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

SATURDAY, MARCH 2, marooned by a mutinous ship Soon afterward Lady Greystoke's baby was born, and for a r thereafter they lived alone in the jungle fastness, unable to escape and unable to find or summon succor. life was recorded by Greystoke—up to the time his wife died. the next day, when his vigilance relaxed, a troop of giant anthropoid A female of th in her own offspring dashed to death from a tree-top, and mother instinct led her to snatch up the year-old child and Soon “hunger closed the gap between them, and the son of an English lord and an English lady was nursed at Teen father and mother were Lord and Lady Greystoke, y' @pes attacked and killed him, that day carry it off with her. the breast of K the great ap human and half monkey in mind, Driven by a Great Loneliness, 1918 _ TARZAN or tHe APES | y Edgar Rice Burroughs muscles against his own tndomitable crew on the African coast. The story of their but And jungle folk had Then he grew to manhood—half ta Tarzan Feels He Must Have Some One to Love Copyrighted, by The Story-Preas Corporation, All rifhte reserved.) ARZAN of the Apes sat at the foot of a great tr @ new grassy rope. lay the frayed remnants of t @l4 one, torn and severed by the fangs and talons of Cheeta tho panther. Only half tho original rope braiding ide him was there, the balnneo having been carried off by the angry cat as he bounded away through the jungle with the noose still about his savage meck and the end dragging brush. This would be the strongest, heaviest ropo that Tarzan ev: fashioned. Visions of Numa tho lion @training futilely in its embrace thrilled the ape-man. He content, for his hands and his brain were busy. Content, too, were his fellows of the tribo of Kerchak, searching for food in the clowring and the surrounding trees about him. No perplexing thoughts of tho future burdened thelr minds, and only ocen- alonally, dimly, arose recollections of the near past. At Tarzan worked, Gazan, Tecka's Nttle balu played about him, while Teeka sought food upon the opposite side of the clearing. No more did Toeka, the mother, or Taug, the sul- Jen sire, harbor suspicions of Tar- san’s intentions toward their first- born, Had he not courted death to save their Gazan from the fangs and talons of Sheeta? Did he not fonitie and cuddle the little one with even 4s great a show of affection as Teeka herself displayed? Their fears we ailayed, and Tarzan now found hir self often in the role of nurwemaid to @ tiny anthropold—an avocation which he found by no means irk- some, since Gazan was a never-fall- ing fount of surprises and entertain- ment. Just now the apeling was develop- ing those arboreal tendencies which ‘were to stand him in such good stead during the years of his youth, when rapid Might into the upper terraces ‘was of far more importance and value than bis undeveloped muacies and untried fighting fangs. Now he discovered the tall of the rope upom which Tarzan was work ing. Grasping it in one small hand, he bounced away, for all the world Mke an animated rubber bs snatching it from the apo-man's hands and scampering off across tl clearing, Tarzan leaped to his feat and was in pursuit in an instant, no trace of anger on his face or In his voice as he called to the roguish lit- tle balu to drop his rope. Btraight toward his mother raced Gaszan, and after bim came Tarzan Teoka looked up from her feoding, and in the first instant that she re- was quite alized that Gazan was fhe and that another was in} she bared her fangs and br 1; but when she saw that the pu r waa busi- Tarzan, she turned back to the ness that had been occupying her at- tention. At her very f man overhauled the balu, & e ape the youngster squealed and when Tarzan selzed him ‘Te glanced casually in their dir No longer did first born at tho hi man. Rescuing his to his tree and rv thereafter It was n¢ carefully the playful balu, w now possessed to i he thought his cousin was guard. But even under (hi gan finally cor Jong, pliant any he had ever w discarded piece of ft gave to Gazan for a pla i ™arzan had !t in his mind to jnstru Zoeka’s balu after ideas of was weapon, stronger than when the young r should 1 and strong enotgh to profit by | precepts. At present the 1 innate aptitude f mimiery wou be sufficient to famillarize Tarzan's way nd weap the ape-man swing off into the Jun gle, bis new rope coiled over @boulder, while lit Gaz 1 about the clearing draggin 1 one after him. As Tarzan travelled, dividing bis quest for food with one for a suf elently noble quarry where rt test his new weapon, his mind t hoat of tho of a tangled thicket close under the cool face of Beer of humanitariantem origin. was upon Gazan. The ape-man had be realized a deep affection for Toeka balu almost from the first, partly be- cause the child belonged to Toeka, his Morsel first ope's own sake, and Tarzan'’s human longing upon which to expend those natural affections of the soul which aro tn- herent to all normal members of the genus homo. love, and partly for the little Wh for some sentient creature Ho saw Sheeta and his mate with ir little family of three; and Ho deeper inland toward the rocky hils might He up during the day in the dense shade '"S where ¢ an over-hanging rock, rzan had found the Jair of Numa jon and of Sabor the Hones. Here he had watched them with their balus little playful creatures, ardiike. And he had ung fawn with Bara the with Buto the rhinoceros nly little one, Each of the and {ts ung: creatures of the jungle had its own— doer, atre except Tarzan. It made the ape-man sad to think upon this thing, sad and lonely; but presently the ecent of game cleared his young mind of all other considerations, and catlike he crawled far out upon a bending mb above the game-trail which led down t the ancient watering place of the wild things of this wild world, How many thousands of times had this great old limb bent to the savage form of somo bloodthirsty hunter in © long years that it 1 its branches leep-worn ingle path! ‘Tarzan ape-man, Sheeta the panther and Histah the it knew well. ‘They had worn the bark upon its upper sur- leafy above #moc face To-day it which was Vorta the boar down toward the the old tree—Horta the so formidable tusks and 1 temper preserved him from the most ferocious or most camo watcher tn boar, wi diatx ali but famished of the largest carntvora. Hut to Tarzan meat was meat; that was edible or tasty at pass a hungry Tarzan unohal- need unat In hung as In battle the ape-man outsavaged the most dread denizens of the jungle Ho knew neither fear nor m copt upon rare strange, inexplica’ hand—a force in perhaps, berause his own origi and erey, ox asions when some je foree stayed his xP ble to him, f his icnorance of and of all the forces and clvilization that were his heritage because of that So to-day, hand ind its way dropped his neck of He lent The inatead less of staying his formidable toward him, new n ta the be test for the untried strands angered boar bolted this way and that; but cach time the new ropr held him where Tarzan had made {t st about the stem of the cree above the branch from which he had cast { until a feast Tarzan about the It was an ex- wh Aa Worta grunted and charged, fr hing the sturdy jungle patriarch h his mighty suntil the bark y Im every direction, rzan pped to the ground behind him, In hand was a long, k k that had been his constant t npanion since at distant day he upon whioh chance had directed ent I nio the body of Holgani the tr 1 f ¥ iad else ma ert i arzan Ww in toward 1 wut » face t Ta Mighty 1 led as 4 the e¢ ing giant, it yet w © ap- He t maddest folly for him, a slender hunting he 4 © formidable a crea ¢ t © boar » tt would but to one who knew hin buy and Tarzan not it Tlorta stood motions of t © ape-man. His wick flashed eater!" angr Jeored the filth! To-day 1 st ir heart, O Lord of the Great that it shall kee pounds again wer in savage that own ribs. understand): Ave moved: moved the gre: drove the long blade of his fathe hunting knife straight ot Horta the boar. ried him from the gone of the crea- ture’s death hot Horta was in h ar village Inge the was ev in washing, tive t soar eavagery, and he ¢ Tarzan the up-cut the Ape of a open Just tho leas 80 quickly slugganl by comparison; hoe stooped low power throes, seek for sleop as way, through the Jungle more in scarch of adventure than of food, for he was restless. And so It turned his footsteps toward tho of Mbonga, whose people T sine antics nus and keen sport the sluggish eros the sun. there were the shes and the balus of the black men, of the gomangant, to frighten as wicked tusk thigh; th ) that A quick and a and dripping heart of grasp Nttlo Asure of Duro the ed watted until would n he gz was a and as he nd with a his right arm nto the heart leap car- moment IS hunger satisfied, Tarzan aid lying-up was place sometimes continued on to-day rane that the black chief had batted re- that day upon Kulonga, the chief's son, had slain Kala. A river winds close beside the vil- black tts side a r re squat huts of the black folk, The river-life r fascinating to the ape-man. Tarzan below the men the thatched watching the hippo- torment a8 too, rdile Then they aquatted by the shes the balus with thelr primt- Tarzan woman and her child further down- Tho former was for a epectes of shalifish an usual. came thetr mengre upon a the mud nk. She was a f about thirt larp points, flesh of man at i xor roa r walat. Al vutiful in even In the of Mbonen’, other pe 1 in } nan but w en a whit ho was of that 1 the eart (ke an ex » he had out the noosa Tho'two before him, all ignorant of the near presence of that terrifying form, continued pre- occupled in the wearch for shellfish, poking about In the mud with short sticks. Tarzan stepped Into tha open behind them; this noosa lay open upon the ground beside him, There was a quick t of the right arm, and tho noose rosa gracefully into tha alr, hovered an instant above the head of the unsuspecting child—then settled, As it enc assed the boy's body be- low the shoulders Tarzan gave a quick jerk that tightened it about the boy's arms, pintoning them to hie aide. A scream of terror broke from the jad's ps, and as his mother turned, affrighted at his ery, she saw him be- ing dragged quickly toward @ great white giant who stood just beneath the shade of a nearby tree, scarcely ® dozen long paces from her, With a savage ory of terror and rage the woman leaped fearlessly toward the ape-man. In her mien Tarzan saw determination and cour- age which would shrink not even from noveme death Itael She was very hideous and frightful even when her face was tn repose; but convulsed by passton her expression becaine territyingly fiendish. Even the ape-man drew back, but more tn revulsion than fear —fear ho knew not Biting and kick! sho's balu as Tar his a s was the black tucked him be- n and vanished into the hes hanging low above him—just as the infuriated mothor dashed for- ward to seize and do battle with him, And as ho meliod away into the depth of the junglo with hia still struggling prize, he meditated upon the possibil- ities which might Ila in the prowess of the gomangani wore the hes as formidable as the shes Once at a safe distance from the de- spoiled mother and out of earshot of her ecreams and menaces, Tarzan k-he-bat u of a batie “The sut tbo could not under ut erled for hia mamma and b great whi {to r ' wto baa 1 f hla 4 wise t hook blah » word unde This would 1 Bo-bu-balu a ja which sounded Ike ta o hin f up r ve the er and 1 to fol t gt t dwopt. I ‘ 1 ah ad d H y "¢ n hea 1 od A aequ Kade I 1 t t T s raplaly thr tightly to his shoulders, He waa fair- ly In the midst of them before Tibo spied a single one of the great hairy forms, or before the apes realized that Tarzan was not alone. When they saw the little gomangani perched ipon his back somo of them came for- ward in curiosity with upeurled lips and snarling mien, Tibo could only stare in wide-eyed horror at the approaching apes, He saw thelr bectling brows, their great fangs, thelr wicked eyes. Ho noted their mighty muscles rolling beneath thetr shagey hides, Their every at- titude and expression was a menace, Tarzan saw this, too, He drew Tibo around in front of him. “This 19 ‘Tarzan’s go-bu-balu,” he sald, “Do not harm him, or Tartan will kill you,” "It {9 a gomangant,” replied the ape, “Let me kill ft. It is a goman- gant. The gomangan! are our ene- mites. Let mo kilt tt." “Go away,” snarled Tarzan. “T tell you, Gunto, {t fs Tarzan’s balu. Go way, or Tarzan will kill you.” And the ape-man took @ step toward tho ad Ing ape. Tho latter sldled off, quite stift ant haughty, after the manner of @ dog which meets another and {s too proud to fight and too fearful to turn his back and run. Next camo Teeka, prompted by curlosity, At her aide skipped little Gavan, ‘They were filled with wonder like the others; but bare hor fangs, motioned that did not Tarzan saw this and @ho approach, “Tarzan has a balu now," he sald. “He and Teeka’s balu can play to- gether.” It a gomangant,” replied Tecka. ‘It will kill my balu. Take tt away, Tr Vs ‘Tarzan harm Pamba the rat, Zan sughed. "it could not “Tt ta he said. had quccecded in partially subduing her anger, she gave herself over to thought, as she had #o often done since the abduction of her Tibo, In the hope that she might finally dia- cover gome feasible means of locat- Ing him, or at least assuring herself as to whether ho were alive or dead It was known to the blacks that Tarzan did not eat the flesh of man, for he bad slain more than one of their number, yet never had tasted the flesh of any. The bodies always had been found, eometimes dropping as though from the clouds to alight In the centre of the village, As Tibo's body had not been found, Momaya argued that he etill lived; but where? ‘Thon it was that there came to her mind @ recollection of Bukawal the unclean, who dwelt In @ cave in the hillside to the north and who, It was well known, entertained devils in his evil lair, Now it wan that Momaya reasoned shrewdly that if any might know the whereabouts of her Tibo it would be Bukawal who was in friendly in- tercourse with gods and demons since a demon or a god it was who had stolen her baby; but even her great mother love was sorely taxed to find tho courage to send her forth into the black Jungle toward tho di tant bills and the uncanny abode of Bukawal the unclean and his devils. Until after dark Momaya bided her time; then, just before the gates of the village were closed, sho slipp through Into the darkness and th bho net her face resolutely toward the north; and though sho paused often to listen, breathlessly, for the gr cats which here were her greatest terror, she nevertheless continued on her way stanchly for several hours until a low moan a little to her right and behind her brought her to a sud- den atop. A HEAVY HUNTING SPEAR HURTLED THROUGH THE AIR TO MEET THE LION IN MID-LEAP, Dut a ttle balu and very frightened. Lat Goran play with It," During the week which followed, Tarzan nd his th much occu ped, Hila batu & greater re- eponalbility had counted ipon. Not for a m Nd he dare eave It, sine Nh the tribe Teek ded u was than he ment le could have been d » refrain from slaying had itr onstant wateh fulness, d not know what to 4o. 4 of English blood ren. n to con- apless for Tarzana lack heen fer a 4 project gh he Admit te uu was not all that 4 bi boy passed by de error ont t rzan rustfulness an Imiration, Only eas bad he Sap! teaalved cat. RHA: Randa Gerth reat wh ptor could de \ Targa wk TH ‘ e t sea f n with rea ple finding M of usband’s a further 7 of two more able him With palpitating heart the woman stood, scarce daring to breathe; and then, very faintly but ukuble to her keen ears, the steulthy crunching of ne unm eaine twigs and gras th padded ten about Momaya er trees of the tropical jung with honging vines and m ! upon tho nonrest and atarted lamber, apo ike, to the branches ve, As sho did so, there was a den rush of « great body behind her, @ menacing roar that caused earth to w the ereat fextooned Au tremble, and ed into the very croepers to which she was clin something on ARZAN of the Apes, f 3 that Me balay give evidence of terror presence of the tribe, and also that m ‘pes were @ constant jo-mu-halu's life, #0 1 not leave bh k to hunting with the boy furt furt nping mrounds « th \s @ by Httle his absences: trom grew in length ua he wan further a . n them, uly he found bimeeif a greater stance to the ne he had ver before hunted; and with wate and ample game and frult, he felt not at all inclined to return to the As the two hunted, or rath as Tarzan hunted an Goebu 4 1 along n his w b t n man ught much. Once they ea yor the Honess moaning In th grass, About her romped and played two Httle bails of fur, but be yes were for one which lay between her great forepaws and did not p, one wihilech never would romp mati read afieht the anguish and A TARZAN STORY EACH SATURDAY FOLLOW THIS STRANGE JUNGLE BOY IN HIS LIF, WILD — W. AND OVERCOME ALL AMONG THE BEASTS OF AN AFRICAN TCH HIS HUMAN MIND DEVELOP EVERY STORY IN THIS SERIES IS COMPLETE Ho had been minded to batt her, Tt was to do this that he had sneaked silently through the trees until he had come alm * her; but something held the ape-man as he saw the Honess grieving over her dead cub, With the acquisition of Go-bu-balu, Tarzan had come to re- alize the responsibilities and sorrows of parentage, without its joys, His heart went out to Sabor as tt might not have done a fow weeks before. As he watched hor, there rose quite uns bidden before him a vision of Mo- maya, the skewer through the septum of her nose, hor pendulous underlip sageing beneath the weleht whicb dragged tt down. Tarzan saw not her unloveliness; he saw only the samo anguish that was Sobor's, and at&t he winced ITH a shake of his black shock, Tarzan turned away and resumed his hunting in another direction but all day there rose one after another above the threshold of hiv objective mind memory portratts of Sabor, Mo- maya and of Teeka—a Honens, a can- nibal and a she-ape; yet to the ape- an they identical through erhood It was noon of the third day when Momaya came within aight of the eRvo of Bukawal the unclean From the interior of the cave came hideous laughter that was not laurh- tor, But savage Momaya recognized {t for what it was; the strange cry of a hyena. No more did she shud- deri but sho held her spear ready and called aloud to Bukawai to come out, Instead of Bukawai came pulsive head of a hyena, Momaya poked at it with her spear, and the ugly, sullen brute drew back with an angry growl Again 1 Bukawal by name, and time there came an answer tn mumbling tones that were searco more human than those of the benst “Who comes to Bukawai™ qterted the voles, “It is Momaya,” replied the woman. fomaya from the village of Mbonga chief.” “What do you want?” “I want good medicine, better med fefne than Mbonga’s witch doctor can make,” replied Momaya. “Tho great white Jungle god has stolen my 'Tibo and T want meMetne to bring him back, or to find where he is hidden, that [ may go and get him.” “Who ts Tibo?” asked Hukawal Momaya told him “Bukawai'e medicine ta very strong,” said the voice. and a new sleoping enough in exchange for E medicine,” were my the re. Momaya cs this “Five ts mat are scarce ukawal “Two goats are enough,” sald Mo- maya, for the barter ts strong in the broaat of the blacks apirit. of The pleasure of haggling over the price was a suffictontly potent lure to draw Bukawat to the mouth of cave. Momaya was sorry, when saw him, that he had not remained within ive Koate and a new sleeping mat,” mumbled Rukawat. fat gouty and a al : Momoya raised her bid; but wai was obdurate, He stuck for he flve goats and the sleeping mat ur, while the ywled maya waa that Bukawal Merling ine nature nok and in dit part f 5 npromisg ¥ tw Included fo 1 palate so gr uk Hara with Go-sbu-t wa he question, a 1 1 « from view, and sot off awiftly and ently u pour of Bara. 1 " h more t than T ql * #F a i ant waioa we ima a but a tu s 1 nt urd K Approach rough x He t A 1 CU w A stopped Into fu hk ASE Tibo t t pereh and 1 M ma arto od ‘ ‘ 1 la ‘ rs ! 1 jehen t ne and hot tears of Joy mingled with the tears of Tibo that trickled down ¢he crease between her naked breast, A vagrant breeze, swirling eud- denly in the wrong direction, carted the scent of Tarzan to the sensitive nostrils of Bara the deer. There was ® startled tensing of muscles and cocking of ears, a sudden dash—and Tarzan's meat was gone. The ape- man shook his head angrily end turned back toward the spot where he had left Go-bu-balu. Te came softly, as wos his way. Before he reached the spot he heard strange sounds—the sou dd of a woman laugh- woman weeping, and the to come from one throat were mingled with tho convul- five sobbing of a child, Tarzan has ing and of two whioh s tened, and when Tarzan hastened, only the bins and the wind went faster As Tarzan approached the sounde, he heard another, a deep sigh. Mo- maya did not hear it; nor did Tibe; but the ears of Tarzan were as the ears of Bara the deer. He heard the vlgh, and so he unloosed the heavy ur which dangled at his Decl ven an he sped through = the branches of tho treos, Tarzan of the Apes took his spear from its thong, that tt it be ready against any emergency Numa tho lon did not rush madly to attack, He reasoned again, and reason told him that already the prey was his; and so he pushed his great bulk through the foliage and stood eying his meat with baleful, glaring eyes Momaya sxw him and aebrieked, drawing ‘Tibo closer to her breast. To have found her child and to lose him. | in a moment! She raised her throwing her hand far back of her shoulder uma roared and stopr slowly forward, Momaya t her weapon. Tt grazed the tawny shoulder, inflicting a wound which aroused all the fury of the #t, and the lon charmed. Momaya tried to close her eyes But Id not. Sho saw the flashing finess of the huge oncoming death and then she saw something else, She saw a mighty, naked white man drop 49 from the heavens Into the path of the charging Hon. She saw the Muscles of a great arm flash In the Neht of the equatorial sun.’ She saw a heavy bunting spear hurtle through the air to meet the lion In mid-leap, Numa brought up upon hie haunches, roaring terribly and strike fleah ng at the spear which protruded from his breast. His great blows bent and twisted the weapon, Tare zan, crouching and with hunting knife in hand, circled warily about the frengied Momaya, wides tood root ing, fascinated. In sudden fury 1 to the spot, watehs Numa hurled Bim- ape-man; but the uded the biundering stepping quickly, only te In upon his foe Twice the blade flayhed in the alr, ipon the back of Numa, weakening from the speat ir hia heart. ‘The second read fair Into { with @ last forearms tn ho ohis tor: upon the are Mor ; hat the low wah ry, gazed with snes. The his savage There Taran f some ause of 1 fa upon the He did not peech of Ker Mo ke mo tree > and h Mo- o angle! \ Momaya, my days * 1 before me of Mbonga, » village follow 8 you to bie thetr nd started art of Mo~ a1 a great jad she ! ver had ined lite thin | again, ry b bargaia, vg hls ae