Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1920 — Page 3

TARZAN AND THE Jewels of Opar

By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

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SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER L—Hiding in the jungle killing his captain In a fit of broodtag madness, Lieut. Albert Werpw, Belgian' officer, is captured by Achmet Zek, Arab slave raider, who spares his life and proposes to him a scheme to kidnap Jane, wife of Tarzan (Lord Greystoke) and sell her into slavery. Werper accepts. CHAPTER XL—Posing as Jules Freeoult, French traveler, Werper is hospitably received by the Greystokes. He learns his host is m financial straits and plans am expedition to the treasure vaults of Opar to procure gold. Werper informs Achmet Zek es the opportunity to seise Lady Greystoke, and follows Tarsan to learn the secret of Onar / CHAPTER Hl.—Spying on Tarsan, Werper sees him load his blacks with gold from the treasure chamber of the Bun Worshipers. A convulsion of Nature causes the collapse of the vault imprisoning both men. CHAPTER IV.—Werper recovers from the shock and finding Tarsan apparently dead be leaves him. Seeking a way to safety Werper is seized by priests of the Flaming God, a degenerate race. He is about to be offered up as a sacrifice when the ceremonies are interrupted by the appearance of a hunger-maddened lion. CHAPTER V—Believing Tarzan dead , his black followers return home with the gold. Achmet Zek, acting on Werper’s information, has attacked the Grey stoke home, burned it, and carried oft Lady Greystoke. Mugambi, Tarzan’s lieuten-' ant, is severely wounded but recovers and follows the raiders. CxULPTICK jX—xx>rd Greystoke recovers consciousness, but the accident has destroyed his memory and he is again Tarzan of the Apes. Fleeing from the scene of his misfortune he finds himself in the jewel room of Opar. He fills his pouch with the “pretty pebbles." Reaching the sacrificial chamber he is recognized by La, high priestess, whom he had known in previous years. He_slays the lion and releases werper. The latter sees the jewels and covets them. - f > CHAPTER Vll.—Tarzan and , Werper watch the former’s party return to the ruined Greystoke home and bury the gold, , Tarzan has no memory of the placet He ' buries the jewels, which Werper digs up, and escapes while Taiwan sleeps. CHAPTER Vin. -teaching- Achmet Eek’s stronghold, Werper tells n!m of the gold but not of the jewels. Lady Greyitoke is there, a prisoner. Achmet dissovers Werper has the jewels, and the Belgian, fearing for his life, escapes with the gems. CHAPTER IX.-Tarzan misses Werper »ut does not discover the theft of the jewels. He resumes the life of a wild nan. La and the priests of the Fiamlns Sod seek Tarzan and Werper to recover die sacrificial knife, which the latter had serried off. They capture Tarzan.

CHAPTER X. Condemned to Torture and Death. La had followed her company and when she saw them clawing and biting at Tarzan she raised her voice and cautioned them not to kill him. She saw that he was Weakening and that soon the greater numbers would .prevail over him, nor hath she long to wait before the mighty jungle creature lay helpless and bound, at her 1 feet. “Bring him to the place at which we stopped,” she commanded, and they carried Tarzan back to the little clear-. Ing and threw him down beneath a tree. “Build me a Shelter!” ordered La. “We shall stop here tonight and tomorrow In the face of the Flaming God La will offer Up the heart of this defiler of the temple. Where Is the sacred knife? Who took It from him?” But no one had seen it and each was positive in his assurance that the sacrificial weapon had not been upon Tarzan’s person when they captured him. The ape-man looked ,upon the menacing creatures’which surrounded him and snarled his * defiance. He looked upon La and smiled. In the face of death he was unafraid. " “Where is the knife?” La asked him. » “I do not know," replied Tarzan. man took it away with him when he slipped away during the night. Of what good was your knife, anyway? You can make another. Did you follow us all this way for nothing more tian a knife? Let me go and find him and I will bring It back t«> you." / "La laughed a bitter laugh", for in her heart she knew that Tarzan’s sin was greater than the purloining of the sacred sacrificial knife of Opar; yet as she looked at him lying bound and helpless before her, tears rose to her eyes so that she had to turn away to hide them; but she remained inflexible in her determination to urnke him pay 'in frightful f suffering and in eventual death, for daring to spurn the love of La. When the shelter was completed La had Tarzan . transferred to it “All ' tilght I shall torture him,” she mut-! tered to her priests, “and at the first streak of i dawn you may prepare the flaming altar upon which his heart shall be .offered up tothe Flaming God” i During the balance of the day the priests of i Opar were busy erecting an altar In the center of the clearing, and while they worked.they chanted weitd hymns Im tongue of that lost continent that lies at the bottom of the Atlantic, , In the shelter of the hut La paced to and 'fro beside the stoic ape-man. Resigned to his fate was Tarzan. No hope of succor gleamed through the dead, black of the death sentence .ng over him. knew S W

giant muscles could not part the many strands that bound his wrists and ankles, for he had strained often but Ineffectually for release. He had no hope of outside help and only enemies sufroupdedu hkn within the camp, and yet "he La'as she pace3~nervously back and forth the length of the shelter. And La? She fingered her knife and looked down upon her captive. She

She Fingered Her Knife and Lookec Down Upon Her Captive.

glared and muttered but she did not strike. “Tonight!” she thought. “To night, When it is dark I wilt torture him.” She looked upon his perfect, godlike figure and upon his handsome, ami ling.face, and then she steeled her heart again by thoughts of her love spurned; by religious thoughts l thai damned the infidel who had desecrated the holy of holies; who had taken from the blood-stalqed altar of Opar the offering to the Flaming God —and not once but thrice. Three times had Tarzan cheated the god of her fathers At the thought La paused and knelt at his side. In her hand was a sharp knife. She placed Its point against the ape-man’s side and pressed upon the hilt; but Tarzan only smiled and shrugged his shoulders. How beautiful he was! La bent low over him, looking into - ' hls eyes. How perfect was his figure. She compared It with those, of the gnarled and knotted men from whom she must Choose a mate, and La shuddered at the thought Dusk came, and aftei dusk came night A great fire blazed within the little thorn boma about the camp. The flames played upon the new altar erected in the center of the clearing, arousing in the mjnd ot the high priestess of the Flaming God a picture of the event of the coming dawn. She saw this giant and perfect form writhing amid the flames of the burning pyre. She saw those smiling lips, burned and blackened, falling away from the strong, white teeth. She saw the shock of black hair tousled upon Tarzan’s well-shaped head disappear in_a. spurt of flame. • She saw these and many other frightful pictures as she stood with closed eyes and clenched fists above the object of her hate —ah! was It hate that La of Opar felt?

The darkndss of the jungle night had settled down upon the camp, relieved only by the fitful flarings of the fire that was kept up to warn off the man-eaters. Tarzan lay quietly in his bonds. He suffered from thirst and from the cutting of the tight strands about his wrists and ankles; but he made no complaint A jungle beast was Tarzan, with the stoicism of the beast and the intelligence of man. He knew that his doom was sealed —that ne supplications would avail to temper the severity of his end, and so he wasted no breath In pleadings, but waited patiently in the firm conviction that his sufferings could not endure forever. Tn the darkness La stooped above him. In her hand was a sharp knife and in her mind the determination to initiate his torture without further delay. The- knife was pressed against his side La’s face was close to his when a sudden burst of flame from new branches thrown upon the fire without lighted up the Interior of the shelter. Close beneath her Ups La saw the perfect features of the forest god and into her woman’s heart welled all the great love she had felt for Tarzan since first she had seen him, and all the accumulated passion of the years that she had dreamed of him, Dagger in hand. La, the high prlestess, towered above the helpless creature that bad dared to violate the KHnctnarv of her deity. There should be no torture —there should be Instant death. A single stroke of the heavy blade and then the corpse to the flam- , ing pyre without. The knife arm stiffened ready for the downward plunge, I and then La. the woman, collapsed i weakly upon the body of the man she loved. . x ; hor hands In mute caress oyer bis naked flesh; she covered his forehead, his eyes, his lips with hot kisses; she covered him with her body as though to protect him from the hideous fate she had ordained for him, and in trembling, piteous tones she begged him for his love. For hours the frenzy of her passion possessed the’ burning handmaiden <A the Flaming God, until at last sleep overpowered her and she" lapsed into unconsciousness beside the man she had to torture and to s!»v

THE EVENING RENSSELAER. IND.

Tarzan, untroubled by thoughts of tne 1 future, slept peacefully in La’s em- ‘ brace. J At the first hint of dawn the Planting of the priests of Opar brought Tarzan to wakefulness. Initiated In low and subdued tones, the sound soon rose in volume to the open diapason of barbaric blood lust. La stirred. Hwr perfect arm pressed Tarzan closer to her—a .smile parted her lips, and flfen she awoke, and slowly the smile faded and her eyes went wide in horror as the significance of the death chant impinged upon her understanding. 1 ‘“Love me, Tarzan!’’ she cried. “Love me, and you shall be saved.” Tarzan’s bonds hurt him. He was suffering the tortures of long-restricted circulation. With an angry growl he rolled over with his back toward La. That was her answer! _ The high priestess leaped to her feet. A hot flush of shame mantled her cheek and then went dead white and stepped to the' shelter’s entrance. - “Come, priests of the Flaming God!” she cried, “and make ready the sacrifice.” ' The warped things advanced and entered the shelter. They laid hands upon Tarzan and bore him forth, and /as they chanted they kept time with their crooked bodies, swaying to and fro to the rhythm of their song of blood and death. Behind them came La, swaying too; but net In unison with the chanted cadence. White and drawn was the face of the high priestess white and drawn with unrequited and hideous terror of the moments to come. Yet stern in her resolve was La. The die! The scorner of her love should pay the price upon the fiery altar. She saw them lay the perfect body there upon the rough branches. She saw the high priest, he to whom custom would unite her —bent, crooked, gnarled, stunted,- hideous—advance with the flaming torch and stand Hwolting liar command to apply it to the faggots surrounding the sacrificial pyre. Ris hairy, bestial face was distorted in a yellow-fanged grin of anticipatory enjoyment. His hands were cupped to receive the life blood of the virflm—the red nectar that at Opar would have filled the golden sacrificial goblets. La approached with upraised knife, her face turned toward the rising sun and upon her lips a prayer to thf burning deity es her people. The lugh priest looked questloningly toward her —the brand was burning close to his hand and the faggots lay temptingly near. Tarzan closed his eyes and awaited the end. He knew that he would suffer, for he recalled the faint memories of past burns. He knew that he would suffer and die, but he did not flinch. Death is no great adventure to the jungle bred, who walk hand in hand with the grim specter by dpy and He down at his side by night through all the years oi their lives. As a matter of fact, as k hls end approached his mind was occupied by thoughts of the pretty peb bles he had lost, yet his every faculty was still open what passed around him.

He felt La lean over him and he opened his eyes. He saw her white, drawn face and he saw • the tears । blinding her eyes. “Tarzap, my Tar- ( win 1” she moaned, “tell me that you f love me—that you will return to Opar with me—and you shall live. Even In the face of the anger of my people 1 ■ wIU save you. This last chance I give you. What is your answer?” At the last moment the woman in La - had triumphed over the high priestess of a cruel cult With heaving bosom) she leaned close above him. “Yes or no?” she whispered. « Through the jungle, out of the distance, came faintly a sound that brought a sudden light of hope tc Tarzan’s eyed. He raised his volet in a weird scream that sent La back from him a step or two. The Impatient priest grumbled and switched the | torch from one hand to the other, at' the same time holding it closer to the i tinder at the base of the pyte. “Your answer I” insisted La. “What, is your answer to the love of La of. Opar?” ( | Closer came the sqund that had attracted Tarzan’s attention, and now the others heard It—the shrill trum peting of an elephant. As La looked wide-eyed into Tarzan’s face, there tc read her fate for happiness or heart- j break, she saw an expression of con । cern shadow his features. Now, for the first time, she guessed the mean-: Ing O f Tarzan’s shrill scream —he had summoned Tantor the elephant to his rescue! La’s brows contracted In a savage scowl. “You refuse La! she' cried. “Then die! The torch!” she commanded, turning toward the priest Tarzan looked up into her \ face. “Tantor is coming,” he said. “I thought that he would rescue me; but I know now from his voice that he will slay me and you and all that fall in his path, searching out with the cunning of Sheets the panther those who would hide from him, for Tantor Is mad with the .ipadness of love. “I caffnot love you. La,"’ Tarzan went on in a low voice. “I do not knbw why. fra* you are very beautifuL I could not go back and live in Opar—--4 who have the whole broad jungle for my range. No, I cannot love yoe but I cannot see p’ou die lieneath the goring tasks of mad Tantor. Cut my bonds before It is too late. Already he Is almost upon us. Cut them and I may yet save you." A little spiral .of curling smoke rose from one corner of the pyre—the flames licked upward; crackling. La stood there like a beautiful statue es despair, gazing at Tarzan and at the spreading flames. In a moment they would reach out find graso him. From

me tangiea torest came tne sounu or cracking limbs and crashing trunks — Tantor was coming down upon them, a huge juggernaut of the jungle. The priests were becoming uneasy. They cast apprehensive glances in the direction of the approaching elephant and then back at La. “Fly 1” she commanded them, and then she stooped and cut the bounds securing her prisoner’s feet and hands. Tn an* Instant Tarzan was uppn the ground. The priests screamed out their rage and disappointment. He with the torch took a menacing step tovtard La ami the ape-man. “Traitor!” he shrieked at the woman. “For this you too shall die!” Raising his bludgeon he rushed upon the high priestess; but Tarzan was there before her. Leaping in to close quarters the ape-man seized the upraised weapon and wrenched it from the bend” of the frenzied fanatic, and then the priest closed upon him with tooth and nail. Seizing the stocky, stunted body In his mighty hands- Tarzan raised the creature high above his head, hurling him at his fellows who were now gathered ready to bear down upon their erstwhile captive. La stood proudly with ready knife behind the ape-man. No faint sign of fear marked her perfect brow —only haughty disdain for her priests and admiration for the man she loved so hopelessly filled her thoughts. Suddenly upon this scene burst the mad bull—a huge tusker, his little eyes inflamed with insane rage. The priests stood for an Instant paralyzed with terror; but Tarzan turned, and gathering La in his arms raced for,the nearest tree. Tantor bore down upon hiip’trumpeting shrilly. La clung with both white arms about the ape-man’s neck. She felt him leap into the air. and marveled at his. strength and bis ability as, burdened with her weight, he swung nimbly into the lower brtmchesof afarge tree andquldfly bore her upward beyond reach of the sinuous trunk of the pachyderm. Momentarily baffled here, the huge, elephant wheeled and , bore down upon the hapless priests, who had now scattered, terror-stricken, in every direction. The nearest he gored and threw high among the branches of a tnee. One he seized in the coils of his trunk and' broke upon a huge bole, dropping'the mangled pulp to charge, trumpeting, after another. Two he trampled beneath his huge feet, and by then the others had disappeared Into the Jungle. Now’ Tantor turned his attention once more to Tarzan Back to the tree wlmye. La and Tarzan perched he came, Me reared up with his forefeet against the bole and reached toward them with his long trunk; but Tarzan had foreseen this and clambered beyond the bull’s longest reach. Failure but tended to further enrage the mad creature. He bellowed add trumpeted and screamed until the earth shook to the mighty volume of his noise. He put his head against the tree and pushed and the tree bent before his mighty strength,' yet still It held. Finding that the tree would not fall to his pushing, Tantor was but enraged the more. He looked up at the two perched high above him, his redrimmed eyes blazing with Insane hatred. and then he wound his trunk about the bole of the tree, spread his great feet wide apart and tugged to uproot the jungle giant. K huge creature was Taptor, an enormous bull in the full prime of his stupendous strength. Mightily he strove until presently, to Tarzan’s consternation, the great tree gave slowly at the roots. The ground rose in little mounds and ridges about the base of the bole, the tree tilted —in another moment it would be uprooted and fall. The ape-man whirled La to his back and just as the tree inclined slowly in * ! ts first movement out of the perpendionlur. before the sudden rush of 1U

Unni collapse, he swuhg. to the branches of a lesser 'neighbor. It was a long and perilous leap. La closed her eyes and shuddered; but when she opened them again she found herself safe and Tarzan whirling onward through the forest. Behind them the uprooted tree crashed heavily to the ground, carrying with it the lesser trees In Its path, and then Tantor, realizing that his prey had escaped him, set up once more his hideous trumpeting and followed at a rapid charge upon their a — —— (TO BE CONTINUED ) 1

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