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

‘Miiuaaaee SATURDAY, year thereafter th to escape and unadi life was the next d. @pes attacked and killed him. that to find n her own offepring earry it off with he: (Oorrrieht HD Blacks of the village of Mbongi the chief were feast- ing, while above them in a largo tree sat Tarzan of the Apes—grim, terrible, empty @n@ envious. Hunting had proved Poor that day, for there are lean days Qe well as fat for even the greatest of the jungle hunters, Frequently ‘Tarzan went empty for more than a full eun, and he had passed through entire moons during which he had hyed but barely able to stave off ation; but such times were in- frequent, There had once been @ period of jckness among the grass-caters Pyrenton had left the plains bare of @ame for several years; and once there had been another period when "the great cats had increased so rap- fly and so overrun the country that thetr prey, which was also Tarzan's, had been frightened off for @ consid- erable time. ! But for the most part Tarzan had fod well always, To-day, though, he had gone empty, one misfortune fol- lowing another as rapidly as he raised mew quarry, so that now, as he sat “perehed in the tree above the feast- blacks, he experienced all the es of famine, and his hatred for Is Iifelong enemies waxed strong in bie breast. It was tantalizing, Indeed, fo wit there hungry while these go- mangant fiilod themselves so full of @ood that their stomachs seemed al- most upon the point of bursting—and ‘grith elephant-steaks at that! %e was true that Tarzan and Tantor ‘wore the best of friends, and that ‘Tarzan never yet had tasted the flesh of the clephant; but the goman- had slain one, and as gant evident they were eating of the flesh of their {1 Tarzan was assailed by no doubts tae to the ethics of his doing likewise, Had ghould he have the opportunity. fae known the a died ‘ef soko: ro the h biacks discover enrcass he * might not have been 80 keen to par- take of the feast. What he was at this moment was 4 \wery hungry wild beast whom caution was holding tn leash, for the great eooking-pot in the centre of the vil- lage was surrounded by black war- not even Tarzan hope to pasa un- sary, there- riors through w of the Apes t's harmed, It would be nece ,fore, for the watcher to remain there hungry until the bincks had forged themselves to stupor, and then, if they had left an ips, to make the best meal he could from their lea {ags} but to the impatient Tarzan it seemed tho greedy somancant would father burst that leave the feast bee fore the last morsel had bt voured. For a broke monotony of eat de- the s by executing tions of a n e, &@ mae noeuvre whi Miciently stimulated digestion to it them to fall to onge more with renewed vigor; but, with the consumption of arpalling pat and na- me too tive beer, the logy for phys! jeome reaching « longer could but lay any sort, y no great co t m: ves into unconsciousness. \ It was w * Tarzan cou the end of now f atill persisted Tarzan had no dou t he could easily handfu noses, But a | he wanted; 1 achful would al ing of t therefore in pe At t but a mained bis low © wrink ag st of a He must to forage or res 1 old fele was now t as the head evidences of great Alscomfort and even he would crawl toward the pot and drag hime acif slowly to his knees, from which position he could reach into the recep> \ tacle and ay en he would rol! ha Joud groan and lic there while Belowly forced tho food between his d st eeth and Gov m+ sto his gorg MARCH TARZAN 2, APES By Edgar lice Burroughs Toes father and mother were Lord and Lady Greystoke, n marsoned by @ mutinous ehip Boon afterward Lady Greystok ‘ey lived alone in the jungle fastness, unab! 1 summon succor, corded by Greystoke—up to the time his wife died. jay, when his vigilance selaxed, @ troop of giant anthropoid fem and mother instinct led her to snatch up the y 23, 1918 crow on the African coast. ‘baby wi born, and for a The story of thoir And of those jungle folk had dashed to death from a tree-top, r-old child and Soon “hunger closed the gap between th and the son of an English lord and an Engli aay wes | at the breast of Kala, the great ape.” human and half monkey in mind. h lady was nureed at Then he grew to manhood—half Tarzan Has a Strange Experience And Makes a Resolution For the Future by the Btory.Prese Corporation, All rizhta reserved.) It was evident to Tarzan that the old fellow would eat until he died or until there was no more meat, The ape-man shook his head in disgust. What poor creatures are these go- mangani! Yet of all the junglefolk they alone resempied Tarzan closely in form. Tarzan was a man; and they too must be some manner of men—just as the little monkeys and the great apes and Bolgant the gorilla wore quite evidently of one great family, though differing in size and @ppearance and customs. Tarzan was ashamed, for of all beasts of the Jungle, then, man was the most dis- gusting—man and Dango the hyena, Only man and Dango ate until they swelled up like dead rate, Tarzan had seen Dango eat his way into the carcass of a dead elephant, and then continue to eat so much that he had been unable to get out of the hole through which he had entered, Now he could readily belleve that man, given the opportunity, would do the same. Man, too, was the moss une lovely of creatures—with his skinny legs and his big stomach, his filed teeth and his thick, red Hps, Man was disgusting. Tarzan's gaze was riveted upon the hideous old warrior wallowing beneath him. There! The thing was struggling to its knees to reach for another mor- sel of flesh. It groaned aloud in pain, and yet It persisted in eating, eating, ‘arean could endure it ever é no lonrer—neither his hunger nor his disgust. Sileny he slipped to the ground, with the bole of the great tree between himself and the feaster, he man was ing, bent al- most double in agony, before the cooking-pot. His back was toward Swiftly and noiseless! Th the ape-mon Tarzan approached him. e was the black The strugsie was short, for the man was old and a ready hi of the go a rzan dropped the inert mans and ored several large pieces of meat from the cooking-pot—enough to sat- lofy even his great hunger; then he raised tho body of the feaster and shoved It into the ve: When the other blacks awoke they would have something to think about! ‘Tarzan grinned. As ho turned toward the tree with his meat he picked up a ves- sel containing beer and raised it to his Ips, but at the first taste he spat the stuff from mouth and tossed the primitive tankard aside. He was quite sure that even Dango would draw the line at such drink as t . and his contempt for man increased with the conviction, T swung off tnto the Jungle some half-mile or so before he paused te partake of his stolen food. He noticed that it gaye forth a strange and unpleasant odor, but assumed that this was due to the fact that tt had stood in a vessel of water above a fire. Tarzan was, of course, unac- customed to cooked food, He not Like it; but he was very hun~ y and had eaten a c ler- portion of his haul before tt was really borne in upon him that t ff was nauseating, It required loss than he had imagined to ratisty his appetite 1 t ? to the ground, croteh rily 18 t curls twisted, for at the pit of was a peculiar feeling th 1 noth losely than o pt the part of the fragments of it-meat reposing there to come out ht and search for t nt Tarzan W n 1 4 teot 1 held them back, He was not to be rolbed of his meal afte > long to obtain {t, He had succeeded tn dozing when the roaring of a lion awoke him, He ut up to discover that It w 1 daylight, Tarzan rubbed eyes Could it be that he had really slept? Ho did not f partion re reshed, as he should have after a cep. A noise attracted his at- n, and he looked down to @ Nom standing at the foot of the tree gazing hunerily at him. Tarzan made a fo at the king of beasts; Whereat Numa, greatly to the ape- man's surprise, started to climb up into the branches toward him, Now, never before had Tarzan seen a lion climb a tree; yet for some unac- countable reason he was not greatly surprised that this particular lon should do so. As the lion elimbed slowly toward him, Tarzan sought hi, r branches; but to his chagrin he discovered that it was with the utmost diMfculty that he could climb atall, Again and again he slipped back, losing all that he had gained, while the lon kept steadily at his climbing, coming ever closer and closer to the ape-man, Tarzan could ree the hungry Ught in the yellow-green eyes. He could eo the slaver on the drooping jowls, and the great fangs agape to seize and destroy him, Claw desperately, the ape-man at last succeeded tn gulning @ littl yon his pursuer, He reached the more slender branches far aloft, where he well knew no lion could follo yet on and on came devil- faced Numa, It was incredible; but it was true, Yet what most ama Tarzan was that though he re: the Incredibility of it all, he at the same time took ft all as a matter of course—first that a lion should climb at all, and second that he should enter the upper terraces where even Sheeta the panther dared not go. To the very top of the tall tree the ape-man clawed his awkward way, and after him came Numa the lon, moaning dismatly, At last Tarzan stood balanced upon the very utmost Pinnacle of a swaying branch, high above the forest, He could go no further, Below him the Hon came steadily upward, and Tarzan of the Apes realized that at last the end had come. Ho could not do battle upon a tiny branch with Numa the lion, especially with such a Numa, to which swaying branches two hundred feet above the ground provided as substantial footing as the ground Itself, rer and nearer came the lon, Another moment, and he could reach up with great paw and drag the ape-man downward to those awful jaws, A irring 1 above his head cuused Tarzan to glance aps prehensively up A great bird was clr ve him, He had never see a bird in all t zed it ims . for had he not seen tt ft eof the books « cat by the landlocked bay—t) ) bin that with {ts contents way the sole heritara left by big dead and unknown father : i toke? In the picture the great bird was Kho far above the Br ya Bn id in its ' ; 8 be 1 a distracted rn ' tow F a hands, The ‘ hing forth a taloned paw t raan when the 1 F ried no less tulons r va ba The y was but it was y fs it the ape. r ! t 1 from the 1 t Ww ty of wings, th rd r 1 for est lay ' argan ¢ dizzy to down from his eyes thyht 1} eath, Highor and b ed the hui 1 z eyes, 1 J f he could ir ow 1 quite close wae 4 i i vached out his Vy . for they were VE 1, TE iden mad- ness ¢ him re was the bird t mn? W to submit thus passively to ed creas ture, | er ¢ Was he, to die without s a blow in his trom “his gee-strng and thrusting upward, drove it once, twice, thrice into the breast above him, Th mighty wings fluttered a few me ) spasmodically; o the talons re- laxed their hold—and Tarzan of the Apes fell hurtling downward toward the distant jungle. T seemed to the ane-man that he fell for many minutes before he crashed through the leafy ver- dure of the tree-tops. The small- er branches broke his fall, so that he came to rest for an instant upon the very branch upon which he had sought slumber the previous night. For an instant he toppled there in @ fiantic attempt to regain his equl- librium; at last he rolled off, and yet, clutching wildly, he succeeded in grasping the branch and hanging on. Once more he opened his eyes, which he had closed during the fall. Again it was night With all his old agility he clambered back to the crotch from which he had toppled. selow him a Hon roared, and looking downward, Tarzan could see the yel- low-green eyes shining in the moons Night as they bored hungrily upward through the darkness of the jungle night toward him. ‘The ape-man gasped for breath, Cold sweat stood out from every pore; there was a great sickness at the pit of Tarzan’s stomach. ‘Tarzan of the Apes had dreamed his first dream, For « long time Tarzan nat watch- ing for Numa to climb into the troe after him and listening for the sound of the great wings from above, for to Tarzan of the Apes his dream was a reality, He could not believe what he had WK witnessed another remarkable hap- pening, It was indeed quite prepos- terous; yet he aaw it all with his own eyes: it was nothing less than Histah the snake wreathing his sinu- ous and slimy way up the bole of the tree below him—Histah, with the head of the old man Tarzan had shoved Into the cooking-pot, the head Kk, distended mach. As the old man's frightful with upturned eyes, set and y, came close to Tarzan the jaws ned to seize him, The ape-man struck furiously at the hideous face, and, as he struck, the apparition dis- apr eared, Tarzan sat atraight up upon his branch, trembling in every limb, wide- eyed and panting, He looked all around him with his keen, jung! trained eyes, but he saw naught of the old man with the body of Histah the snake; but on his naked thigh the apo-man saw a caterpillar, dropped from @ branch above him, With a grimace he flicked it off into the darkness beneath, So the night wore on, dream follow- ing dream, nightmare following night- mare, until the distracted ape-man started like a frightened deer at the rustling of the wind in the trees about him, or leaped to his feet as the uncanny laugh of @ hyena burst suddenly upon a momentary jungle silence, But at last the tardy morn- ing broke, and a sick and feverish yan wound sluggishly through the dank and gloomy mazes of the forest {n search of water. lis whole body seemed on fire; @ great sickness surged upward to his throat, He saw and the round, tight, t st co, gins » WHIRLING THE APE-MAN ACROSS A HAIRY SHOULDER, THE GORILLA TURNED, DASHED OUT INTO THE OPEN AND BORE TARZAN AWAY, Been; and yet, having th idence of hi rin all his life had T zan's senses ¢ en even these uid not ma, he ¢ ceived 890, naturally, he bh them, Each pe ever been transmit ‘ had been, with true pe ve of the ing appar ¥ passed thr ich a welrd adv re in which nO grain of truth, a BLO disordered by decayed e tefl @ Non roaring in the ju ay ture ¢ and sleep sd truly portrayed all the c te tails of what he had seemingly exper enced was quite beyond aw edge; yet he knew that Numa could not ec > a tree; he k ox d in the Jungle no such bir he had seen; and he knew, he could not have fallen a@ tiny fr tion of the distance he had hurtled downward and lived, To say the least, he was a very puzzled Tarzan as he tried to cor pose } f once more for slum? a very puzzled and a very nause Tarz As he thought deeply upon t wtrange occurrences of the might Le a tonele of al ost and like the 1 into it impenetrable wild beast he to die alone attacks of een, safe from ry carnivora, t Tarzan did n t te ralong ly na- ed st ch re- es in their the ape 1 thera- man broke rspiration and then and untroubled ted well Into the When ho awoke he found If weak but no longer sick. Once more ht water, and after ng deeply he took his way slow- 1 the the sea. In ‘ of Loneliness and trouble it had his custom to seek there t and restfulness which he > a normal which pers he sou, cabin by 1 find nowhere el A a ached the cabin and uived the crude latch which his father hud fashioned so many yeare before, small, bloodshot eyes watched him from the concealing follage of the le close by, From beneath shag- etling brows they glared mall- y upon him, maliciously and a keen curiosit Tarzan 1 the cabin and closed the door him dicre, with all the world shut out from him, Tarzan could dream with- out fear of interruption, He could curl up and look at the pictures In the strange thines which were books; he could puzzle out the printed word ho had learned to read without knowledge of the spoken language It represented; he could live in a won- erful world of which he had no knowledge beyond the covers of his boloved books. To-day Tarzan turned to the plo- ture of the huge bind which bore off tho little Tarmangani tn tts talons, Tarzan puckered his brows as he ex- amined the colored print, Yes, this was the very bird that had carried him off the day before, for to Tarzan the dream had been #o erent @ reality that he atill thourht another day and A night had passed since he had lain down in the tree to sleep. Thus, with a dream, came the first faint tinge of a knowledge of fear, a knowledge which Tarzan, awake, had never experienced. Perhaps he was experiencing what his early forbears passed throurh and transmitted to posterity in the form of superstitition first and religion later; for they, as Tarzan, had seen things at night which they could not explain by the daylight standard of sense-perception or of reason, As Tarzan concentrated his mind on the little bugs upon the printed page before him, the active recollec- tlon of his strange adventures pres- ently merged into the text of that which he was reading—a story of Bolgant the gorilla in captivity. There wag @ more or less Hfelike tlustra- tion of Bolgani tn colors, and in a ene, with many remarkable looking tarmangan! standing against a rat! and peering curiously at the snarling brute, Tarzan wondered not a little, as ho always did, at the odd and seemingly uscless array of colored plumage which covered the bodies of the tarmangant, It always caused him to grin @ trifle when he looked at these strange creatures, He won- dered i¢ they so covered their bodies from shame of their hairlessness, or because they thought the odd things they wore added any to the beauty of thelr appearance, § wly the ape-man picked out the meaning of the various combinations of letters on the printed pase, and as he read the Nttle bugs—for as such ho always thought of the letters— commenced to run about !n a most confusing manner, blurring his vision and befuddling his thoughts, Twice he brushed the back a hand smartly across his eyes; b & moment could he back to coherent and tr n realized that bh und Just as the rea in upon him and he inyuish himself to an ation n had assumed a the pro- portions of a physical pain he was roused by the o t cabin door, Turning quickly toward the in- terruption, Tarzan was amazed, for @ moment, to sew bulking urge in the doorway the huge and hatry form of Bolgant the gorilla, OW, there was scarcely 9 dent- zen of the great sie with whom Tarzan would not rather have been cooped up inside the smal! ¢, n ant the gorilla; yet ho f fear, even though his quick eye 4 that Bol 45) was in the throes Jungle- SATURDAY, A TARZAN STORY MARCH 23, 1918 EACH SATURDAY FOLLOW THIS STRANGE JUNGLE BOY IN HIS LIFE AMONG TUE BEASTS OF AN AFRICAN WILD — WATCH HIS HUMAN MIND DEVELOP AND OVERCOME ALL EVERY STORY IN THIS madness which s¢izes upon 80 many of the flercer males, But for Tarzan there was no escape, Bolgant was giowering at him from rod-timmed, wicked eyes. In a mo- ment he would rush in and seize the ape-man, Tarzan reached for the hunting-knife where he had laid it on the table beside him; but as his fingers did not immediately lo- cate the weapon, ho turned a quick glance in roh of It. As he did so his eyes fell upon the book he had been looking at, which etill lay open at the picture of Bolgant. Tarzan found his knife, but he merely fin- gered It idly and grinned in the direo- tion of the advancing gorilla, Not again would he be fooled by empty things which came while he slept! In a moment, no doul., Bol- fant would turn into Pamba the rat, with the head of Tantor the elephant; Tarzan had seen enough of such strange happenings recently to have some idea as to what he might expect. But this time Bolgant did not alter his form as he came slowly toward the young apo-man, Tarzan was a bit puzzied, too, that he felt no desire to rush frantically to some place of safety as had been the sensation most conspicuous tn the other of his new and remarkable ad- ventures, Ho was just himself now, ready to fight if necessary, but still sure that no flesh-and-blood gorilla stood before him, The thing should be fading away into thin air by now, thought Tarzan, or changing into something else; yot it did not. Instead, it loomed clear- cut and real as Bolgant himself, the magnificent dark coat glistening with life and health tn @ bar of sunlight which shot across the cabin through the high window behind the young Lord Greystoke. This was quite the most realistic of his sleep-adventuren, thought Tarzan as he passively awaited the next amusing event, Then the gorilla charged, Two mighty, ealloused hands selzed upon the ape-man; great fangs were bared ose to his face; a hideous growl burst from the cavernous throat; and hot breath fanned Tarzan's check; Nut oti] Tarzan sat grinning at the “pparition, Tarzan might be fooled once or twice, but not for so many times tn auccession! He knew that this Bolgant was no real Bolgant, for had he been he could never havo eained entrance to the cabin, since only Tarzan knew how to operate the lateh, » gortiin weemed puzzled by the strange passivity of the hairless ape. He paused an instant with his Jaws snarling close to the other's throat; then he seemed suddenly to come to ome decision, Whirling the ape-man ross a hairy shoulder, as easily as u or I might lift @ babe in arms, Nolgant turned and dashed out Into the open, “MOST STRIKING THINGS ISAW ON 15 BATTLE FRONTS” —Thls Serles of — Articles by D, THOMAS CURTIN, War Correspondent Begins on This Page Monday SERIES IS COMPLETE Now indeed was Tarzan sure that this was a sleep-adventure, and #0 he grinned largely as the giant gorilla bore him unresisting away. Press ently, reasoned Tarzan, he would awaken and find himself back In the cabin where he had fallen asleep, He glanced back at the thought, and saw the cabin-door standing wide open. This would never do! Alway had he been careful to close and Jateh it against wild intruders, Mang the monkey would make sad havoe there among Tazan's treasures should he have access to the interior for even a few minutes, The question which arose in Tar. fan's mind was a baffling one, Where aid sleep adventures end and reality commence? How was he to be sure that the cabin door was not really open? Everything abéut him ap- Peared quite normal; there wero none of the grotesque exaggerations of bis former sleep-adventures. It would be better, then, to be upon the safe sido and make sure that the cabin door was closed; it would do no harm, even if all that seemed to be happening were not happening at all. Tarzan essayed to slip from Bol- fani's shoulder, but tho great beast only growled ominously and gripped him tighter, With a mighty effort, the ape-man wrenched himself loo: and as he slid dream-gorilia to the ground the turned ferociously upon him, seized him once more and buried great fangs in a sleek brown shoulder, An the pain and the hot blood aroused Tarzan's fighting instinets tho grin of derision faded from hie Mpa. Asleep or awake, this thing was no longer a joke! Biting, tear. Ing and snarling, the two rolled over upon the ground. The gorilla now was frantic with insane rage. Again and again he loosed his hold upon the ape-man's shoulder tn an attempt to seize the jugular; but Tarzan ot the Apes had fought before with creatures who struck first for the vital vein, and each time he wrig Gled out of harm's way as he atrove to get his fingers upon his adver. sary's throat, At last he succeeded: his great muscles tensed and knot- ted bencath his smooth hide as he strove with every ounce of his mighty strength to push the hatry torso from him. And as he choked Bolgant strained him away, his other hand crept slowly upward between them until the point of the hanting-knife rested over the ‘o heart. Then there was a quick movement of the steel-thewed wrist, and the blade plunged to its goa ani Rolrant, the gorilia, voteed a single frightful shriek, tore himself loose from tho grasp of the ape-man, rese to his feet, staggered a few steps and then plunged to earth. There were a few spasmodic movements of the Mmbs and the brute was still. Tarzan of the Apes stood looking down upon his kill, and as he stood there he ran his fingers through his thiek, blac yock of hatr, Pres. ently he stooped and touched the dead body, Some of the red lifeblood of the gorilla crimsoned bis fingers, He raised them to his nose and sniffed. Then he shook his head and turned toward the cabin, The door was still open. He closed it and fastened the latch, Returning toward the body of his kill, he again paused and scratched his head, If this was a sleep-adventare, what, th was reality? How was he to know the one from the other? How much of all that had happened In his life had been real and hew much unreal? He placed a foot upon the prostrate form and, raising his face to the heave gave voice the kill-ery of the bull ape. Far in the distance @ lion answered. It was very real, and yet he did not know, n shaking his head, he turned away into the Jung! Aid not know what was real 1s not; but there was one did know; never again of the flesh of Tantor an thing that b would he eat the elophan