The evening world. Newspaper, April 13, 1918, Page 11

By Edgar Rice Burroughs ARZAN'S father and mother were Lord and Lady Greystoke, marooned by @ mutinous shipe crew on the African const. Goon afterward Lady Greyatoke’s baby w thereafter they lived alone in the jungle fast to escape and unable to find or summon duster id hery if le life wai the next day, when h @pes attacked and killed him. that day seen her own offspring end mother instinct led her to snatch up t! carry it off with her. recorded by Greystoke—up to the time his wife died. ind for born, The story of their And vigilanoe relaxed, @ troop of giant anthropold A female of tlese jungle folk had dashed to death from a tre top, 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 the breast of Kala, the great aps.” human and half monkey in mind. Then he grew to manhood—half Tarzan Rescues an Old Enemy At Risk of His Own Life, But Almost Fails IME seldom hung heavily upon Tarzan's bands. Even where there ts sameness there cannot be monotony if most of the sameness consists in dodging death first in one form and then in another, or in inflicting de upon others; there is a spice to such an ex- istence. And Tarzan of tho Apes varied life by activities of his own invention. He was full grown now, with the grace of a Greek god and the thews of @ bull, and by all the tenets of apedom he should have been sullen, morose and brooding. But he was not; bis spirits seemed not to age at ail—he was still a playful child, much ¢o the discomfiture of his fellow-apes. hey could not understand him or bis ways, for with maturity they quickly forg youth and its pastimes. Nor could Tarza:. quite understand them, It seemed strange to him that while a few moons before, he had roped Taug about an ankle and dragged him, screaming, through the tall Jungle grasses and then rolled nd tumbled in good-natured mimio yattle when the young ape had freod imself—to-day when he had come up behind the same Taug and pulled him over backward upon the turf, Instead of the playful young ape a great, narling beast had whirled and leaped or his th a Easily urzam eluded the charge, nd quickly ‘aug’s anger vanished, though tt w laced with play- Hzed that nor was he ed to il ape grunt of d eystoke turned to A strand of black hair fell cross one eye. He brushed {t aside svith a palm of a hand and a toss of s head. It suggested something to co, and so he sought his quiver, which y cached tn tho hollow hole of a ightning-riven tree S arrows, he turned the quiver upside down, emptying upon the ground the contents of its bottom—his fow treas Among them was a flat bit of stone and a shell which he had picked p fr beach near hig father's cabin With great care Tarzan rubbed the edge of the shell back and forth upon the flat ye until the soft edge was tine and sharp, He worked much like ning @ razor, and with of similar practic was the result Unaided, other « ideavor. ires, m the @ barber dence hc every ev but hts prc years of pains he had worke: od of his own for putting an edge upon the e@hell—he even tested it with the ball of his thumb, and when it met with fits approval he grasped a wisp of the hair which fell across his eyes, took It between the thumb and first finger of his left hand and sawed upon ft with the sharpened shell until it ‘was severed All around h head he ney out a met went until his black sh ly bobbed with a ragged ront For the appearance of red potbing: but in the matter of safety and comfort {t meant everything, A flock of hair fa in s sat the wrong mom the difference while straggly strands hangir were most un one’s back especially whe or wet with dew perspirat His hair lopped off . end seeing no por ettention ecent-spoor ¢ was the scent of the ¢ Curiosity best-d 1 " 1 bis | nation Tar Ir 7 ’ wetaht by the Gtory-Prem Corporation, All rights reserved.) lower terrace and the ground was choked and impassable, So presently he came within sight of the black warriors of Mbonga the chief, They were engaged in a pur- sult with which Tarzan was more or less fam‘tar, having watched them at it upon other occasions. They were placing and baiting a trap for Numa the lion. In @ cage upon wheels they were tying a kid, 8o fastening It that when Numa seized the unfortu- nate creature the door of the cage would drop behind him, making him 4@ prisoner. Theso things tho blacks had learned in their old home, before a defeat In war had driven them through the un tracked jungle to find a new home. In their old life they had often trapped animals for the agents of European dealers and had learned from them certain tricks, such as this one, which permitted them to capture even Numa without injuring him and to transport him tn safety and with comparative ease to their village. Upon two occasions Tarzan had freed Numa from the trap before the blacks had returned to discover the euccess or failure of their venture. He would do the same to-day; !mmedi- ately he realized the nature of their 5, he decided to do that. centre of a intentic Leaving the trap in the broad elepiunt-trail near the drink- ng h warriors turned back towar go. On the morrow they would come ag ‘arzan looked after them, upon his lips an uncon- fous sneer--the heritage of un- ground, Tarzan ap and entered, W 1 fibre cord which was adjusted to drop the door at the proper time, he loosened the living batt, tucked it er an arm and stepped out of the cage. With his hunting-knife he quieted the frightened animal, severing its gular; then he dragged tt, bleeding, ong the trail down to the drinking- the half-smile persisting upon linarily grave face. At the er’s ede the ape-man stooped and nife and quick, strong , deftly removed the dead kid's hole, his « huntin viscera, Scraping a holo in the mud he buried those parts which he did not want and swinging the body to his shoulder took to the trees. For a short distance he pursued Ms way in the wake of the black warriors, coming presently to bury the meat of his kill where it would be safe from the depredations of Dango the hyena or the other meat-eating beasts and birds of the jungle, He was hungry. Had he been all beast, he would have eaten; but his man-mtnd could entertain urges even more potent than those of the appetite, and now he was concerned with an idea which kept a smile upon his lps and his eyes sparkling !n antic An idea, {t was, which permitted him to for- get that he was hungry. The meat safely cached, Tarzan trotted along the clephant-trall after the Gomangant. Two or three miles from the cage he overtook them, and then he o tho trees and fe i abov 4 behind them-—- awaiting his chance. down pation, swung Ir Among the blacks was Rabba Kega the witch-doctor, Tarzan hated them all; but Rabba Kega he the blacks filed along th wv path F Kega, being d behind This Tarzan 1 and it filled him with tlon: his being radiated a gri terrible content, Like an ar h he hovered above the a Kega, knowing was but a short sat down to rest, Rest well Rabba Kega! It 1s thy last of 1 n crept stealthily among tho ranches of the tree above the wel fed, self-s witch-doctor, He nade no that the dull ears of hear above the soughing lo jungle among ng follage of upper 4, and when he came close bove the black man he halted, leafy branch and nan coul ¢ the ge undulat breeze the heavy Kega sat with hi Dack facing Tarzan, Tho position was not such as tho walting beast of prey desired; and #0, with the Infinite patience of the wild hunter, the ape-man crouched motionless and silent as a graven image until the fruit should be ripe for the plucking. A poisonous insoct buzzed angrily out of space It loitered, cireling, close to Tarzan’s face, Tho ape-man saw and recog- nized it, The virus of its sting spelled death for lesser things than he—for him {t would mean days of anguish, He did not move. His glittering eyes remained fixed upon Rabba Kega after acknowledging the presence of the winged torture by a single glance, He heard and fol- lowed the movements of the insect with hie keen ears, and then he felt it alight upon his forehead. No muscle twitched, for the muscles of such ag ho are tho servants of the brain. Down across Tarzan's face crept the horrid thing—over nose and ily and chin, Upon his throat It paused, and turning, retraced its steps. Tar- zan watched Rabba Kega. Now not even his eyes moved. So motionless he crouched that only death might counterpart his movelessness, The insect crawled upward over the nut- brown cheek and stopped with its antennae brushing the lashes of his lower lid. You or I would have started back, closing our eyes and and 1 trikir the g: but you ro the slaves, not the masters, of our nerves. Hod the thing crawled upon the eyeball of the ape-man it is bellevable that he could yet have remained wide-eyed and rigid; but it did not. For a moment it lottered there close to the lower lid; then It rose and buzzed away. Dow: vard Rabba Kega tt buzzed, and the black man heard {t, saw truck at {t—and was stung upon t before he killed it Then bi with a howl of pain and a4 ho turned up the trail tf Mbonga the black back was ex- silent thing waiting anger toward the village chief, his broad posed to the above h As Rabba Kega turned, a ithe fig ure shot outward and downward from the tree above upon his broad shoul- ders, The impact of the springing creature carried Rabba Kega to the ground, When he tried to scream steel fingers throttled his throat. The black warrior struggled to but he was as a child in powerful free himself the grip of his adversary Presently Tarzan released his grip upon th er's throat; but each time that Rabbi Kega essayed @ scream the eruel fingers choked him painfull At last the warrior desisted. ‘Then Tarzan balf rose and knelt upon his victim's back, and when Rabba Kega struggled to arise the ape-man pushed the w rs face down into the dirt of the tra With a bit of the rope that had d the kid, Tarzan made ) wrists secure be hind h he rose and jerked prisoner to his feet, faced him back along the trai) and pushed him back his came to his feet did a square look at his assailent, When he saw that it was the w \-god hia heart sank with! 1 his knees trem bled; but as he 1 along the trait hoad of his « nd was neither nor 1 took heart again, P evil-god did not intend to k after all. Had ho not had litt day he in his power for 1 him, and had , Tibo's mother, n mt 2AVe # n her? And t th ame upon the cago which Kabba Kexa, with the other black warriors the village of Mbonga the chief, had placed and baited for 1a the Hon. Rabba Kega saw » bait was gone though there was no lon within the cago and tho d had not been dropped. He saw, and he was filled with wonder not unmixed with appre. It entered his dull bratn —— circumstances had a connection with his presence there as the prisoner of the white devil-god. Nor was he wrong. Tarzan pushed him roughly {nto the cage, and in an- other moment Rabba Kega under- stood. Cold sweat broke from every pore of his body, He trembled with ague, for the ape-man bind- ing him securely {n the very spot the kid had previously occupied. The Witch-doctor pleaded first for his life and then for a death less eruel; but he might as well have saved his pleas for Numa. But his constant jabbering not only annoyed Tarzan, who worked In al- lence, but suggested that later the black might raise his voice in cries for succor; £0 he stepped out of the cage, gathered a handful of grass and a small stick. Returning, he jammed the grass into Rabba Kega's mouth, laid the stick crossways between his tecth and fastened it there with the thong from Rabba Kega's loin-cloth. Now could the witch-doctor but roll his eyes and sweat, Thus Tarzan left him, as HEN the blacks of Mbonga the chief reached their vil- lage they discovered that Rabba Kega was not among them. When several hours had elapsed they decided that some- thing had happened to him, and it TARZAN OPENED THE DOOR rpso of what had yesterday tabba Kega the witch doctor From his pereh in a near-by tree Tarzan of the apes, Lord Greystoke, looked down upon the black warriors and grinned. Once again his self- pride in his ability as a practical jok self, It had jain dor ma for time following the painful mauling he had received that tim eaped among the apes of Kerehak clothed tn the skin of Numa; but this Joke was a decided success. After a few moments of terror the blacks came closer to the cage, rage taking the place of fear—rage and ou~ Moaity. How had Rabba Kega hap- pened to be in the cage? Where was the kid? There was no sign or rem- nant of tho original bait, They looked closely, and they saw, to their horror, that the corpse of their erstwhile fel- low was bound with the very cord with which they had secured the kid. Who could have done this thing? ‘They looked at one another. ‘Tubuto was the first to speak. He had como hopefully out with the ex- pedition that morning. Somewhere he mix find evidence of the death of tabba Kega. Now he had found it, and he was the first to find an ex- planation. he white devil-god!* he whis- pered, “It is the work of the white devil-god!” WHICH WOULD RELEASE THE GREAT LION, was the hope of the majority tribe that whatever had hapt t him might prove fatal. They love the witoh-doctor; le r seldom are playmates, But 4 ror ts a warrlor, and so M ‘ ganized a search-party, ‘Tha grief “9 «not unassua ie have b hered fr he rer bor and Meep. The young warriors ¥ sent out r 1 stead purpose for fully half an unfortunately for Rabba a man re the attent ff for the previously them marke Rabba Kega's doom was # The morning following t pearance of Rabba Ke set out with Mbonga the ma, Long befor Non aud guessed that they successful bag; so it wa of Joy that they where they should find Imen, was, \ huge, t warr They leaped d savage erie lors were f cries, and then they ca the eries died upon th their eyes went wi ‘ whites showed ail around and ir pendulous " drooped with their drooping They drew back tr No one contradicted Tubuto; for, in- who else could it bave been but the great, hairless ape all #0 hatred of increased sot in bis foared? And #0 rereased again r of him, And and hugged himse » one there felt sorrow because of h of Rabba Kega rzan tt 8 experienced a personal ear of the ingentous mind whieh night discover for any of them 4 ith equally horrible. It was a aut und j npa ic 4 the c vo lion « the 1 clephant-path back to the v f Mbonga the chief And it was with a sigh of relief that fl rolled it into the vi » behind 1 tho ser the h had exp i spied upon had left the spot v n set, though ne 1 At within the with the 6 women and n of up & moat nla ution, working ¢ Into a joyous hysteria wh transcended happy misery f r m¢ 1 prot 1 who make @ business of dividing time between the mov yorhood funerals of fr re From a@ tree overhanging the pal ‘Varzan watohed all that pas n tho village. He saw the fren- riod women tantalizing th nab ana ae great lon nes. age sympathy wont out to Numa the lon, for though Numa was his life- neither bitter. ‘arzan’s went! man’s me enemy, there was hess nor contempt in In tho ape mination ks wnd b+ ments toward him, mind, therefore, the de formed to thwart the bi erate the lion; but he must accom plish this in some way which would cause the Gomangani the greatest possible chagrin and discomfltu As he squatted there watching Proceeding beneath him, he saw tho Warriors seize upon the cago once More and drag it between two* huts. Tarrav knew that it would remain there now until evening, and that the blacks were planning a feast and orgy in celebration of their capture, When he saw that two warriors were placed beside the cago, and that these drove off the women and children and young men who would have eventually tor- tured Numa to death, he knew that the lon would be safe until he was needed for the evening’s entortain- ment, when he would be more cruelly and sctentifically tortured for the edi- fication of the entire tribe. Now, Tarzan preferred to bait tho blacks {n as theatric a mannor as his fertile imagination could evolve, Ho had some half-formed conception of their superstitious fears and of their especial dread of night, and so he de- elded to Wait until darkness fell and partially worked to Jancing and relig- the blacks were hysteria by thelr jous rites before took any steps toward the freeing of Numa, In the mean time, he hoped, an idea adequate to the possibilities of the various factors at hand would occur to him Nor wae it long before one did He had swung off through the jungle to search for food when the plan came to him At first it tnade im smile a little and then look fubl . for he still retained a viv d mem ory of tho dire results that had fol lowed the carrying out of & very won erful idea along almost identical wba 3 yet t did not tention, and a me porarily through the flight toward the stam the tribe of Kerchak the great As was To # wont, he a in the midst of the little band w out announcing his approa & hideous scream just from a branch ove w forgotten, middle n pave bY sprang © the apes of Ker kind tw not su for the methods of Tara them to one severe nor could they ¢ emselves to the pecullar # a mor of the ape w, when they saw who it was, y merely " 8 1 ugrily for a mo: n umed thelr feeding « r napping h he had | \ having had his litt ‘ way to the hollow tree where treasures hid fr 8 es and fingers of his f and Jevous Ittle manus H irew @ closely te Numa w 1 n lever bit of pri a mou which t ror erty of the witch wiK until Tarzan had « tr village. With this he mad way back the Ju wks, and feed upon the way afte noon, even napping r that it was already dusk when he en the yreat t 1 SATURDAY, A BRAIN OF 4 village, Hoe saw that Numa guards wer oven dozing beside the cago. ITH the lion's akin under one arm, the ape-man dropped to the ground in the dense @hadows beneath the tree, and then circled behind the Huts until he came out directly in rear of the cago in which Numa now paced nervously to and fro, The cage was now unguarded, the two warriors having left it to take their places among the other dancers, Behind the cage Tarzan adjusted the lion's skin about him, just as he had upon that memorable occasion when the apes of Kerchak, falling to plerce his disguise, had all but slain him, Then, on hands and knees, he crept forward, emerged from between the two huts and stood a few paces back of the dusky audience, whose whole attention was centred upon the dancers before them. Tarzan saw that the blacks had now vas still alive, and work wives to a or piteh of nervous excitement to be ripe for the lon. In @ moment the ring of spectators would break at a point nearest the caged Hon, and the victim would be rolled into the cen rele, It was for this Tarzan waited At last It came, A signal was given by Mbonga the chief, at which the women and children immediately in front of Tarzan rose and moved to one aide, leaving a broad path opening to- ward the caged lion, At the same In- stant Tarzan gave voice to the low, coughing r angry slunk slowly forward through open lane toward the dancer A woman him first, and screamed, untly there was a of the nt that mo! ar of an Hon and the saw pante in the tmyedinte vicinity of the ape-m The strong light from the fire fell full upon the lion head, and the blacks le to the conclusion, as Tarzan had known they would, tt their capti da hin cage, With an arzan moved forward, The dancing warriors paused but an instant, They had been hunt- ing @ lion ly housed within a strong cage: now the fact that he was at liberty ong them put an entirely @ifferent aspect upon the matter Their nerves wero not attuned to this emergency. Tho women and children had already fled to the ay nable nafety of the 4 huts, a warriors Ww ong ing heir example, so that p y Tar nan was left possession of the Village atreet, But not for long eo wish be left there lor 1 not th his achem y «head 1 forth from a at, and tw w " f x " Kf 1 ark ’ esca he village. t spears w ady th for f t , 1 1 f and . LAST OF TARZAN STORIES NEXT SATURDAY TARZAN IS THE STRANGEST CHARAC- TER OF MODERN FICTION. A MAN AND THE INSTINC OF AN APE--READ TO-DAY HOW AND INSTINCT CLASHED. The Final Story Is the Best of All PRIL 13, 1918 _— HE HAS THE BRAIN hiding. ‘Throwing the skin over @ eaped again into the wil+ opposite side of the and, diving into the ehadew of @ hut, ran quick\w to where lay the caged lion. Springing to the top of the cage, he pulled upon the cord which raised the door, and @ moment tater @ great lion, in the prime of bia strength and vigor, leaped out inte the village, THe warriors, returning from @ @8- tile search for Tarzan, saw Numa step; into the firelight, Ah! there wae the’ devil-god again, up to his old triok. Did hie think he could twice fool te men of Mbonga the chief the eame way In so short a time? They would show him! For long they had watted, for such an opportunity to rid them-! selves forever of this fearsome Jungle- demon, As one, they rushed forward with raised spears, 4 The women and tho children came from the huts to witness the slaying of the devil-god. ‘The lion turneds blazing eyes upon them and them’ swung about toward the edvancing warriors. With shouts of savage Joy and tr- umph, they came toward him, menme- / ing him with their spears. The devwél- god was theirs! And then, with a Numa the lion charged. The men of Mbonga the chief met Numa with ready spears and screams, of raillery. In a solld mass of mus-‘ cled ebony they waited the coming of the devil-god; yet beneath thetr brave exteriors lurked a haunting fear that all might not be quite well with them —that this strange creature could yet ’ prove invulnerable to their weapons and infiict upon them full punishment for their effrontery, The charging ten was all too lifellke—they saw that tn the brief instant of the charge; but” beneath the tawny hide they imew was hid the soft flesh of a white man, and how could that withstand the ea sault of many war-speare? In thelr forefront stood « huge young warrior tn the full arrogance! of his might and his youth, Afraid? Not he! He laughed as Numa bore down upon him; he imughed aad) couched his spear, setting the point, branch, frightful foar, for the broad breast. And then the lion was upon him, A great paw swept away the heavy war-epear, eplintering It as the hand of man might splinter a dry twig. Down went the black, is olall, crushed by another blow, And then the lion was in the midst of the war- riors, clawing and tearing to right and left. Not for long did they stand thelr ground; but a dozen men were) mauled before the others made good their ese: from those frightful talons and gleaming fangs. In terror the villagers fled hither and thither, No hut seemed @ euffi- clently secure asylum with Numa ranging within the palisade, From/ one to another fled the frightened | blacks, while in the centre of the: village Numa stood, glaring and growling above his kills, At last a tribeeman flung wide the ates of the village and sought safety iid the branches of the forest trees, yond, LAke sheep his fellows fol- him, until the lion and hie dead ained alone in the village. From the nearer trees the men of Mbonga saw the lion lower hte great d seize one of his victims by, and then, with slow and tread, move down the village , open gates and on tnto/ They saw and shuddered, ; ner tree Tarzan of the! and smiled, the ulder tre st the the jung! und from anot Apes saw A full hour elapsed after the tton cred with his feast before t 4 down from their Wide eyes rolled fre ir village. to aide, acted more to! than to the chill of time,” murmured « vil-god. t t from a Bon to k again into @ Mos,” Mweeza into the m," said a third, nger safe here,” Let us take our be- . ) for another vil- age-alte fi from th haunts of the v w ning came renewed experience of the s had little other ef- se their fear of nen their belief in Ape » fame and the man in the mystert- savage Jungle where of beasts, because J which directed Iie nd his flawless coupe