The evening world. Newspaper, March 9, 1918, Page 11

\\ Wi) ) SATURDAY, MARCH 9, TARZAN oF THE APES 1918 By Edgar Rice Burroughs ARZAN’S father and mother were Lord and Lady Graystok marooned by @ mutinou ship's crew on the African coast. Soon afterward Lady Greystoke's baby wae born, and for a year thereafter they lived alone in the jungle f to escape and unable to find or summon succor, The story of their recorded by Greystoke—up to the time his wife died. And life wi itness, unable » the next day, when his vigilance relaxed, a troop of giant anthropoid apes attacked and killed him. A female of these jungle folk had that day « n her own offspring dashed to death from a trae-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 English lord and an English lady was nursed at the breast of Kala, the great ap: human and half monkey in mind, Then he grew to manhood—half The Half-Human Heart of Tarzan Prompts the Ape Boy To a Noble Deed (Conyrtghted hy the Btory.Presa Corporation, All rights roserved,) ARZAN had been hunting. Now, having eaten of his kill, he was drinking deep at a jungle stream, Ag he quenched dis thirst another donizen of the Gloomy forest approached the stream @long tho path behind him. It was Numa the lion, tawny of body and Dlack of mano, scowling and sinister, ‘rumbling out low, coughing roars. Numa halted as he saw the man standing at tho very spot where the Ing would drink. His jaws were rted and his cruel eyes gleamed, He growled and advanced slowly. The man growled, too, backing slowly to one side and, watching, not the Niton’s faco, but its tail, Should that commence to move from side to side fn quick, nervous jerks it would be well to be upon the alert; and should ft rise suddenly erect, straight and atiff, thon ono might prepare to fight or fice. But tho tall did netther, and #0 Tarzan merely backed away and the lion came down and drank scarce fifty feet from where the man atood. To-morrow they might be at each other's throats, but to-day there ex- fated ono of those strange and Inex- plicable truces which are so often #oon among the savage ones of the jungle, Before Numa had finished drinking Tarzan had returned Into ‘#he forost and was swinging away In ‘the direction of the village of Mbonga, the black chief. It had deen at loast a month since the pe-man had called upon the Goman- gant. Not since he had restored Uttle Tivo to his grief-stricken mother ‘had the whim eelzed him to do no. It was not yet dark when he reached the village and took ny splace in the great tree overhanging the palisade. From beneath came a Arent wailing out of the depths of a nearby hut. he nolso fell disaxree- ably upon Tarzan's ears: it jarred “and grated. So he decided to go nway for a while in the hope that it might acoase; but though he was gone for 4 couple of hours, the w ng still con- tinued when he returned With the intention of putting « violent termination to the annoying sound, Tarzan slipped silently from the tree into the shadows bene Creeping stealthily and keeping well tn the cover of other huts, he ap- proached that from which rose the sounds of lamentation, A fire purned brightly before the doorway, as it did before other doorways tn the village A few females snuatted about, occa’ g thelr gourntul howlings to those of tbe inaster-artist within The ape-man smiled a stow smile as hoe thoucht of the consternation which would follow the quick leap that would carry him among the fe: males and into the full ight of the ‘fire. Then he would dart ot but during the excitement, throttic the chief screamer and be gone tnto the jungle before the blacks could gather their scattered nervos for an asrault. Tt was just os Tarzan was about to } spring forward with a savage ronr \ that a figure appeared tn the doorway "of the hut. It was the figure of the waller whom he had come to still, the figure of a young woman with a «wooden skewer through ¢ spilt . septum of her nose, with a heavy metal amen n Jower lip which tt had dragged dowa to hideous and repulsive defor with strange tattooing upon forehe: cheeks and sts i oolffure built up with mud and wire ‘A eudden flaro of the fire threw the 1, a wonderful re grotesque fire nigh relief, and Tarzan ognized her as Momaya, the mot! of Tibo. The fire also threw outa fitful far to the piek'r hadows acrys came tot t rT pof come toward hin, Instea ) ous, Momaya tire 1 “feet, reisiniy su ‘ ward hin. mutilat words compr ded. I 4 qmoment he | leoked “Cown upou the upturnes not one of w frightful face of the woman, Ho had come to slay, tit that overwhelming torrent of speech filled him with con~ asternation and with awe. Ho glanced about him apprehensively, then back at the wormn, A revulsion of fecling scized him, He could not kill ttle Tibo'a mother; nor could he stand and face this verbal geyser, With @ quick gesture of impatience at the spoiling of the evening’s entertain- ment, ho wheeled and leaped away into the darkness, A moment later he was swinging through black Jungle night, the cries and lamentations of Momaya growing fainter in the dis- tance, It wae with a sigh of relief that he finally reached a point from which he could no longer hear them, and, find- ing @ comfortable crotch high among the trees, he composed himself for a night of dreamless slumber, while a prowling Mon moaned and coughed beneath him, As Tarzan followed the fresh spoor of Horta the boar the following morning he came upon the tracks of two Gomangant, a large one and a little one, The ape-man, accus- tomed as he was to questioning closely all that fell to his percep- tions, paused to read the story writ- ten in the soft mud of the game-tratl. You or I would have seen little of in- terest there, even if, by chance, we could have seen aught. Perhaps had one been there to point them out to us, we might have noted indenta- tions in the mud; but there were countless indentations, one over- lapping another tnto confusion that would have been entirely meaning- less to us. To Tarzan each told tts own story, Tantor the elephant hi passed that way as recently aa three #uns since, Numa had hunted here the night just gone, and Horta tho boar had walked slowly along the trail within an hour; but what held ‘Turzan's attention was the spoor-tale of the Gomanganl, It told him that the day before an old man had gone toward the north, in company with a lttle boy, and that with them had been two hyenas, Tarzan scratched his head tn puz- zied incredulity. He could see by the overlapping of the footprints that the beasts had not been following the two, for sometimes one was ahead of them and one behind, and again both were in advance, or both were In the rea was very strange and quite tnexplicable, espectally whero the spoor showed where the hyen 6 wider portions of the path had walked one on either side of an pair, quite close to them, n Tarzan read in the spoor of t smaller Gomangant a shrinking ¢ ror of the beast that brushed his t of the old man was no sign of “Go-bu-balu!” exclaimed the ape- man, and at once memory flashed upon the gcreen of recollection the supplicating attitude of Momaya as had hurled hergelf before him in tho village of Mbonga the night be- fore, Instantly all was explained tho walling and gamentation, the pleading of the black mother, the mpathetio howling of the shes vbout the fire, The little Go-bu-balu had been stolen again, and this t by another Tarzan, Doubtless the mother had thought that he was again in the power of Tarzan of the Apes, and she had been beseeching him to return her balu to her It had all happened to little Tibo very sudde and unexpectedly, thin the brief span of two sung, st had come Bukawal, the witch. joctor, He had come alone and by day to the place at the river where Momaya went daily to wash her body and that of Tibo, her little boy. He had stepped out from behind a great bush quite close to Momaya, fright~ ening little Tibo so that he ran screaming to his mother's breast, But Momaya, though startled, h to face the fearsome thi 1 all the savage ferocity of a sh uger at bay, When she saw who it was, she breathed a sigh of partial relief, though she till clung tightly to Tih a ave come,” sald Bukawal with- inary, “for the three fat mat and the iy a tail which you wiaed me if L would cause the f copper wire as lox white Jungle-god to restore your boy father never had owned more than three goats at the eame time tn all his Tibo sniffed. The putrid old man would kill him and eat him, for the goats would nev- er be forthcoming. throw his bones to tho hy boy shuddered and became “I have no goats for you,” snapped “nor a sleeping-mat, Your medicine was never The white jungle-god gave You had nothing me back my Tibo, to do with !t." “But I did," mumbled Bukawal fleshiess jaws. I who commanded the white jungle- god to give back your Tivo.” Bukawal cuffed him on an ear and jerked him along. After what seemed an eternity to ‘Tibo, they arrived at the mouth of a cave between two rocky opening was low and narrow, saplings bound together with strips of rawhide closed “Speaker of Hea!” she cried, “go back to your foul den and your hyenas, Go back and hide your ugly faco the belly of the mountain, lest the sun, seeing it, cover his face with a it against stray Bukawal removed the primi- tive door and pushed Tho hyenas, snarling, him and were fost to view in the Dlackness of the Interior, the saplings and, Tibo roughly by the arm, dragged him along 4 narrow, rocky passage, The floor was comparatively smooth, for the dirt which lay tl trodden and many feet until few inequalities re- “I have come,” reiterated Bukawal, “for the three fat goats, @eeping-mat and the bit of copper wire the length of @ tall man’ which you were to pay me for the return of your Tibo “It was to be the length of a man’s forearm,” corrected Momaya, you shall have nothing, old thlef. You would not make medicine until I had brought the payment In ad- vance, and when I was returning ta my villago the great white jungle-god gave me back my Tibo—gave him to me out of the Jaws of Simba. medicine !# true medicin weak medicine rushed past tramped by ‘The passage wns tortuous, and as it very cark and the walls rough bruised from the many bumps he re. through the winding Ka would traverse “I have com 4 Bukawal or the three fat” Momaya had not waited to hear more what she already knew by heart. Clasping Tibo close to her side, she was hurrying away toward the palt- saded village of Mbonga the chief. turn as a mother knows t her child, and he seemed to be In @ poor little Tibo HE next day, when Momaya was working in the plantain field with others of the women of the tribe end little Tiho had deen playing at the edgo of the Jungle, casting a small spear In anticipation of the distant day when he should be a full fledged warrior, Bukawal had come again, Just behind the screen of creepers and matted follage lurked three hor- rid fgures—an old, old man, black as the pit, with a face half eaten away ‘by leprosy, his sharp filed teeth, the teeth of a ennnibal, showing yellow and repulsive through the great gap- Possibly a trifle more ruthlessly even at the p. ing hole where his moutt hideous, stood two po rom possessty Nature had given Kindler charactertst these fow tuto Shrewd, cunning, dictive was Bukawal the down, he ha the thickly of his litte growing yines nto the face witch-doctor him, muffling his ser 1. Tibo atrug- Presently Tibo neas ahead later they emerged {nto a r rocky celling ahead of them, waiting entered with A moment later 1 tled away through the dark and ter The hyenas were muffilng his screams and the two hid- pacing now now before, now A passed with- through tn a 1 Journey was thought no Bukawal took a at t white Jung d with rage at prayed with for Hukawal, fe Terror-stricken he had been then; but surroundings by comparison with those which he now endured, who now turned his atte This one he his heavy stick, st carrion-eaters them, striking out have them, « Several times one or the other of the beasts would turn to make a atand against the witeh-doctor, and then Tibo would hold his breath in agon~ ized terror, for never in hia brief life had he seen such frightful hatred de- picted upon the countenance of man or beast; but always fear overcame the rage of the savage creatures, #0 that they resumed their fight, anarl- ing and bare-fanged, just at the mo- ment that Tibo was certain they would spring at Bukawal's throat. Here the olf witch doctor was fully at home With a snarl quite as bestial as thoxe of the beaste, he turned toward Tibo. “I go to col- loct the ten fat goats, the new eleep- ing-mat and the two pleces of cop- per wire that your mother will pay for the medicine I shall make to bring you back to her,” he said. “You will stay here.” And he pointed toward the passage which they had followed to the chamber, “I will leave the hyenas. If you try to es- cape, they will eat you." He cast aside the atick and called to the beasts, They came, anariing and alinking, their tails between their less, Bukawat led them to the pas- sage and drove them into it. Then he dragged a rude lattice into place before the opening after he himself had left the chamber. “This will keep them from 4” he said, “If I do not get the ten fat goats and other things, they shall at least have a fow bones after | am through.” And he teft the boy to think over the mean- ing of hile all-too-suggeative words. When Hukawat was gone Tibo threw himself upon the earth floor and ke into sobs of terror and jonel ness, horror-ridden hours low way, Night came, a timo Tibo slept; but it the hungry beasts never cpt. Alwaya they stood just be- youd the jattice, growling thelr hid- rowls or jaughing thelr hideous ighs. Through the narrow rift in the rocky roof above him Tibo could TARZAN SEIZEO THE HYENA AND HURLED Bukawat whrumred hia shoulders. “What do I know about your child?” he asked, “I have not taken him If he ts etolen again, what should Bukawat know of the matter? Did Bukawat steal him before? No, the white Jungle-god stile him, and if he stole him once, he would steal him again. It ts nothing to me. I re- turned him to you before; and I have come for my pay, If he f# gone and you would have him returned, Bukawal will return for ten fat goate, a now sleeping mat and two pleces of copper wire the length of a tall man's arm from the shoulder to the tips of his fingers; and Bukawal will say nothing more nbout the goats and the siceping-mat and the copper wire which you were to pay for the firat medicine,” “Ten fat fonts!” screamed Mo- maya, “I could not pay you ten fat foate tn an many years, Ten fat gonta, Indeed!” “Ten fat goats,” repeated Bukawal, “Ton fat goats, the now sleeping-mat and two pieces of copper wire the longth of” Momaya stopped him with an tm- patient gesture, “Walt! #ho erled “I have no goats, You waste your breath, Stay here while I go to my man. He has but three goats; yet something may be done, Wait! Bukawal sat down beneath a tree, Ho felt quite cor for he knew that he should have elther payment or revenge. He did t fear harm at the hands of these people of an- other tribe, althouch he well knew that they 4 fear and hate him His leprosy alone would prevent thelr laying hands upon him, while his reputation as a w h-doctor ren- dered him doubly tinmune from at- tack. He was planning upon com- Pelling them to drive the ten goats to the mouth of his cave, when Mo- maya returned, With her were three warrlore—Mbonga the chief, abba Kega the village witeh-doctor, and Thoto, Tibo's father, Bukawal greet- ed them with an insolent stare a they came and squatted in a aemt- circle before him, “Where is Ibeto'’s gon? asked Mbonga. “How should I know?" returned Bukawat, “Doubtless the white dev- IT ACROSS THE CAVERN. {-god has him. If Lum patd, 1 will shall know where is Ihe a shall get him back my m 6 which pot him b the for which | r hay my own wit t Heine repl " ' wal f ar 4 feet "Very well,” b bin make his medicino and seo if he etn tring Ibeto's pon back.” Ife t 1 few steps away from them, and then he turned angrily back Hie me a few stars and once the moon crossed, It was er daylight that the child vered a second opening in the wills of the subterranean chamber, opposite that at which the hyenas still stood glaring hungrily at it was only a narrow elit to It might lead tn b a few foot it mlrht lead to fre fibo approached tt and looked " He could see nothing, He 1 his urm into blackness; but 1 not venture further, 1 { never have left open @ spe, Tibo reasoned, and so 4 pasiage Must lead either no- where of to eome ati bideous mor s that Ittle Tino y from real menaces, ary ones, He was frald even to venture upon @ road might lead to escape jest Bu iw had set to watch it geome trigitful demon of the jungle, the real menaces suddenly the Imaginary ones from the # mind, for with the coming of cht the half-famished hyenas tr efforts to break d F which kept the from tin. © upon Momayn out. palisade of Mbonga the f. At clght of him t woman w tb K IM revulsion; then she not bring the child ba that I know; 11 when you find tt out, tt w back, for he will be This 0 have Just found out, the ¢ ft father's sister havir t now come and told me.’ Mbonga A It Keen r not t hi t f a belng in it y if well known that old awa 1 peoeh with the de 4 th os and that two even Hyed w tho forma of th price to be 1 1 M ta had no intent ty th ten fut p * anid Mbonia, rorne of your mag that w ay know be good mag Then we can talk about payment, Habba Kega will make some magic tor © will kee who makes the better 1 ‘it wn, Bukawal ¢ me fire,” replied Hfukawal, “and 1 will make you 4 augic."* Momiya was dexpat for with itukaw t ‘Ten goats, he said a} for an able 1 He called Bukawat'y to the fact that he, Mbor N poor that his people ve that ten goats were too many, to say not 4 now PPL LLLP A TARZAN STORY SATURDAY, MARCH 9, EACH SATURDAY FOLLOW THIS STRANGE JUNGLE BOY IN HIS LIFE AMONG THE BE. TS OF AN AFRICAN WILD — WATCH HIS HUMAN MIND DEVELOP AND OVERCOME ALL EVERY STORY IN THIS SERIES IS COMPLETE sleeping-mat and the copper wire; but Bukawat was adamant. His medi- cine was very expensive, and he woul have to gly ast five gonta to the gods who helped him make tt They wero atill arguing when Mo- maya returued with the fra UKAWAT placed a@ little on the ground before him, took a pinch f powder from @ pouch at his side and sprinkled tt on the embers, A cloud of smoke rose with a puff: Bukawal closod his eyes and rocked back and forth, Then ho made a few passes in the alr and pretended to swoon. Mbonga and the others wero much Impressed. Rabba Kega grew ner- vous. He saw hin reputation waning, There was nome fire left In the veanel In which Momaya had brought it. He selzed tho vessel, dropped a handful whil one was watching and then uttered a fright- ful scream which drew the attention of Bukawal's audience to him, It of dry leaves Into t \lso brought Bukawal quite miracu- usly out of his ewoon, hut when the witeh-doector saw the reason for disturbance he quickly relapsed Into unconsciousness before any one ed hia faux pan. dha Kowa, seeing he had the at- tention of Mbonga, Meto and Me maya, blew suddenly into the veanel, with the result that the leaves com- to wmoulder, and smoko { sued from the mouth of the recep. facie, Rabba Kega was careful to hold ft ao t none might nea the dry leaves, Their eyes opened wide ut thiv remarkable demonstration of the village witch-doctor’s powers, ‘The latter, greatly elated, let bimaelf out. He shouted, Jumped up and down, mado frightful grimaces; then he put his face close over the mouth of the vessel and appeared to be communing with the epirite within, It was while ho was thas engaged that Hukawat came out of his trance, Nis curtosity Mnally having wotten the better of him. No one wan paying men liim the allghtest attention, He blinked his ono eye angrily; then he too let out @ loud roar, and when he war sure that Mbonga had turned toward him, he atiffened rigidly and mado spasmodic movements with his arms and * “Lace Dimi" he erted. “He ta tar away. The white devil-god did not m, Hoe ts alone and in great danger: but,” he added, “If the ten fat goata and the other thingy are pald to me quickly, there is yet time to ‘eo him. taba Kega had paused to tisten. Mbonga looked toward him, The chtef wax ina quandary. Ho did not know w med waa the bettor, “What os your magic tell yout he asked of Habba Kera. “T too see him," sereamed Rabba Kern: “but he ty not where Bukawal iya he ts, He is dead at the bot- m oof the river. At this Momaya commenced to how) Tarzan hat followed the spoor of old man, the two hyenan and the ttle Diack boy to the mouth of the ved th rocky canon between tho ere be paused @ mome the sapling barrier whieh Tn { hud net listening to the ind growly which came faintly 1 the far recesses of the cavern. exently, mingled with the beastly roa, there came faintly to the keen sof the ape-man the agonteed fa child, No longer did Hurling the door ang into the dark epen- fs. Narrow and black wan the cor vit long use of his eyes in in blackness of the Jungle ul given to the ape-man ¢ of the nocturnal visionary f the wild things with which ted since babyhood. » was dark, unfa t winding, As he advanced ore and more loudly the sof the two hyenas, min- 1 with the seraping and scratching t ryaws upon wood, The moans fa ! grew tn volume, and Tar- r zed in them t t k boy he had once Phere teria in the ape- s advan Too accustened 9 passing of life in thi by f the one whom he knew: tho lust for batUe spurred him wis only a wild beast at unt his wild beast's heart beat hamber of the h tre » Tho crouched i) w wall as far from the hun- 1 beasts as could drag lca giving to frant awing of the hyenas, " 8 tin a few minutes bis fo would flicker out horribly r yellow fangs of ne creatures, w the la Deneath the buffetings of the pow- erful bodies the lattice sagged tn- ward until, with « crash, it gave way, Intting the carntvora in upon the boy, Tibo cast one affrighted glanée toward them: then he closed his eves and buried his face in his arma, For a moment the hyenas paused, caution and cowardice holding them from their prey. They stood time glaring at the Ind; then slowly, stealthy, crouching, they crept to- ward him, It was thus that Tarzan came upon them, bursting Into the chamber ewiftly and ailently—but not so silently that the keen-eared be did not note his coming. With angry growls, they turned from Tibe upon the ape-man as, with a emilé upon his lips, he ran toward them. For an instant one of the animale rtood ite ground; but the ape-man did not deign even to draw hie hunting knife against despised Dango, Rushing In upon the brute, he grasped it by » scruff of the neck Just it attempted to dodge past him and hurled {t across the cavern after Its fellow, which already was slinking into the corridor bent upon escape. Then Tarzan picked Tibo from the floor, and when the child felt human hands upon him instead of the paws and fangs of the hyena he rolled his eyes upward in surprise and in- credulity; and as he recognised Tar- zan sobs of relief broke from the childish lps, and bis hands clutched at his deliverer as though the white dovii-god were not the most feared of Jungle creatures, When Tarzan came to the cave- mouth the hyenas were nowhere in eight, and after permitting Tibo to quench his thirst tn the spring which rose near by, he lifted the boy to his shoulders and set off toward the Jungle at a rapld trot, deter- mined to still the annoying howlings of Momaya as quickly ax possible, for he had shrewdly guessed that the absence of her balu was the cause of her Iamentation. - ¢ “He ts not dead at the bottom of the river," cried Bukawail, “What doen this fellow know about making magic? Who ta he, anyway, that he dare any Bukawal's magic ts not food magic? Bukawa!l sees Momaya'a son, He ts far away and alone and In great danger Hasten, then, with the ten fat goats, thet—— Hut ho got no further, There wae & gudden interruption from above, from the branches of the very tree beneath which they squatted, and as the five blacks looked up they al- most wwooned in fright as they saw the great white devil-god looking down upon them; but before they could flee they saw another face, that of the lost litte Tibo, and his face was laughing and very happy, And then Tarzan dropped fearlessly among them, the hoy atti! upon his back, and deposited him before hig mother, . Momaya, Iheto, Rabba Kega and Mbonga were all crowding around the lad trying to question him at the aiune time, Suddenly Momaya turned fall upon Bukawal, for it her all that he had uands of the cruel old awal Was no longer requl recourse to black art to ae: ! at the vicinity of Momaya would be no healthful place ter Tibo had told his and now he was running through ¢ an fast an 1 im toe where he know * pursue him, vanished, as he ha the mystin. at Momaya's eyes lighted upon Rabba Ke villagg tor saw son nh thos ve s which boded no Kool to vad backed away the woman shrieked, Way and alone and s he? Magtct’ Momaya crowded word would have Thespian of the Sret : ed!" abe show yau And with zed upon @ brokea Mmb Rabba Kegan across the & how! of pain the man fed, Momaya pursuing beating him ross thi eway and age street, to of tho ware women and the children. who were so forty as to witness the spectacle, for one and all feared Rabba Kega, and to fear is to hate, Thus it was that to his host of passive enemies Tar the Apes f both 1 awake long inte & means of revenge upon the deyil-sod who had brougtet, them iato r@¥pule and disrepute, amuseme added that day two a ot w the night planni ren