 had ¢ the strange fix of t r tir ne one entire r , Upor and com 1 1 of t add ¢ > ‘ nd I tering Ir huts, as T n the panthor; there ta rh nh vanced, For am nt one and o aan. Tarean ta ¢ ra 1 th f. But P , 1. It wna the See! And with a wu wait t © him w nc n half self. twisted t Viack's nee fe bi ® of in his own low shricked in p ve doorw hut, ve 1 this new ¢omon whe slu to the ear ‘ us m to threat tou o bis anclent Taciig not up oft pon the and ht € sion, the fallen witoh doct W porenuy “are y In asked Tarzan, ralaod his face to the f f 1 fleot The w foctor, having no tdea tered the long, sh f 1, of ther f tho other's wo victorious bull-ape, wre Ganced a fow str %, leaped and snatched the xx . D h in a completely the ner 4 fingers ate Hl ar and & stooping sclous man and ” ca heard, 1 his Lined ran postuny feet far outapread and glance retraced his f¢ Ho ¢ 1 feel the wool atifften head thrust out toward the ape-man, the village. upon hia pate and a ; y run Thus he remained for an instant be- From #everal doo 1 ” aa tho had fore dd a joud “Loo!l"—which eyes watched him. and bis cold f ng wae intended to frighten was one of those whe b Mbonga went down with a scream of terror, Hoe was too frightened even to attempt defend himself. Hie Just Jay beneath hia antagonist in a paralysia of fe ecreaming at to rn the top of his lung Tarzan halt roxe atid kneeled above the black, He turned Mbonga over and fooked him t face, exposing man's throat; then he drew keen Lnife, the knife that ton Land pystoke, had brought from Kogland many years before. Mo raised it close above Mbonga’s neck ‘The old black whimpered with terror He pleaded for his life in a ti which Tarzan could not unde! For the first time the ape-man had a close view of the chief. He saw an old man, a very old man with y neck and wrinkled face—a dried, parebment-like face which re. ae elon of the littl monkeya arzan woso well, Ho saw. the rror in the man's eyes; nover be- fore had Tarzan seen such terror to of mony antmal or mich a pitcous appoal for mercy upon the of any creature, mothing stayed the ape-man'a hand for an instant. Ite wondored why It was that he hesitated to make the : nover before had he thus de- layed. The old roemed wither and shrink to a puny bag of man te bones beneath hin eves. So weak and helpless and terror-atrickon ho op- peared that t man was fille With great contempt: but another sensation also claimed him—som thing new to Tarza the Apes in relation to an enemy. It waa pity pity for a pror ened old man ‘ArZAN Pose ar ing Mb With he walked through himself into t which oy Asap Villagora, rned away, leav- bief unha the ner med man awung o tree and LL the way back to the atamping-ground of the apes Ta for an ex. planation of the strange power wh ut This hand and prevented f ng Mbonga. Tt wan as h greater than he had ' edd spare the life of ! 1. ‘Tarzan could not 1 h Ive ror no the authe » to him what he should d at 4 re n mht a ' t Kor- od tp i problem In euvens f food. Tarman 1 above as ! r « loam ! worms le r An ore i je " hohind his head, « wt R Its He 1 v ut light of th ~ had r cently penotruted to its ahady re treat, A thoussad times had Tarean of the Apes ¥ the beauteous miracle; but m 1a koener tnterest, for 1D was commencing to ask himself qu Gbout all the myriad wonders wh! heretofore be t taken 4 What mado the fower made tt grow fmm & full-blown blvon all? Why was he? lon camo f first tree? ‘way up into ¢ night eky to cast t pan pen? What ny bud to a y Was it at Numa How did Goro got darknose of the a welcome Nght the ry like Buto the rhinoceros? Where and bow, anyway, did they all come from the tres, the flowers, the insects, the countless creatures of the fungle? Quite unexpectedly an idea popped into Tarzan’s head, In following out the many ramifications of the dic- nary dofinition of God he had come upon the word create—“to cause to como Into existence; to form out of nothing.” Tarzan had almost arrived at eome- t tangible when a distant wail stared Lim from bis preoccupation into senatbility of the present and the real. The wall came from the Jungle at some little distance from ‘Tarzan's ewaying couch. It was the wall of @ tiny balu, Tarsan recog nized tt at once as the voice of Gazan, ‘Teoka'as baby, They had called tt Ganan because its soft, baby batr had been unsually red, and Gazan is ape for red ekin. ‘The wall was immediately followed by @ real acream of terror from the email lungs, Tarzan was electrified info Instant action, Like an arrow from & bow he shot through the trees in the direction of the sound. Ahead of Lim he heard the savage snarling of an adult she-apo. It was Teeka to the rescue. The danger must be very real. Tarzan could tell that by tho note of rage mingled with foar In the voloe of the ahe, Tunning along bending limbs, «winging from one tree to ancther, the ape-7nan raced through the mid- dle terrace toward the sounds which hed now risen in volume to deafen- ing proportions. From all directions the apes of Kerchak were burrying in response to the appeal in the tones of the balu and ita mother, and aa they came, thelr roara reverberated through the forest. Wut Tarzan, swifter than his hoavy followa, distanced them all, It was he who was first upon the ecens, What he saw ent a cold chill through his giant frame, for the enemy was the most hated and lonthed of all the Jungle creatures Twined in @ great tree was Histah the snake huge, ponderous, alimy; and in the folds of tt» deadly em- brace was Teeka's Uttle balu Gazan. Nothing in the jungle tnepired within the breast of Tarzan #o near a ser blance to fear as did the hideous Hin- tah, The apes, too, loathed the ter- rifying reptile and feared him oven more than they did Sheeta the pantt or Numa tho lon, Of all thelr enemies there waa none they fave a wider berth than they gave Histah the anake, ‘Tartan knew that Teeka was pe eullarly fearful of thie silent, repul- sive fos, and as the scene broke upon his vision, it was the action of Teeka which filled him with the greatest wonder, for at the moment that he aw her the ehe«ape leaped upon the glistening body of the snake, and as the migtty folds encircled her as well aa her offspring, sha made no effort to escape; instead she grasped the writhing body In @ futile effort to tear it from her screaming balu. ‘Tartan knew all too well how deep- rooted was Teeka’s terror of Histah, Ho could scarcely believe the test!- of his own eyes, when they him that she had voluntartly Into that deadly embrace. r wae Teeka's Innate dread of the monster much greater than Tarsan’s Never, willingly, had he touched 1 annke-why, he could not ey, for 1 admit fear of nothing: nor fear, but rather an inherent ropulwion bequeathed to him by many generations of clviliged ancestors, and back of them, perhaps, by count+ sa myriads of such as Teaka, Yet Tarzan did mony told own. we was it not hesitate more an had Teeka, but inaped upon Hiletah with all the apeed and | petuowity that he would have shown 1 hoe been springing upon Bara rT, to make a kill for food. Thus , the snake writhed and twisted horribly; but not for an instant did it loon {te hold upon any of ita in- tended victims, for it had Included the ape-man in ita cold embrace the {natant ho had fallen upon tt. Stl clinging to tho trea, the mighty reptile held the three as though they had been withon welght, the while it wought to crush the Iife from them Tarean had drawn bis knife, and this he now plunged rapidly into the body of the enemy; but the enctroling folds pram- ino to sap his Mfe before he hed tn- fiicted a death wound upon the epomy, Yet ou he fought; nor once but Histeh, tn turning his attention Upon the ape-man, brought his head within reach of Tarzan’s blade, In+ stantly a brown hand leaped forth and aeizod the mottled neck, and ate other drove the heavy hunting knife to tho hilt f he little brain, Convulsively Histah shuddered and relaxed, tensed and relaxed again, Whipping and striking with bis great body, but no longer sentient or senal- die, Iiistah was dead, but in his death throes he might castly despate @ dozen apes, Quickly Tarzan seized Teeka and dragged her from the loosened em- brece, dropping her to the ground beneath; then be extricated the bala @nd tossed it to its mother. Stil Hise tah whipped about, clinging to the @pe-man; but af @ dozen effo Targan succeeded In wriggling and leaping to the ground out of range of the mighty battering of the dying make, A circle of apes eurronnded the moene of the battle; but the moment that Tarzan broke safely from the enemy they turned silently away to Tesume thelr interrupted feeding, and ‘Teeka turned with them, apparently forgetful of all but ‘her balu and the fact that when the interruption hed occurred ahe had just discovered an tngentously hidden nest containing three perfectly good eggs, Tarzan, equally indifferent to @ battle that was over, merely cast @ Parting glance at the atlll writhing body of Histah and wandered off toward the little pool which served to water the tribe at this potnt. Strangely, he did not gtve the victory ery over the vanquished Histah, Why, he could not have told you, other than that to him Histah was not an animal. Ho differed in some peculiar way from the other denizens of the Jungle, Tarzan only knew that he hated him. At the pool Tarman drank his fm and lay atretched upon the soft grass beneath tho shade of a tree. His mind reverted to the battle with Histah the snake. It seomed strange to him thet Teeka should have placed herself within the folda of the horrid mon- ter, Why had she done it? Why, indeed, had he? ‘Treka did not be long to him, nor did Teeka's batu. They were both Taug’s. Why, then, had ho dono this thing? Histah was net food for him when he waa dead. ‘There reemed to Tarzan, now that he fave the matter thought, no reason in the world why he should have done the thing he did, and presently it occurred to him that he had aeted almost involuntarily, Just as he had acted when he had released the old gomangant, What made him do eich things? Somebody more powerful than he must force him to act at times. “All. powerful,” thought Tarzan, “The Uttle bugs my that God ts all-power- ful, It must be that God made me do theoe things, for I never di4 them by myneif, It was God who made Teeka mihh upon THistah. Teeka would never fo near Histah of her own volttion. It was God who held my knife from the throat of the old gomangant, God accomplishes strange things, for be {9 ‘all-powerful! I cannot aee him; but I know that {t must be God who form these things, No mangant, no gomangani, no tarmangar! could do them.” And the flowers Who makes them was all explained tho trees, the moon, the ow Ah, wer mun, himself, every Hving creature in the jungle was mado by God eut of nothing And what was God? What di God look like? Of that he had no concep- tion; but he was mire that every. thing that was good came from God; his good act in ining from slay- ing the poor and defenseleas old go- manranl; Teeka's love that had hurled her into the embrace of death; his own loyalty to Tecka, which had Jeopamiized his fo that she might lve, The fowors and the trees were good and beautiful. God had made them, He made the other creatures, tow that each might have food upon w to lve, the panth: He had made Sheeta with his beautiful coat, and Numa the lion, with his noble head ant shaggy mane. He had made Bara the deer, lovely and graceful, Yes, Tarzan had found God, and he spent the whole day in attributing to Him all of the good and beautiful things of nacure; but there was ene thing which troubled him: Who umde Histah the snake? ST ond Breer 3g