The evening world. Newspaper, March 30, 1918, Page 11

TURDAY, year therea ittacked and killed him. MARCH 30, TARZAN 2: APES | By Edgar Rice Burroughs 1918 ARZAN’S father and mother were Lord and Lady Greystoke, marooned by a mutinous eh: Boon afterward Lady Greysto! ‘@ crew on the African coast. baby was born, and for if they lived alone in the jungle fastness, unable pe and unable to find or summon succor, wae recorded by Greystohe—up to the time hi next day, when his vigilance reiaxe: A femal The story of their wife died, And @ troop of giant anthropoid of these jungle folk had jay in her own oftepring dashed to death from a tree-top, moth rry it off with her. breast of Kala, the great a UMA the Ilion crouched behind @ thorn-bush close beside the @rinking pool where the rivor eddied just below the bend There was a ford there, and either bank a well-worn trail, ned far out at the river's brim, for countless centuries the wild ‘of the jungle and of the plains had come down to drink, the nivora with bold and fearless ma- ty, the herbivora timorous, hesitat- fearful. Numa the lion was hungry; he was very hungry, and so he was quite now. On his way to the drink- place he had moaned often and not a iittle; but as he neared @pot where he would Ile in wait Bare the deer or Horta the boar or geome other of the many luscious- fleshed creatures who came hither to rink, he was silent. It was a grim, terrible silence, shot through with Yelow-green light of ferocious eyes, with undulating tremors of sinuous tall, TR was Pacco the rebra who came Gret, and Numa the lon could scarce restrain @ roar of anger, for of all the plains-people none are more wary than Pucco the zebra. Behind the dlack-striped stallion game a berd of thirty or forty of the and vicious little horselike As he neared the river the leader paused often, cocking his ears ‘and raising his muzzle to sniff the ygentic breeze for the telitale scent- fapoor of the dtead flesh-caters. ) Numa shifted uneasily, drawing his “hind quarters far beneath his tawny ody, gathering himself for the sud- jen charge and th savage assault His eyes shot hungry fire, His great muscles quivered to the excitement of the moment. eco came a little nearer—halted, fons ed and wheeled. There was a “Pattering of scurrying hoofs, and the herd was gone; but Numa the lion 4 not. He was familiar with the of Pacco the zebra, He knew that he would return, though many times he might again wheel and fy Defore he summoned the courage to Jead his harem and his offspring to the water. There was the chance that Pacoo might be fright« off en- rely, Numa had seen this happen before, and go he became almost rigid Jest he be the one to send them gal- Joping waterless back to the plain Again and again came Pacco and family, and again and again did turn and flee; but each time they @ closer to the river until at last plump stallion dipped his velvet Musale daintily into the water others, stepping warily, approac their leader. Numa selected a sie fat Milly, and his flaming eyes burned @reedily as they feasted upon her, for Numa the lon. loves the meat of perhaps because Pacco Is, of by the grass-eaters, the most difficult catch. @lowly the Mon rose, and, as hoe wose, a twig eanapped beneath one of Ble great, padded paws. Like a shot from a rifle he charged upon the filly; Dut the snapped twig had been wh to startle the thmorous quarry wo that they were in instant flight wultaneously with Numa's ch “Phe stallion was last, and with a prodigious leap the lion ca.iputed ough the air to seize him; but the ping twig had robbed Numa ot dinner, though his mix yaked the zebra's glossy rump, four crimson bars across the beauti- ful coat. Ut was an angry Numa that quilted the river and prowled, flerce, danger- ous and hungry, into the jungle, Far from particular now was his appetite ven Dango the hyena would have Isoomed a tid-bit to that ravenous eaving ww. And in this temper it waa tnay 9 Hon came upon the tribe of K the great ape. does not look for Numa the Mem thus late in the morning, He be lying up asicep beside hia Mght’s Kill by now; but Nume sade no kill last night. He was ating, hungrier than ever, e@nthropoids were idling about varing, the first keen desire of orning’s hunger having : 4, Numa scented them long he saw them, Ordinarily he have turned away ip wearch of deen instinct led her to enatoh up the year-old child Soon “hunger ol the son of an English lord and an English Indy w: “ Then he grew to manhood—half and half monkey in mind. arzan .sttempts to Play a Joke On the Tribe of Apes, but They Fail to See the Point (Oopyrieht by The Story. Press Corvoration. AM rihts reserved.) id 1d the gap between them, other game, for even Numa respected the mighty muscles and the sharp fangs of the great bulls of the tribe of Kerchak, but to-day he kept on stoad- fly toward them, his bristled snoat wrinkled into a savage enarl, Without an instant’s hesitation Nu- ma charged the moment he reached a point from where the apes were visi- ble to him. There were a dozen or more of thé hairy maniike creatures upon the ground tn a little glade, In & trée at one side sat a brown-skinned youth. He saw Numa’'s swift charge; he saw the apes turn and flee, huge bulls trampling upon little balus; only a single she held her ground to meet the charge, a young she inspired by new motherhood to the great sacrifice that her balu might escape. Tarzan leaped from his perch, screaming at the flying bulls beneath and at those who squatted in the safety of surrounding trees. Had the bulls stood their ground, Numa would not have carried through that cha unless goaded by great rage or the gnawing pangy of starvation. Even then he would not have come off unscathed, If the bulla heard they were too slow in responding, for Numa had seized the mother ape and dragged her into the Jungle before the males had suMetentiy collected thelr wits and thelr courage to rally in defense of their follow. ‘Tarzan’s angry voice aroused similar anger in the breasts of the apes. Snarling and barking they followed Numa into the dense abyrinth of follage wherein he sought to hide t trom them. The ape- man was in the lead, mov pidly and yet with caution, dey even more upon his ears and nose than his eyes for information of the Hon's whereabouts, The spoor easy to follow, for y of tho victim left a en such dull creatures might easily have fol- To Tarzan and the apes of Kerchak {t was as obvious as a ce ment sidewalk Tarzan knew that they were near- ing the great eat even before he heard n angry growl of warning just ahead. Calling to the apes to follow his example, he swung into a tree, and moment later Numa was surround- ed by a ring of growling beasts, well out of reach of his fangs and talons, but within plain sight of him. The lion ched with his forequarters ipon the she-ape. Tarzan could see that the latter was already dead; but sometl within him made It seem quite necessary to rescue the useless ody from the enemy's clutches and to punish him, n tra as you or I lowed it, He shricked taunts and insults at Numa, and tearing dead branches from the tree in which he danced, hurled them at the lion, The apes followed his example, Numa rage and vexation roared out in Me was hungry, but under such conditions he could not feed, The apes, tf thoy had heen left to themselves, would doubt! eft the lon to of his feast, for was They could not re throwing sticks at have soon enjoyment ot the she dead? re her to life by Numa, and they » feeding in quiet ; but Tarzan was of a dif- lind, Numa must be punished na Ho must be taug : man pea might even now themselve fer he killed a he would not be permitted to ced upon his kill, The man-mind ked into the fyt the apes perceived only tt iediate present They would be content to escapo to- day the menace of Numa, while Tar- zan aaw the necessity, and the means as well, of wafeguarding the days to come, So he urged the great anthropolds on until Numa was snowered with missiles that kept his head dodging and his vo: ng forth its savag protest; but still he clung desperately to his kill, The twigs and branches hurled at Numa, Tarzan soon realized, did not hurt the lion greatly even when they truck him, and did not injure him at so the ape-man looked about for more effective missiles, Nor did he have to look long; an outcropping of broken granite not far from Numa suggested amspunition of a much more e peal Painful nature, Calling to the apes to watch him, Tarzan slipped to the ground and gathered @ handful of small fragments. Tarzan knew that when onoe they had seen him carry out his idea they ‘would be much quicker to follow his lead than to obey his instructions, were he to command them to procure pieces of rock and hurl them at Numa, for Tarzan was not then king of tho apes of the tribe of Kerohak, That came in later years, Now he was but & youth, though one who had already won for himself a place in the coun- cils of the savage beasts among which 4@ strange fate had cast bim. Tho sullen bulls of the older gen- eration still hated Tarzan, as beasts hate those of whom they are suspl- clous, whose soent-characteristin is the scent-characteristic of an alien order and therefore of an enemy or- der. The younger bulls, thos@ who had grown up through childhood as his playmates, were as accustomed to Tarzan’s scent as to that of any other member of the tribe, They felt no greater suspicion of him than of any o*%sr hull of thelr acquaintance; yet they did not love him, for thay loved none ont ''s the mating-sea- son, and the animoaitics aroused by other bulls during that season lasted well over until the next, They were ® morose and peevish band at beat So now Tarzan led where he could not yet command, He had long since discovered the apis: propensity for enimicry and learned to make use of tt, With his a..as S94 with frag. ments of granite, ho clambored again into @ treo, and tt pleased him to see that the apes had followed his ex- ample, During the brief respite while they were gathering their ammunition, Numa had settled himself to foed; but scarce had he arranged himascif and his kill when a sharp piece of rock hurled by the practiced hand of the ape-man gtruck him upon the cheek. His sudden roar of pain and rage was smothcred by a volley from the apes who had seen, Tarzan's act. Numa shook his massive head and glared upward at his tormentors, For a haif-hour they pursued him with rocks and broken branches, and though he dragged his kill into Gensest thickets, they always found & way to reach him with their mis- siles, giving him no opportunity to feed and driving him on and on, ‘The hairless ape-thing with the man-scent was worst of all, for he had even the temerity to advance uron the ground to within a yards of the Lord of the Jungle, that he might with greater accuracy and force hurl the sharp bits of granite and the heavy sticks at him, and again did Numa charge irges—but the lithe, active tormentor managed to elude him, and with such insolent ease that the alwa ot even his great hunger sion of his rage, for considerable efforts to catch in the ¢ leaving spaces of time in vain his enemy. The apes and Tarzan pursued the great beast to a natural clearing where Numa evidently determined to make a last stand, teking up his posl- tion in the centre of the open space, which was far enough from any tree to render him practically immune from the rather erratic throwing of the apes, though Tarzan still found him with most persistent and aggra- vating frequency, however, did not suit the ape- man, since Numa now suffered an oc- J missile with no more than a asuming pas his meat casio: snarl, while he séttled himself to par- take of his delayed feast, Tarzan scratched his head, pondering some more effective method of offense, for rmiped to prevent Numa’e be bs ge << Profiting In any way through his at- tack upon the tribe. Tarzan guessed that should Numa find it an y thing to snatch a meal from the tribe of Kerchak, tt would be but a short time before their existence would be one living nightmare of hideous watchfulness and dread, Numa must be taught that the killing of an ape brought immediate punishment and no rewards, It would take but a few lessons to insure the former safety of the tribe. This must be some old lon whose falling strength and agil- ity had forced him to any prey that he could eatoh; but even @ single lion, undisputed, could exterminate the tribe, or at least make ite existence 80 precarious and #o terrifying that Ife would no longer be @ pleasant condition. “Let him hunt among the Goman- gant,” thought Tarzan. “He wil! find them easier prey. 1 will teach Numa that he may not hunt the Mangunt.” But how to wrest the body of his victim from the feeding lion was the first question to be solved, At last Tarzan hit upon a plan: To any one but Taran of the Apes it might have seemed a rather risky plan, and per- haps it did even to him; but Tarzan liked things that contained a consid- erable element of danger, At any rate, I rather doubt that you or I would have chosen a similar pian for foiling an angry and hungry lon, ARZAN required assistance in the scheme he had hit upon, and his assistant must ve equally brave and = almost as active as he. The ape- man’s eyes fell upon Taug, the play- mate of his childhood, the rival in his first love, and now, of all the oulls of the tribe, the only one that might be thought to hold in his sav- age brain any such feeling toward Tarzan as we describe among our- selves as friendship, At least, Tarzan knew, Taug was courageous, and he was young and agile and wonderfully muscled. from the safoty of tho trees, screamed taunts at Numa and warnings to Tar- zan, The high sun, hot and brilliant, foll ke a spot-light upon the actors in the little clearing, portraying them In glaring relief to the audience to the leafy shadows of the surrounding trees—the light-brown body of the naked youth all but hidden by the shaggy carcass of the killed ape, the red blood streaking his smooth hide, his muscles rolling velvety beneath. Beneath him came the black-maned lion, hend flattened, tail extended, racing, a jungle thoroughbred, across the sunlit clearing, Ah, but this was lifel With death at his heels, Tarzan theftled with the Joy of such living as this; but would he reach the trees ahead of the ram- pant death so close behind? Gunto swung from a limb In a tree before him. Gunto was screaming warnings and advice. ‘atch me!" cried Tarcan, and with hia heavy burden leaped straight for the big bull hanging there by his hind foot and one fore-paw. Gunto caught them—the big ape-man and the dead welght of the slain she-ape—caught them with one great, hairy paw and whirled them upward until Tarzan’ Angers closed upon a nearby branch. Beneath, Numa leaped; but Gunto, heavy and awkward as he may have appeared, was as quick as Manu the monkey, go that the lion's talons but barely grazed him, scratching # bloody streak beneath one hairy arm, Tarzan carried Mamka's corpse to a hig 1 where even Shecta the panther 1 not got it. Numa paced angrily back and forth beneath 2 SCARCELY HAD NUMA THE LION SETTLED HIMSELF TO FEED WHEN A SHARP PIECE OF ROCK WAS HURLED AT HIS HEAD BY THE APE-MAN. “Taug!" cried the ape-man, The reat ape looked up from a dead limb he was attempting to tear from a Nghtning-blasted tree, “Go close to Numa and worry hien,” said Tarzan. “Worry him until he charges, Lead him away from the body of Mamka. Keep him away as long as you can.” Taug nodded, He was across the clearing from Tarzan. Wresting the limb at last from the tree, he dropped to the ground and advanced toward Numa, growling and barking out his insults, The worried lon looked up and rose to his feet, His tall wen stiffly erect, and Taug turned in flight, for he knew that warning slg nal of tho charge. From behind the lion Tarzan ran quickly toward the centre of ¢ clearing and the body of Mamka Numa, his eyes for Taug, did see the ape-man, Instead, he forward after the fleeing bull, who had turned in filght not an insta too soon, since he reached the neares tree hut a yard or two ahead of the pursuing demon, Like @ cat, the heavy anthropotd @campered up the bole of his sanctuary, Numa’s talons qaissing him only by inches. For @ moment 6 Hon paused be neath the tree, glaring up at the a and roaring until the earth treet then he turned buck again toward his Kill—and as he did go his tall shot once more to rigid erectness and ho charged back even more ferociously than he had come, for what he saw was the naked man-thing running to- ward the further trees, with the bloody carcass of his prey across a giant shoulder ‘The apes, watching the grim race the tree, roaring frightfully, He had been robbed of his kill and his re- vor also, He was very savas in- deed, but his despoilers were well out of his reach, and after hurling a few taunte and missiles at him, they swung away through the trees, revil- ing him, Upon the ittle adventure of that day Tarzan thought much, He fore- ww what might happen 14 the great carnivora of the jungle turn thoir serious attention upon the trity ot K k the great ape; but equally he ight upon the wild scramble of the apes for safety when Numa fi harged among them, There ts h r in the Jungle that 1 rim and awful, The beasts have or no conception of humor; but the young Englishman saw humor in y th which presented no hu rous angle to his associates A sea after fun, much to the s his fellow-apes; and now 6 humor of the frightened anic © apes and the baffied rage of Numa, even in this grim jungle adventure which had robbed Masnka and Jeopardized that of many vers of the tribe, t was but a few weeks later that Sheeta the panther made a sudden rush among the tribe and snatched @ little balu from @ tree where it bad been hidden while ite mother sought food, Sheeta got away with his emall prize unmolested, Tarzan was very wroth, He spoke to the bulls of the case with which Numa and Sheeta tn aul moon had slain two members of the tr They will take us al for food,” he cried, “We hunt as wo will through the jungle, paying no heed to ap proaching enemies, Even Manu the monkey does not so, Hae keeps two or three always watching for enemiem Pacco the sebra and Wappt the ante- lope have those about the herd who keep watch while the others feed, while we, the great Mangant, let Numa and Sabor and Sheeta come when thoy will and carry us off to feed their balus.’ “Gr-r-rmph!” sald Numero. “What are we to do?” asked Taur. “We, too, should have two or three always watching for the approach of Numa and Sabor and Sheeta,” replied Tarzan. “No others need we fear, ex- cept Histah the snake, and if we watch for the others we will see His- tah If he comes.” And so it was that the great apes of the tribe of Kerchak posted sen- tries thereafter who watched upon three sides while the tribe hunted, scattered less than had been their wont But Tarzan went abroad alone, for Tarzan was a man-thing and sought amusement and adventure and such humor as the grim and terrible Jungle offers to thone who know It and do not fear it—a weird humor, shot with blazing eyes and dappled with the crimson of life-blood, While others sought only food and love, Tarzan of the Apes sought food and joy One day Tarzan hovered palisaded village of Mbong: the Jet cannibal of the jung val. Tarzan saw, as he many times before, the above the the chief, prime had seen witeh-doctor Rabba Kega decked out In the head and hide of Goro the buffalo. It amused Tarzan to see a Gomangant parading as a Gorgo; but It suggested nothing in particular to him until he chanced to see stretched against the side of Mbonga's hut the skin of Mon with the head still on, Then a broad grin widened the handsome face of the savage beast-youth. Back into the jungle chance, agility, strength and cunning, backed by his marvelous powers of perception, gave him an easy meni. If Tarzan felt that the world owed him a living, he also realized that it he went unttl wag for him to collect {t; nor was there ever a better collector than this son of an sh lord, who knew even leas of the ways of his fore- bears than he did of the forebears themselves—which was nothing. It was quite dark when Tarzan re- turned to the village of Mbonga and took his now polished perch in the tree which overhung th palisade upon one side of the walled inclosure As there was nothing tn particular to feast upon in the village, there was litte in the atreet, for only flesh tive beer could draw out the people of Mbonga. To night they sat gossiping about their cooking-fires—that ts, the o bers of the tribe paired off in the r mem- the younger pe jadowa of the paim- thatched huts, Tarzan dropped lightly into the vil- lage, and, sneaking stealthtly in the concealment of the denser shalows, approached the hut of Chief Mbonga Here he found that which he sou There were warriors all ab a but they did not know that the feared devil-god slunk nolsclessly so near them; nor did they see him possess himself of that which he coveted a depart from their village as noise lessiy as he had come, Later that nigh Targan curled himself for sleep, be lay for a long time looking up at the burning planets and the twinkling stars and at Goro the moon, and he amiied. He recalled how ludicrous the great bulla had appeared in their mad scramble for sufety that day when Numa had charged among them and seized Mamia, a to be flerce and ! yot he knew the Jurageous was SATURDAY, MARCH 30, A TARZAN STORY EACH SATURDAY FOLLOW THIS STRANGE JUNGLE BOY IN HIS LIFE AMONG THE BEASTS OF AN AFRICAN WILD — WATCH HIS HUMAN MIND DEVELOP AND OVERCOME ALL EVERY STORY IN THIS SERIES IS COMPLETE the sudden shock of surprise that a ways sent them into a panio; but of this Tarzan was not as yet fully aware, That was something he to learn in the near future. He fell asleep with @ broad grin upon his face, ANU the monkey awoke Taran in the morning by dropping discarded bean- Pods upon his upturned face from @ branch @ short diatance above him. Tarzan looked up and smiled. He had been awak- ened thus many times before, He and Manu were fairly good ftrienda, their friendship operating upon @ re= ciprocal basis. Sometimes Manu would come running early in the nvorning to waken Tarzan and tell bim that Bara the deer was feeding close at hand, or that Horta the boar wan asleep In & mudhole hard by, and in return Tarzan broke open the shells of the harder nuts and frulte for Manu, or frightened away Histah the snake and Sheota the panther. The sun had been up for some time, and the tribe had already wandered off in search of food. Manu tndleated, with a wave of his hand and a tow piping notes of his squeaky little voles, the direction they had taken, “Come, Manu,” said Tarzan, “and you will see that which shall make you dunce for Joy and squeal your wrinkled little head off, Come, follow Tarzan of the Apes.” With that he set off in the direction Manu had tndicated, and above him, chattering, scolding and squealing, skipped Manu the monkey, Aero ‘Tarzan's shoulders was the thing h had stolen from the village of Mbonga the chiet %ho evening before The tribe was feeding tn the forest beside the clearing where Gunto and Taug and Tarzan had so harassed Numa and finally taken away from him the fruit of his kill, Some of tham were in the ng itself, In ft and cor a, for were there not three sentries, each watch- ing upon a different wide of the herd? ‘Tarzan had taught them this, and though he had been away for several days hunting alone, as he often did, or visiting at the sea, ey had not as yet forgotten his ad- monitions, and if they continued for ger to post sentries 4 habit of their tri- and thus be perpetuated tn- at they " the cabin by it w bal lif defin But Tarzan, who knew them better than they knew themselves, was con- fitent that they had ceased to the watchers about them the moment that he had em, and now he planned not o have a }ittle fun thelr expe but to teach them a son in preparednoss-which, by the ay, Is even a more vital Issue tn the Jungle than in elvill places, That and I exist to-day must be due to the preparedness of some shaggy anthropold of the Oligocene. or purse the apes of Kerchak were al- ways prepared, after thelr own way arzan had merely suggested a new iditional safeguard. and Gunto was posted to-day to the north of the clearing. He squatted in the fork of a tree from where he might view the jungle for quite a dis- tance about him. it was he who first discovered the enemy. A rustling in the undergrowth attracted his atten tion, and @ moment later he had a partial view of a shaggy mane and @ tawny yellow back. Just a glimpses it was through the matted foliage be- neath him; but it brought from leathern lungs @ @bhrtil hi" which ts the ape for or “Danger!” Instantly the tribe took up the ery until “Kreeg-aha!" rang through ¢! Jungle about the clearing as apes swung quickly to places of safety among the lower branches of the trees, And then into the clearing strode Numa the lion—majeatic and migbty, and from @ deep chest issued the moan and the cough and the rumbling roar that sot stiff hairs to bristling from shaggy crantums down the length of mighty spin Inalde the ring Numa paused, and on the instant there fell upon him from the trees near by a shower of broken rock and dead limbs torn from age-old trees. A dozen times he was bit, and then the apos ran down and gathered other rocks, pelting him unmercifully, Numa turned to fleo, but his way was barred by a fuslllade of sharp- cornered missites; and then upon the edge of the clearing great Taug met him with a huge fragment of rock as large as a man's head—and down wont the Lord of the Jungle beneath the stunning blow. With shrieks and roars and toud barkingn, the great apes of the trite of Kerchak rushed upon the fallen Hion, Sticks and stones and yellow fangs menace. tho still form. In an- other moment, before he could regain consciousness, Numa would be bat- tered and torn until only @ bloody mass of broken bones and matted hair remained of what had once been the most dreaded of all the oreatures that lived in the jungle. But even as the sticks and stones were raised above him, and the great fangs bared to tear him, there de acended like a plummet from the trees above a diminutive figure with long, white whiskers and a wrinkled face. Square upon the body of Numa 1t alighted, and there It danced end wereamed and shrieked out its chal- lenge against the bulls of Kerchak, For an instant they paused, par- alyzed by the wonder of the thing. It was Manu the monkey, Manu the little coward, and here he was daring the ferocity of the great Mangant, hopping about upon the carcass of Numa the Lion and crying out that they must not strike ft again, And when the bulls paused Manu reached down and seized a tawny ear, With all his little might he tugged upon the heavy head until, slowly, it turned back—revealing the tousled black head and clean-cut profile of Tarzan of tho Apes. Some of the older apes were for finishing what they had commenced; but Taug-sullen, mighty Taug— sprang quickly to the ape-man’s side and, straddling the unconscious form, warned back those who would have struck his childhood playmate, It was a surprised and chastened Tarzan who opened his eyes to con aclousness a few minutes later, Ho looked about him at the surrounding apes, and slowly there returned to him a realization of what had oo- curred, Gradually a broad grin tiluminated his features, His bruises were many, and they hurt; but the good that had come from his adventure was worth all that it had cost. He had learned, for instance, that the apes of Kerchak had heeded his teaching, and he had earned that be had good friends among the sullen beasts whom he ha thought without sentiment, He had discovered that Manu the monkey— even little, cowardly Manu—had risked }ifo in his defense. It made Tarzan very glaa to know se things; but at the other lessor he had been taught he reddened, He had always been @ Joker, the only joker in the grim and terrible com pany; but now, ag he lay there halt Jead from his hurts, he almost swore @ solemn oath forever to forego prac- teal Joking—almost, but not quite POP LOPL LLLP LL LLL LOLOL, HEART OF THE SUNSET By REX BEACH A VIVID STORY OF LIFE IN THE WEST BEGIN IT ON THE ROME PAGE MONDAY eh